With more severe heat likely in the coming years and another El Niño poised to test unprepared systems, the priority is to move from crisis response to heat readiness. Every crop, every animal and every fish has a thermal limit, the point where additional heat stops
San Antonio and Santa Cruz on Albion Island in the Orange Walk District now have Community Emergency Response Teams (CERTs), set to train volunteer residents to respond to flooding and other emergencies. The initiative is led by the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) and the Ministry
After two days of intense, closed door talks, the government and bus operators still have not finalized a deal; therefore, no new rates will go into effect on Wednesday. But while the increase is being delayed for at least one day and the details of
When buses went silent on Monday and commuters along the Phillip Goldson Highway and across Belize City were left stranded, help came from an unexpected place. As Belize Bus Association operations shut down, the Belize City Council’s electric buses stayed on the road and quickly
As rising fuel prices continue to squeeze households and businesses, Prime Minister John Briceño used his national address Monday night to walk the country through where the pressure is hitting hardest, and where Belize is holding the line. While the Prime Minister acknowledged the strain
Mexico City is already signaling a changing of the guard for Belize’s diplomatic team. In a farewell message shared by Mexico’s foreign ministry point person for Latin America and the Caribbean, Raquel Serur, Belize’s ambassador, Oscar Arnold, got a warm send-off, one that reads like
A man is dead following a shooting this evening on Chan Pine Ridge Road in the Orange Walk District. Early reports indicate the victim is a truck driver for Zeta Water Company, who was targeted just before four p.m. Police are on the scene and
Still in Orange Walk District, a routine check on a normally quiet farm spiraled into a chilling discovery Monday afternoon, relatives discovered that seventy year old farmer Francisco Perfecto Garcia had been brutally murdered. Police found Garcia hacked to death in thick bushes near his
Two men posing as police pulled off a bold daytime robbery at a vape shop on Daly Street, Belize City, stealing twenty-three thousand dollars in cash, vape products worth nine hundred dollars, and a black fanny pack with personal documents belonging to Dylan Vasquez. Their
Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in southern Belize that claimed the life of a seventeen-year-old boy on Monday evening. Authorities say the crash happened along the Thomas Vincent Ramos Highway, between miles forty-three and forty-four, where a bus and a motorcycle collided. Initial
