A man was murdered in Belize City on Thursday evening. He has been identified as Alfredo Enrique Rodriquez David. According to Police, a couple that went fishing discovered David’s lifeless body face down at the edge of the seaside in an area near the Port
The lifeless body of sixty-one-year-old Gilbert Flowers was found floating off Deadman Caye on Tuesday. Flowers, a former resident of Mullins River Village, who moved to Belize City a few years ago, spent most of his days at sea as a fisherman. Last week, he
An alleged gunman also appeared before Justice Candace Nanton today where the Crown closed its case in a trial for attempted murder. Kareem Franklin is accused of trying to kill a pair of police officers during a drive-by shooting that took place on Mahogany Street
A retired police sergeant has been convicted of the rape of a child and sexual assault and tonight he is on remand at the Belize Central Prison until he is sentenced on July sixteenth. Earlier today in the High Court of Justice Candace Nanton, the
On Thursday morning, four armed thieves made their way onto the Stake Bank compound near mile five on the George Price Highway. While on the property, the men assaulted a pair of security guards before making off with a white and black Columbian vessel that
A team of workmen contracted by the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing has begun the painstaking process of dismantling the old Haulover Bridge. The structure was built in the 1940’s and straddles the mouth of the Belize River. Since it has been replaced by
Today the Ministry of Blue Economy held its second Climate Resilience Fair. It followed the Climate Resilience Forum on Thursday, and is a testament of the efforts of everyone, including the N.G.O. community, who have contributed to ensuring that Belize is more climate-resilient than it
Earlier this week, the Forest Department had to remove a jaguar from the Sittee River area where the animal had started to feed on someone’s poultry. The department went in, tranquilized the jaguar and relocated it to a reserve further away from the residential area.
It is next to impossible for children to learn while they are sitting in class on an empty stomach. For some students at Saint John’s Anglican Primary School in Belize City, it’s an everyday reality. While the school attempted to assist these students through a
Belize’s National Under-Eighteen Basketball team fell short of its goal to become one of the top four teams in FIBA’s Americup 2024. A place in the top four would have secured Belize’s ticket to FIBA’s Under-Nineteen World Cup 2025 in Switzerland. After losing three of
