Hon. Patrick Faber - Opposition Senator
UDP National Party Council reinstated all except Faber
BELIZE CITY, Mon. July 14, 2025
The United Democratic Party (UDP) was finally able to proceed with a National Party Council (NPC) meeting on Saturday, July 12, at the party’s headquarters on Youth...
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Mon. July 14, 2025
Murders are down throughout the country at the midway point of 2025, compared to the figures in 2024. The figures were presented at the Belize Police Department’s...
Ashton Lamb, sentenced
BELIZE CITY, Mon. July 14, 2025
This morning, shortly before 12:00 noon, a Belize City man was convicted of several counts of sexual assault as well as common assault and harm upon...
Family Photo | 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM
by Charles Gladden
JAMAICA, Mon. July 14, 2025
Citizens of four CARICOM countries will have the ability to move freely among these nations...
The recently completed Belize Diaspora Summit in Florida, USA, brought some refreshing energy and focus via XTV to Belizeans countrywide and across the diaspora, on the great untapped potential...
Dr. Victor Bulmer-Thomas, an economist from London University who has written a number of books in that field, and co-authored the book, The Economic History of Belize From the...
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...
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. July 10, 2025
The Garinagu people are a much misunderstood community, and a new booklet—“The Primer on the People Called Garifuna” -- has been published by Garifuna social scientist and writer Myrtle Palacio to dispel these misconceptions and bring greater understanding of her people’s history and present cultural identity.
Myrtle Palacio
Launched at the Imagination Factri in Belize City on Wednesday, July 9, the new book replaces the previous, “The First Primer on the People Called Garifuna,” which was published and shared in 1993. It chronicles the Garinagu’s evolution from when their African ancestors were trafficked across the Atlantic aboard wooden sailing ships, in unspeakable conditions below deck, until their intermarriage with the...
FAO rep. Anna Touza PhD gives ICT equipment to Hon. Jose Mai
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. July 10, 2025
Cooperatives formed by farmers, fishermen, taxi drivers and other producers joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise in celebrating the 103rd International Cooperatives Day which was also the 31st United Nations' International Day of Cooperatives, observed on July 5, with an all-day forum hosted by the Department of Cooperatives at the Grand Resort Belize near the Haulover Bridge on Friday, July 4.
“Cooperatives: Driving Inclusive and Sustainable Solutions for a Better World” is the theme of this year’s celebration. The aim is to showcase the cooperatives’ potential to help build an inclusive economy, advance the...
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
BELIZE CITY, Wed. July 9, 2025
The redesigned and highly anticipated Belize currency notes will be officially launched countrywide on Monday, August 4.
The notes will display the iconic face of George Cadle...
