Photo: Giovanni Ramirez, deceased
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 9, 2025
A well-known street figure was killed in a broad daylight drive-by shooting on Thursday afternoon, January 9.
Photo: Bullet ridden car
The deadly attack took place on Amandala Drive sometime after 1:30 p.m., as 31-year-old Giovanni...
Photo: NWS fly
Second case of New World Screwworm in southern Belize
TOLEDO DISTRICT, Thurs. Jan. 9, 2025
Belize has recorded a second case of New World Screwworm (NWS), and Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Jose Mai...
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Tues. Jan. 7, 2025
After being prepared to take on the position since July 2024, Clarita Pech has been appointed as the Clerk of the National Assembly. She officially assumed her...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 9, 2025
Earlier this week, the Belize Police Department released its quarterly CompStats figures for 2024 that included the end-of-year murder numbers, and it highlighted that crime has reduced 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...
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...
Photo: (l-r) CFB president Glen Flowers, John Miguel, Rudy Miguel, Anthony Hutchinson, Kenrick Halliday, Kenneth Sutherland and Stansmore Bowman
by William Ysaguirre
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 6, 2025
Twenty-six Holy Saturday Cross Country cycling champions and 6-time Women Cross Country champion Camille Solis received accolades for their legendary achievements when sports talk-show host Oswald Bowman collaborated with the Cycling Federation of Belize (CFB) to host a “Nite of Cycling Legends” honors and awards gala at the Princess Hotel and Casino in Belize City on Saturday night, January 4.
The awardees included 1953 champion Clinton Castillo, who was only 16 years old when he became the youngest rider to ever win a Cross Country. He placed 2nd behind Kenneth “Powder” Sutherland, who won in 1966 and returned as champion in 1967. Sutherland went on to represent...
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...
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...
Photo: Dr. Marvin Manzanero
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 6, 2025
Throughout December 2024 and early portions of January 2025, there has been an increase in the number of patients being admitted to various...
