Twenty-one members of the National Fire Service were honoured Friday for completing between 10 and 25 years of service in a ceremony organised by the Ministry of the Public Service and Disaster Risk Management. The Long Service Awards which was held in Belmopan recognised firefighters and
Last week, the University of Belize Central Farm Campus buzzed with energy as Belize’s cattle farmers and extension officers gathered for a very special training: learning how to make livestock farming not just productive, but also kind to the planet. Belarmino Esquivel, Principal Agriculture Officer in
Stabroek News, one of Guyana’s leading daily newspapers, will cease print publication on March 15, according to a statement issued Friday. The decision was announced to staff by Brendan de Caires, chairman of Guyana Publications Inc., who said the company has been struggling with declining circulation
Cuba has postponed its annual Habanos cigar festival, citing a worsening fuel shortage and broader economic pressures blamed on the United States trade blockade. The organizing committee of the Festival del Habano announced Saturday that the five-day event, scheduled for late February in Havana, has been
A suspension letter issued on February 13, 2026, confirms that Corporal Kenrick Bol has been formally suspended from active duty in the Belize Police Department. The letter, issued through the department’s Standards and Accountability Branch, states that Bol’s suspension took effect immediately under Section 8(1) of
Police have arrested and charged two additional suspects in connection with the murder of Elroy Edward Bainton, which occurred in late January in the Belize District. Izaiah Nigel Beeks and Camryn Lozano were formally arrested and jointly charged with the crime of murder. The two men now
Two young men were shot dead on Friday night in Belmopan. The victims have been identified as 20-year-old Calvert Webster of Mahogany Heights and 21-year-old Zamar Alvarez of Belmopan City. According to the official police report, at about 7:45 pm, both men were "walking with other
More than seven years after the brutal killing of eighteen year old Bobby Garcia at the Cahal Pech archaeological site, justice finally came today inside the High Court in Belmopan. The judge handed down a fourteen year sentence to Pablo Catzim, who was just fifteen
In other news from the High Court in Belmopan, the man convicted of killing Felix Ack is set to spend the next two decades behind bars. Ack’s body was found partially nude along the Macal River in San Ignacio back in 2021, initially identified only
A family of cattle farmers in El Pilar, Cayo, is sounding the alarm tonight after losing more than a dozen heads of cattle in just six weeks, and they still don’t know why. When they returned to the ranch today to vaccinate the herd, they
