Highlights
BPD awards 3 officers with Women Police of the Year
Photo: (l-r) Myrna Pena, Carmella Cacho, and Shanice Bevans; BPD Female Police of the...
Suicide on the rise!
Photo: Iveth Quintanilla, Mental Health Coordinator
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Wed. Mar. 20, 2024
Since entering the...
NCA launches 8-year Strategic Plan
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 18, 2024
Belize’s aging population, which comprised 6% of...
Belize places Top 40 at Miss World 2023
Photo: Elise-Gayonne Vernon, Belizean contestant
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Mar. 12, 2024
22-year-old Elise-Gayonne Vernon...
Belize missing again from corruption index
BELIZE CITY--The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2014, captioned “Clean growth at risk,” was released today by Transparency International and again Belize has been excluded...
Prime Minister attends Fifth CARICOM-Cuba Summit
BELIZE CITY--Cuba-CARICOM Day, observed annually on December 8, was instituted back in 2002, to solidify relations which Cuba began to cultivate with the region...
5.1 million persons died from diabetes in 2013
BELIZE CITY, Wed. Nov. 26, 2014--Diabetes is a chronic disease which occurs when the body cannot produce enough insulin or cannot use insulin effectively....
Staggering remand population costing taxpayers millions!
BELIZE CITY--Belize continues to rank among the top ten countries with the highest incarceration rates in the world. Even more appalling is the fact...
Belize students need more classroom hours, says Education Minister
BELIZE CITY--Education and culture delegations from Central American countries which are member states of the Central American Integration System (Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana...
Belize economy expanded 4.8% in 3rd quarter, inflation 0.7%
BELIZE CITY--The Statistical Institute of Belize released the latest economic statistics today, Wednesday, November 26, 2014, at a press conference held at the training...
Staggering remand population costing taxpayers millions!
BELIZE CITY--Belize continues to rank among the top ten countries with the highest incarceration rates in the world. Even more appalling is the fact...
Cañeros and SICB to meet next week
ORANGE WALK--Today was set as the deadline for the ultimatum that the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA) and it membership, at a meeting...
2 die, 1 injured in road traffic accidents out west
CAYO DISTRICT--A woman and a man died tragically over the weekend in two separate traffic accidents which occurred on the George Price Highway between...
House to debate PetroCaribe motion tomorrow
BELIZE CITY--The Opposition People’s United Party and the ruling United Democratic Party have been at loggerheads over $228 million in unapproved borrowing by the...
Cooler heads prevail in NICH/FECTAB flare-up
BELIZE CITY--There is some good news coming out of the cruise tourism industry today after the Institute of Archeology, a subsidiary of the National...
Cervantes family gives telephone recording to police as “evidence”
ORANGE WALK--The Cervantes family of Orange Walk Town, who have been on an emotional rollercoaster since the death of their patriarch, Ramon “Don Ramon”...
Dengue burdens productive population on Southside Belize City
BELIZE CITY--Latest data received today from the Belize Ministry of Health indicate that up to October 2014, roughly 350 cases of dengue have been...
Drilling surpasses 6,800 feet inside Sarstoon Temash
BELIZE CITY--Dr. Colin Young, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in the Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology and Public Utilities, informed Amandala today that US Capital...