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May 25, 2023

Tensions simmer in South as communal land rights issue returns to center stage

This week, Minister for Indigenous People’s Affairs Dolores Balderamos-Garcia reiterated that a “modus vivendi” must be reached between the rights of the Maya and those of [...]
May 24, 2023

Department of the Environment approves Cockroach Caye development and George Price Highway upgrade

In the case of the Cockroach Caye Limited development for the proposed private residential facility located on Cockroach Caye, Turneffe Atoll, Belize District, the National Environmental [...]
May 1, 2023

“Belize does not belong to Guatemala!”: Territorial Volunteers complete memorial trip despite armed forces’ aggression

This year’s trip was held on Saturday and was marked by Guatemalan Armed Forces personnel demanding the Belizean boats “show them their documents” and insisting that [...]
April 7, 2023

Sanctuary Bay mastermind Andris Pukke charged with embezzling investor funds

Pukke, 54, was arrested in Los Angeles, California, and appeared in court there on the strength of an indictment in the Federal Court in Manhattan (New [...]
March 31, 2023

Maya leaders in public quarrel over funds for mapping of Toledo communities

Today, the TAA and Julian Cho Society (JCS) hit back, announcing that it has “secured another multi-year extension to continue to support the implementation of the [...]
March 30, 2023

Abandoned Pickstock Street residence collapses

The house had been there for some time but had been abandoned according to neighbours since November after damage from Hurricane Lisa weakened its foundations.
March 26, 2023

Political rumble over Carmelita land settled

Former area rep and United Democratic Party standard-bearer Elodio Aragon Jr had set up the area as a green space in the village, but the Minister [...]
March 22, 2023

Cordel Hyde on Lands Department: “It is not that the land-rich should have less, it’s just that the land-poor should have more”

As he borrowed the late Right Honourable George Price’s statement about rich and poor, he commended the staff of the Lands Department for setting records in [...]