The ballots may have carried the candidates’ names, but Sunday’s PUP convention tested much more than their popularity. It became a closely watched battle over leadership, succession and political influence in Belize City. After weeks of campaigning and competing endorsements, delegates had to choose between
The votes have been counted and the convention is over, but for Allan Pollard, the political fallout may just be beginning. Less than twenty-four hours after falling short in the race for the PUP’s Belize City mayoral candidacy, Pollard broke his silence with a candid
After defeating Allan Pollard for the PUP’s mayoral candidacy, Eluide Miller is extending an olive branch to his former rival and urging him to help keep Belize City under PUP control in March 2027. Miller insists the campaign was strictly political, never personal, and says
The mayoral showdown may have commanded the spotlight, but Sunday’s convention also produced a new team of councilor candidates. Ten contenders secured their place on the PUP ticket, including four newcomers. Kristian “El Toxico” Alpuche emerged as the convention’s top vote-getter with five hundred and
The ballots may have settled who won Sunday’s PUP convention, but they did not answer another major question: how much did victory cost? Both Eluide Miller and Allan Pollard joked that the bruising campaign left them broke, yet the highly organized machinery surrounding both camps
The price tag attached to Sunday’s PUP convention has reignited a much bigger debate: who is funding Belizean politics, and what influence does that money buy? Former Belize City Mayor and attorney Darrell Bradley says the reported hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on the
A weekend shooting in Santa Elena has become a double murder investigation, deepening the grief for a Cayo family already familiar with tragedy. Thirty-five-year-old Rasheed Hyde was killed on George Price Avenue on Saturday afternoon, while thirty-six-year-old mechanic Gil Pineda succumbed to his injuries the
A brazen daylight attack has claimed another life in the Cayo District and raises fears that the recent bloodshed may be connected. Twenty-three-year-old Unitedville resident Kareem Garcia was working alongside several colleagues at a road construction site in Cotton Tree Village when two men reportedly
And Cayo Police are also investigating a shooting that injured a minor almost a month ago. According to reports, gunmen were targeting Carlton Mckoy when they shot and injured a five-year-old minor. ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer “On third August, 2026 at approximately seven forty p.m., police
Police say a violent drug turf war may be driving the latest bloodshed in western Belize. Investigators believe rival groups operating in Santa Elena and nearby villages are connected to a string of murders, as well as a recent shooting that injured a minor. In
