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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...

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FAO helps Belize cooperatives in development

FAO rep. Anna Touza PhD gives ICT equipment to Hon. Jose Mai by William Ysaguirre...

BEL to buy solar power from BAPCoL

(l-r) BEL Andrew Marshalleck, CEO John Mencias sign PPA with BAPCoL - Michaen Bowen by...

Galen hosts National Disaster Risk Management Research Forum

Zain Dueheney, Coordinator for Galen’s postgraduate program by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Fri. July 4, 2025 Galen...

ISCR-NICH holds National Food Heritage Workshop

Rolando Cocom, Director of ISCR-NICH by Charles Gladden BELMOPAN, Thurs. July 3, 2025 The Institute for Social...

Freak storms cost banana growers US$15-20 million

After two consecutive nights of thunderstorms the Banana Growers Association, BGA, has suffered an estimated 40% in crop loss which they estimate will amount to US$15-20 million in financial losses. Between Monday, September 5, and Tuesday, September 6, there were two storms with winds of just about 40 mph in the Stann Creek District, as recorded by BGA’s weather equipment.

9 bullets for Guy Fuller, Jr., 34 – why?

Fuller was said to be “quiet and hard-working;” the gunman shot him to death in his home... Last night’s murder of Guy Fuller, Jr., 34, at his apartment home on Banak Street, where his wife and children also live, proves that not even our homes are safe havens anymore.

GSU goes berserk on George Street!

“The GSU are a mob and they will escalate the crime in the streets if they don’t change how they are operating,” residents of George Street told us.... Residents of George Street are boiling mad at the brutal, cruel, vicious, senseless and vindictive operation carried out on Friday evening by members of Government’s “goon squad,” the Gang Suppression Unit (GSU), ostensibly against members of what they consider the “George Street Gang.”

Bad border business!

Belize and Guatemala await completion of OAS investigation on border incident... In keeping with its habit of fomenting trouble between Belize and Guatemala at their western border, the sensation-seeking Guatemalan newspaper, La Prensa Libre, reported inaccurately that on Monday, August 22, a Guatemalan citizen had been wounded in the Adjacency Zone, on the Guatemalan side of the border, by a Belizean military patrol.

Breakthrough on 9th Amendment

GOB’s concession to the churches... After dropping sections that purport to bar court challenges, Prime Minister Barrow insists: “...the courts cannot hear challenges to the substance of a properly passed Constitutional amendment and eventually strike it down.”

A big bull, and a dead, naked man!

Post-mortem inconclusive, because of body’s advanced state of decomposition... Police said that they have identified a Hispanic man who they found dead, in an advanced state of decomposition, with puncture wounds about an inch and a quarter in circumference on the back of his legs, upper left back thighs, rib cage, and left upper chest.

Ladyville bank jack!

2 security guards shot; one in the head, the other in the leg... At approximately 1:55 p.m. at the Atlantic Bank Ladyville branch, a team of armed robbers shot two security guards inside the bank during an attempted holdup.

Ah fraid fu Section 69!

Hecklers ruled at 9th Amendment first hearing... “If, in fact, we are gearing this at whomever, that they cannot come and challenge in court, why not make this more specific to the claiming of utilities as opposed to making it so broad?” questioned NTUCB’s Jackie Sanchez-Willoughby

John Saldivar to take the heat!

Controversial 9th Amendment consultations begin... Teachers, businesspersons, social and political activists, attorneys, religious organizations and curious citizens looking for bona fide answers on the controversial Belize Constitution (Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2011, will converge inside the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall in Belize City as the public debate on the bill enters a new round on Wednesday night, August 10, 2011.

Glenn Tillett’s horrible, terrible ride west!

Former talk-show host on the Opposition People’s United Party (PUP)’s mouthpiece, Vibes Radio; former chair of the Belize Broadcasting Authority (among other positions held under former Prime Minister Said Musa’s administrations), former columnist for official PUP organ the Belize Times as well as current contributing writer for the National Perspective; and long-standing critic and antagonist of the current Prime Minister, Dean Barrow’s administration, Glenn Tillett, was charged yesterday, Wednesday, by Belmopan police with handling stolen goods, while he was still in his hospital bed recuperating from an attack of “bad health” suffered after lockdown in the Belmopan police “pisshouse.”

Parliament has “no limit” to its power – PM Barrow!

Belize is no Pakistan, says Audrey Matura-Shepherd... Amid a storm of public opposition to the 9th Constitutional Amendment Bill, which declares constitutional amendments unchallengeable by any court of law “on any ground whatsoever,” Prime Minister Dean Barrow has, on Friday, July 29, released a letter declaring that as the laws of Belize now stand, Parliament really has no limit in its power to change the Belize Constitution, and the court has no power to investigate or review constitutional amendments, except in cases where such changes are made without adhering to the proper procedures set out in the Constitution, under Section 69.

Crazy Cotton Tree chopping!

The force of the blow split the victim’s skull... A young man from Belize City died shortly after 9:00 last night at the Western Regional Hospital after being chopped in the head, allegedly by a minor in the village of Cotton Tree, Cayo District.

Mom saves son, 14, from attacker, 62

A 62-year-old accused sexual predator, a resident of Plues Street, Belize City, got his comeuppance last Thursday night, July 21, when he allegedly tried to rape a 14-year-old youth in San Jose Succotz.

More Belize churches condemn UNIBAM!

“Homosexuality practices sinful and considered such by God.” –The Belize Council of Churches... “Marriage … between man and woman … ordained by God.” – The Methodist Church... UNIBAM’s suit “heavily influenced by foreign interests who seek to impose a worldview that directly contradicts the supremacy of God…” — Roman Catholic Diocese Bishop Dorick Wright; Anglican Bishop Philip Wright; and Reverend Eugene Crawford, president of the Evangelicals, in May.
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