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Fuel-price stabilization formula sets excise duty on Regular gasoline at $4.41
The Excise duty for regular gasoline has climbed to $4.41 per imperial gallon under the fuel-price stabilization program. According to...
Sep 17, 2022


UBAD Educational Foundation: Public Hearing still needed on proposed Waterloo Development
There needs to be a Public Hearing on the Port of Belize Cargo Expansion and Construction of Cruise Terminal & Cruise Tourism Village...
Sep 10, 2022


AUDIT REPORT UNAVAILABLE! Senate dropping the ball on Auditor General Oversight
The citizens of Belize have not had a publicly available Auditor General report for roughly a decade, and the Senate is partly to blame,...
Sep 9, 2022


Bread Subsidy to Be Distributed Next Week
Michelle Sutherland As early as next week, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security, and Enterprise will be distributing the first...
Sep 3, 2022


UDP’s Ethics Committee silent on ‘Sista B’House absences
The United Democratic Party (UDP)'s Central Executive Committee and its Ethics and Integrity Committee should take steps to correct the...
Aug 26, 2022


FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY!!
Human Rights Commission: ‘UDP had right to protest, authorities should have respected it’ The decision by the authorities to deny the...
Aug 26, 2022


Violating UDP Constitution?! Only Ethics Committee could have removed Hon. Faber from CEC
“The Central Executive Committee (CEC) does not have the authority to remove former party leader Hon. Patrick Faber from its ranks, as...
Aug 19, 2022


UDP Remove Patrick Faber From Central Executive
The Chairman of the United Democratic Party, Micheal Peyrefitte, is at this hour planning to meet with the media shortly in an effort to...
Aug 15, 2022


Human Rights Commission not on People's Constitution Commission?
As the country is faced with one of the most important tasks to rewrite and modernize its constitution, we note with great concern that...
Aug 12, 2022


$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
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