CCJ monitors GoB’s compliance with Toledo Maya’s land rights Consent Order
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Tues. Apr. 8, 2025
The Toledo Maya’ Consent Order on their traditional land rights handed down by the Caribbean Court of Justice on April 22, 2015, is fast...
Horse receiving treatment from BAHA
A group of teenagers filmed themselves slashing a horse with a machete and leaving it near death.
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 10, 2025
A group of young men who...
Jorge Mejia - BNTU 1st Vice President
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
PUNTA GORDA, Toledo District, Tues. Apr. 8, 2025
The Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) has embarked on a review and renewal of their union constitution...
Attorney Alford Humes
by Roy Davis (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 7, 2025
Alford Alrick Humes, 39, a former warehouse attendant for Brodies store, located on Albert Street, who is currently employed at the Office of the...
Since Wednesday, April 2, when the US government announced tariff increases on merchandise from the majority of countries in the world, including Belize, our top financial minds in government...
“…the little children…”
Normalizing this abominable situation is not acceptable, and before it reaches a point at which our leaders are induced or intimidated by offshore influences to further withdraw...
In the days leading up to the March 12 general election, Channel 7 boss, Jules Vasquez made the observation that PUP leader John Briceño had said that Francis Fonseca...
When the prime minister of our country sees the need to travel abroad with the intention of holding a meeting with major business or political leaders of foreign origin,...
Micheal Gordon
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Apr. 8, 2025
The work of one of Belize’s most prolific artists, Michael Gordon, was showcased at the Imagination Factri on Tuesday, April 8, in Belize City.
“It takes a try to do it, because I’m only the artist; but then, who wants to build me up?”, said Gordon.
“In the Toward the Michael Gordon Museum project” is the title of the exhibition that showcases hundreds of Gordon’s works, which were created using cardboard, paper, canvas, wood panels, mixed materials, and wood sculpture.
He began his work close to three decades ago.
“I from ’98, but one thing I couldn’t get perfect was the shape of things....
Attorney Alford Humes
by Roy Davis (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 7, 2025
Alford Alrick Humes, 39, a former warehouse attendant for Brodies store, located on Albert Street, who is currently employed at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), was called to the Bar this morning in a short ceremony that was held in the courtroom of Justice Derick Sylvester. Humes was nominated by Senior Counsel Simeon Sampson.
Humes is the son of a single mother, and he has a son and ten other siblings. He was born and raised on the southside of Belize City, in the Lake Independence area, and he began his working career as a...
I thought a few paragraphs from a paper I found amongst my old documents this week may be interesting to readers. The statistics presented are from almost thirty years ago, but they appear totally relevant today.
The reproduced paragraphs are in italics.
BACKGROUND:
Belize is a nation of 215,000 people, consisting of several ethnic groups of which the African Belizean is the second largest.
MISSION STATEMENT:
The UBAD Educational Foundation (UEF) was founded on March 10, 1996 as a non-profit organization by a group of concerned young and adult Belizeans to provide an educational opportunity for the impoverished African-Belizean youth. Acknowledging the supremacy of God, the UEF is nevertheless non-denominational in its religious affiliation,...
by Roy Davis (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 7, 2025
Ervin Middleton, 49, a resident of Hattieville charged with rape of a child, was found guilty of the charge in court today by Justice...
