By: Mike Rudon Jr. Dean Barrow is slapping himself upside the head for those words he uttered at the UDP National Convention while under the influence of pain meds – you can take that to the bank. Magic, he said! The magic is still here. What a monumental jackass Mr. ...

Despite the fact that close to 8,000 residents have attached their signatures to a petition calling for the banning of offshore oil exploration in Belize, Prime Minister Dean Barrow has refused to budge on the matter.T he move was initiated ...

Three a Dem in a Cruise Tub: BTB focuses only on CRUISE The new Director of Tourism has been very busy flying out of country, conducting a lot of meetings.  One would want to think that perhaps BTB is now ...

By: Mike Rudon Jr. I don’t say it to make myself a target of eggs being thrown by persons who believe that if you cut their veins red, white and blue blood will come pouring out to the accompaniment of the Belizean national anthem. Hey, I love my country just ...

Contrary to popular belief, economies are not backed by gold reserves locked away in a vault at Fort Knox. Maybe some in this government believe that we have large gold deposits hidden somewhere, but those of us who have some understanding how an economy operates knows that it is all ...

Earlier this week, The Belize Times was informed that the situation at Fresh Catch, the largest tilapia farm in Belize had worsened dramatically. Fresh Catch is located in La Democracia and is owned by the Mena family and was ...

His Excellency David K. Wu, Ambassador of the Republic of Taiwan to Belize, today paid a courtesy call on the Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition at his Belize City office. The two men met to ...

The Doha Round of negotiations, which started in 2001, aims to help poor countries prosper through multilateral deals. The talks have been suspended several times due to the divergent views among developed and developing nations on key issues. Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) member states have set a timetable for ...

Moral Hazard, Systemic Risk, Central Banking and Prudential Supervision Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman described moral hazard as: "...any situation in which one person makes the decision about how much risk to take, while someone else bears the cost if things go badly.” In other words, where a person ...

Phillip Willoughby, the Deputy Mayor, and his predecessor Councilor Deon Leslie recently informed Belizeans that unless they have already space at the Lord Ridge Cemetery, it is very likely that if they should die any time soon, there will be no new spaces available at Lord Ridge Cemetery for their ...