(l-r) FIU director Leni Ysaguirre-McGann and Minister of State for Finance - Hon. Chris Coye
by William Ysaguirre
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 27, 2025
Belize’s well-regulated financial sector and its exemplary efforts at strengthening its anti-money laundering framework have helped Belize achieve a gold standard status shared by less than 15...
Hon. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education and Nadia Martin-Caliz, National President, BNTU
BELIZE CITY, Sat. Jan. 25, 2025
The Belize National Teachers’ Union (BNTU) has designated Friday, February 7, as a day to flex its...
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 27, 2025
1,000 security cameras will soon be installed throughout Belize to help combat crime in the country.
In previous years, crime, especially murders, was...
(l-r) Mark Waight, deceased and Peter Lara, charged
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 27, 2025
A Belize City man has been charged in connection with a fatal shooting on Central American Boulevard in Belize City on...
The road has been smooth for a long while for Belize in its relations with the mighty USA, where tens of thousands of our citizens are now resident, many...
Because of the immense power of the US, every word from the mouth of its president has ramifications for people everywhere. In his inaugural address, new US president, Donald...
Politics and patriotism are two extremely delicate and powerful topics that can excite and inspire really strong emotions, sometimes positive, and sometimes negative. There are very few born Belizeans...
A week before handing over the presidency of the United States of America to Donald Trump, outgoing president, Joe Biden announced that the US would be removing Cuba from...
by William Ysaguirre
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 23, 2025
Food prices went up 2.9 percent, and non-alcoholic beverages by 7.7 percent last November, which accounted for nearly half the increase in the cost of living, driving a national inflation rate to 2.0 percent, when compared to November 2023, as the Statistics Institute of Belize (SIB) reported Wednesday evening, January 22.
The SIB calculated that the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) had increased to 120.1 in November, based on the average price of several commodities, and this is 2.0 percent more than the 117.7 index reported the year before. Other price increases driving this inflation were higher costs for restaurant services and home rentals, while lower prices on fuel and information and communication equipment somewhat softened the increase.
The price of cooking gas went up 4.8 percent, to $123.97 for a 100-pound cylinder in November, up from...
“I am proud to be a descendant of Ignacia and Cornelius Patrick. This donation is a testament of commitment, of sharing spaces, of giving back from a family whose members come from very humble beginnings. Repeating the words of Premier George Price, a story of ‘Good Belizeans’, in the context of Garifunaduau through the teachings of the Dabuyaba, ‘Au bun, Amuru nu’, translated as ‘I for You, and you for me’.” – I. Myrtle Cacho Palacio
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 23, 2025
(Below are excerpts taken from the remarks yesterday, Wednesday, January 22, 2025, by Arreini Palacio Morgan, great granddaughter of Ignacia Cacho, which were made at the Ignacia Cacho Library...
The vast majority of us human beings are very afraid of death, the state which Shakespeare described as "that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns." In seeking to allay some of their fears, all peoples, it seems to me, subscribe to some form of religion, some set of beliefs which seek to explain what happens after our departure from our earthly sojourn.
It has been fifteen months since Hamas, the Palestinian group, attacked a concert being held somewhere in Israel, killed more than a thousand people, and took more than two hundred hostages. The much more powerful Israelis responded by bombing Gaza, the home of Hamas, to smithereens,...
Calf infected with screwworms
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 23, 2025
Weeks after an initial announcement on December 28 that the first case of New World Screwworms had been reported in the southern part...
