Dear Editor, In last week’s edition of the BELIZE TIMES, I read with dismay and disappointment the strong accusations made by my “paisano” of Chan Pine Ridge in OW East against Landy Burns, the UDP Standard Bearer. As explained, Landy Burns stooped so lowly in “setting up” and subsequently taking advantage ...

Belize City, May 18, 2011 Violence and unrest has erupted about 150 miles from Belize’s western border in communities along northern Peten, Guatemala, after a group believed to be members of the Zeta Cartel ambushed a ranch and killed 29 villagers ...

16% of victims were males Belize City, May 11, 2011 Last year there were a total of 1,477 cases of reported domestic violence in Belize. Of that number, the Belize, Corozal and Cayo Districts saw a majority of the reported cases – a total of 84.3%, or 1,290 cases. The most affected age groups ...

Belize City, May 11, 2011 The BELIZE TIMES has confirmed troubling reports that the elected representative for the Orange Walk East Constituency, Hon. Marcel Cardona, is slated to be physically displaced by his own UDP Prime Minister and party. In an ...

Belize City, May 10, 2011 Having already overtaxed just about everything in these hard times, from the small vendors, garbage collection, to burying the dead, the UDP Belize City Council is taking its greed and abuse to epic proportions.  The Council ...

[caption id="attachment_7991" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Entrance to the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan"][/caption] There is no greater joy for a woman than to give life to a child, but one Belizean mother who should have experienced the bitter-sweet pain of child-delivery, is enduring ...

[caption id="attachment_7987" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Yamil Mallo & Valdmir Karanchek"][/caption] BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 11, 2011 By Roy Davis Two Cubans, Yamil Mallo, 31, and Valdmir Alberto Karanchuk, 29, who were charged with being prohibited immigrants, were each fined $1,000 after they pleaded guilty to ...

“Somebody got no balls,” Mayor Moya said but she never called a name so while we were wondering who it was – it was the UDP who said that it was their leader. Talking about balls, if you make the statement somebody got no balls, it isn’t fair to ask how ...

Belize City, May 9, 2011 Only an idiot would do something as stupid as pour Diesel fuel into a vehicle which requires unleaded gas and for that Minister of Education Patrick Faber takes the Award for Idiot of the Week. The BELIZE TIMES understands that Faber did a most strange thing for ...