The Ministry of Home Affairs is expected to get a new Chief Executive Officer shortly, according to Minister Oscar Mira, who confirmed that Prime Minister John Briceño is preparing to make the official appointment. Mira spoke to CTV3 on Thursday. For now, National Security CEO Francis
Police are investigating the brutal attack on a delivery truck that left two men dead on Thursday. The victims, driver Raynard Garbutt Jr. and his colleague Robert Crawford, were found dead after their Recinos Sarita truck was robbed and abandoned on the Hummingbird Highway. The company, Recinos
For many drivers, fuel feels like the price that never budges. Even as crude oil has hovered around fifty-eight US dollars a barrel in recent days, Belizeans aren’t seeing relief at the pump. Why? Because fuel in Belize is price‑fixed, a policy the Briceño administration
Tonight, we’re back at the northern border, where concern over the Corozal Free Zone’s security has shifted from whispers to urgency. The government says it’s tightening controls and working more closely with Mexico, an eight‑million-dollar push branded “Operation Northern Fortress”, to keep organized crime from
The government says the two pillars of national security are moving in lockstep: Defense & Border Security alongside Home Affairs & Enterprise. Their objective is to keep the Corozal Free Zone, and the communities around it, safe. As part of that effort, officials handed over
Tonight, a mother in Lake Independence is pleading for peace after a Tuesday night shooting left three people injured. Among the victims, two seventeen-year-old boys and a sixty-year-old woman. Two have been released from the hospital, but one teen is still fighting to recover. His
There’s a new development in the Zach Reich case. He’s dropped the police report against Harrison Blades, the driver for Minister Henry Charles Usher, after claiming Blades pulled a gun on him during a weekend dispute. That’s surprising, given Reich had blasted police for stalling
In the heart of Belize City stands St. John’s Cathedral, a landmark that has stood through two centuries of history. Constructed from ballast bricks shipped from England, the cathedral was the first Anglican house of worship in what was then British Honduras. Today, it serves
As the start of the sugar crop looms, the government is working urgently to avoid yet another showdown between the cane farmers and the factory. The two sides have not signed an agreement yet for the upcoming sugar season and have meetings scheduled for December
It’s a job fewer and fewer Belizeans want to do, but it’s one that keeps our economy moving: cutting sugarcane. Last season, over a hundred thousand tons of cane were left to rot because there just weren’t enough hands to harvest. Now, while the industry
