Michael Finnegan, former Mesopotamia area representative
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 26, 2025
Leading into the March 12 general elections, Michael Finnegan, like former UDP leader Dean Barrow, had not gone public with his position on the continuing dysfunction of the United Democratic Party (UDP), which is...
Louis Wade, Jr., former substantive media commissioner on the PCC
BELMOPAN, Mon. May 26, 2025
When the May 19th letter of concern to Prime Minister John Briceño by 10 of 46 former commissioners of the...
BELIZE CITY, Fri. May 23, 2025
Today, at the continuation of Elmer Nah's CMC (Case Management Conference) for his trial for triple murder, the only standing attorney representing Nah, Dr. Lynden Jones, made an...
(Image credit: NOAA NWS)
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Fri. May 23, 2025
The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season will officially begin in just a few days, on June 1.
A preparedness plan is already being put into effect due...
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...
In the opening paragraphs of his presentation of the budget for the fiscal year 2025/26, which was tabled about six weeks after the fiscal year began, PM Briceño remarked...
by Evan X Hyde
In November of 1969, at a house rented by William "Silky" Stewart, owned by Curl Thompson, and situated off the Northern Highway behind the Shell Gas Station, representatives of the National Independence Party (NIP), the People's Development Movement (PDM), the United Black Association for Development (UBAD), and the People's Action Committee (PAC) met to discuss a possible coalition for the general elections called for early December that year.
Older readers will remember that Dean Lindo had split off from the NIP and formed his own PDM in April of 1969 after his bid to unseat Philip Goldson as leader of the NIP, failed.
When Mr. Price announced general...
Personnel from the Ministry of Health at their booth at the Belmopan Civic Center on Tuesday
by Orlando Pulido (Freelance Writer)
SANTA ELENA TOWN, Cayo District, Wed. May 21, 2025
The Belize Bureau of Standards (BBS) hosted a Consumer Rights Information and Metrology Day at the Belmopan Civic Center on May 20, 2025. Aside from the BBS's booths (Consumer Protection, Legal and Industrial Metrology and Standards), additional boots were set up by invited agencies, which included the Supplies Control Unit, the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, the Belmopan City Council, the Public Utilities Commission, the Public Health Department and the Drug Inspectorate, the Department of the Environment, the Belize Tax Service, the Financial...
In 2012, I had to have a prostate procedure, which was done in Phoenix, Arizona, by one Dr. Daitch. One of Mose's friends, a gentleman from Corozal by the name of Raul Daniels, drove me, Mose and Fada Lee from Belize to Houston, Texas, (through Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Reynosa), then loaned his vehicle to Mose and Fada Lee to take me from Houston to Phoenix by way of El Paso.
Misheck Mawema
One day about eight or ten years ago, I was visiting Raul in Corozal, and one of his friends was visiting him from California. I think his name was Alfred Haylock, and I believe he is now deceased. Alfred claimed that...
BNTU President, Nadia Caliz
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 22, 2025
The Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) was scheduled to vote on Monday, May 19, on whether they would proceed with a national...
