The three-day 2023 budget debate officially got underway this morning with a response from the Leader of the Opposition to the Prime Minister’s Budget Speech, which was delivered earlier in [...]
The Opposition Leader also touched on issues pertaining to the cost of goods, employment, and foreign direct investments. And, it may come as no surprise to you that, in Barrow’s [...]
The Leader of the Opposition was halfway into his speech when Prime Minister John Briceño exited the Assembly Building to greet a group of protestors near Independence Hill. We will [...]
There was a protest in front of the National Assembly building today. It happened just as the 2023-2024 National Budget was being debated. The protestors are all retired public officers [...]
The Non-Profit Organization Bill 2023 was brought to the House of Representatives at the last sitting. Since then, the Belize Network of N.G.O.’s has raised concerns about the lack of [...]
Now moving back to today’s budget debate, one of the exciting developments coming out of the Ministry of Natural Resources is the Briceño administration’s plan to survey and distribute eleven [...]
As we have reported, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology has the second largest budget for 2023. Two hundred and sixty-one million dollars have been allocated to recurrent [...]
Kareem Musa, the Minister of Home Affairs and New Growth Industries, also got his opportunity to speak today. The Caribbean Shores Area Representative announced plans for the construction of three [...]
Today, the Garifuna Collective returned from a successful tour of Australia and New Zealand. The group of seven musicians performed at venues in Melbourne, Sydney and at the prestigious WOMAD [...]
World Meteorological Day is being celebrated on Thursday, March twenty-third and the National Met Service is organizing an open day at the parking lot of the Belize City Civic Center. [...]
A team from Jamaica is presently in Belize on a fact-finding mission to determine whether poultry produced locally can be exported to the island nation on a commercial scale. The [...]
The Theodoso Ochoa Digital Connect Center has been launched in San Ignacio by the Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics and E-Governance. The facility is one of several spaces across [...]
The Belize Assembly of Persons with Diverse Abilities called a press conference this afternoon at its office at the Samuel Haynes Compound in Belize City. During the press conference today, [...]
The Crown today closed its case against twenty-six-year-old Everal Martinez, accused of the murder of seventeen-month-old baby Allyssa Nunez. Martinez gave a dock statement, saying he caused no harm to [...]
Tonight, over a dozen former Security Oriented Services employees saw their first day in court. The former S.O.S employees filed separate civil suit claims against their former boss, Paul Garcia [...]
Meet the Belize Jaguars, the national ‘A’ team of the Football Federation of Belize. They are participating in the CONCACAF Nation’s League Tournament that takes place annually. On Friday night, [...]
