Highlights
BPD awards 3 officers with Women Police of the Year
Photo: (l-r) Myrna Pena, Carmella Cacho, and Shanice Bevans; BPD Female Police of the...
Suicide on the rise!
Photo: Iveth Quintanilla, Mental Health Coordinator
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Wed. Mar. 20, 2024
Since entering the...
NCA launches 8-year Strategic Plan
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 18, 2024
Belize’s aging population, which comprised 6% of...
Belize places Top 40 at Miss World 2023
Photo: Elise-Gayonne Vernon, Belizean contestant
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Mar. 12, 2024
22-year-old Elise-Gayonne Vernon...
Who advised Belize on this?
(As per the linked BBN article) on "isolation areas within health facilities," and "the hospital area designated for isolation" for possible Covid-19 Coronavirus...
Belize in rough economic waters, and it’s getting rougher
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Feb. 26, 2020-- Prime Minister Barrow will be leaning on all the genius that resides at the Central Bank and all...
Sean Taegar publishes Spirit Fire Light, an extended poem
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Feb. 27, 2020-- Spirit Fire Light is the longest poem ever to be published by a Belizean poet. The over 600-...
Government is breaking the law, Opposition Leader tells CDB and British High Commissioner
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Feb. 26, 2020-- On Monday, there was a ground-breaking ceremony for the 130-million-dollar Coastal Road Project that the UDP’s “favorite contractor,”...
My listening to Sean Taegar’s Spirit Fire Light
There’s a call and response that I’d like to invite all to participate in during my presentation. It’s inspired by Sean’s own joyful tune...
About laws, leadership, and “checks and balances”
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Feb. 24, 2020-- The tyrannical, “gringo” managing director, the late Robert “Bob” Phillips, after crossing paths a few times with “I...
Attorney Payal Ghanwani appointed new UDP Sentor
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Feb. 20, 2020-- Payal Ghanwani, an attorney employed at the law firm of attorney Steve Perrera, has been tapped as the...
Redistricting cannot happen yet, says Doug Singh
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Feb. 20, 2020-- The legal battle between the Elections and Boundaries Department and the Belize Peace Movement, the Belize Progressive Party,...
Michael “Chips” Norales is new Deputy Mayor
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Feb. 20, 2020-- Michael “Chips” Norales is the Belize City Council’s new deputy mayor. He replaces Councilor Oscar Arnold, who has...
The Mennonites have what most of our tribes want. But do they have too much?
There is no place in Belize that is exclusively Garinagu, no land where that tribe’s traditions and race are insulated from the rest of...
Chief Justice allows Lord Ashcroft to join redistricting case
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Feb. 18, 2020-- Belize’s 31 electoral constituencies do not have an equal number of registered voters. Some constituencies have double the...
Main suspect in San Pedro Lagoon murders killed in Guatemala
SAN PEDRO, Ambergris Caye, Thurs. Feb. 13, 2020-- The main suspect in the double murder of San Pedrano, Mario Graniel, Jr., 53, a tour...
Disgraced John Saldivar apologizes to Cabinet and to the general public for his “poor judgment.”
BELIZE CITY, Fri. Feb. 14, 2020-- Five days after he won the United Democratic Party (UDP) race for leadership of the party (a post...
Deputy Police Commissioner Miguel Segura acquitted of manslaughter by negligence
Vital witnesses for the prosecution failed to appear in court.
BELMOPAN, Thurs. Feb. 13, 2020-- Deputy Commissioner of Police, Miguel Segura, knocked down and killed...