By glenntillett@yahoo.com They seem small in the larger scheme of things, but I do wonder if maybe a few years from now we will look back and see them as the first seeds, the first overt signs of the prevailing popular discontent with the Barrow administration? The past two weeks, for the ...

Belize City, February 9th, 2011 Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced today that he is giving the organisations calling for a referendum on the offshore oil exploration issue, a 3-month deadline to get the number of signatures required to legitimise the process. Barrow was speaking at his first quarterly press conference of 2011, ...

Belize City, February 8, 2011 An on-going investigation into the relationship between a small cellular phone company and Belize Telemedia Limited has revealed some very interesting facts. The company, Cellular Plus, which has a small outlet on Freetown Road in Belize City, ...

[caption id="attachment_6778" align="alignleft" width="166" caption="Jaime Headman"][/caption] Corozal District, February 8th 2011 A money exchanger from the village of San Joaquin, who was four times Monday night while at his home, is tonight admitted at the Belize Medical Associates in a serious condition. 34 year ...

By: C.P. Mathers In the Prime Minister’s first press conference held for the Year 2011, the topics were many from missing planes to the important topic of oil exploration/drilling. In response to a question asked by Channel 7’s News Director in reference to his nephew’s oil concession that includes 14 national parks, ...

By C.P. Mathers Last week Tuesday, February 2nd, COLA along with members of the BGYEA, Belizeans for Justice, Commoners and other groups held a 24-hour camp out in front of the Prime Minister’s office in the City of Belmopan to show their opposition for offshore oil exploration and drilling in national ...

[caption id="attachment_6768" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="SSB workers are being chanced"][/caption] Social Security employees plan nationwide protest Belize City, February 9, 2011 Reliable sources have indicated to the BELIZE TIMES that hundreds of Social Security workers are planning to stage a sickout against their management – ...

The Prime Minister gave one of his quarterly press conferences/self-glorifications sessions this Wednesday.  No doubt this will be followed by a glitzy nausea-inducing propaganda commercial edited and voiced by the UDP’s Chief Propagandist, Delroy Cuthkelvin, who is paid not from party funds but from our tax payer dollars. Yes, this government ...

by: C. B. Langston Oh happy youth! season of life most lovely! Fair as the lily! sweeter than the rose! Buoyant and gay as the light cloud of morning, When over it the sun its glory throws! Earth in its rich attire alone is like it, When spring has decked it with its floral wealth, Who thinks ...