Photo: Felix Martinez and Adelita Gillett, deceased
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 20, 2025
Only a few hours after the Legal Year was declared open with ceremonies in front of the Supreme Court building in Belize City, a major tragedy resulting in two deaths by...
Photo: Chief Justice Hon. Louise Blenman receives the Honor Guard salute
by William Ysaguirre
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 20, 2025
The High Court of Belize and Court of Appeal began their legal year with a traditional,...
Photo: Clive Baizar, deceased
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 20, 2025
An argument between two members of the Belize Defence Force (BDF) led to one of its members being killed and another being injured...
Photo: Bridget Pineda, a third-form student at Nazarene High School
Nazarene High School in Belize City and Muffles College in Orange Walk Town won medals in the Caribbean STEM Olympiads (CSO).
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan....
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...
In Belize, when the prices of imported goods and locally produced meat, eggs, and fish increase, they never come down. The only products in the marketplace that sometimes decrease...
Photo: Bridget Pineda, a third-form student at Nazarene High School
Nazarene High School in Belize City and Muffles College in Orange Walk Town won medals in the Caribbean STEM Olympiads (CSO).
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 20, 2025
A third-form student from Nazarene High School in Belize City has topped the 2025 CSO-Robotics & Electronics Olympiad held on 13 – 19 January in Barbados.
The competition is an event hosted annually in January by the Caribbean STEM Olympiads (CSO) and is designed to test the competitors’ creativity, logical and analytical thinking, problem-solving, leadership, and teamwork abilities, along with math, coding, robotics, and electronics skills.
This year’s event featured three categories: CSF Math Olympiad;...
Photo: (L-R) Deputy Mayor Allan Pollard Jr., Mr. Ervin Perez, Mayor Bernard Wagner, Mr. Alex Nolberto and Councillor Eluide Miller
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 16, 2025
On January 14, 2025, the Belize City Council welcomed investors, stakeholders, and community leaders to the Public Investment Forum 2025 at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. This forum aimed to explore innovative financing options that will support the city’s efforts toward sustainable development.
Seated at the head table were Mayor Bernard Wagner; Deputy Mayor Allan Pollard, Jr.; Councillor Eluide Miller; Director of Finance Mr. Alex Nolberto; and Managing Director of Legacy Fund Limited, Mr. Ervin Perez. These key figures led discussions on alternative investment opportunities, the Council’s...
After graduating from New Hampshire's Dartmouth College and returning home to Belize in 1968, I’ve visited the United States on three different occasions: in late 1971/early 1972; early 1979; and mid-2012. I spent a week in Los Angeles and a couple weeks in New York in 71/72; a few weeks in New Orleans and New York in early 1979, and a few weeks in Phoenix (Arizona) in 2012.
Because of my airplane phobia, I guess most of my time going to and from America was spent on buses on the road in Mexico and the States.
When I left the States in 1968, around June I guess, the Seventeen Proposals had been...
Photo: Hon. Moses "Shyne" Barrow meets Eastern Region Standard Bearers and standard bearer applicants
SBUDP to field full slate while TPUDP plans fielding 18 candidates for general elections
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 9, 2025
After a...
