Photo: (l-r) Eliana Garbutt, Elvis Garbutt, Sr., and Eliss Garbutt, deceased
A gunman ambushed a family of five—killing three, and injuring one, while one escaped.
by Charles Gladden
TOLEDO DISTRICT, Mon. Dec. 16, 2024
On Saturday night, December 14, a gunman ambushed a family of five from Monkey...
Photo: Prime Minister John Briceño
by William Ysaguirre
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Dec. 16, 2024
Better access to good health care and a better delivery of justice were two much needed reforms which the Government of Belize...
Photo: Glenford Logan
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Dec. 16, 2024
At the age of 23, Glenford Logan was charged for murder and placed on remand, and now, two decades later, he has finally been set free.
Documents...
Photo: Captagon propped up the brutal regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, allowing it to become one of the world's biggest drug syndicates. (Reuters: Yves Herman)
By correspondent Lauren Day in Jerusalem
www.abc.net.au, Fri. Dec. 13, 2024
In some ways,...
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...
Despite Central Bank Governor Kareem Michael’s glowing report on our economy, and the assertions therein that it is doing well, and our foreign reserve position is strong, on the...
Too much heartbreak and tears on our roads and highways
It is that time of year again, “when the world falls in love,” and the question on everyone’s mind is...
The New World Screw Worm (NWSW), which has reached our neighbors to the south and west, Guatemala, and Mexico in the north, has the potential to cause great harm...
by William Ysaguirre
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Dec. 12, 2024
Belize’s unemployment rate has fallen to almost half of what it was a year ago, from 3.9 percent in 2023 to 2.1 percent in September this year, the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB) reported on Wednesday, December 11. This happened because 1,711 persons found jobs over the past year, while another 1,444 persons left the workforce due to retirement, death or other reasons, thus reducing the “unemployed” population by 3,155 persons.
To understand what this means, we must first understand that this 2.1 percent is based on a labor force that the SIB counts as 166,206 persons of a population of 397,483 people living in Belize, according to the...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Dec. 9, 2024
The Belize Intellectual Property Office (BELIPO) represented the country at the Cross-Regional Forum on Intellectual Property and Women’s Entrepreneurship, assembled for the Caribbean and African countries in Kingston, Jamaica on December 5-6.
Kay King, Deputy Registrar at BELIPO, represented Belize and was accompanied by owners of three local Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): Dr. Adriani Coleman, owner of Digital Learning and Pedagogical Solutions; Ronelli Requena, owner of Zayvha Sarai; and Jolie Pollard, owner of Ikooma. Their participation in the forum demonstrates Belize’s pledge to empower women entrepreneurs through effective intellectual property strategies.
The forum served as a platform to discuss initiatives focused on promoting...
United States president, Joe Biden recently gave permission for Ukraine to fire long-range ballistic missiles, donated by the U.S., into Russia. In response, the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, has threatened to use tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
Putin has made such a threat before. When he first made such a threat, Biden went to the Chinese leader and asked him to intervene with Putin so that he would not use tactical nuclear weapons.
This is big people business, but nuclear war would be disastrous for all of planet earth’s eight billion people.
After World War II, which lasted from 1939 to 1945, in which the principal combatants were Great Britain, Russia, and the...
Photo: Leonard Baltazar, deceased
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Dec. 11, 2024
A young fisherman who was allegedly found stealing from a sleeping tourist early on Wednesday morning, December 11, was reportedly thrown off a...
