Speednet (SMART) suing GoB over contracts awarded to BTL (DIGI)
BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 25, 2025
Speednet Communications Ltd., doing business under the brand name SMART, has been granted permission to challenge the decision of the Government of Belize to award two contracts to Belize Telemedia...
Andrew Baird, President of KHMHAWU
Pension dispute goes to the Labor Minister for mediation.
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 25, 2025
An estimated 40 employees at the national referral hospital, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH),...
Elmer Nah
by Roy Davis (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 25, 2025
Six witnesses have testified so far in a voire dire (a trial within a trial) for former police corporal Elmer Nah, 40, charged...
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Wed. June 25, 2025
Belize joined the global community in celebrating International Public Service Day, which was held on Monday, June 23.
The day casts a spotlight on public service to the community; highlights...
With our prized forest having been depleted by the mid-20th century, our economy was steered to The Green Revolution for its salvation. The PUP, under the leadership of George...
Belizeans, like many people the world over, are going about their business as usual on this Monday morning, but the world is not the same as it was a...
There have been a number of lopsided results in general elections post-independence—in 1984, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2020 … and 2025, which was an absolute demolition. On March 12 this...
With FIFA World Cup Qualifying games taking place this past week across the globe, football fans are in a frenzy whenever their national teams take the field to give...
Satellite picture shows Fordow uranium enrichment facility after a US airstrike targeted the facility, on Sunday, June 22, 2025.
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. June 23, 2025
Belizeans are non-combatants and may consider themselves innocent bystanders in the ongoing conflict happening halfway around the world between Israel and Iran, but will inevitably feel the consequences in rising fuel prices, especially if the conflict escalates, now that the United States has bombed Iran.
Fuel prices went up by 5 cents to USD$3.22/gallon when Israeli missiles hit nuclear facilities in Iran, and US fuel prices are expected to rise another 5 cents, and $3.27/gallon after Trump's intervention at the weekend. Belize imports its fuel from Texas, and even fuel imported from other sources...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 18, 2025
Representatives of Belize and Trinidad & Tobago met this week in Belize as part of a three-day trade mission with the objective of strengthening economic ties between the two countries and unlocking new opportunities for regional commerce.
On Wednesday, June 18, representatives from the two nations signed a cooperative agreement focused on deepening collaboration, easing trade barriers, and expanding market access within the Caribbean.
“It is strategic. It is a deliberate effort to institutionalize, collaborate, and create a framework through which our private sectors can grow together,” said Somju Chase-Pierre, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Commerce and Industry. “We are proud...
I would say that less than a month ago, Hon. Michael Finnegan did two television interviews a few days apart. One was with Nuri Muhammad at XTV/KREM Radio on a Friday morning, and the other was the following Wednesday night with Jules Vasquez on Channel 7.
I think it was in the Nuri Muhammad interview that Finnegan revealed that Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, following the landslide defeat in March of 2003 of the United Democratic Party (UDP) he was leading, attempted to resign the leadership he had inherited from Dr. Manuel Esquivel following the UDP's massive defeat in the August 1998 general election. The leaders of the UDP unanimously rejected...
by Roy Davis (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 18, 2025
The trial of former police officer, Elmer Nah, 40, charged with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, began today in...
