[caption id="attachment_13083" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Mark King’s newly-purchased Ford F150 at auto shop for repair"][/caption] Belize City, May 9, 2012 The UDP Ministers are learning lessons the hard way. The lesson is that nothing they do in the dark will stay in the dark ...

Belize City May 8, 2012 It appears the UDP’s known operative, Vernon Cuthkelvin, will not face legal battle over six containers he imported in February under the guise that the contents were fertilizers, but which turned out to be precursor chemicals ...

Dear Editor, I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or get mad when I saw Tuesday night’s news on Channel 7 about a criminal who stole a Government vehicle with ease. The episode, while funny as hell, is a total embarrassment for the UDP which can’t seem to get anything right when ...

Dear Editor, We are poor teachers of Toledo. We work hard to educate the young minds. We are asking for a pay raise but can’t get our PM to give us all a small increase in order to cover our high cost of living here in the Toledo District. Now he has ...

Dear Editor, Kudos to the BEL workers and Belize Energy Workers Union for standing up and speaking out against the unfair labor practices at the Belize Electricity Limited. Brothers and sisters of BEL, stand firm. In the meantime what has happened to the other Union leaders? Where is their balls and ...

April 27th, 2012 A referendum to decide whether Guatemala’s unfounded claim over Belize’s territory should be argued and resolved at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will be held on October 6, 2013. The date was agreed to by the delegations from Belize and Guatemala, headed by their respective Foreign Ministers, Wilfred ...

BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 2, 2012 By Roy Davis Emmerson Eagan, 22, who was convicted of the murder of Dennis “Coloured” Nembhard, 35, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Adolph Lucas on Friday, April 27. The sentence was mandatory because the Director ...

BELIZE CITY, Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 By Alton Humes Businessman, activist and former political Standard Bearer, Mr. Gilroy Usher Sr., organized today’s protest in front of his business, Monica’s Pawn Shop, located at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Banak Street. The ...

Belize City, April 30, 2012 The Public Service Union of Belize was not in a celebratory mood for this year’s Labour Day. On the eve of the holiday, the Union which represents public officers, issued a release lashing out at the Barrow Administration for its disrespect of workers. The PSU said there ...

By Yasser Musa Saturday 21st April, 2012, Sacred Heart Church, Dangriga Today we say goodbye to Benjamin Nicholas son of the late Ignatius Nicholas and Perfecta Avilez Nicholas, and siblings Victor, David, and Andrea Nicholas. He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife, ...