Barbara and Victor Bulmer-Thomas have done us an enormous service in producing a very readable, concise text that traces the modern macro-economic history of Belize from the days of the earliest ...

Independent financial consultant Dyon Elliott has been tipped to take over the helm as general manager at the National Bank of Belize. Elliott has a certificate in public policy from the London School ...

I think the capitalists, socialists, and communists are similarly crafty when they take snippets from a person’s life to make a story to suit their ends. I understand why that is done, the necessity ...

Young Jim Waight was full of excitement and anticipation. The year was 1933. Work was about to commence on the actual opening of the border line between British Honduras (now Belize) and Guatemala.

Mestizos, or “Spanish,” as they are known locally, have a long history in Belize. The first Spanish families came from neighboring Yucatan in Mexico, fleeing the Caste War between Yucatecans and Mayas ...

Belize’s flag flew at half-mast most of this week as the nation mourned the passing of Sir Manuel Esquivel, our second prime minister. The tributes were many, especially from members of the United ...

BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Mar. 17, 2016–On February 27, an excursion organized by the Belize Territorial Volunteers (BTV), formed to affirm Belize’s sovereignty in the troubled waters of the Sarstoon, was ...

As a matter of fact, from the outset the GWU supported the People’s Committee (PC); its founder and only President during the seven years of its existence, Cecil Betson, having spoken at the first ...

The United Kingdom and Guatemala, in order to settle the controversy between them over the territory of Belize, have reached agreement on the following points. 1. The United Kingdom and Guatemala ...

Slavery was a straightforward evil. Some human beings forced other human beings to work for them, thus enriching them. The enslavers provided subhuman housing for those they enslaved, a minimum of ...

BELIZE CITY, Wed. Nov. 4, 2020– On Sunday, November 1, police descended on a church service in Blue Creek, Orange Walk District, and arrested 7 persons, mostly pastors, and cited them for being in ...

Defense attorneys, several non-governmental organizations and a couple church leaders were among the many detractors of the 13th Amendment to the Belize Constitution (proposed by the Attorney General, ...