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June 8, 2023

Opposition Leader to Prime Minister: “why did you urge Cabinet to approve” Definitive Agreement?

Barrow says the Prime Minister should provide: “a full explanation of who is the driving force behind your support of the egregious Definitive Agreement despite former [...]
June 7, 2023

‘The economy (and crime), stupid!’: recent poll says Government needs to reduce cost of living, increase employment

In a word, Belizeans told pollsters Viking Strategies that the economy was bad – likely due to the lingering effects of the COVID pandemic and the [...]
May 27, 2023

Winston Smiling, businessman and PUP scion, dies

Smiling is perhaps best known as the founder of the Smiling Meats butchery franchise, based on New Road, which has produced choice cuts of meat for [...]
May 5, 2023

The Republic of Belize? King could go with National Assembly vote, says P.M.

Under Section 69 of the Constitution, certain of its provisions can be amended or revoked with a three-quarters majority (for example those relating to fundamental rights, [...]
April 3, 2023
Tsai Ing-Wen, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

President Tsai of Taiwan hails Belize’s ‘true friendship,’ reiterates ‘steadfast commitment’ to partnership

And as she reiterated when she first addressed Belize’s Legislature five years ago, “the friendship between Taiwan and Belize is not built on empty promises or [...]
March 28, 2023

Prime Minister John Briceño under fire for comments in Dyandre Chee death; Police condemn threatening behaviour

But some of his own constituents have taken issue with what he said – and in turn, drawn Police scrutiny for taking their response too far.
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

Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde: “It costs $1,000 to send a child to school, but it costs $5,000 to send that same child to Hattieville, so better we spend that money now.”

Such as the fact that Belize was in a recession and that the economy was in contraction even before the COVID-19 pandemic; that more than half [...]