Cabinet has approved an increase to the GST exemption on residential electricity bills. The move raises the threshold from $100 to $200 per month effective September 1st. According to a Cabinet press release, the increase is expected to provide direct relief to more than 91,000 customers,
A Belize City family says police have repeatedly targeted their home on the corner of Oleander and Mahogany Streets over the past two years, with the searches escalating since the August murder of eighteen-year-old Ewart Hernandez Jr. This week, officers searched the property again and detained
New U.S. Ambassador to Belize Andre Bauer is addressing controversial remarks he made more than a decade ago about government assistance to poor people, saying his comments were about breaking the cycle of dependency rather than simply providing people with financial support. While serving as a
"Disability does not affect only one individual, it touches an entire family, and therefore it touches a nation." Special Envoy for the Development of Families and Children Rossana Briceño said those words at the launch of Belize's new National Commission for Persons with Disabilities on
As Belize heads into the September Celebrations, promoter John Marsden of Mars Productions is bringing a new event to the calendar with Bacchanal Flag Fest, a daytime celebration combining soca, music, and Caribbean culture. The event takes place on Thursday, September 10, at Grand Resort, beginning
Government has rejected most of the Public Service Union's demands over the Revenue Authority Bill, 2026. It has refused to guarantee that transitioning tax officers will keep jobs on terms "no less favourable" than what they currently hold. PSU had asked the government to pause the
Belizeans are projected to spend more than $144 million on Fi We Boledo this year, and Lottery Board Chair Narda Garcia believes more of that money could be channeled into developing the country’s athletes and sports programmes. During Belize’s first National Sports Summit on Tuesday, Garcia
Belize's Court of Appeal has ruled that two States of Emergency (SOE) declared over Southside Belize City in 2020 were unconstitutional. The court found that the government failed to provide evidence of a threat serious enough to justify suspending fundamental rights. The SOEs, declared in March
Two families are mourning tonight after a deadly highway collision claimed the lives of a couple travelling on a motorcycle. Thirty-two-year-old Joseph Williams and forty-two-year-old Sherlene Rodriguez collided with a BMW driven by twenty-two-year-old Pedro Espat on the Philip Goldson Highway Wednesday morning. Williams was
With three weeks left into the auditor general’s probe, the watchdogs are now under the microscope as the Ministry of Defense procurement scandal widens. Investigators want to know whether the ministry’s inspector general, who also serves as internal auditor, detected any of the questionable transactions
