Chaos unfolded in Belize City today as a brazen, midday gun battle between police and two-armed men sent residents scrambling for safety. What began as an attack on siblings Clinton and Kiandra Pou quickly escalated into a dangerous chase through one of the city’s busiest
A frightening home invasion in Frank’s Eddy Village sent shockwaves through the community on Wednesday evening. Well known tour operator Bradley Paumen is tonight recovering in the hospital after he was shot multiple times while trying to protect his family. Paumen, the owner of Dark
The probe into the mysterious death of an elderly Canadian man remains active tonight after his body was recovered from a drifting catamaran more than sixty miles offshore on Wednesday. The vessel, last seen leaving Livingston a week ago, drew attention when the cruise ship
Belize is brushing off concerns after a letter from the chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee called for a review of the country’s investment climate and institutional checks. Instead of pushing back, the government projects confidence, saying Belize remains a steady democracy with
After nearly five months without a permanent chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer Sharine Reyes has been selected to lead Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, bringing an end to a long search that followed the October fifteenth departure of former CEO Chandra Nisbet‑Cansino. During the vacancy,
A long‑running fight over Belize’s election system landed before the Caribbean Court of Justice today, as Jeremy Enriquez pushed to revive his stalled redistricting challenge. Backed by Senior Counsel Anand Ramlogan and King’s Counsel Peter Knox, Enriquez is contesting a series of Court of Appeal
The Public Utilities Commission is turning up the pressure on Belize’s two biggest telecom players as BTL pushes ahead with its plan to buy out Speednet, even though its own board still hasn’t approved the deal. The PUC has now fired off a new round
Tonight, Opposition Leader Tracy Panton isn’t waiting for her official budget response to speak her mind. She’s already taking aim at the glowing picture Prime Minister John Briceño painted during his budget presentation. Panton says that behind the optimism, the spending plan leans too heavily
Tonight, on Belize on Reel, we take you into the heart of the Collet community, where one young man is turning his love for basketball into a lifeline for the boys in his neighborhood. He’s not a star athlete or a celebrity coach, just someone
A late‑night police operation in Gales Point Manatee has ignited a different kind of firestorm, one centered not on the arrests themselves, but on what allegedly happened after two young men were detained. Norman Bowen and Kizan Williams are still in police custody, but the
