by William Ysaguirre
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 23, 2025
Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September 2022 presented two options to Commonwealth territories which featured the monarch on their currency: update their banknotes to her successor – King Charles III, or choose some other national symbols or heroes. The Cabinet opted for...
P.M. Briceño – “… they want it all, and we can’t allow that.”
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Jan. 22, 2025
The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has denied a Class License application for a Belize subsidiary of...
Top row: Hon. Shyne Barrow - SBUDP Mesopotamia Standard Bearer and Lee Mark Chang - TPUDP Mesopotamia Standard BearerBottom row: Hon. Tracy Taegar-Panton - TPUDP Albert Standard Bearer and Jose Espat - SBUDP...
Jovannie Rashad Jones and Jerwin Ornand Segura, charged
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 23, 2025
Fingers are pointed at a pair of men from Burrell Boom Village, Belize District, as being responsible for the death of...
Because of the immense power of the US, every word from the mouth of its president has ramifications for people everywhere. In his inaugural address, new US president, Donald...
Politics and patriotism are two extremely delicate and powerful topics that can excite and inspire really strong emotions, sometimes positive, and sometimes negative. There are very few born Belizeans...
A week before handing over the presidency of the United States of America to Donald Trump, outgoing president, Joe Biden announced that the US would be removing Cuba from...
“I am proud to be a descendant of Ignacia and Cornelius Patrick. This donation is a testament of commitment, of sharing spaces, of giving back from a family whose members come from very humble beginnings. Repeating the words of Premier George Price, a story of ‘Good Belizeans’, in the context of Garifunaduau through the teachings of the Dabuyaba, ‘Au bun, Amuru nu’, translated as ‘I for You, and you for me’.” – I. Myrtle Cacho Palacio
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Jan. 23, 2025
(Below are excerpts taken from the remarks yesterday, Wednesday, January 22, 2025, by Arreini Palacio Morgan, great granddaughter of Ignacia Cacho, which were made at the Ignacia Cacho Library...
(l-r) Alexis Downes-Amsterdam, Director General of CARIFORUM and Hon. Dr. Osmond Martinez, Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Trade
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Jan. 20, 2025
Hon. Dr. Osmond Martinez, Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Trade, assumed the Chair of CARIFORUM, or the Caribbean Forum on January 1, but was officially handed the post on Thursday, January 16.
CARIFORUM, or the Caribbean Forum, is a collective of Caribbean countries that work together on economic issues with the European Union (EU). The Dominican Republic and the 15 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states are members of CARIFORUM.
With Hon. Dr. Martinez’s newly gained position, Belize hosted a CARIFORUM delegation from...
The vast majority of us human beings are very afraid of death, the state which Shakespeare described as "that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns." In seeking to allay some of their fears, all peoples, it seems to me, subscribe to some form of religion, some set of beliefs which seek to explain what happens after our departure from our earthly sojourn.
It has been fifteen months since Hamas, the Palestinian group, attacked a concert being held somewhere in Israel, killed more than a thousand people, and took more than two hundred hostages. The much more powerful Israelis responded by bombing Gaza, the home of Hamas, to smithereens,...
Photo: Yellow onions
by Charles Gladden
COROZAL TOWN, Thurs. Jan. 16, 2025
Onion farmers from throughout the country met with the Belize Marketing and Development Corporation (BMDC), the marketing arm of the Ministry of Agriculture, in...
