Six years ago, the world changed. On March 11, 2020, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made an announcement that reverberated across every continent, every economy, and every household on Earth: COVID-19 was a pandemic. For a small nation of about 400,000 people perched
Robots could soon become a regular sight in classrooms across Belize. A new partnership between the Ministry of E-Governance, the Belize Robotics Federation, and U.S.-based VEX Robotics aims to give students hands-on experience building and programming robots. On Wednesday, Prime Minister John Briceño, CEO of the
Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, declared Thursday that the strategic Strait of Hormuz will remain effectively closed, calling it a “tool of pressure” amid escalating regional tensions and unprecedented turmoil in global energy markets. In his first public message since assuming the country’s highest
For most kids, lunch means chips, sodas, and fried snacks, but schools are now pushing to swap those ultra‑processed foods for home‑grown veggies like chaya, sweet potato, and pumpkin. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), working with the Ministry of Education and the National Healthy Start
The Briceño administration is laying out its roadmap for the year ahead, and the draft national budget points to an economy that’s still growing, along with a bigger push on the country’s major priorities. For Fiscal Year 2026/27, government is planning a larger public‑sector investment
Opposition Leader Tracy Panton isn’t buying the Briceño administration’s budget pitch, saying the government’s promise of “Prosperity for Belizeans” doesn’t line up with what families are actually feeling on the ground. Speaking today, Panton cast the budget as big on spending but short on realism,
Prime Minister John Briceño says government is getting ready to deliver one of the biggest education boosts in Belize’s history. The Education Upliftment Project, which began in 2022 with fewer than a thousand students, has exploded in size and is now on track to cover
Authorities are trying to piece together a troubling mystery at sea after rescuers found an elderly American man dead aboard a drifting catamaran more than sixty miles offshore. The vessel, last seen leaving Livingston about a week ago, first drew attention when the crew of
The long running tensions over the Sapodilla Cayes are now heading into a decisive moment. On March nineteenth, 2026, the ICJ is expected to decide whether Guatemala can formally intervene in Belize’s case against Honduras, a dispute Belize brought to the court in 2022 after
The Public Utilities Commission has issued its final determination on market dominance in Belize’s telecommunications sector, concluding that Belize Telemedia Limited holds dominance across nearly all major retail and wholesale markets, from mobile and broadband services to international connectivity. The decision follows a month‑long public
