Belize City, August 15, 2011 Vega’s Imports Ltd, a goods company located on 10 Clarke Street in Orange Walk Town, is at the center of a major scandal that involves alleged custom duties evasion on a wide scale. The BELIZE TIMES has come into possession of three invoices of goods cleared at ...

[caption id="attachment_9432" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Alvin Hyde Jr., Chairman - Farmers/Vendors Association"][/caption] Belize City, August 17, 2011 The wholesale market vendors at the Queen Square Market did not need to wear Superman hats to figure out a solution to their problems. They also did ...

When the People’s United Party won the elections in 1998, one of our major promises to the Belizean people was to get the economic train moving again.  We promised to do this by first and foremost restoring investor confidence. We promoted and fostered this agenda because it was the most efficient ...

Belize City, August 17, 2011 News reaching the BELIZE TIMES is that a James Bus travelling from Belmopan to Belize City last night came under gunfire. Belize City and Hattieville Police are investigating the report.  Sources tell the BELIZE TIMES that the James bus was on it’s to Belize City when a ...

[caption id="attachment_9425" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="In his reply to Canon LeRoy Flowers, PM Barrow told the Council of Churches it only takes “elementary logic” to understand what he has been explaining"][/caption] Belize City, August 15, 2011 “Never argue with an idiot. They drag you ...

Prime Minister Dean Barrow must come clean before the Belizean people and explain how he can stand before them and vilify Mr. Ashcroft and those working on behalf of Mr. Ashcroft as public enemy number one while at the same time Mr. Barrow, the very same Dean Barrow, is still ...

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 In what can only be regarded as a lack of vision and foresight, Belize’s only referral hospital, the Karl Heusner Memorial, faces perhaps one of its worst nightmares.  Fresh in the news of last weekend’s mishandling of the corpse of Adam Kuylen, 38, who was left to ...

By Carla Bradley In visits to communities in the Cayo South and Stann Creek West Constituencies, one thing that was clear and common, especially in the south, was the disrespect shown to the village chairmen and councils of various villages, most of which are PUP village councils and even some of ...

Dear Editor, Since I started writing my letters for the newspaper, I have been receiving good reviews from the Belizean people, so kindly publish this letter for me. Power is what everybody would like to have and more power is what this so-called Prime Minister Dean Barrow would like to achieve. The ...

Dear Mr. Editor, On Monday, I was washing in the back of my yard when I heard the dogs barking on the verandah, so I peeped from under the house bottom. The sun was scorching hot. I mean hot like hell. Two young girls and a middle age woman had walked into ...