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Sunday, July 13, 2025

The Primer on the People called Garifuna

by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer) BELIZE CITY, Thurs....

FAO helps Belize cooperatives in development

FAO rep. Anna Touza PhD gives ICT...

BEL to buy solar power from BAPCoL

(l-r) BEL Andrew Marshalleck, CEO John Mencias...

A small victory for cane farmers

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 &...

BAA faces compensation claims from Tropic Air pilot and passengers

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,...

Driver charged with manslaughter for RTA deaths of father and son

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,...

Man, 21, remanded to prison on rape charge

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...

Editorial

Bulmer-Thomas suspects Belize has bad dose of income inequality

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...

Belize’s march of peace to the ICJ

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...

Bus owners don’t think the Transport Ministry has done the math

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...

Tell us more, GoB!

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...

Editorial En Espanol

FAO helps Belize cooperatives in development

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...

BEL to buy solar power from BAPCoL

(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...

GENERAL NEWS

Father and son killed in highway collision

(l-r) Felipe Solis and Josue Solis by Charles Gladden BISCAYNE VILLAGE,...

New currency notes to be released in August

by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Wed. July 9, 2025 The redesigned...

Minors and two adults sentenced for cruelty to horse

(l-r) Raheem Herbert and Tyreek Straughan BELIZE CITY, Wed. July...

Bella Vista man pleads guilty to manslaughter

(l-r) Matyas Bo, pleaded guilty and John Bo, deceased by...

From the Publisher

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...

From the Publisher

I would say that less than a month ago,...

From the Publisher

(NOTE: Leafing through old copies of this newspaper, I...

From the Publisher En Espanol

FEATURES

Don’t attack rum; the problem is too much freedom

by Colin Hyde No sober person would dispute the charge...

Acts of God and a chainsaw!

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM In airlines lingo,...

High Court loss may leave BPM with big legal tab

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...

SPORTS

BDFA awards 2x champions Alvian Strikers

Alvian Strikers – 2x BDFA 2025 Under-15 Female Football...

Yabra/SSB 3rd Annual Over-40 Health & Wellness Football Tournament this Sunday at Berger Field

by Rudolph “Bolo” McKoy BELIZE CITY, Wed. July 9, 2025 This...

Survivors FC & Yo Creek FC lead NAIC football

Tut Bay’s Dylan Belisle defends vs Garage FC’s Kadeem...

San Pedro Tiger Sharks lead BPBL basketball, (8-0)

SP Tigersharks - Jihad Wright scored 18pts vs DGA...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

“Last bastion for caneros…”

Orange Walk Town, Tuesday, July 1, 2025 The Editor, Amandala, I read...

Return our tractor now!

Saturday, June 21, 2025 Dear Editor: I am a resident of...

Activism in Belize

Thursday, June 5, 2025 Dear Editor, Activism is overrated. It’s only...

CEMJC graduation ceremonies

Saturday, May 31, 2025 Dear Editor, Saturday, May 24, 2025 was...

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Domestic work is care work: Settling the historical debt to millions of women domestic workers

Ana Virginia Moreira Gomes OpEd by Ana Virginia Moreira Gomes (Regional...

US trade embargo against Cuba causes collateral damage for Central American government officials

USA Secretary of State Marco Rubio by William Ysaguirre (Freelance...

Kamla Persad-Bissessarre-elected T&T Prime Minister

TnT Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissesar by William Ysaguirre (Freelance...

Over 100 killed in Dominican Republic when nightclub roof collapses

Site of the collapsed Jet Set nightclub in Santo...

POLITICS

Opposition; GoB violating CARICOM treaty; Minister says they are uninformed

Photo: Shyne Barrow, Opposition Leader BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 13,...

Haylock wins, Shane loses

Photo: Godwin Haylock BELIZE CITY, Sun. Apr. 2, 2023 The United...

Sista B absent

Photo: Denise “Sista B” Barrow BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 27,...

Shyne kicked out of House

During Friday’s House meeting, the Speaker of the House,...
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SPORTS, SIN & SUBVERSION

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