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 [...]
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 [...]
March 13, 2023

Budget Speech: Prime Minister hails turnaround at Lands Department

The provision of land – whether for housing, farming, or other purposes – is a critical component of the ruling party’s #planbelize agenda, and the Prime [...]
March 8, 2023

Will Placencia lose part of its beloved sidewalk to private property?

Magda Morales of Placencia narrated a five-minute video that detailed the issue. Almost a year ago, surveyors came to map out the area which according to [...]
March 2, 2023

Maya women map out next phase of communal land rights as CCJ holds monitoring hearing

The keynote speaker is Toledo native and former SATIIM executive director Dame Froyla Tzalam, Governor General of Belize, with Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, Minister of Human Development, Families [...]
January 10, 2023

Seven years later, Supreme Court exonerates Sharon Pitts over unjust enrichment claim on Haulover land

A total of two acres of land was involved. The Ministry of Natural Resources under Minister Gaspar Vega erroneously sold part of the private property to [...]