Belize and Taiwan have signed a new agreement worth roughly three million U.S. dollars aimed at strengthening micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises across the country, with a particular focus on women and young entrepreneurs. The Belize Women and Youth MSMEs Development Project will be jointly implemented
Electricity bills are climbing, and so are the complaints. BEL confirms that more customers are challenging their bills now than during the same period in previous years. Today, the company and the Ministry of Public Utilities spent two hours explaining the spike. Their answer: hotter
BEL is asking consumers to trust its billing system, even as complaints about higher electricity bills continue to mount. Executive Chairman Lynn Young says employees have occasionally misread meters, but BEL corrects those mistakes. He argues that deliberately manipulating the computerized system to overcharge selected
BEL owes Mexico’s state-owned energy supplier tens of millions of dollars, and the company admits it simply does not have enough money to cover all its expenses. So how is it keeping the lights on? Executive Chairman Lynn Young revealed today that the Briceño administration
Residents heard gunshots shortly after one on Sunday morning, but it was several hours before police found twenty-three-year-old Christopher Smith Jr. dead in Belize City. His murder comes months after a high-profile criminal case against him ended. Tonight, investigators are trying to determine who killed
Three crashes, three lives lost and three families left grieving. Motorcycle riders Elvin Chub, Jaime Cattelan and Patrick Chun were killed in separate collisions across Belize over the weekend. As police investigate the circumstances surrounding each crash, they are also working to determine who may
Five men are now facing firearm charges after four police operations in Belize City and Ladyville turned up multiple illegal guns and ammunition. From a Glock pistol discovered during a targeted operation to a loaded Remington recovered in Ladyville and another firearm found after police
Police in San Pedro have made two significant drug seizures in separate operations, with more than two kilograms of suspected illegal drugs recovered and four people now facing charges. In one case, police say nearly a kilogram of suspected crystal methamphetamine was found in the
Two men are detained, one of them an officer of the Belize Coast Guard, after police responded to a brazen vehicle theft in Hattieville Village on Thursday night. Authorities report that shortly before 8 o'clock, two masked men, one carrying a firearm, forced their way
Police say two armed men stormed an Independence store on Saturday afternoon, robbed the owner and fled in a waiting vehicle. But their escape did not last long. Investigators followed leads, intercepted the vehicle and detained three Belize City men. Dorian Garnett, Krishna Flores and
