Prime Minister, John Briceño
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELMOPAN, Mon. May 12, 2025
The Government of Belize has outlined total proposed spending of $1.782 billion ($1,782 million) this fiscal year in the 2025-26 Budget for General Expenditure, which Prime Minister John Briceño presented in a special sitting of the House...
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELMOPAN, Mon. May 12, 2025
The Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) demanded an 8.5 percent increase in pay, when they staged a peaceful demonstration of over 3,000 teachers in pea-green T-shirts,...
Concept Design 2 (Developed by Blue21)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 12, 2025
The Belize City Council has taken a significant step toward enhancing the city’s climate adaptation and waterfront connectivity with the launch of a...
Area where the shooting occurred
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 12, 2025
Four persons were injured in a shooting in Blackman Eddy Village, Cayo District, during a Mother’s Day event at a local business establishment on...
Alcohol consumption has been a part of Belizean culture from the beginning of the settlement by pirates/buccaneers-turned-logwood-cutters sometime back in the seventeenth century; and like the world over, the...
Almost two months after the PUP decisively won a second consecutive term (in the March 12 general election), the new government announced that “the Fourteenth Session of the House...
UEF chairperson, YaYa Marin Coleman, who is currently guest host on the WUB morning show on Krem Radio and XTV, makes a point of insisting that she will not...
May 1 is celebrated in most countries as Labor Day, and it is set aside to honor the contributions of paid workers and their labor movements. The modern Belize...
l-r Dean Martin and Rachel Heusner, artists
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 12, 2025
The Bliss Centre for Performing Arts will be featuring an exhibition entitled “Moments”, which will showcase the artwork of a Belizean mother-son duo.
Thirty original works by Belizean artist Rachel Heusner and her 20-year-old son, Dean Martin, will be on display.
“We do a lot of historical paintings, myself and my son, and so we have been working on a few pieces over the past year, you would say; and then, coming towards the end, I came up with a theme, ‘Moments,’ because when you paint, you capture a moment in time,” Heusner explained to reporters.
As a Belizean...
by Evan X Hyde
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 12, 2025
I will make this obituary a short one, because younger generations of our people know nothing about “Big Hash.” So that, in a sense, this is a necessary attempt to reach those older Belizeans who are scattered abroad in the diaspora.
When “Hashi” left Belize for New York City around 1973, he was about 26. Physically, coming from a line of Ferguson athletes famous in Belize City, Big Hash seemed indestructible.
But, for whatever the reason(s), he never returned to Belize, and two or three weeks ago I heard from a contemporary that he may have passed. Last Tuesday morning, I visited the...
This week the United States is marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
That war had a great, indelible impact on my life, an impact which endures even until today, as every now and then I learn about more Belizeans who went to Vietnam when they were my age and while I was the beneficiary of a scholarship from a prestigious American university between 1965 and 1968.
As fate would have it, I went to America in August of 1965, which was around the same time that the United States had begun to escalate its war effort in Vietnam.
At the school I attended in New...
Kadeem Orozco, deceased
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Tues. May 6, 2025
On Tuesday, May 6, a little after 8:00 a.m., Kadeem Orozco, 31, of the Conchshell Bay area of Belize City, was gunned down while...
