Editorial
BDF soldiers get land titles
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Aug. 11, 2022 On Thursday and Friday of last...
CITCO Youth Innovation summer camp ends
150 kids from various parts of the city were given certificates for completing CITCO’s...
Who’s JR Smith?
Accomplice in a joint enterprise—or mastermind?
By Marco Lopez
The mass shooting in Hopkins village over...
No overnight solution to crime in Lake I—DPM Hyde
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Aug. 8, 2022 The Deputy Prime Minister, and area representative for...
Population growth and race/ethnicity concerns
The Ministry of Immigration announced recently that a surprisingly low number of persons who are illegally in Belize had applied to have their...
Our Hopkins dilemma
lawyers, human rights, national security, and justice
Monday, Aug. 8, 2022
As a people faced with a major national crime problem, a number of citizens...
Violence, grief, and financial ruin
Belize has rarely seen violence on a scale equal to what occurred in peaceful Hopkins over the weekend when a gunman or gunmen...
Waterloo — far from our best option
If it was a secret that the faction leading the UDP at this time is battling to find favor with British banker, Lord...
The call to serve
The task of drafting a new Belize Constitution for our growing nation is a very important one, a sacred one, a challenging one....
Belize in “balancing act” to deliver too-small minimum wage increase
The PUP Plan Belize Manifesto 2020-2025 promised that the minimum wage would be increased to $5 per hour as soon as the “economy roars...
Dr. Ted Aranda, a leader to emulate
Belize’s flag flies at half-mast all this week, on the passing of Dr. Theodore “Ted” Aranda, a giant of our country. Much has been...
Whose Waterloo? The problem of winning in politics
There are some good Belizeans, men and women, who are held in high esteem as people of integrity and sound human values; but a...
A terrible failure of the system
The family of Allyson Major, Jr. feels betrayed by our justice system, after police officer Kent Martinez was freed of a charge of manslaughter...
Goliath at our waterfront
Happy Independence Day to all USA citizens, and that includes Belizean/Americans!
Today is a special day for Americans, as it marks the date in...
Commission of Inquiry’s theater left us with huge bill
Belizeans thought the attendant circus provided by the Commission of Inquiry into the handling of our assets by the past UDP government was...
Consultation and democracy — About sports fields and school buildings
Our Belize Constitution makes reference to the working of the democratic process as being necessarily dependent on our elected representatives making decisions and taking...
Miseducation, and abandonment of Roots Belizeans must end
At the 9th Summit of the Americas, PM Briceño spoke of existential problems facing our country, region and the world. In respect to climatic...
Rediscovering the wheel, as the murders continue
Man shot on Fabers Road; man shot on Dolphin Street; man shot on Sixth Street; man shot on King Street… “The good, the bad,”...
