Editorial
Women’s Month: Arma Arzu Divas
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 23, 2023
As we continue celebrating women for the...
COMPOL on fatal RTAs
Photo: Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
by Charles Gladden
ORANGE WALK, Thurs. Mar. 23, 2023
Numerous fatal...
Ya Ya to address N’COBRA Zoom workshop on Saturday
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 16, 2023
UBAD Educational Foundation (UEF) chairperson, Sista Ya Ya Marin...
Launch of Women in Art 2023
Photo: Kim Vasquez, Director of the Institute of Creative Arts & Art Exhibit.
by Kristen...
GoB and the retirement age
In his budget presentation for fiscal year 2023/24, Prime Minister John Briceño spoke of a recommendation by the IMF, for GoB to raise the...
Sports and the nation
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Neither Hon. Rodwell Ferguson, Minister of Sports, nor Hon. Kareem Musa, Minister in charge of the Police, will likely be blamed...
Not as poor as we thought — economy looking good
Is our present government the hardest working one we’ve ever had? The answer to that is it just might be. Has the economy improved...
Terror – knocking on your door
Monday, March 13, 2023
To many Belizeans who haven’t had the firsthand experience, the daily police press briefing about this person murdered, that person gone...
The Tribunal
Following an appeal by Waterloo, after the Department of the Environment (DOE) had, for a second time, rejected the group’s proposal to expand existing...
Happy National Heroes and Benefactors Day!
On March 6th Belizeans across the length and breadth of the Jewel will be in a festive mood, as our nation celebrates her many...
Professionalism, promotion and progress
Mon. Feb. 27, 2023
As we watched the TV screen and the large number of fans attending Friday night’s BEBL basketball encounter between then undefeated...
Buses must be safe, reliable — but fares must be affordable too
Just a few decades ago, there were five major bus owners in Belize: Gilharry in the north, Batty in the East, Novelo in the...
BEBL basketball on the brink
Monday, February 20, 2023
The first commissioner of the inaugural semipro basketball league in Belize back in 1992 was a business executive, Gus Perrera, and...
GoB and public workers lock horns over increments and pension
We’re not so far removed from nightly curfews and a month of complete lockdown, not so far removed from an economy in such a...
Punching with the heavyweights;Belize embraces Cuba
Mon. Feb. 13, 2023
Struggling to get our economy back on its feet, after dangling on the edge of financial disaster only a couple years...
Cuban president will be on our soil
It will be a joyful moment for Belize when Cuban president, H.E. Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, stops over for a brief visit on Sunday. Some...
“Giving to”, or “Taking away from” the Maya?
“The Appellate Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice”, comprising seven Justices under “The Right Honourable Sir Dennis Byron, President, and Justices Nelson, Saunders,...
Angry cops, dangerous cops
The top story in Belize this week is the trial of a police corporal who is charged with firing the shot that ended the...
