Two female cops fined for talk show appearance
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Apr. 7, 2021-- In late January, we reported of a groundbreaking legal victory in favor of two female police officers who...
Two officer cadets graduate from Mexican Naval Academy
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Apr. 7, 2021-- Two officers in the Belize Coast Guard recently graduated from the Mexican Naval Academy with Bachelor’s degrees. Officer...
COVID-19 update
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 8, 2021-- Last Wednesday, on March 31, the country received its first batch of allocated vaccines from the COVAX facility....
Young Belizean to moderate session at United Nations Economic and Social Council Youth Forum 2021 – Caribbean Session
CASTRIES, SAINT LUCIA: A young Belizean is slated to moderate at this year’s United Nations’ ECOSOC Youth Forum. Dominique Noralez, an executive member of...
Taiwan to help Belize fully digitize
BELMOPAN, Belize, Tues. Apr. 6, 2021-- To strengthen the close and cordial relations between Belize and Taiwan, the ambassadors of both nations met with...
Belize receives 33,600 vaccine doses from COVAX
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 1, 2021-- At around 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 31, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received 33,600 doses of...
Where Belize stands in World Cup 2022 Qualifiers
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 8, 2021-- The brief moments of football fever, the week in late March when our Belize national football team, the...
Jaguars win 5-nil over Turks and Caicos in WC Qualifier
BELIZE CITY, Tue. Mar. 30, 2021-- Belize rebounded from a 2-nil loss to powerhouse Haiti last Wednesday, to register a 5-nil victory this evening...
Venezuela to send baseball trainers to Belize
BELMOPAN, Mon. Mar. 29, 2021-- In recent exchanges between Kevin Bernard, Minister of Youth, Sports and E-Governance, and H.E. Gerardo Argote, Ambassador of the...
WHO – approved vaccine is no threat when compared to bat virus
There are studies that claim that the animal we know as modern man appeared on the earth about one and a quarter million years...
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Elections are over— time to fix our finances
In his “Make Every Dollar Count” 2020/21 budget, then Prime Minister Dean Barrow boasted that his party, in the twelve years during which it...
Handling cheaper money (and taxes) right is key, PM
In his weekly message to the nation, Prime Minister John Briceño, whose government came to power during by far the worst financial and health...
The party should wait– just a little longer
Most public employees are sincere when they say they can’t afford a cut in salary, nor an increment freeze, and they are spot-on when...
Testing the mettle of our democracy
It has not been unusual in the past couple decades of global economic instability, for our governments to face major crises nearing national elections...
From the Publisher
I think a lot of Belizeans assumed that I had pushed my second son into politics here, in 1994 thereabouts, in order for me...
From the Publisher
I must go down to the seas again, to
the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star
to...
From the Publisher
I’m the son of a buccaneer
and a black woman
I’m the son of a Spanish man
and a Carib woman
I’m the son of a Creole man
and...
Unions must see the big picture
Dear Editor,
I’ve been following the scenario with the unions, especially the BNTU, PSU & APSSM. The word I would use to describe them is...
IMF vs Teachers
Dear Editor,
The friction between GOB and teachers and public officers because of proposed salary cuts is not surprising. It is clearly a big-picture, small-picture...
LET’S SAY NO TO SALARY CUTS
Dear Editor,
I write as a former member of the National Assembly (1984–1989) and as a former Senator (1989–1993).
In regard to the public officers and...
Injustice and incompetence
Dear Editor,
I would like to express my concern about the future of the justice system in Belize. In light of this, I would like...
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Apr. 7, 2021-- Last week, just before the start of the long Easter weekend, the Public Service Union (PSU) issued a...
From the Publisher en Español
Creo que muchos beliceños asumieron que yo había empujado a mi segundo hijo a entrar en la política aquí, aproximadamente en 1994, para que...
From the Publisher en Español
Debo volver a bajar a los mares
al mar solitario y al cielo,
Y todo lo que pido es un barco alto y una estrella
con cual...
From the Publisher en Español
Soy hijo de un bucanero
y una mujer negra
Soy hijo de un hombre español
y una mujer caribe
Soy hijo de un hombre criollo
y una mujer india
Soy...
From the Publisher en Español
Lake Garden, una comunidad que es una creación del finado topógrafo Henry Flowers, un contemporáneo de topógrafos como el finado James V. Hyde, se...
Manejar correctamente dinero más barato (e impuestos) es clave, PM
En su mensaje semanal a la nación, el primer ministro John Briceño, cuyo gobierno llegó al poder durante, por mucho, la peor crisis financiera...
El partido debería esperar, solo un poco más
La mayoría de los empleados públicos son sinceros cuando dicen que no pueden permitirse un recorte salarial, ni un congelamiento de incrementos, y dan...
Poniendo a prueba la entereza de nuestra democracia
No ha sido inusual en las últimas dos décadas de inestabilidad económica mundial, que nuestros gobiernos se enfrenten a grandes crisis cercanas a las...
Plan Belize en espera; hoy es Plan Supervivencia
El Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) acaba de concluir su revisión de nuestra economía y, como de costumbre, recibimos un informe deprimente. Cada año, el...
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Covid: Brazil has more than 4,000 deaths in 24 hours for first time
Brazil has recorded more than 4,000 Covid-related deaths in 24 hours for the first time, as a more contagious variant fuels a surge in...
International
Head of PAHO warns about recent COVID-19 surge
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, Tues. Mar. 23, 2021-- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Carissa Etienne, announced that PAHO has delivered over 2.2 million...