Belize City, February 23rd, 2011 Citrus growers have placed the controversial Denzil Jenkins on the guillotine, in an attempt to kick him out of the Citrus Growers Association.  The growers have taken issue with the fact that Jenkins, who has announced ...

Cops Gunning Down The Youths The notorious Anti-Gang Unit has dragged the embattled Police Department into the mud. If you were to go by what the youths are saying this unit is the most hated section of the police. What are they doing? They are shocking poor people with electric devices known ...

Labour Amendment Bill – a date rape or a poisoned chalice? The recent labour dispute between the Social Security Board and the Christian Workers Union is a clear indication of the hard-headedness of the government-appointed Social Security Board. By extension it also puts on display the hypocrisy of the government in ...

Q.    You have been one of the very few consistent female artists in Belize.  What keeps you going? A. Wow that’s a good one.  I’d have to say that it’s mere Love for music.  It comes natural to me and I ...

By G. Michael Reid One might imagine that in retrospect, our Prime Minister would have to consider his most recent performance one of his worse ever.  On Wednesday last, Mr. Barrow called a press conference to recap the highlights of his first three years in office and reveal his floor plan ...

By Milo Paz - Chairman, PUP Belize Rural South Executive Committee Today as I sit down to write, I wonder how is it that we the people of Belize Rural South allowed ourselves to been taken for a ride? I am sure that you have realized that the Town Council elections ...

By Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Deputy Party Leader- People’s United Party - Belize The National Executive of the People’s United Party has agreed to support a Petition to the Governor General and Government of Belize which calls for Belizeans to be given the opportunity to decide whether there should be drilling for ...

Damned if I know what that wise old philosopher Forrest Gump meant when he coined the phrase – stupid is as stupid does. Of course I wouldn’t dare to presume to understand the brilliance of that great mind, but seems to me he was trying to say that if you’re ...

By glenntillett@yahoo.com It is bad enough that Senator Paul Perriott has been betrayed and sentenced to political execution by the Barrow administration but that they have also betrayed his wife Christine makes it a cruel double-double. In my mind’s eye I can still see Dean Barrow, Net Vasquez, et al riding on ...

[caption id="attachment_6939" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Holy Redeemer girls were victorious"][/caption] Belize City, February 18, 2011 Holy Redeemer RC School and Bishop O.P. Martin RC Primary School boys of San Ignacio had on their victory faces at the national Primary Schools’ basketball tournament held at ...