Photo: Godfrey Windfield Hyde, deceased
Caretaker killed on Turneffe Island
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 6, 2025
The body of 59-year-old caretaker, Godfrey Windfield Hyde, who is believed to have been murdered, was found on Turneffe Island on Saturday, January 4.
The body was discovered after 6:00...
Photo: 3 of 5 Belizean honored: Phillippa Noreen Fairweather (top); Dr. Marcelino Avila and Lucilo Enrique Alcoser
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Fri. Jan. 3, 2025
Five Belizeans were included on the 2025 New Year Honours...
Photo: Sorangel Ayuso, charged
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Dec. 6, 2025
A Belize City woman has been remanded to the Belize City Prison after being charged for allegedly swindling over 30,000 dollars from her...
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Mon. Jan. 6, 2025
A motorcyclist lost his life when his motorbike collided with an oncoming Toyota Hilux on the Hummingbird Highway on Sunday night, January 5.
According to initial reports, shortly before 7:30...
2024 is history, and hopes are high for 2025, and our Prime Minister and his PUP administration are quite justified in patting themselves on the back, and feeling a...
The US flag has been flying at half-staff in the US since Jimmy Carter, their 39th president and leader of the free world between 1977 and 1980, died on...
On December 25, just a few days from now, we celebrate the birth of the Christ (Jesus of Nazareth), who came into this world a little over 2,000 years...
In the aftermath of the terrible 1931 hurricane, a star-gazing Belizean family patriarch, who later in life had exiled himself on an island, once said that every thirty years...
The year 2024, like years past, started out tense, with all eyes on the north, where the largest grouping of sugar cane farmers, the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA), and the miller, Belize Sugar Industries (BSI), were again deadlocked in unproductive discussions over a new commercial agreement. There were blockades in front of the mill and along the Philip Goldson Highway which interrupted sugar cane delivery; and Agriculture Minister, Hon. Jose Mai almost faced physical confrontations from some frustrated cane farmers. Government officials even made remarks in which they contemplated nationalizing the industry. Intervention from the Prime Minister (who aborted a trip to meet the Pope) and his...
Photo: Elite Female 2025 Krem New Year’s Classic winners, (l to r) 2nd Francine Gigli; 1st Mary Joyce Monton; 3rd Norma Nunez. (Photo: Photo Factory)
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 2, 2025
Mary Joyce Monton of the Miami Blazers won 2025 KREM New Year’s Female Cycling Classic in uncontested fashion, under pouring rain at the finish line in front of the Belize City Civic Center.
She won the $1,000 first prize and a round trip to the USA, along with the champion’s trophy; while Francine Gigli of Team Lovell claimed the $300 2nd prize and trophy, and Norma Nuñez of the Haulover Punishers team took the $200 3rd prize.
Gigli had led at the outset to win the $500 prize offered by the Holy Redeemer Credit Union...
In America, they have a saying that goes like this: In the South (slave states), the white man says to the black man, “You can get as close as you want, but don’t get too big.” In the North (abolitionist states), the white man says to the black man, “You can get as big as you want, but don’t get too close.”
In Belize, the elitist group basically says to the roots class, “Just stay where you are. If you try to move up, we’ll put you down.” That’s how I see it after all these years.
As a child in the late 1950s, I saw a sensational group of roots youth...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Dec. 19, 2024
On Thursday, December 19, a fire in the Port Loyola area of Belize City consumed an old two-story wooden home, burning it to the ground and...
