A crowded boating dock in Caye Caulker reportedly collapsed today. We are not certain if anyone was injured but some of the passengers who were waiting to board a commercial vessel fell into the sea. The incident occurred during one of the busiest times of year for boat travel in […]

Man drowns in Cayo District

A man drowned in the Cayo District on Holy Saturday. Reports are that Arsenio Landero, 37, and his wife were returning home in a canoe on the Macal River after spending the day socializing with friend. Reports are that the canoe capsized and Landero went under. His body was later […]

Traffic accidents claim two lives

A little girl lost her life in a traffic accident on Holy Saturday in Belize City. Keela Wade, 5, was reportedly traveling on North Front Street along with Kelsey Peyrefitte and Sonia Carcamo on a motorcycle when they ran into the back of a bus. The incident happened sometime before […]

Bananas under threat in the Caribbean

Caribbean banana producing countries have been warned to be on their guard against the introduction of the fusarium wilt disease regarded as the most destructive to the banana industry. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that the disease has already spread from Asia to Africa and the […]

Mexican wins 86th Cross Country Cycling Classic

By: William G. Ysaguirre, Freelance Writer Foreign riders dominated the top seven places of the 86th Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic today, with Mexican rider Juan Pablo Magallanes of Benny’s Megabytes Team winning in five hours 45 minutes and three seconds. Magallanes finished second last year to Darnell Barrowr, […]

Nobel Prize-winning author passes

Gabriel García Márquez, the influential Nobel Prize-winning author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love in the Time of Cholera,” has died. The 87-year-old literary giant was treated this month for infections and dehydration at a Mexican hospital. García Márquez, a native of Colombia, is widely credited with helping […]

Belizean pilot murdered in Guatemala

A Belizean pilot was reportedly murdered in neighbouring Guatemala. According to reprts, the pilot, who is originally from Succotz Village, Cayo, was discovered lying face down near a hotel in Melchor de Mencos with gunshot wounds to the head. Belizean and Guatemalan authorities are investigating the murder but police do […]

Camalote resident stabbed in neck; critical

By: Marion V. Ali Belmopan police are looking for a suspect following a stabbing on Good Friday night that left a man critically wounded. According to reports, the incident occurred sometime after 8 p.m. in Roaring Creek Village and the victim, a man identified only as “Parham”, suffered knife wounds […]

OECS Export Development Unit works with regional entrepreneurs to promote trade with French Caribbean

The OECS Export Development Unit (EDU) says it is working with regional entrepreneurs to further promote trade with the French Caribbean following a successful fact finding business mission to the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. A statement from the St. Lucia-based OECS Secretariat said that during the mission, representatives […]

Belizeans accuse Canadian McDonald’s of “slavery”

Belizean workers at McDonald’s in Canada are accusing the company of treating them like “slaves”. A report by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, states that the Belizeans say that McDonald’s is effectively forcing them to share an expensive apartment, then deducting almost half their take-home pay as rent. The Belizeans […]