Dear Editor, I had meant to send this letter in for last week’s edition but I was not able to so I decided to send it in for this week’s edition. I wanted to congratulate the winners so far in the different constituency conventions and endorsements held. I would personally like to ...

Dear Editor, A few months back you just had to feel a tinge of pity for poor Oscar Rosado.  His claims of rejection and crocodile tears made for television pulled at your heart strings.  Now we all know it was one big sham! Oscar had the face of brass to get up ...

Dear Editor, As the Government of Belize (GOB) is strapped for cash and swamped in a seemingly inextricable myriad of problems of all kinds and Belize Sugar Industries Limited (BSI) is bogged down in debt, the best solution for GOB seems to be the quickest possible injection of cash that will ...

[caption id="attachment_6807" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Kimano Barrow"][/caption] Foreigners take over majority shares in Kimano Barrow’s oil company Belize City, February 15, 2011 By Carla Bradley At last week’s press conference, Prime Minister Dean Barrow did his utmost best to distance himself from having any influence whatsoever over the granting of a large oil concession to his nephew, Kimano Barrow.  But with so many Barrows enjoying the perks of big-time appointments, the PM is having a hard time selling that story. Meanwhile, there’s startling information regarding Kimano Barrow’s oil concession.  The license which was owned by Barrow and Alfredo Acosta is no longer Kimano’s nor Acosta’s, or let us say not fully theirs.  New interests have suddenly entered the picture and have taken over. Documents show that on February 4th 2011 a general meeting of the shareholders (Barrow and Acosta) of Paradise Energy Limited duly convened and held in Orange Walk Town elected four new directors of Paradise Energy Limited which are U.S. nationals Oren F. Miles, Oren F. Miles II, Allen L. Saum and one Erubiel Ku.

[caption id="attachment_6802" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Pino Suárez, Francisco Madero & Serapio Rendón"][/caption] By Alberto Vellos A photography exhibition on display at the Institute of Mexico is food for the mind and soul for young idealists, progressive-thinkers, and historians.  The exhibit, titled “Mexico: Black & ...

By Katie Usher Bright colors, sterling silver and mother-of-pearl, ten thousand watt smiles, freshly squeezed orange juice and pretty paintings. These were just some of the images that wafted from the sidewalk in Placencia this past weekend. Artists, food vendors and jewelry ...

By G. Mike Reid “Never let a politician grant you a favor. He will always want to control you forever.”  - Bob Marley “Ask what you can do for your country and not what your country can do for you.” - JFK So far, the PUPs have had seven conventions and the UDP’s ...

By Carolyn Trench-Sandiford – Deputy Party Leader - People’s United Party - Belize ‘Starting all over again, it’s gonna be rough…but I know we can make it…’  These were the words that crossed my mind when I first sat with other members of our Collet Committee to plan our convention. At ...

Dean Oliver reminds me of a girl I met a couple weeks ago at one of my favourite spots in Orange Walk. Actually I was in one of those disreputable sort of places, but I’m a disreputable sort of fellow so I was happy as a pig in mud. Dean Barrow ...