There is a worrying trend beginning to emerge in the business sector and this trend is the closing down of businesses which once thrived only a few years ago in what was once a growing economy. Since Dean Barrow announced ...

Why does the new Minister of Police keeps putting his foot in his mouth?  The recent cabinet alignment was inevitable since the entire population had lost confidence in the dead Minister of Police, Carlos Perdomo.  But when the Hon. Doug ...

A decade into the new Millennium and five years before the deadline on our promise to halve poverty, Belizeans must come to terms with the stark reality that 43 percent of our people are poor with another 16 percent marginally poor.  Too many Belizeans therefore are living a life less ...

Dear Editor, The health issue in this country is in crisis, and it seems, the Government is unable to cope with this problem as it has been unable to do with Crime. Are they going to wait until the health problems reach unmanageable proportions as the Crime has? Today, the Ministry of ...

Will the Prime Minister say whether he will use the opportunity of his visit north to finally go and see the family of Mr. Atanascio Felix Gutirrez?  Will he apologize to the family of the late Mr. Gutierrez for his unnecessary death and for not offering compensation for the untimely ...

It has been almost two years since there is no Kendall Bridge over the Sittee River on the Southern Highway and motorists have been using a makeshift causeway to get to and from the southernmost part of the country. ...

There were some expressions of shock and surprise this morning when accused rogue cop mastermind, Detective Constable Jermaine Mangar, along with co defendant Ernie Miranda, appeared in Magistrates Court No. 1 for the continuation of their case. The ...

On the 2nd January, 2007, UDP handpicked Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Marilyn Willaims, instructed the Police to arrest Mr. Ernest Raymond, a young Belizean businessman. Raymond was arrested in Ladyville and a car which he was allegedly driving was taken into the Police Station. The car did not ...

Over the past few weeks, I have been getting a number of requests from different local PUP executives inviting me to attend meetings where many have been strengthening their executive committees. It seems that of late a number of our Party’s operatives are working on either the encouraging of greater participation ...