(l-r) Philip “Billy” Leslie, Fishing tour guide and Senator Janelle Chanona, OCEANA Belize executive director
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 19, 2025
Belize’s coastal mangroves protect our coastlines from tropical storm destruction and wave erosion, and serve as a nursery for the juveniles...
by Charles Gladden
SAN PEDRO TOWN, Mon. May 19, 2025
A golf cart accident in San Pedro Town has claimed the life of an Education Officer from the Ministry of Education over the weekend.
42-year-old Brian...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Fri. May 16, 2025
On Friday, May 16, the Central Medical Laboratory on Princess Margaret Drive in Belize City officially re-opened its doors after almost a year of a major...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May 19, 2025
The Department of Environment (DOE), under the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Solid Waste Management, and its National Ozone Unit, Information Management Unit, and Chemical Management...
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...
Alcohol consumption has been a part of Belizean culture from the beginning of the settlement by pirates/buccaneers-turned-logwood-cutters sometime back in the seventeenth century; and like the world over, the...
Almost two months after the PUP decisively won a second consecutive term (in the March 12 general election), the new government announced that “the Fourteenth Session of the House...
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Tues. May 13, 2025The Belize Government Lotteries Limited generated over $100 million, said the Prime Minister of Belize, Hon. John Briceno, on Monday, May 12, during the first meeting of the House of Representatives since his administration secured another term at the polls on March 12.
“For November 21, 2023, through to 30th November, 2024, the government-owned and managed Belize Government Lotteries Limited recorded sales of some $111.2 million, which was for lottery sales revenues only,” he said.
In 2023, the Government of Belize, under the Briceño administration, re-acquired the national lottery enterprise from private owners, the Caribbean Gaming Company Limited (CGCL) and Brad’s Gaming Group, into whose...
John Briceño, Prime Minister of Belize
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Mon. May 12, 2025
Members of the Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) were protesting on the streets of Belmopan on Friday, May 9, as part of their effort to get the government to give them an 8.5% salary increase. However, Prime Minister of Belize, Hon. John Briceño told reporters that the increase could cost the Government of Belize almost $63 million.
“It is our responsibility to meet with them and see what we afford. If we can afford that, we will give it to them. If we can give them more, we will gladly give it to them; but we have to...
In Tuesday's column, I referred to the fact that the law partnership in the late 1970s between Denys Barrow (UDP) and Ernest Staine (PUP) was the first such in Belize history between attorneys from Belize's two major political parties.
In the mid-1960s, however, there had been the strange case where two attorneys who were in a partnership, separated professionally and politically. During their years of partnership, there was nothing to indicate that Dean Lindo and Joseph Gray did not have the same political views. (Incidentally, both had gotten their law degrees in Great Britain.)
But then a strange, mysterious thing took place. Gray separated himself from Lindo, opened his own law...
Moises Garbutt, deceased
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Tues. May 13, 2025
A body believed to be that of 24-year-old Moises Garbutt of Roaring Creek, whose family had reported him missing for two days, was found in...
