What Next? The much ballyhooed Operation Jaguar, launched in mid-May has now been officially declared extinct, even as the city descends once more into violent lawlessness and unchecked crime. Mr. Barrow lauded the initiative as his own, a bold ...

The Dean Barrow administration and its sycophantic BTL Board of Directors have embarked on a full court effort to convince Telemedia employees that they have nothing to gain from the existence of the BTL Employees Trust which claims ...

Police have so far come up with few leads in the brutal murder of nineteen year old Neisa Pipersburgh, who graduated on Sunday June 13th from Pallotti High School and who went missing three days later on Wednesday.  Her mother, Alice ...

In the wake of a National Executive meeting held at Independence Hall on Wednesday, June 23, the People’s United Party issued a scathing release in which it reiterated its position that the issue of crime transcends the political divide, ...

When past PUP governments sought bipartisanship on issues of national importance, for example the Guatemalan Claim, the place to start was always at the House of Representatives. It is in the House, where the people’s Representatives sit, that this UDP government should have tabled its Restore Belize Proposal. After mature ...

June 23rd, 2010 The Editor The Belize Times Belize City Dear Editor As a resident of the Corozal District, one whose livelihood depends on the sugar industry, I am compelled to write and sensitize Belizeans about the plight of the cane farmers. During this entire “safra” we have been having endless problems with ...

Dear Editor, Please give me space in your newspaper to bring to the attention of your readers a matter which is important to all Belizeans.  In last weekend's edition of your newspaper, some brave and proud UB students 'spilled the beans' on the destruction occurring in the Mountain Pine Ridge caused ...

Help please… The people of Belize, or at least those who travel on the Northern Highway have a concern and they’d like to ask baldy for help. See, a couple months ago the big cheese announced that he was ...

Over the past few weeks, a sports frenzy has taken over the country. First it was the NBA finals and now it is the king of all sporting events, football’s World Cup. In the midst of all this hype, however, a sporting controversy is brewing over Belizean basketball and that is ...

Red alert… Last week we received word that the Prime Minister had received threats on his life in connection with the shooting of his law partner and the execution of Andre Trapp. We didn’t carry the story then because politics being ...