Belize is known for many things, including its natural wonders. Travellers Liquors is also promoting Belize as one of the leading rum producers in the Caribbean. Through the West Indies Rum and Spirits Producers Association, Travellers crafted a special edition premium rum to commemorate CARICOM’s
The recent incident in the South China Sea has significantly escalated tensions between the Philippines and China. The Philippines accused China of using bladed weapons against its coast guard near the Second Thomas Shoal, a contested area in the Spratly Islands. This clash, part of
Belize City resident, forty-eight-year-old Doris Grant, is on her way to prison. She was arraigned today after being criminally charged with being a member of a gang. Thirty-one-year-old Austin Underwood was also charged with being a member of a gang. Both are said to have connections
The University of Belize Faculty and Staff Union (UBFSU) has come out swinging at the ruling PUP government in a press release dated Monday, June 17th. The union says it is disappointed with the People's United Party for "not fulfilling its commitments to the University
News Five has confirmed that three individuals were rushed to the hospital following a road traffic incident earlier this morning. Two of them are police officers. We are told that investigators are at the scene. The vehicular crash happened in Ladyville Village, Belize District. Video
At least three lives were claimed by the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Tropical Storm Alberto, after making landfall along the Mexican coast and southern Texas, the BBC reports. The three deaths occurred in the northern Nuevo León state due to the
There was a murder in Belize City on Tuesday night and police are trying to figure out who the gunmen were that ambushed Jahiem Fitzgibbon and his father near La Croix Boulevard. The deadly shooting happened sometime around seven p.m., as the men were wrapping
A murder trial involving twenty-three-year-old Earl Baptist as a prime suspect in the shooting death of Burrell Boom businessman Leslie Gillett has concluded in the High Court. Baptist is one of two men who allegedly entered Matilda’s Shop and executed Gillett in January 2022. A
Today, a man was handed two years and two months in prison for assaulting a police officer with a firearm. He is twenty-one-year-old Kenyon Flores. Reports are that around eight a.m. on June eighteenth, 2024, Luis Santoya, an off-duty police officer, was walking towards Wood
The longest serving Clerk of the National Assembly since independence in 1981 has tendered his resignation from parliament. Sixty-two-year-old Eddie Webster served two years as a senator, between 2008 and 2010, before being appointed Clerk of the National Assembly. Webster, a native of Dangriga, has
