Photo: Police secure UDP headquarters perimeter
by William Ysaguirre
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Oct. 28, 2024
The leaders of the UDP Alliance For Democracy (AFD) stole a march on Leader of the Opposition United Democratic Party, Moses “Shyne” Barrow, by marching into the UDP headquarters building on Youth for the Future...
Photo: Ex-minister Contreras declines to testify before Senate Committee
BELMOPAN, Mon. Oct. 28, 2024
Former Minister of Economic Development, Erwin Contreras declined to testify when he appeared on Monday morning, October 28, before the Special...
Photo: Elvira Mulholland, charged
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Oct. 28, 2024
A woman is in police custody facing charges including attempted murder for shooting her husband in the head. Fortunately, he survived the shooting.
According...
Photo: (Top row) Robert Andrew Tillet, Jonathan David Cruz (Bottom row) Eva Giselle Dawson. Elijah Jonathan Cruz
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Mon. Oct. 28, 2024
Over the past several months, a string of robberies occurred in the capital...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Fri. Oct. 25, 2024
Starlink, the internet service belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, may be brought to the Jewel, as the company has applied for a telecommunication license to provide...
Photo: (l-r) Cyril Banner, Jr. and Jayden Young
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Oct. 28, 2024
Two men from Lemonal Village, Belize District, Cyril Banner, Jr. and Jayden Young were shot on Saturday, October 26...
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Oct. 28, 2024
After representing Belize in the 2024 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge in Guatemala City, Ladyville Technical High School returned to the Jewel with Silver medals on Friday, October 25.
The competition, sponsored by Samsung, is a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)-based contest created to foster problem-solving skills, while promoting the positive impact young minds can have on our society.
The contest is designed to inspire its participants to tackle emerging challenges and produce tangible innovations to help improve today’s society. During the journey, the students are challenged to develop critical thinking, creative thinking, communicating, and collaborating skills, which are required for the future...
It sometimes takes a major tragedy of some sort for us to stop and reflect on a situation that we all have probably just been taking for granted. And...
Photo: Dr. Jeffrey Cho, a preventative medicine physician, was the main presenter on Sunday at La Loma Luz Hospital in Santa Elena, Cayo.
by Orlando Pulido
SANTA ELENA TOWN, Cayo District, Mon. Oct. 28, 2024
Community members in Santa Elena Town, Cayo, have benefitted from a Diabetes Rewind Program at...
Photo: Kafiel Raheem Alexander Caceres, walks free
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Oct. 21, 2024
Kalief Raheem Alexander Caceres, 22, one of two men accused and charged with the murder of 17-year-old Gerald Tillett, Jr., is a...