Popular Street Figure, Alrick Smith Shot Dead
The rivalry between feuding street gangs in the Lake Independence area may have led to another murder on Thursday night – that of well-known street figure, Alrick Smith. The brazen [...]
The rivalry between feuding street gangs in the Lake Independence area may have led to another murder on Thursday night – that of well-known street figure, Alrick Smith. The brazen [...]
Justice Ricardo Sandcroft handed down another life sentence. This time it was imposed on twenty-four-year-old Keon Dennison, who was charged for the murder of businessman Rueben Perez. Back in November [...]
He was charged for the armed robbery at the Puma Gas Station at the corner of Fabers Road and the George Price Highway and following his arraignment on July eleventh; [...]
The Belize City Council today swore in fifty-four more of its traffic officers as special constables, giving them the powers of arrest. Along with that milestone was the launch of [...]
The United State Peace Corps is celebrating sixty years of service to Belize in the education and health sectors. Following two years without Peace Corps volunteers in Belize, due to [...]
Elvia Vega, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Development say the Briceño Administration’s Grocery Bag Program is alive and kicking. Reporters caught up with Minister Vega at [...]
The Government of Belize has been demonstrating overall increasing efforts in tackling human trafficking, compared to recent years. As a result, Belize was upgraded to tier two in the U.S. [...]
The Statistical Institute of Belize has published its Consumer Price Index for June 2022. Results from the Statistical Institute of Belize’s most recent monthly Consumer Price Index survey showed that, [...]
In less than twenty-four hours, the first-ever Belize International Music and Food Festival takes place in San Pedro. The culinary aspect includes seventeen booths which will be featuring cultural foods [...]
The relationship between the Port of Belize Limited and its employees, dozens of stevedores who work tedious shifts loading and offloading cargo entering and leaving the country has been a [...]
The thirteenth annual tribute reggae legend Lucky Dube is being held in Belize City on Sunday. The yearly concert is a means for philanthropist Dara Robinson to raise much needed [...]
Ras Dara, whose feeding program also takes in children who have lost loved ones to gun violence, also weighed in on the scourge of crime and violence that continues to [...]
Tonight’s look on the bright side highlights the Jah Love evening program where kids from the George Street community are provided with support from a man with a story of [...]
The 2021-2022 sugar crop comes to a close on Friday, and while the season got off to a rocky start, the American Sugar Refinery/Belize Sugar Industries (A.S.R./B.S.I.) says it ended [...]
The dispute between A.S.R./B.S.I. and the B.S.C.F.A. Sugar Cane Farmers Association hovers mainly over them not being able to come to terms on a commercial agreement. But to sign off [...]
While the two parties continue to negotiate to sign off on a commercial agreement, another issue this year was that there were significant losses from cane that remained in the [...]
Over the past two months, there have been two trucks belonging to Belize Sugar Industries Limited that were involved in serious traffic accidents. Luckily for the drivers behind those vehicles, [...]
Cabinet met on Tuesday to discuss a number of issues of national concern, including a proposed seven million dollar loan from the Social Security Board to Pharmacy Express Limited. On [...]
Elsewhere in today’s Cabinet brief, Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde and Henry Charles Usher, Minister of Religious Affairs provided an update on a recent meeting with church leaders. During the [...]
This morning in the Lake Independence community, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Doctor Richard Rosado led a team from the Leadership Intervention Unit into gang-ridden neighborhoods in an attempt to broker [...]
According to Doctor Rosado, today’s meeting with members from the respective groups was intense, as relatives of the individuals injured in the recent spate of shootings are still reeling from [...]
You might be surprised to hear that the murder rate for this year is so far below what it was at this same time in recent years. But when we [...]
Today at the House of Culture in Belize City, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology officially launched the National Curriculum Framework. The document released is comprehensive and looks [...]
During the presentation today, President of the Belize National Teachers’ Union, Senator Elena Smith said that during the consultation, secondary school teachers expressed concerns about job security. Would the new [...]
Pediatric vaccines for children ages five to eleven will be expiring in the next few months and the data shows that of that population, only five thousand, six hundred and [...]
