Patrick “Papi” Meighan was looking forward to Carnival on Saturday. By the end of the evening, his family was mourning his death. The 25-year-old was killed around 7 p.m. on Freetown Road after an accident involving a Carnival truck on Freetown Road in Belize City. Preliminary
Forty-five-year-old Jeremy Clive “Tambran” Hendricks died after he was stabbed during what police suspect was a domestic dispute at a residence on Pickstock Street in Belize City. The incident occurred just hours before the 2026 Carnival Road March stepped off. Police responded to the incident just after
The world map familiar to generations of people could soon look different, following a United Nations decision to promote a projection that more accurately reflects the relative size of the world's continents. The UN General Assembly last week endorsed a resolution supporting the wider use of
It is three in the morning on Saturday and most people are supposed to be sleeping, and yet thousands of carnival lovers were already on the streets of Belize City, covered in paint, splashed with mud and dancing to soca. That is J’ouvert. There's something almost unbelievable
Soca Moca claimed the senior title at the 2026 Carnival Road March for the sixth time, while four bands were disqualified across both categories. This year’s Carnival Road March began at Memorial Park in Belize City, with bands making their way along the Barrack Road and
Belize City is just hours away from reaching its biggest moment with the highly awaited Carnival Road March 2026. Music, colors, costumes, and soca energy will be taking over the streets of the old capital and viewers who cannot be along the route will still
Rolling blackouts have exposed just how vulnerable Belize’s power supply has become, and the government is now treating the situation as an emergency. Cabinet approved BEL’s request for an emergency declaration on Wednesday after the company warned of a significant energy shortfall over the next
A dramatic seafood bust has ended with more than ninety-four thousand dollars in fines and penalties for one of two men detained in the operation. Fisheries officers and police intercepted a pickup truck along the Hattieville-Boom Road early Thursday morning after a brief pursuit. Inside,
More than a month after eighteen-year-old Ewart Josiah Hernandez Jr. was shot and killed, tensions are rising between police and a Belize City family caught up in the investigation. Officers returned to a home at the corner of Oleander and Mahogany streets on Thursday evening,
A family preparing to bury twenty-three-year-old Kareem Garcia is now accusing police of disturbing their final preparations. Tensions erupted Thursday at the Unitedville Cemetery when relatives questioned why officers were present as they worked on Garcia’s tomb. Video shared online captures a heated exchange that
