Last week Government launched a new operation geared at addressing what the Prime Minister now considers to be a crisis in crime. As fate would have it, the week of Operation Jaguar coincided was one of the rainiest weeks of 2010.  Whether it was weather or Operation Jaguar, Belize City ...

Citizens Organized For Liberty through Action (COLA) 49 Pickstock Street Belize City, Belize Central America May 12th, 2010 Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister 2nd Floor Sir Edney Cain Building Belmopan City, Belize Central America Dear Hon. Dean Barrow: On January 6th, 2010, Citizens Organize For liberty Through Action (COLA) wrote the Department of ...

Is Esquivel back? We’ve been pushing and bawling and hollering for the barely coherent and clearly impotent crime minister Carlos Perdomo to get kicked to the curb for the longest time now. Hell, practically the entire nation has been screaming for something ...

The UDP Cabinet of political and intellectual dunces is not only considered a joke and a farce by many Belizeans, but this week will go down in the archives as this newspaper’s Hypocrites of the Week. Collectively, ...

This week I was invited by Adele Ramos, host of a show on Krem TV, to participate in discussions about offshore drilling along with Audrey Matura Sheppard of Oceana and Geovannie Brackett from Citizens Organized for Liberation Through Action (COLA). It was a good discussion. Mr. Brackett was passionate about his ...

Operation Jaguar… The military has been brought into the city to somehow take back control of the streets from the criminals. Some people would say that when the military has to be brought in, that is a sure sign that ...

In late 2008 the People’s United Party government of that day sought to introduce the required legislative amendment to have Belize replace the Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as her court of last appeal.  From early 2001 the former Prime Minster Honourable Said Musa signed the ...

Two men, one 80 and the other 27, were slain in separate incidents in the old capital leading into the payday weekend.  The irony of it was that one was killed ...

The second killing took place at around 7:30 on Friday night and while its victim was a younger, far stronger man than the first, his killers, said to be 8 total, were merciless as they beat, and stabbed him 7 times ...

While close to 2,000 relatives, friends, and well-wishers paid their last respects to slain basketball player and high school teacher, Aubrey Lopez, 30, in Belmopan on Sunday, cops were closing in on one of his alleged killers. Paul Jex, 22, a resident of #46 Cran Street, Belize City, ...