The Belize Social Security Board has announced the most sweeping reforms since the Social Security system was inaugurated in 1981. The changes, to be implemented on the first of January, involve a significant increase in the size and scope of benefits for insured workers. At the same time those workers and their employers will be […]
Police Detective Mark August is at the KHMH tonight, recuperating from what police say is an accidental gunshot wound in the leg he received while on duty Friday night. According to Assistant Police Commissioner Hugh Cain, a police mobile unit responded to an incident on Mopan Street in Belize City, in which two men were […]
One man is fifteen thousand dollars short while the other is on the run. Police are asking you to assist them in finding twenty-seven year old Melvin Sebastian Nunez, better known as “Sabe” of Lovely Lane in Belize City, in connection with a robbery on Friday in the city. Blue Creek businessman David Weiber told […]
Police have arrested and charged three Belizean labourers jointly with four counts of aggravated assault, burglary and robbery in connection with the jacking of a Belmopan businessman on December twelfth. They are eighteen-year old John Franklin of Plues Street and twenty-year old Frank Elijio of University Drive, both of Belize City, and Shawn Hertular, eighteen, […]
The body found floating near Fort Point on Friday has been identified, but police are still not certain of the details surrounding the drowning victim’s death. Twenty-year old Christopher Lawrence was last seen by his wife Lisa the night of Wednesday, December thirteenth. She had two days earlier given birth to their daughter and moved […]
Police and fire officials are still trying to find out what caused the Star Guest House in the area of “The Split” on Caye Caulker to burn down. According to the hotel’s owner, Ramon Reyes Jr., the two-storey wooden building, which was destroyed by fire shortly after midnight on Monday, was vacant, as it was […]
Rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Keith may be well underway, but some residents of the Belama Phase III area are complaining that they are still suffering. Part of their street has been largely under water for over three years and neither the City Council or the Ministry of Works have responded to their complaints. Today News […]
La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge has in just a few years grown into one of the nation’s premier sporting events. This year’s race, aside from its usual complement of young and strong paddlers, will also feature some new technology: a canoe built with a unique blend of multicultural skills. Jose Sanchez reports from the […]
