St Martin’s girls win national basketball champs Belize City, February 12, 2009 The St. Martin’s De Porres Primary School girl’s basketball team is the new National Camps. Gilda Moguel the team’s most valuable player scored 8 pts in ...

Isabel Vasquez At the end of last week, the Belize Tourism Board announced its new Director of Tourism: Ms Seleni Matus. According to the BTB, Ms Matus was chosen because she already has over five years’ managerial experience in ecotourism and sustainable development.  She was a key player in the establishment of ...

Belize City, Thursday, February 18, 2010 As with so many other issues the Barrow administration has again signaled it was unprepared to lead in solving the major problems causing upheaval in one of our largest and most important ago-industries, despite a clear and compelling case that without timely intervention the industry ...

Elizabeth Pridgeon It seems that the media houses of Belize can’t get enough of the CPBL versus CGA story. One of the most publicised aspects of the story is that the Citrus Growers’ Association (CGA) wants CEO of CPBL, Dr Henry Canton, Mr Michael Duncker and Mr Frank Redmond to be removed ...

Part I The only time Belize seems to give any attention to blackness is when an eye- witness or a newscaster belches out the description of a suspect or when we breathe a transient sigh of relief as some nappy headed south-sider skips out of the pan of a ...

by glenntillett@yahoo.com "The Social Partners recognizing that there resides among them a mutuality of interest, an inherent interdependence and a maturity in the exercise of their relationships; "And further recognizing that the sources of any sustained social and economic progress in Barbados will depend to a considerable extent upon their on-going ...

Prime Minister Dean Barrow told Belizeans on Wednesday that the worst is yet to come and without the usual confidence one expects from the leader of a country, he asked the nation to have “understanding” ...

Those were only a few of the adjectives used to describe Dean Barrow’s performance at a press conference held on Wednesday morning at the Radisson Hotel.  In typical bembe form, Dean Barrow displayed his lack of statesmanship and unprofessionalism ...

"The hardest of the UDP term is the upcoming year, I need to ask the Belizean people for their understanding” Prime Minster Barrow When they were in opposition the UDP posted a sign on top of their headquarters that said “life haad out yah!” When the elections drew near that sign ...

It’s been 2 years with Dean Oliver Barrow as Prime Minister.  So how are he and his UDP government doing?   He came to power promising prosperity, good governance, respect for our environment and no more corruption.   He asked us to imagine the possibilities. Now let us look at the UDP’s ...