Highlights
Belize’s Foreign Minister returns from Migration Summit in Guatemala
Photo: Foreign Ministers of signatory countries
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 9, 2024
Hon. Francis...
250 students graduate from BPD’s PEACE program
Photo: ACP Howell Gillett, Commander of National Community Policing
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. May...
Boots to take recall matter to the High Court
Photo: Anthony “Boots” Martinez, former Port Loyola Area Representative
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Mon. May...
UB holds 13th annual research conference in Belmopan
Photo: Dr. Dion Daniels, Assistant Professor from the Faculty of Science and Technology at...
Saldivar questions Central Bank on Duncan
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 2, 2020-- When the Lev Dermen scandal erupted and brought down John Saldivar as the newly elected United Democratic Party...
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...