Tracy Panton sworn in as Leader of the Opposition
Tracy Panton has become Belize’s first female Leader of the Opposition and Lee Mark Chang, the first Chinese-Belizean Deputy Leader of the Opposition.
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 17, 2025
Belize’s first ever woman Leader of the...
PM John Briceño
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 17, 2025
The newly elected People’s United Party’s (PUP) representatives in the National Assembly received their Cabinet appointments last Saturday, March 15, from Prime Minister Hon....
Guatemalan Navy Vessel spotted in Belize
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 17, 2025
A Guatemalan Navy vessel was spotted in Belizean waters on Sunday morning, March 16, and was escorted out of the country...
by Charles Gladden
PUNTA GORDA TOWN, Toledo District, Mon. Mar. 17, 2025
A brawl among friends near the Punta Gorda cemetery resulted in the shooting death of a man within the community on Sunday night, March 16....
British PM Margaret Thatcher and US president Ronald Reagan, who led their respective countries in the 1980s, believed small government produced greater efficiency, and for that reason Thatcher privatized...
The 2025 general elections are over. A landslide PUP government has been returned to office with another 26-5 majority in the House. And once again the new government faces...
On March 11, 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, solemnly declared a pandemic, because of Covid-19, the novel coronavirus. The world has not...
Pele helped Brazil win the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970. (Image: Hans-Jürgen Schmidt/HJS-Sportfotos/picture alliance)
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It begins in 1940 on the frontier west of Rio, in an impoverished town called Tres Coracoes. With his slight frame (145 pounds at the start of his career), Edson Arantes's body seemed more suited to shoe shining and the resale of tobacco gathered from discarded cigarettes, his first vocations. But he had a pushy father, Dondinho, whose own aspirations to soccer greatness and social mobility ended with the ripping of right knee ligaments in his first and only professional appearance. From the start, it was clear Dondinho had quite a...
Belize Elementary School – 2025 National Primary Schools Female Volleyball Champions
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
PUNTA GORDA TOWN, Toledo District, Fri. Mar. 7, 2025
The Belize Elementary School (BES) girls won their first ever National Primary Schools Volleyball Championship, dominating all opponents in two sets for the 4 games they played at the tournament organized by the National Sports Council at the Punta Gorda Multipurpose Complex on Friday, March 7.
Santa Elena RC – 2025 National Primary Schools Female Volleyball Sub-Champions
In Game 1, the Cayo District champions, Santa Elena Primary School girls won, 25-15, 29-27, over the Corozal District champions, the Paraiso Government School girls.
In Game 2, the BES girls dominated the Orange Walk...
Leslie Rogers and I have been very good friends for decades and decades, but his father, the late C. L. B. Rogers, Deputy Prime Minister of Belize and area representative for the Mesopotamia constituency from 1961 to 1979, was Rt. Hon. George Price's muscle for two decades, as Minister of Home Affairs.
In the streets of Belize City, C. L. B. Rogers was a legend, because of the fact that he was a rare combination of brains and brawn, besides possessing nerves of steel. Mr. Rogers was special. Mr. Price recognized this, and gave him all the space and authority he needed.
As president of UBAD, I was an antagonist, so to...
Maricarmen Plata, Chief of Mission
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 13, 2025
Members of the Organization of American States (OAS) were deployed to various sections of the country as they are here to observe...
