The Government of Belize has enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2026, repealing the longstanding Factories Act and introducing a new legal framework for workplace safety nationwide. The law applies to public and private-sector establishments, construction sites, industrial facilities, domestic work environments, and certain remote
Friends for Conservation and Development, working with the Belize Wildlife and Referral Clinic, says camera-trap images have raised concern over possible New World screwworm infestation in two wild species in the western Maya Mountains. According to FCD, the images show a puma and a post-fledging Scarlet
Police have charged nineteen-year-old Leon Emmanuel St. Clair, an unemployed Belize City resident, with the murder of Kareem Garcia. Garcia, twenty-three, was shot and killed while working with coworkers at a road construction site in Cotton Tree Village in August. Police say two men on a motorcycle
A deadly shooting in Belize City’s Kings Park area has left thirty-three-year-old Barry Johnson dead and Jahsun Tillett recovering in hospital. Police are now trying to piece together what happened in the moments before the gunfire, with sources indicating Johnson may have been followed to
A mother of six accused in the stabbing death of her common-law husband will remain behind bars after a magistrate ruled that only the High Court can consider bail. Fifty-year-old Arlene Arnold is charged with manslaughter following the death of forty-five-year-old Jeremy “Clive Tambran” Hendricks.
A dispute in Belmopan has triggered two investigations and one critical question: who fired the bullet that injured twenty-six-year-old Jaheim Thomas? Police responded to reports of an altercation in the Las Flores area on Monday night, but during that response, Thomas was shot and hospitalized.
Questions surrounding the workplace death of Mauricio Solis are now coming into sharper focus. Bulridge Limited says the forty-nine-year-old San Ignacio resident was on duty near the Guacamayo Bridge in Mountain Pine Ridge on September third, accompanying a private contractor to a designated worksite when
An early-morning journey on Remate Road ended in tragedy for a Corozal family. Fifty-year-old David Chan was killed, and two others were injured after a van reportedly crashed into a trailer being towed by a tractor early Tuesday. Police are now working to determine what
A forty-million-dollar loan, claims of confidentiality and growing demands for answers are putting Holy Redeemer Credit Union under scrutiny. Opposition Leader Tracy Taegar Panton wants HRCU to disclose who approved the reported unsecured loan to Belize Electricity Limited, how the risks were assessed and what
Prime Minister John Briceño challenged Union Senator Glenfield Dennison to get out into communities and hear directly from Belizeans. Tonight, Dennison is firing back. The exchange began after the senator argued that politicians and public officers who enjoy perks such as fuel allowances cannot fully
