What was first believed to be a robbery attempt is now being investigated as a targeted attack that claimed the life of Clinton Pou, according to a senior officer on the ground. Pou was near his mother’s food trailer at the fish market in Belize City
The UN General Assembly has officially declared October 1 as International Coffee Day, an annual observance to highlight coffee’s importance for communities, economies, and food security. The resolution supports millions of farmers worldwide, creates jobs, and is a symbol of culture and tradition across generations. It
Belizeans are being encouraged to learn more about protecting the country’s marine resources as Reef Week Belize approaches. During this morning’s show, representatives from the Belize Fund for a Sustainable Future highlighted ongoing efforts to preserve the Belize Barrier Reef and the importance of public
Police are investigating a violent home invasion and attempted murder that occurred Wednesday evening in the Dark Knight area of Frank’s Eddy Village, Cayo District. Bradley Paumen, 68, gave a harrowing account to News 5 Live of a violent home invasion that left him shot and
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,
