During the COVID-19 crisis, Rotary Clubs in Belize and Port Moody developed a grant to install RACHEL computer labs, providing offline educational content to schools and the Belize Central Prison. The programme is now expanding to eleven schools with the aim of enhancing literacy and
Peggy the Loggerhead turtle is on her way to the U.S.A., and Belizeans are cheering her on in real-time. Peggy was tagged in 2023 by the environmental NGO, MarAlliance. She is one of three turtles, and the only female, currently being tracked and observed as
Nineteen-year-old Glenford Dougall recounts a tragic accident where his girlfriend, Denia Rowland, lost her life while they were returning from a football game. The accident occurred on the Philip Goldson Highway near the Sandhill Police Station. The couple was in the back of the pickup
The Head of the Prosecutions Branch, Alifa Elrington called her ninth witness to the stand today in the Bladen twelve trial. Several of the twelve men accused of facilitating the land of a suspect drug plane in southern Belize are claiming that they were physically
[caption id="attachment_9149" align="alignright" width="281"] Hugh Middleton[/caption] Two men have been charged with the murder of Dylan Anthony. They are twenty-nine-year-old Hugh Middleton and eighteen-year-old Marlon Gideon. Investigators believe that the two men fatally shot PC
Thirty-three-year-old Lincoln Bejerano has been convicted of murder. The High Court found that Bejerano murdered taxi driver Isidro Suar in January of 2016. He had been on the run for two years after he escaped from police custody in Belmopan in October 2016. He was
Recently, a video depicting a man being physically assaulted by two men went viral. In the video, a young man with dreadlocks was depicted beating up another before another man joined in to assist in holding down the assailant. The victim of the assault has
Twenty-five-year-old Jose Fuentes was arraigned today for allegedly choking his mother during a fight on Saturday at their residence near mile twenty on the George Price Highway. Fuentes initially pleaded not guilty to a charge of common assault. He told the court that he wasn’t
On Saturday, seven opposition leaders from the Caribbean region convened in Saint Lucia to inaugurate the 'Leader of the Opposition Political Parties Forum'. The gathering included Allen Chastanet from Saint Lucia, Doctor Keith Mitchell from Grenada, Doctor Godwin Friday from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
On Monday, the Statistical Institute of Belize released the preliminary results of the 2022 census. In that report, it was revealed that Belize’s population has increased by twenty-three percent since 2010, with just over seventy-five thousand more people. This number was lower than what was
