Get ready, seafood lovers! Belize’s Queen Conch season officially kicks off on October 1, 2025, and will run until June 30, 2026, the Fisheries Department announced. The department stated that the season may close early if the national conch quota is reached. The department reminded fishers and
Tonight, we dig deeper into a scandal that’s shaking Belizean football to its core. Six foreign players, brought in with the promise of opportunity, ended up behind bars instead and jailed on immigration offenses while still playing for a Premier League team. At the center
Regarding the allegations of human trafficking and exploitation, Acting Police Commissioner Bart Jones told News 5 that A-Tips found insufficient evidence to support the claims after interviewing the players. Still, the allegations have raised concerns, particularly as the players say Moss held onto their passports,
So now, one of the questions is: what will be done to prevent a reoccurrence? Earlier this week, President of the Premier League of Belize Ian Haylock told News Five that the league and the Football Federation of Belize has implemented new measures to look
[caption id="attachment_64161" align="alignright" width="300"] Chryslin Gladden[/caption] You may recall the 2014 murder of sixteen-year-old Wesley Junior College student Chryslin Gladden, who was stabbed multiple times at the Lord Ridge cemetery. Today, eleven years later, two people
Thirty-eight-year-old Gabriel Mai, who was killed after being struck and run over by a bus on Independence Day while riding his bicycle along Marage Road in Ladyville. Police have since arrested and charged the driver, Phillip Sutherland, with manslaughter by negligence and driving without due
Transport Minister Dr. Louis Zabaneh is tonight reacting to the court’s ruling ordering the Belize Transport Board to pay bus operator Hernan Serrano sixty thousand dollars. Serrano, owner of Serrano’s Bus Service, filed the lawsuit in 2023 after the board refused to renew his company’s
Earlier this year, the Ready Call Center in Dangriga closed after just ten months of operation, following its acquisition by Fusion Outsourcing and Services. The closure left hundreds of Belizeans in the Stann Creek District, historically the country’s highest-unemployment area, scrambling for work. Dangriga Area
Last week, four Garifuna women were let go from Western Dairies in Dangriga, sparking public concern and calls for answers. Since then, local leaders have been meeting with both the women and the company’s management to get to the bottom of what happened. We spoke
The Ministry of Agriculture is ramping up its fight against the New World Screw Worm, a major threat to Belize’s livestock industry. Chief Agriculture Officer Dr. Victoriano Pasqual says Mexico has still given Belize the green light to export cattle, proof, he notes, of the
