Armenia is a small village off the western highway in the Cayo district.  It is politically located in the Cayo South constituency, where many hard working Belizeans live and work. Most residents of Armenia live off the land. On the ...

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be ...

Two new Magistrates are going to be sworn in this week. They are Richard Bradley Jr., 39 and Dale Cayetano, 44. They are both graduates of ...

The internal wrangling in the UDP ratcheted up a notch with the announcement last week by City Councilor Roger Espejo, that he will challenge the Caribbean Shores representative, Carlos Perdomo for the seat at the upcoming UDP convention. Espejo has made no secret of the fact that he feels that ...

Marion Ali is no stranger to Channel Five viewers or indeed the very select media crew here in Belize but this week, instead of covering the news, she made the news when the Caribbean Media Corporation headquartered in Barbados announced that she won two awards for stories she entered in ...

Prime Minister Dean Barrow returned to the country after attending a Caribbean Development Bank Board of Governors Meeting in Barbados and was in the country for days before he saw the need to visit with the impoverished and needy who were rendered homeless by Hurricane Richard on October 24th.  In fact, ...

After seventy years of existence, the Belize Sugar Industry seems to be seriously in crisis.  Its future, which only two years ago looked promising, is now shaky. Never in the history of Belize has the sugar industry been so vulnerable and on the verge of collapse. The management of BSI recently ...

Immediately after the storm Prime Minister Dean Barrow promised the victims of Hurricane Richard, and the nation by extension, that his government would come up with the finance to help those affected by the category one hurricane. But more than a week after Richard lashed the central parts of Belize, the ...

Carolyn Trench-Sandiford Deputy Party Leader Yesterday, I officially handed over to the Party Chairman, the minutes and notes of National Executive Meetings for the period 2008-2010.  Prior to doing this, I took some time out to peruse the decisions of the National Executive, and what struck me, was not only the magnitude ...

At a much awaited and publicized event on October 15, 2010 the now Government-owned Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL) launched its prospectus in an effort to lure both Belizeans and foreigners into buying shares at what they have dubbed ‘the most ...