Senate Inquiry delves into Portico project
Photo: David Gegg, Portico Enterprise Ltd. CEO testifies before the Senate Special Select Committee on the Portico Definitive Agreement
Developer testifies 7-figure campaign financing request made to expedite Portico project
BELMOPAN, Wed. May 8, 2024
The testimony today of Port of Magical Belize developer, David Gegg, CEO...
Legal battle over Stake Bank continues
Photo: Marlowe Neal, appointed receiver of Stake Bank Enterprise Limited
Feinstein Group asks for independent inspector of ABL; SBEL receiver cites spending irregularities
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 9, 2024
The litigation that Atlantic Bank has initiated...
BEL updates the public on scheduled power outages
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 8, 2024
Belize continues to experience widespread power outages, as Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) continues scrambling to address the shortfall in its power generation capacity.
The country’s current in-country...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency donates to Belize
Photo: Hon. Alex Balona, Minister of State; Hon. Jose Mai, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise; Servulo Baeza attaches JICA stickers to the new equipment. Staff from the Japan Embassy look on
by Orlando Pulido
SANTA...
Witness stonewalls Senate Inquiry on land transactions for Portico project
Photo: Sanjay Hotchandani, real estate businessman testifies at Portico Senate Inquiry
BELMOPAN, Wed. May 8, 2024
Appearing as the first witness before the Senate Special Select Committee as it resumed its public hearings today on...
Compol and PM react to LOO’s “narco-state” claims
Photo: Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 9, 2024
In response to the narco-state comments made by the Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Hon. Shyne Barrow following last week’s murder...
Belize’s Foreign Minister returns from Migration Summit in Guatemala
Photo: Foreign Ministers of signatory countries
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 9, 2024
Hon. Francis Fonseca, Belize’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, has returned from Guatemala after participating in the Third Ministerial Meeting of the “Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection” on May 7.
The summit convened foreign ministers and senior officials from 20 signatory countries, including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, and several Central and South American nations.
During the meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken led the American delegation, which also included key figures like the White House coordinator for the Los Angeles Declaration, Marcela Escobari, and Kristie Canegallo, the acting deputy secretary of the...
Editorial
Belize, giving a little love to Haiti
Fifty-one BDF and Coast Guard troops are back home after a month in Jamaica, where, alongside troops from Jamaica and the Bahamas, they underwent specialized training by the Canadian...
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PM Briceño visits Mexico, signs ALCE agreement
Photo: l-r) Hon. John Briceño, Prime Minister of Belize and Alicia Bárcena, Mexican Foreign...
250 students graduate from BPD’s PEACE program
Photo: ACP Howell Gillett, Commander of National Community Policing
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 8, 2024
The Positive Engagement and Civic Education (PEACE) program, which is run by the Belize Police Department (BPD), held a graduation ceremony on Tuesday, May 7, at the Bliss Centre for Performing Arts...
Businessman arraigned on firearm charges
BELIZE CITY, Tues. May 7, 2024
Tonight, a Kings Park businessman is on remand at the Belize Central Prison pending bail at the High Court after he was accused of being in possession of...
From the Publisher
As a follow-up to last Friday’s column, let it be emphasized that while the PUP’s Ralph Fonseca, who had...
From The Publisher
As the eldest child (three sons, one daughter) of...
From the Publisher
When I started to get on my feet financially...
AstraZeneca acknowledges vaccine side effects
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 9, 2024
The Oxford-AstraZeneca...
US State Department issues 2023 Country Report on Human Rights
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Apr. 24, 2024
The Country...
Teacher discusses traditional and alternative/authentic assessments
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Dear Editor,
Assessment is an ongoing process...
Dictators v. Tribunes
by Hart Tillett
Mon. Apr. 15, 2024
Dear Editor
I’m enclosing this...
Features
Feinstein, Atlantic Bank, Belize Bank (Waterloo), Luke, Gegg
by Colin Hyde
I’ve never met any of the heroes...
Re: Glen’s “Pipe water and fresco!”
by Thérèse Belisle-Nweke
Monday, May 6, 2024
And—there was Malik with...
Just thinking!
by Marie-Therese Belisle Nweke
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
There is this...
Pipe water and fresco!
Monday, May 6, 2024
The British gave us some gifts...
Sports
Biscayne Gov’t girls and San Narciso RC boys are national primary school softball champions
Photo: Biscayne Government School – National Girls Primary School...
Verdes comes to town!
Photo: Verdes striker Matias Veron vs Port Layola defender...
Premier Women’s League Week 4 results
Photo: Napoles - Heidy Lopez attacks vs Turf Warriors...
Defenders get their revenge against Hurricanes
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 6, 2024
On Friday...