Applications are now being accepted for the Food Assistance Program under the Ministry of Human Development. The redesigned initiative is a merger of the COVID-19 Food Assistance Program and the [...]
A local Belize City mechanic saw victims of recent flooding on the news. He then took his own funds and bought supplies that he anonymously distributed to about fifteen families [...]
Traveling on public transportation has for years been a hellish experience and with cases of COVID-19 increasing daily, commuting on buses and dollar vans has become an even more frightening [...]
An additional thirty-one persons were arrested and charged for quarantine regulation offenses. Thirteen persons were charged for failing to wear face masks in public, while six other persons were arrested [...]
It was a little tough this time around due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its annual kettle appeal being downsized, but even as funds have not been rolling in, the [...]
Five hundred plates of food were distributed today to residents of Cotton Tree Village in the Cayo District. The food donation comes courtesy of the Belize Police Department, Benny’s, and [...]
A surveillance camera overlooking Saint Martin’s One Stop Auto Care on Partridge Street Extension has been mounted on a lamppost in the wake of a deadly shooting incident over the [...]
Two hundred and sixteen persons were arrested and charged for violating the quarantine regulations. One hundred and twelve persons were arrested for failing to wear a face mask in public. [...]
This afternoon at the Gateway Youth Center, the Belize Coast Guard hosted a handful of children who are part of its Sea Cadet Program to lunch. It is part of [...]
The Christmas holiday has always been a time when family and friends get together to enjoy each other’s company and celebrate the season to be merry. But 2020 has proven to [...]
There are new COVID-19 measures being implemented going into the Christmas holidays, including a nightly curfew that will keep most Belizeans inside their homes at eight o’clock. The announcement of [...]
The use of face masks remains mandatory, despite the penalty for the offense of not having one or wearing it improperly having been reduced to a fine of five hundred [...]
From the health perspective, the number of active cases has decreased considerably to a little over one thousand, five hundred infections based on a redefined method by the World Health [...]
The new statutory instrument that comes into effect this weekend also applies to restaurants and bars, schools, as well as participation in contact sports. Where schools are concerned, they will [...]
The sale of liquor is also being prohibited beyond six p.m. daily and that, too, is indefinite. While alcohol can still be consumed in the privacy of one’s home, you [...]
On behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chief Executive Officer Amalia Mai received a cheque of fifty-nine thousand, five hundred and eighty-four dollars and thirty-nine cents from Mexico’s Ambassador [...]
The Government of Belize received a donation of humanitarian relief from the Government of Brazil to assist in the aftermath of Tropical Depression Eta and floods caused by Hurricane Iota. [...]
The Government of Belize is expected to announce new quarantine regulations on Friday which will become effective on Saturday. As you will recall, the most recent Statutory Instrument expires this [...]
When that new statutory instrument comes into effect, it will also clamp down on the sale of alcohol. According to Minister Kareem Musa, the public will no longer be able [...]
As we head into the holidays and new measures are put in place, talk of another lockdown has been swirling in the public. As we told you earlier this week, [...]
The Child Development Foundation launched a campaign that seeks to prevent family violence. The campaign will engage private sector through the use of posters and educational sessions. Executive Director Diana [...]
The Building People Movement, through the support of the Embassy of Switzerland to Mexico and Belize, has launched a domestic violence laws project. And to kick start that project, they [...]
A second phase of the Empowering Communities to Empower Themselves initiative, funded by the U.S. Embassy Public Affairs grant, was launched today. Months ago, in the Yarborough community, a life [...]
Police arrested more than one hundred persons over the weekend for violating the Quarantine Regulations. The offences ranged from failure to wear a face mask, to breaking social distancing rule, [...]
And so, with all those violations – that brings us to the Belize Police Department’s response moving forward. Today, Commissioner Chester Williams told the press that they are taking sort [...]
