By glenntillett@yahoo.com Belize has been a much more violent place since Dean Barrow announced on April 17th, 2005 that they would embark on a campaign of sustained civil disobedience. Barrow and the UDP were already engaged in promoting incivility and disrespect through their morning talk show on their party’s ...

Orange Walk, March 17, 2011 On February 7th 2011, a serious rift within the Carmelita UDP Village Council was exposed when one of the Councilors, Mirtha Gillett, resigned from her post.  Gillett said decided to abandoning the Council because it had failed to carry out the mandate of the people. The BELIZE ...

San Pedro, March 14, 2011 It has been well over a month since the nation’s number one tourist destination registered a number of confirmed cases of typhoid fever and up to now the Ministry of Health has not given any type of advisory or precautions to the residents. The first cases were ...

BELIZE CITY, Wed. March 16, 2011 More than 25 vendors/micro entrepreneurs who have their businesses on Mahogany Street from its junction with Central American Boulevard to the Complex Building, have received letters from Belize Electrcity Limited which inform that they have ...

[caption id="attachment_7298" align="alignleft" width="314" caption="Party Leader Hon. John Briceño addresses Northern Caucus meeting"][/caption] San Joaquin Village, Corozal District, March 14, 2011 The economic restoration of the northern districts was the main topic of discussion at a meeting of the Northern Caucus held on ...

[caption id="attachment_7295" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Mark Conorquie"][/caption] BELIZE CITY, Wed. March 23, 2011 By Roy Davis Mark Conorquie, 40, a resident of Carmelita Village who was charged with causing death by careless conduct, was found guilty today by a jury of 5 men and 4 ...

[caption id="attachment_7290" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="Owen Parham"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_7291" align="alignleft" width="149" caption="Leon Castillo"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_7292" align="alignleft" width="156" caption="Egbert Ferguson"][/caption] BELIZE CITY, Wed. March 23, 2011 By Roy Davis Three ...

BELIZE CITY. Wed. March 23, 2011 By Roy Davis Three-time convicted burglar, Joseph Bevans Jr., 48, who allegedly broke into a house at Western Paradise, pleaded not guilty to burglary yesterday after he hobbled into the #8 Magistrate’s Court supported by a ...

March 22, 2011 Orange Walk District By Carmelita Perez Local onion producers in the north say they are facing the worse economic times ever.  The losses suffered, they say, are in the millions and they cast the blame on the poor decisions of the Belize Marketing Board. Last month, the Marketing Board imported some ...

Mr. Speaker: Sadly, this budget will be known for all time as the “Empty Pot” budget. It offers nothing to Belizeans by way of hope and has no plan for lifting our nation out of crisis.  This time the PM does not even bother to boast about his “stimulus package”  Last ...