Fourteen-year-old Sea Scout Tyrone Usher, a self-taught fisherman, could not believe his eyes nor his good fortune when he landed a massive tarpon weighing more than 200 pounds, with scales over two inches in diameter, on Sea Shore Drive in the Buttonwood Bay area of Belize City Sunday morning, July 18.
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has moved swiftly to correct an error in a travel advisory issued on Tuesday July 20 on its web page, which warned British tourists heading to Belize to avoid three specific areas of the country because of crime problems.
The Belize Diabetes Association distributed the first set of blood sugar monitors and strips at its regular monthly meeting held at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital conference room on Saturday, July 17
The Belize City Council with help from the Central Government of Belize has identified a 20-acre parcel of high land at Mile 13 to use as a new cemetery.
The Barbados-based CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) has announced it has approved nearly nine million US dollars in its first Country Assistance Programmes to Belize and St. Lucia.
It is providing a US $3 million to Belize to support small and medium sized enterprises and micro-entrepreneurs.
