Editorial
PM presents 2024/2025 Budget
Photo: Prime Minister, Hon. John Briceño
The national budget proposals for this fiscal year project...
Women in Art
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 14, 2024
In celebration of Women’s Month – which...
UEF celebrates 28th birthday on March 10
by Sista Ya Ya Marin Coleman
United Black Association for Development Educational Foundation (UEF) 28th...
Kidney Awareness Month
Photo: Dr. Natashia Gongora, Internal Medicine and Nephrology Specialist
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Mar....
2012 PUP manifesto made the right call for fixed election date
It was expected, after the PUP blew out the UDP in the March 6 Municipal elections, winning 8 of the 9 municipalities, most of...
The PUP and the SECOND municipal elections
There are TWO local elections in our two cities and seven towns during the mandate of any national government, and the only way that...
Self-determination and colonial induced ignorance
Monday, March 4, 2024
To the generation of Belizeans who came of age in the late 1960s and 70s, the term “self-determination” has some meaning,...
A “cooperative” response to bringdown the price of food
We are living in tough economic times. The number of people with sufficient disposable income to spend on entertainment and patronize small entrepreneurs in...
Small states and big powers
As the big powers continue to look on at the one-sided slaughter in Gaza, despite overwhelming condemnation by nations worldwide including Belize, it should...
For the DOE, guiding national development is not an easy task
Based on size, the development project at Angelfish Caye is insignificant, small compared to projects like the rejected Waterloo Cruise Terminal at Port of...
October 7 and Israel’s date with the ICJ
Monday, February 19, 2024
The “Western” media has let us down again. The major news sources on international T.V. that most of us Belizeans listen...
Brain drain or investment capital from Belizeans abroad
The extremely wealthy USA, aka America or The States, is attractive to peoples all over the globe. America, a country with a past as...
What about our football fans?
Fishermen build shades to attract lobster. Who cares about football fans?
Monday, February 12, 2024
Sports is such a part of our Belizean culture that we...
Belize, 16 years later, still no agreement on communal land ownership
“It took nearly three hours for Chief Justice, Dr. Abdulai Conteh, to pronounce his judgment”, the Amandala of October 19th, 2007, reported. The story,...
When the roll is called
It is a standard norm in most religious or spiritual philosophies that at some point in human existence, all are called to answer for...
ASR/BSI must respect BSCFA’s legitimate concerns
It took some weeks of negotiations before the BSCFA (Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association) signed a two-year commercial agreement with ASR/BSI (American Sugar Refining/...
Silent slaughter, small people and big powers
Monday, January 29, 2024
The world will never be the same; the common people of the world having been exposed to happenings that were well-kept...
Government’s million $ question – pump money in, or step away
During the recent standoff between the largest cane farmer association, BSCFA, and BSI, which is majority-owned by the giant American company, American Sugar Refining,...