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$15 MILLION AND COUNTING! Excise on regular, diesel up, but tax-revenue losses continue
In the last four months, the Government of Belize lost an accumulative $14.75 million in excise-tax revenues in an effort to stabilize...
Aug 11, 2022


REFERENDUM BEFORE LEGALIZATION! GoB, Churches issue ‘Joint’ Statement on delayed popular vote
There will be no legalization of marijuana without a referendum, the churches and the Government of Belize (GOB) affirmed today via a...
Aug 5, 2022


Government seeking to delay marijuana referendum
Prime Minister John Briceño announced today that the Government of Belize is seeking to delay the referendum on the Cannabis and...
Jul 27, 2022


Media continues to support Plus TV's Louis Wade as rep. on Constitutional Commission,
Plus TV's owner Louis Wade, appointed Friday last week by the independent media to represent them on the People’s Constitution...
Jul 26, 2022


African-descent Belizeans to get joint representative on People’s Constitution Commission
Groups representing the rights of African-descent Belizeans will also get a joint seat on the People's Constitution Commission, Good...
Jul 23, 2022


Political third parties team up for People’s Constitution Commission
The Belize People's Front (BPF) and the Belize Progressive Party (BPP) have formed an alliance for the purpose of participating in the...
Jul 22, 2022


Kolbe Foundation to help mother who begged for jail time to fight drug addiction
The Kolbe Foundation is committed to helping the 25-year-old mother who begged the court last week to send her to jail to help her...
Jul 15, 2022


Citrus industry plagued by labour shortage
The citrus industry saw its worst first-quarter production in six years, the Statistical Institute of Belize reported this week, and a...
Jul 10, 2022


DIRE STRAITS!
Local Economist: GOB may soon be out of options to stabilize Diesel, Regular prices The Government of Belize (GOB) has reduced the Excise...
Jul 8, 2022


Churches Successfully Meet 10% Threshold to Trigger Marijuana Referendum in Belize
By Michelle Sutherland The Reporter has confirmed with credible sources that the Chief Elections Officer is in the process of informing...
Jul 4, 2022


Revised method put Belize’s debt-to-GDP ratio closer to 89%
Belize’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which at the height of the pandemic-induced recession hovered over 130 percent, may have fallen to 89 percent...
Jul 4, 2022


BTB Director: Shyne Barrow's performance no different from Miss Universe
The recent appearance of Leader of the Opposition Moses Shyne Barrow at the BET Awards will not impact any of the Belize Tourism Board's...
Jul 1, 2022


Bar Assoc. President: Being Belizean didn't guarantee Justice Arana will be chief justice
Being Belizean did not assure Acting Chief Justice Michelle Arana the position of Chief Justice, Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck, the...
Jun 30, 2022


SCOTUS overturns Roe v. Wade; Dissenting justices say ruling jeopardizes other rights
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) reversed the Constitutional right of American women to have an abortion in a 6-3 majority...
Jun 26, 2022


BCCI and NTUCB agree on need for Minimum Wage formula
“The BCCI’s position is that we endorse and support the fact that there need to be adjustments [to the minimum wage] to ensure workers...
Jun 24, 2022


FOOLISHNESS! PSU prepared to defend against victimization
By Michelle Sutherland The union is ready to defend against “foolishness” and any type of “victimization” as it relates to public officer...
Jun 24, 2022


GOB appoints new Chief Justice, UDP cries foul
The government has appointed a new Chief Justice in the person of Guyanese national Hon. Justice Louise Esther Blenman, but Opposition...
Jun 23, 2022


Hon. Panton to UDP Leader: ‘This is not a dictatorship!'
Hon. Tracey Panton has informed The Reporter that any suggestion that she is disgruntled over her loss at the last UDP Convention is...
Jun 22, 2022


CONFLICT OF INTEREST! UDP says PUP Senator cannot double as re-districting official
By Michelle Sutherland PUP Senator Collett Montejo’s role as a field supervisor involved in the redistricting process disqualifies him as...
Jun 18, 2022


PM Briceño echoes the call for vulnerability index in address to IX Summit of the Americas
The international community must "finalize and use" a multi-dimensional vulnerability (MVI), which could help developing countries access...
Jun 11, 2022
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