Belize’s Dr. Carla Barnett takes office as CARICOM Secretary General
Belize’s own Dr. Carla Barnett took up her new office as the eighth Secretary General of CARICOM, and the first Belizean and female to...
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- Aug 16, 2021
Address by Dr. Carla Barnett on the occasion of her installation as Eighth Secretary-General of the
It is with great pride and a deep sense of humility that I take this seat as the 8th Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community today....
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- Aug 15, 2021
Are people in the Caribbean becoming architects of their own destruction?
By Sir Ronald Sanders The question has to be asked. Are some people in Caribbean countries becoming the architects of their own and the...
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- Aug 13, 2021
Central Bank Governor demits office after only 5 months
Five months after his April 1st appointment as the Central Bank of Belize (CBB)’s governor, the Bank’s Board of Directors announced today...
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- Aug 12, 2021
Not so ‘SMART’ move!
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL) Ivan Tesecum has said it is unfortunate that the Ministry of Rural...
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- Aug 12, 2021
UDP objects to mandatory vaccination
The United Democratic Party (UDP) Shadow Minister of Justice, Senator Darrell Bradley, has objected to the government’s ostensible...
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- Aug 8, 2021
Delta Variant pushes up ‘herd immunity’ threshold closer to 90%, medical experts say
The Delta Coronavirus Variant, a mutated form of the COVID-19 virus that is two times more transmissible, has raised the ‘herd immunity’
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- Aug 6, 2021
GOB condemns attack against St. Vincent’s PM
The Government of Belize (GOB) issued a statement today to condemn anti-vax protestors’ “physical assault” on St. Vincent and the...
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- Aug 6, 2021
Human Rights Commission not jumping to COVID rules conclusions
Vaccine hesitant Belizeans continue to argue that recent measures by the government are possible human rights violations, but the Human...
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- Aug 1, 2021
‘Locking down’ murders
Murders are up by approximately eight percent for the first half of 2021 relative to the same period last year, but remains roughly 30...
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- Jul 30, 2021
Marijuana law leads churches to question Church-State relationship’s strength
The longstanding church-and-state relationship appears to be at risk thanks to the government’s lack of meaningful consultation on...
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- Jul 30, 2021
‘NO EXCEPTIONS!’ DPM, unions agree CEOs’ salaries should be cut
The Association of Public Service Senior Managers (APSSM) and the Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) have agreed with the Deputy Prime...
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- Jul 25, 2021
CEOs’ salary cut reversed; Unions call out broken ‘promises’
A leaked letter from Cabinet Secretary Stuart Leslie informed all public-sector chief executive officers (CEOs) that their salaries...
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- Jul 21, 2021
Unvaccinated persons fill up KHMH COVID wards
There are twenty patients that lie in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH)’s COVID wards, and of that number none of them has...
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- Jul 20, 2021
Body found in Lords Bank area
The Old Well Road in Lords Bank Village was quickly transformed into a murder scene after a passerby found the partially nude body of a...
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- Jul 18, 2021
Independent data analyst shares thoughts on new Poverty study Part 2
With the release of such long awaited poverty data (a wait of over 10 years!) there should be a wide-ranging and thought-provoking...
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- Jul 17, 2021
GOB and opposition to appoint members to Belize Advisory Council
The Belize Advisory Council, a constitutionally enshrined body that advises the Governor-General on several matters of state, is...
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- Jul 16, 2021
Crim. Lawyer ‘Dickie Bradley’: 11th Amendment needs ‘fine-tuning’
Senior Counsel Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley has come out in opposition to the current language of the controversial Belize Constitution...
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- Jul 15, 2021
PBL: Union’s industrial action “premature”
Port of Belize Limited (PBL) is calling the Christian Workers Union’s decision to take industrial action “premature” after being served...
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- Jul 15, 2021
UNJUSTIFIED FORCE! Cop kills youth,14, who was trying to obey COVID-19 curfew
A 14-year-old minor, Laddie Gillett, is dead after a police officer used what the Commissioner of Police described Thursday as...
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