Belize is beginning a push to plant one million trees as part of efforts to restore degraded landscapes and strengthen the country’s response to climate change. The Ministry of Sustainable Development held a tree-planting event today, with participants including University of Belize students. As part of
Online reactions are often hard to overlook as soon as Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) releases, as of late, its daily load shedding schedule. But what actually determines who gets cut off and who stays connected? Some residents have even described the guessing game as feeling like
It has been nearly three decades since Belize began purchasing electricity from Mexico’s Comisión Federal de Electricidad, or CFE. It may have started as a source of additional power, but it has evolved into a significant dependence on imported electricity, and Belize is now carrying
As Belize City prepares to celebrate St. George’s Caye Day on September 10, the St. George’s Caye Association is bringing back a beloved tradition while expanding the annual parade to include even more of the community. On Open Your Eyes, Samson Jacobs, Treasurer of the St. George’s Caye Association, and Albert Pandy,
Former Prime Minister Said Musa is renewing a decades-old debate. It’s the reason Belizeans are looking forward to Thursday’s holiday, the Battle of St. George’s Caye. Musa argues that the September 10th holiday remains tied to the country’s colonial past. It goes back to the commemoration
Every September, Wil Maheia loads his boats and heads for the same stretch of river. And every September, the government tries to talk him out of it. The Belize Territorial Volunteers (BTV) are set to make their annual pilgrimage to the Sarstoon River on Thursday, a
The UK government has firmly rejected a formal petition from Jamaica demanding £10 billion in reparations for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade. A Jamaican delegation delivered the petition to Buckingham Palace, addressed to King Charles III, on September 7th. A spokesperson for Prime Minister
The Government of Belize has enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2026, repealing the longstanding Factories Act and introducing a new legal framework for workplace safety nationwide. The law applies to public and private-sector establishments, construction sites, industrial facilities, domestic work environments, and certain remote
Friends for Conservation and Development, working with the Belize Wildlife and Referral Clinic, says camera-trap images have raised concern over possible New World screwworm infestation in two wild species in the western Maya Mountains. According to FCD, the images show a puma and a post-fledging Scarlet
Police have charged nineteen-year-old Leon Emmanuel St. Clair, an unemployed Belize City resident, with the murder of Kareem Garcia. Garcia, twenty-three, was shot and killed while working with coworkers at a road construction site in Cotton Tree Village in August. Police say two men on a motorcycle
