The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) has opened dialogue with key stakeholders to address growing concerns over school hair policies and how they are enforced across the country. Led by Minister of Education Oscar Requena, the meeting at the ministry’s headquarters in Belmopan brought
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been convicted of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election and sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison. A Supreme Court panel found Bolsonaro guilty on five counts, including plotting a coup d’état, leading an armed criminal
Ellis Gilbert Meighan, 33, was today arraigned at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on four indictable offenses: murder, attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, and dangerous harm. The charges stem from the April 2024 shooting in Placencia that left Roy Lee Burgess dead and
Police are investigating an attempted murder in Belize City that has left a 28-year-old man recovering in the hospital. Around 10:32 p.m. on Thursday, September 11, officers responded to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where they found Esau Louima, a Belize City resident, suffering from gunshot
Police in southern Belize are investigating the shooting death of a 29-year-old man in Punta Gorda Town. The incident occurred around 8:54 a.m. on Friday, September 12, when officers responded to reports of a shooting on VOA Road. Upon arrival, they found the body of Aymon
A family in Bella Vista is searching for answers tonight after the body of forty-year-old Ernando Pop was discovered on Wednesday. Was it a tragic accident, or is there something more to his death? Pop was last seen a day earlier, and when hours passed
A tragic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway has left a family and an entire village in mourning. Just after 9:30 on Wednesday morning, police responded to a serious crash between mile sixty and sixty-one. When they arrived, they found thirty-four-year-old Sergio Cantun trapped behind the wheel of
There’s a major update to a bold daylight robbery that shocked downtown Belize City just weeks ago. Police have made another arrest in connection with the armed heist of a Dooney’s messenger who was ambushed at gunpoint in the heart of the city. The robbery
After years of frustration and unanswered questions, relief is finally on the horizon for dozens of current and former employees of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. A long-standing pension dispute, stretching back to workers who served between 2001 and 2017, has been settled through mediation
While Belizeans across the country were waving flags and celebrating the Battle of St. George’s Caye on September Tenth, a bold and controversial move was unfolding down south. A contingent from the Guatemalan Armed Forces made its way to Sarstoon Island and planted a Guatemalan
