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New COVID rules take effect
The new COVID-19 regulations (SI No. 92 of 2021) came into effective today and has brought about notable changes to the operation of...
Aug 23, 2021
Belize inching closer to WHO’s CT level 3 classification?
Belize’s COVID-19 positivity rate has since surpassed the five percent threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO), and if the...
Aug 21, 2021


PM Briceño to BTL: Telecom switch should serve as wakeup call
”Maybe this is a wake-up call for BTL to get their act together because the government is not moving. We still have millions of dollars...
Aug 20, 2021


PM: CBB GOVERNOR FIRED FOR DIFFERENCES WITH BOARD
The Central Bank of Belize (CBB)’s recently appointed Governor, Mr. Gustavo Manuel Vasquez, was fired last Friday because he and the...
Aug 20, 2021


Last Resort, Again!
Residents from Southside Belize City have been rounded up by the police under a one-month proclamation of a State of Emergency (SOE),...
Aug 20, 2021


Ex OW East Area Rep. Elodio Aragon criticizes marijuana ‘legalization’
Speaking at the United Democratic Party (UDP)’s press conference convened on Tuesday morning, former minister of state with...
Aug 17, 2021


Not so ‘SMART’ move!
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL) Ivan Tesecum has said it is unfortunate that the Ministry of Rural...
Aug 12, 2021


Delta Variant pushes up ‘herd immunity’ threshold closer to 90%, medical experts say
The Delta Coronavirus Variant, a mutated form of the COVID-19 virus that is two times more transmissible, has raised the ‘herd immunity’
Aug 8, 2021


‘Locking down’ murders
Murders are up by approximately eight percent for the first half of 2021 relative to the same period last year, but remains roughly 30...
Aug 1, 2021
‘NO EXCEPTIONS!’ DPM, unions agree CEOs’ salaries should be cut
The Association of Public Service Senior Managers (APSSM) and the Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) have agreed with the Deputy Prime...
Jul 30, 2021


Unvaccinated persons fill up KHMH COVID wards
There are twenty patients that lie in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH)’s COVID wards, and of that number none of them has...
Jul 21, 2021


Body found in Lords Bank area
The Old Well Road in Lords Bank Village was quickly transformed into a murder scene after a passerby found the partially nude body of a...
Jul 20, 2021
UNJUSTIFIED FORCE! Cop kills youth,14, who was trying to obey COVID-19 curfew
A 14-year-old minor, Laddie Gillett, is dead after a police officer used what the Commissioner of Police described Thursday as...
Jul 15, 2021
Community activists host webinars to discuss 11th amendment
A group of community-based activists has formed a group called the Belizean Eleventh Amendment Working Group, which will be meeting...
Jul 13, 2021
Faber survives recall convention!
Hon. Patrick Faber remains the leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), the party’s chairman, Hon. Michael Peyrefitte informed Sunday...
Jul 11, 2021
‘Ganja Card’: GOB frees up &
The Government of Belize (GOB), via a recently tabled amendment to the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2021, is seeking to free up the...
Jul 8, 2021
Statement from Senator Darrell Bradley on the 11th Amendment
I vehemently oppose the proposed Eleventh Amendment to the Belize Constitution. The Eleventh Amendment seeks to introduce an entirely new...
Jul 8, 2021


Six detained for alleged kidnapping
Five, persons, all of them residents of Shipyard Village in the Orange Walk District, a Mennonite community, along with an 18-year-old...
Jul 7, 2021
Attorney General: 11th Constitutional Amendment does not violate any rights
The Belize Constitution (Eleventh Amendment) Bill 2021, which is expected to be tabled in the House of Representatives on Friday, July 2,...
Jul 2, 2021
New COVID Variant Spreading Fast, MOH Introducing New Measures
The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reporting the possibility of the detection of a new Covid variant in the country, which is...
Jun 30, 2021
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