Today’s episode of Open Your Eyes welcomed Merari Garcia and Christi Cruz from MADISCO to introduce new additions to the company’s wine portfolio, featuring an Italian wine collection with a variety of grape varieties, flavor profiles, and styles. Exploring Italy’s Wine Selection The discussion highlighted the Tumbaco
Wilson Perez was found dead with chop wounds in Carmelita Village, Orange Walk District, on Tuesday morning. This is after family members searched for him when he failed to return home the night before. “Information is that Perez left his house last night around 10.30 p.m.
The Department of the Environment is investigating a decline in water quality in the New River. The DOE is warning that recent changes could threaten aquatic life as Belize experiences drier-than-usual conditions. In a statement issued on Friday, the DOE said its monitoring station on the
The United States says it opposes Chinese “coercion and aggression” against countries exercising their sovereign rights after Beijing sanctioned Belize’s Foreign Minister Francis Fonseca and a Paraguayan minister over their countries’ ties to Taiwan. “The Trump administration opposes coercion and aggression by China against countries in
Author Assad Shoman has responded to the National Kriol Council (NKC). He says the cover of the Sapphire edition of A History of Belize in Thirteen Chapters exactly reproduces the 1907 British Honduras Coat of Arms and was not altered to mock African men. The council
Prime Minister John Briceño has discussed Belize’s energy security and efforts to address the growing sargassum problem with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Ilan Goldfajn during the 2026 World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Thailand. The bilateral meeting focused on rising electricity costs, expanding energy generation,
Guatemala’s Public Ministry (MP) has opened an investigation into how a 15-year-old girl was treated as dead by her family, put in a coffin and later found moving during her wake. The Municipal Prosecutor’s Office of Sacapulas and the Regional Prosecutor’s Office are handling the case,
The United States has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) itself, hours after Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge, won the Nobel Peace Prize, Reuters reports. The Trump administration announced the measures on Friday. They go further than earlier sanctions on ICC prosecutors and
The National Kriol Council (NKC) is objecting to what it calls “exaggerated racial imagery” on the cover of the recently published edition of Assad Shoman’s A History of Belize in Thirteen Chapters and is calling on the author and publisher to explain it. The Council said
Belize’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected China’s sanctions on Foreign Minister Francis Fonseca. The Belizean government says the measures will not change the country’s foreign policy. The ministry said it has “taken note” of the announcement by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 12,
