Staying up all night to bring in the tenth is a time honoured Belizean tradition…but dawn on St. George’s Caye Day is supposed to bring echoes of patriotism, not the sound of deadly gunfire. Around five on Wednesday morning an allegedly rowdy young man attempted to run from a law enforcement patrol not far from […]
Cayo South voters will go to the polls this weekend in the first of two elections designed to fill the House of Representatives seat made vacant by the death of Agripino Cawich. While the United Democratic Party has already declared John Saldivar as its candidate in the division, the People’s United Party has three hopefuls […]
Trick question…what do cerveza Superior, tacos and a mechanical bull all have in common? They’ll all be at the Belize-Mexico Friendship fair this weekend in Belize City. For the third-year running organisers have cooked up a five day programme which includes dance, music, food and fun. According to Mexican Ambassador to Belize, Arturo Trejo, the […]
Throughout the night tonight, members of the Belize Chinese community will take to the streets…filling the air with the colour of culture, the rhythm of beating drums, and the explosions of firecrackers. But they aren’t just making noise. It’s all part of the Full Moon Festival. The festival is celebrated every year and as President […]
It is a demographic fact that over the last forty years the ethnic mix of Belize has been steadily changing, with the proportion of Afro-Belizeans steadily falling to the point where today people who describe themselves as Creole or Garifuna make up only thirty-one percent of the population. Mestizos weigh in at close to fifty […]
It’s money time in semi-pro basketball, but after losing the first two games of the finals, it looked like the B.T.L. Nets had come up a day late and a dollar short. But on Tuesday night a Raider sweep was avoided as the Nets looked like poster boys for Viagra. James Adderley has the highlights. […]
