The PUP’s Corozal mayoral convention is underway today, with three-term Mayor Rigoberto Vellos facing Shajerie Rogers for the party’s mayoral candidacy. Vellos is seeking another term with councillor candidates Hugo Gonzalez, Miguel Montalov, Rodolfa Narvaez, Baldemar Pech Jr., Otoniel Riveroll and Marleni Tapia. Meanwhile, Rogers is running
The Department of the Environment has found extremely low dissolved oxygen levels along a 17.5-mile stretch of the Belize River where significant fish mortality was recorded. "At this stage, the Department has not determined the source or responsible party associated with the fish kill," the DOE
Belize has lost its longest-living Belizean. Gilbert Ellis, affectionately known as "Mr Bertie", passed away this morning at 6:20 after weeks of health complications. He was 109 years old and just a little bit over a month away from turning 110. 'Mr Bertie’ had been admitted
The Belize Companies and Corporate Affairs Registry (BCCAR) has taken its Online Business Registry System offline after "unauthorised access to documents” was detected during routine maintenance. "Some of these documents may contain non-public information and may have been viewed or downloaded,” the agency said in a
A desperate attempt to escape a swarm of bees ended in tragedy earlier today when eighteen-year-old Xue Liu drowned in the Belize River. Liu, an autistic teenager, reportedly jumped into the water after being attacked by bees near the Philip Goldson Highway. What followed was
What ended in heartbreak also revealed the courage of those who rushed in to help. Lifeguards and swimming instructors from 501 Lifeguard became a major part of today’s search effort, after they abandoned their own classes nearby and headed straight to the river. The outcome
The proposed B.T.L. takeover of Speednet is already getting political support in some corners of the P.U.P., but Minister Thea Garcia-Ramirez says she is not ready to sign on just yet. As public debate continues over the acquisition, Garcia-Ramirez says she is withholding judgment until
After three terms at the helm of Corozal Town, Mayor Rigoberto Vellos is now being forced to defend his political ground. On Sunday, he faces Shajerie Rogers in a convention that has become one of the most talked-about internal contests in the north. For some,
The government has lost its appeal in a major national lands case involving more than nineteen hundred acres in the Duck Run area. The Court of Appeal has dismissed the case brought by the Minister of Natural Resources, Petroleum and Mining and the Attorney General
A young man is dead, and three teenagers are now accused of pulling off a daylight killing that rattled a Belize City neighborhood. Police have charged two seventeen-year-olds and a fifteen-year-old in connection with the murder of eighteen-year-old Ewart Josiah Hernandez Jr., who was shot
