(l-r) Nadia Martin-Caliz, National President, BNTU and Dean Flowers, President, PSU
Joint Unions give PM until June 4 to come back with“improved” salary proposal
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jun. 2, 2025
On Saturday, May 31, the Joint Unions Negotiating Team (JUNT), which represents the three public sector workers...
Hon. Kevin Herrera, Business Senator
Business Senator finds discrepancies in Home Affairs and Defense figures; NTUCB Senator cautions, “2005 can be repeated”
BELMOPAN, Fri. May 30, 2025
Today it was the Senate's turn to debate the...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jun. 2, 2025
A Belize City man was gunned down in front of his home in the early hours of Monday, June 2, after being ambushed by a gunman.
The...
Members of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority Workers Union (KHMHAWU) marched through the streets of Belize City; the Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) showed solidarity.
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Fri. May 30, 2025
Members of the...
There are certainly major differences in style and character between the two major political parties, the only two that have held the reins of government in Belize; and while...
On April 30, 2025, Dr. Richard Rosado took over as Commissioner of the Police Department; and on May 6, 2025, just a week after he took the reins of...
The appearance of retired former UDP Mesopotamia area representative, Michael Finnegan on the Krem Radio/ XTV’s WUB morning show on Friday, May 23, was of immense public interest because...
Overall, the present administration has managed our economy well. That’s what Belizeans said, overwhelmingly, when they went to the polls on March 12. But fresh off a massive victory...
Chief meteorologist - Ronald Gordon
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 29, 2025
As part of the activities for Hurricane Preparedness Week, the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) hosted a media orientation briefing at its Belize City office on Wednesday morning, May 28, to introduce the press to the new ways in which they plan to share information during the upcoming Atlantic Hurricane Season, which begins Sunday, June 1.
NEMO will establish a media center at its headquarters in Belmopan, which will serve as a clearing house for all warnings and information that the public should receive about an approaching storm or any other natural disaster, such as floods, a nearby earthquake, a...
Marilyn Ordonez, Chairperson of HelpAge Belize City
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Tues. May 27, 2025
HelpAge Belize City hosted an arts and crafts exhibition at its Wilson Street branch on Tuesday, May 27. The exhibition was organized by elderly community members who regularly visit the institution every Tuesday.
“We have a little exhibition of what our members are, and where members are all senior ladies, and we have a few males. They come here and do arts and crafts, so this display is from arts and crafts sessions we have on Tuesdays,” said Marilyn Ordonez, Chairperson of HelpAge Belize City.
“It keeps their brains functioning, and it helps them to age without just...
I've told you before in this column that I spent thirteen years in schools in Belize (then British Honduras), from 1952 to 1965, and I read one sentence, one single sentence, in all those years about the Caste War just north of us in the Yucatan, which lasted from 1847 to 1903.
If you are a colonial subject, as I was, then the education system only teaches you what your colonial masters want you to know. Thus, when I left Belize in August of 1965 to study in the United States, I had never heard of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (signed April 19, 1850) or the Dallas-Clarendon Treaty (signed October 17,...
Thea Ramirez, Minister of Human Development
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 28, 2025
A girl from western Belize who was reported missing by her family last week, has returned home; but prior to her...
