Brazil is heading to an October 25 runoff between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, after neither secured the 50 per cent needed to win outright Sunday, CNN reports. Together, the two took more than
Police are searching for a gunman who shot and killed Jahrule Gibson as he rode his bicycle through Sand Hill Village on Friday night. Police say Gibson was riding along Salt Creek Road at about 10:33 pm when a man attacked him and fired several shots.
The People’s United Party may be confident about its chances in the March 2027 municipal elections, but Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde is warning party supporters not to mistake that confidence for a guaranteed victory. Hyde issued the warning on Saturday during the PUP’s National Party
The People’s United Party has officially unveiled its candidates for the March 2027 municipal elections. The PUP put forward mayoral and council slates across all nine municipalities. The candidates were introduced on Saturday during the PUP’s National Party Council in Belize City, where the party also
More than 60 coconut farmers in the Belize and Orange Walk Districts have been trained to detect and control the pests and diseases threatening their crops. The training is also scheduled to take place across the rest of the districts. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security
Fisheries officers seized 1,086 conch from a storage facility inside a protected marine reserve, just two days before conch season opened. The conch were packed into two iceboxes at Sandbore Caye, in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll Marine Reserve. Officers found them on Tuesday, September 29, during
Family and friends of Chad Anton Borland are mourning the 28-year-old, who died in a crash on the Hummingbird Highway near Belmopan on Friday. Borland was described as a “wonderful young man". Borland died following a traffic accident near La Cabana Bar in Belmopan shortly after
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo is standing by his claim that no Guatemalan military aircraft entered Belizean airspace. Prime Minister John Briceño, however, says Belize has the tracking data to prove otherwise and is preparing to present that evidence to the OAS. Arévalo has sought to
Guatemala says the military aircraft was never there. Belize says the technology proves otherwise. The Minister of Home Affairs is standing firmly behind evidence that tracked the aircraft inside Belizean airspace, insisting there is no uncertainty about the incursion. That data is now in the
Can official cooperation continue when diplomatic tensions are running high? That question is following Special Envoy Rossana Briceño’s recent trip to Guatemala, which came amid the fallout from a reported military airspace incursion. Her attendance at a regional meeting has sparked debate over whether the
