By Gilroy Usher, Sr. (PUP Standard Bearer for Port Loyola) The rate of unemployment in a country is the best indicator to know whether its people are better off after a certain time. Belize’s unemployment was 8% in 2008, and today is at 24%. Despite that fact, in addressing the nation on ...

By Gwyneth Nah Belizeans have grown accustomed to not taking note of the important role and function of their Social Security Fund.  The sentiment has always been that it is simply another government tax with some limited benefit to be derived from this fund over time.  However, it is of utmost ...

Contributed In late 2006, the then PUP Government of Belize (GOB) took a proactive decision based on the best international financial expert advice. This action resulted in Belize entering into calm and respectful negotiations with commercial/private external debt holders (with Eligible Claims such as from the Bear Stearns bond holders). This ...

Belize City, January 31 2012 The UDPs have been caught red-handed doing all they can to steal the March 7th general and municipal elections. They used $1.24m of taxpayers’ money to buy out last minute votes with Christmas ham. They have been ...

1.. The IMF Budget! - Facing the worst economic crisis ever, the Barrow Administration does not want us to know the taxes he is planning to impose in the 2012-2013 Budget. The IMF Report is due in late March and they will recommend higher taxes including 15% GST, mass firings ...

[caption id="attachment_11955" align="alignleft" width="219" caption="Alberto August"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_11956" align="alignleft" width="234" caption="Lee Mark Chang"][/caption] Belize City, February 1, 2012 For a long time now, the UDP has laid bare for all to see that it is ...

Belmopan, 27th January, 2012 The Belize Agricultural Health Authority (BAHA) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries inform the general public that Guatemala is experiencing a massive outbreak of Classical Swine Fever Disease in pigs. The disease has affected almost the entire country of Guatemala which has led to the disposal ...

BELIZE CITY, Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 By Alton Humes Ariel Rosado, the energetic and talented young cyclist whose life was tragically cut down in a traffic accident last year, will now get a ‘second wind’ of sorts to his brief life and ...

Customer claimed rat dropping was in pack bread BELIZE CITY, Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 By Alton Humes Whenever you hear someone singing or humming Lord Rhaburn’s old hit ‘Gimme Some a di Nice Ting’, you can kindly remind them that there’s someone else who may not find that song so ‘nice’, especially for ...

BELIZE CITY, Wed. Feb. 1, 2012 By Roy Davis Last Thursday, January 26, when he was charged with theft in the #5 Magistrate’s Court, Nelson Lockwood, 42, a woodcarver of Sandhill Village, used the name of Nelson Yearwood. He pleaded guilty to ...