Belize is observing Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance Day today. The October 12 public holiday was formerly known as Pan American Day and previously marked the date Christopher Columbus first arrived in the Americas in 1492. The government renamed it in November 2021. The Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous
China has placed sanctions on Belize’s Foreign Minister Francis Fonseca and Paraguay’s communications minister over their countries’ ties with Taiwan. Fonseca says he has received no formal notification. China announced the measures on Monday. It called the two officials “pawns” who have smeared Beijing. Taiwan condemned the
The Belize Home Movers Group says it has "serious concerns" that safety measures were not followed in the crash that killed a police sergeant on the George Price Highway on Saturday night. Police say Sergeant Jovanni Ponce, 50, was driving a white Chevrolet Equinox from east
Benjamin Eduardo Garcia and Sergio Martinez Ramirez were arrested and charged on Sunday with “discharging a firearm in public." According to reports, Belize City police officers reportedly heard several gunshots as they got out of their mobile patrol vehicle on the Philip Goldson Highway. Officers also
A gunman dressed entirely in black climbed over a fence in Belize City on Friday night and shot a 27-year-old man dead as he sat on the verandah of a house on Central American Boulevard. The victim is Jory Bowden of #11 Pelican Street. Police say Bowden
Prime Minister John Briceño left Belize today for Bangkok, Thailand, to attend meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group. The Prime Minister will attend the meetings from October 12 to 18, 2026, and returns to Belize on Sunday, October 18. The
Police have charged a 21-year-old Belize City man with the murder of 17-year-old Kaylon Trevor David. According to a police statement, Louis Maxwell Matthews, a Belizean welder of Belize City, was formally arrested and charged with murder on Saturday. Kaylon was walking along Iguana Street Extension in
Seventeen-year-old Kaylon David was the heart of his family and the brother they counted on for protection. But tonight, his loved ones are mourning the teenager who was shot and killed just a short distance from their Belize City home. Police say Kaylon was walking
October was always a month of celebration for Sandy Smith and her son, Shamar. Their birthdays were just one day apart. But this year, instead of planning two celebrations, Sandy is preparing to bury her twenty-year-old son. Gunmen killed Shamar on Pelican Street Thursday night,
A family in San Jose Village is living through an unimaginable tragedy tonight. Fifty-two-year-old Eusebio Tzub is dead, and police have charged his twenty-four-year-old son, Leonardo Tzub, with his murder. Investigators say Leonardo attacked his father with a machete at their family home on Wednesday
