Promotional flyer of Tate & Lyle Fairtrade certified sugar originating in Belize
Tate & Lyle’s bid to block BSCFA’s multimillion-dollar Fairtrade lawsuit fails
BELIZE CITY, Tues. July 8, 2025
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA) has come out victorious after facing a bid by Tate &...
Howell Grange
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. July 10, 2025
Three persons who were on the ill-fated Tropic Air flight from the airstrip in Ranchito, Corozal to San Pedro, Ambergris Caye on the morning of April 17,...
Melvin Ashburn, charged
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. July 10, 2025
Tonight, a Double Head Cabbage driver is out on bail after he was arraigned this morning in the Belize City Magistrate's Court on five traffic offenses,...
BELIZE CITY, Wed. July 9, 2025
Tonight, a man from the Saint Martin De Porres area is on remand at the Belize Central Prison following his arraignment for rape, after being accused of forcing a woman...
Dr. Victor Bulmer-Thomas, an economist from London University who has written a number of books in that field, and co-authored the book, The Economic History of Belize From the...
Just over three decades ago, when the PUP government in Belize was exhorting the population, including the Opposition UDP, to join in the campaign to support the passage of...
The safe, affordable movement of people from where they reside to where they work or go to school is an essential function of any government; thus, huge investments are...
Sunday, June 29, 2025
This past weekend was an eventful and critical one in the relationship between a number of labor unions and the Government of Belize under the PUP...
FAO rep. Anna Touza PhD gives ICT equipment to Hon. Jose Mai
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. July 10, 2025
Cooperatives formed by farmers, fishermen, taxi drivers and other producers joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise in celebrating the 103rd International Cooperatives Day which was also the 31st United Nations' International Day of Cooperatives, observed on July 5, with an all-day forum hosted by the Department of Cooperatives at the Grand Resort Belize near the Haulover Bridge on Friday, July 4.
“Cooperatives: Driving Inclusive and Sustainable Solutions for a Better World” is the theme of this year’s celebration. The aim is to showcase the cooperatives’ potential to help build an inclusive economy, advance the...
(l-r) BEL Andrew Marshalleck, CEO John Mencias sign PPA with BAPCoL - Michaen Bowen
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. July 10, 2025
Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) has partnered with Blair Athol Power Company Limited (BAPCoL) to develop a 15-Megawatt solar power generation facility, by signing a power purchase agreement at BEL headquarters in Belize City on Thursday afternoon, July 10.
BEL chief executive officer John Mencias and BEL board chairman Andrew Marshallek signed the contract along with the principals of Blair Athol Power, Michael Bowen and Hilberto Martinez.
BAPCoL first proposed building a renewable power facility in 2013, but it took many years to overcome the hurdles of environmental compliance, financing, and sourcing the solar panels, and the company...
I would say that less than a month ago, Hon. Michael Finnegan did two television interviews a few days apart. One was with Nuri Muhammad at XTV/KREM Radio on a Friday morning, and the other was the following Wednesday night with Jules Vasquez on Channel 7.
I think it was in the Nuri Muhammad interview that Finnegan revealed that Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, following the landslide defeat in March of 2003 of the United Democratic Party (UDP) he was leading, attempted to resign the leadership he had inherited from Dr. Manuel Esquivel following the UDP's massive defeat in the August 1998 general election. The leaders of the UDP unanimously rejected...
Paul Morgan, Redistricting Claimant
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. July 10, 2025
Paul Morgan, one of the seven redistricting claimants of the Belize Peace Movement (BPM), in an interview Tuesday acknowledged the realities facing them, while a...
