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New COVID rules take effect
The new COVID-19 regulations (SI No. 92 of 2021) came into effective today and has brought about notable changes to the operation of...
Aug 23, 2021
Belize inching closer to WHO’s CT level 3 classification?
Belize’s COVID-19 positivity rate has since surpassed the five percent threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO), and if the...
Aug 21, 2021


PM Briceño to BTL: Telecom switch should serve as wakeup call
”Maybe this is a wake-up call for BTL to get their act together because the government is not moving. We still have millions of dollars...
Aug 20, 2021


PM: CBB GOVERNOR FIRED FOR DIFFERENCES WITH BOARD
The Central Bank of Belize (CBB)’s recently appointed Governor, Mr. Gustavo Manuel Vasquez, was fired last Friday because he and the...
Aug 20, 2021


Last Resort, Again!
Residents from Southside Belize City have been rounded up by the police under a one-month proclamation of a State of Emergency (SOE),...
Aug 20, 2021


SMART: GOB should not be biased towards BTL
Speed Net Telecommunication Limited (SMART) has emerged to defend its position amid the controversial telecommunication switch that has...
Aug 18, 2021


UDP Chairman: On what basis was Central Bank’s governor removed?
“As far as the public is concerned, technically, Mr. [Manuel Gustavo] Vasquez is still the Governor of the Central Bank.” This is how the...
Aug 17, 2021


Ex OW East Area Rep. Elodio Aragon criticizes marijuana ‘legalization’
Speaking at the United Democratic Party (UDP)’s press conference convened on Tuesday morning, former minister of state with...
Aug 17, 2021


BBA President: Northern bus fares not new
The Belize Bus Association(BBA), of which Tillett’s Bus Line is a member, has clarified that there will not be a hike in bus fares as was...
Aug 17, 2021
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...
Aug 17, 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....
Aug 16, 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...
Aug 15, 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...
Aug 13, 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...
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...
Aug 12, 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’
Aug 8, 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...
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...
Aug 6, 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...
Aug 1, 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...
Jul 30, 2021
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