Despite the fact that close to 8,000 residents have attached their signatures to a petition calling for the banning of offshore oil exploration in Belize, Prime Minister Dean Barrow has refused to budge on the matter.T he move was initiated ...

The over 70,000 residents of Belize City, as well as those who live along both the Northern and Western Highways from miles 10 to Belize City, were inconvenienced for an entire day when today when the government's Belize Water Services could not provide water to the old capital, making simple things ...

Over the past few weeks the tourism sector and more specifically the tour operators have been in a raucous over a company Chukka – Bakka Bush and their place in the market.  It is important in accessing the current relationship of this firm with Carnival Caribbean cruise line and the ...

Three a Dem in a Cruise Tub: BTB focuses only on CRUISE The new Director of Tourism has been very busy flying out of country, conducting a lot of meetings.  One would want to think that perhaps BTB is now ...

The picturesque village of Patchakan was the scene last Tuesday night of a unique Special Meeting of the nine member Northern Caucus  of the People's United Party. They had come together to forge an accord of Party Unity. To ...

It is a bitter harvest we reap; heads bowed in grief as we carry  bullet riddled bodies of children, teenagers and even senior citizens to early graves, planted and watered with blood and tears. Vengeance our only recourse as the justice system fails, and the cycle of hate and war ...

On Tuesday night, in Pachakan Corozal, the Northern Caucus held a special meeting where 23 representatives from different constituencies stood up to recommend that we hold a National Convention celebrating the Peoples’ United Party 60th Anniversary as a unity event. As I listened to all these speakers, I couldn’t help but ...

Will the Minister of Police please say what has Restore Belize done thus far to address the continuing increase in violent crime in Belize City.  It has been two months since it was launched? Will the Minister of Works please say under what authority has the Ministry taken on the work ...

At a special meeting of the Northern Caucus held in Patchakan Village, Corozal and where 14 other constituency chairpersons joined the 9 member Caucus, a resolution was passed endorsing the leadership of John Briceno and calling for party unity. The resolution, which was unanimously supported by all Caucus Members present and ...

It would be unfair to cast blame at Prime Minister Dean Barrow for proclaiming back in 2006 that the new UDP Belize City Council led by Mayor Zenaida Moya would serve as a ‘model of good governance’ for the rest of the country. Although he claims all manner of divine ...