[caption id="attachment_7326" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Boots, booze and paid bullies outside PUP convention "][/caption] Belize City, March 21st 2011 For the second consecutive week, the United Democratic Party has resorted to fear and intimidation tactics to frustrate the People’s United Party and the swell ...
LARGE UP JAMAICA Jamaica has made history in the region. On Tuesday 22 March the Jamaican House of Representatives passed a major amendment to its Constitution. Jamaica’s Constitution, like the Belize Constitution, has a whole chapter devoted to Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. Jamaica amended this chapter by replacing it with a new ...
Belize City, March 23, 2011 The price of the much-consumed 16 ounce pack of bread could soon increase by as much as $0.50. The Belize Bakery Association met today, Wednesday March 23rd, in Belize City to discuss how recent exorbitant increases in the cost of production have negatively affected the bakery industry. President ...
Belize City, March 22, 2011 A Russian ship, the M/V Faina, was high-jacked by Somali pirates. It is a Belize-flagged ship registered by the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize (IMMARBE). The ship was carrying military hardware. This included tanks, anti-aircraft guns, rocket propelled grenades, rocket launchers and ammunition. The shipment ...
By: Councilor Kevin Bernard BYM President The disappointment I felt after listening to the Prime Minister’s budget speech this year, left me with no other choice but to react by picking up my pen and writing this article. For three years now Mr. Barrow’s has been presenting budget after budget and each time ...
In a small society such as Belize’s, we are faced with many social issues that determine how we react within and outside our environment. Many times our lives are built around the expectations of society and although these expectations change as years go by, women and men still find themselves ...
Today, March 23, 2011, will be remembered as an important milestone in the fight to end the injustices perpetuated against women in Belize. It will go down in the history book of the women of the People’s United Party, as a day when the women of the PUP said NO ...
By Milo Paz, Chairman, PUP Belize Rural South Executive Committee Today as I write, it is the most worried I have been for our Belizean people since the UDP took over government 3 years ago, with promises that everything was going to be better NO MATTA WHAT! The election on the Island ...