Evadnie and Luke Jones
Street code violated; mother and disabled son killed
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. July 7, 2025
A mother and her disabled son were savagely murdered in Belize City sometime on Friday night, July 4, and their motionless bodies were not found until after...
Ambassador Linda Sobeh Ali
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Mon. July 7, 2025
The Caribbean Community has accredited Palestine’s first Ambassador to CARICOM, with CARICOM Secretary-General Carla Barnett, PhD, receiving the Letter of Credence from H.E. Linda Sobeh Ali, PhD,...
(l-r) Hubert Elrington, S.C. along with BPM Claimants Paul Morgan, Robert Lopez and Antonio de la Fuente
BELIZE CITY, Mon. July 7, 2025
In a ruling handed down on July 3, High Court Justice Tawanda...
Alfredo Trapp, deceased
by Charles Gladden
SAN PEDRO, Ambergris Caye, Fri. July 4, 2025
A San Pedro resident was killed and another injured in a shooting that occurred in the San Mateo area of San Pedro Town on...
Just over three decades ago, when the PUP government in Belize was exhorting the population, including the Opposition UDP, to join in the campaign to support the passage of...
The safe, affordable movement of people from where they reside to where they work or go to school is an essential function of any government; thus, huge investments are...
Sunday, June 29, 2025
This past weekend was an eventful and critical one in the relationship between a number of labor unions and the Government of Belize under the PUP...
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...
Rolando Cocom, Director of ISCR-NICH
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Thurs. July 3, 2025
The Institute for Social and Cultural Research (ISCR), a division of the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH), began a three-day workshop, entitled ‘National Food Heritage’, which focuses on Belize’s unique culinary dishes, on Wednesday, July 2, at the University of Belize’s Conference Room in Belmopan.
The workshop was facilitated through an initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that falls under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
“It is born out of the response or the requests from communities themselves, who over the years have said to us that we should...
Hon. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Foreign Affairs
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Wed. July 2, 2025
Belize attended the 55th Regular Session of the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly, which was held last week in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda.
The OAS is a multilateral regional body, comprising 34 member-states, focusing on human rights, electoral oversight, social and economic development, and security in the Western Hemisphere.
“These shared objectives are under increasing strain across the hemisphere and world, making the role of the OAS, as the guardian of our shared democratic space, even more vital,” said Hon. Francis Fonseca, Belize’s Minister of Foreign Affairs in his address. “The organization must continue to...
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 Charles Gladden
CAYE CAULKER, Mon. June 30, 2025
A teenager from Caye Caulker Village lost his life during what was reportedly a brawl with off-duty police officers in front of a local street vendor...