Hon. Jose Mai, Minister of Agriculture
ASR-BSI reports 2024-25 sugar cane crop the worst ever
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
TOWER HILL, ORANGE WALK, Fri. June 27, 2025
The 2024-25 sugar cane harvest was one of the worst ever, with an estimated 79,000 tonnes of sugar produced out of only 884,000 tonnes of sugar...
Nadia Martin-Caliz, National President, BNTU
Two of three unions accept GoB’s 3rd counterproposal; vote for BNTU outstanding
BELIZE CITY, Mon. June 30, 2025
On Thursday, June 26, the Government's negotiating team presented to the Joint Unions...
Cane impacted by Fusarium
PM Briceño: “This may be the last crop for some of our cane farmers.”
BELMOPAN, Fri. June 27, 2025
"Thank God the season completes one more crop," was the message from Sugar...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. June 30, 2025
21-year-old Isabella Zabaneh of Independence Village, Stann Creek District, was officially crowned on Saturday, June 28, at the Belize City Civic Center as this year’s Miss Universe Belize...
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...
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...
Dr. Richard Rosado, Commissioner of Police with Dame Froyla Tzalam, Governor General of Belize
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Wed. June 25, 2025
The Belize Police Department proudly graduated 216 recruits of Squad 98 from its training academy on Wednesday, June 25, in Belmopan.
The ceremony saw 54 female and 162 male officers completing 6 months of rigorous training which they endured at the academy. It also marks the second year that the department surpassed the United Nations’ minimum standard of 20% female representation in police forces.
“To Squad 98, you made it! You’ve crossed the threshold. The hard mornings, the long drills, the mental exhaustion, it all brought you here; and what a moment...
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...
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...
UDP chairman, Michael Peyrefitte
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 25, 2025
The People’s United Party (PUP) administration under Prime Minister Hon. John Briceño is under fire from the labor unions: the Belize National Teachers...
