Clear the Land Checkpoint… Word is that Clear the Land Castro has set up his own version of the Salvation Army Kettle Drive. You may have noticed the Customs checkpoint set up near Sandhill. Well, a source close to the dreadlocked Minister ...

Life in a time of recession… For the longest time this columnist has been trying to figure out just how GOB plans to get us through this time of recession. For the first months of the economic crisis, I ...

Belize has always maintained her commitment to the protection of the environment and successive governments have continued adherence to this commitment. In 2003 Belize became a signatory party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the annexed Kyoto Protocol. With only 8,867 square miles ...

Would the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance please say if it is now established practice by his government to be ‘haad pay’ when it comes to loans? Would the Minister of Finance not agree that GOB burdening taxpayers with a public debt to bail out a private company through ...

By: Mike Rudon Jr. Ask anybody on the streets or in your neck of the woods. Hell, ask any bus driver, commuter, taxi-driver or casual passerby. Ask your friends and neighbours and family members. Ask your Church brothers and sisters. If you’re shy and don’t want to ask anybody, take a ...

Belize City, December 2, 2009 It’s been over a year since Garinagu cultural icon and international music star Andy Palacio died of a cerebral haemorrhage last January, but he lives on in ...

This Sunday the National Party Council (NPC) of the People’s United Party will meet to discuss several important issues pertaining to the party and the country. The NPC is the second highest governing body of the PUP with representation from all ...

Elizabeth Pridgeon Philanthropy, coined in Ancient Greece, is a term derived from two Greek words: ‘philos’ meaning to love, benefit or nourish, and ‘anthropos’ meaning human kind, thus a philanthropist is a person who is devoted in their love ...

Elizabeth Pridgeon In the mid-nineteenth century, a group of Ketchi Maya who had fled forced labour and discrimination in Via Alta Paz in Guatemala the previous century, again were forced to flee suffering and strife in their ‘home’ ...

Elizabeth Pridgeon Elwyn Pitts has always been an adventurous entrepreneur, and in his youth he trained as a Belizean cabinet maker, a skill he later took to the US with him, where he also experimented as a restaurant ...