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Doctor Love: Tired Tourism Worker
Dear Doctor Love, I’ve lived on Ambergris Caye for over ten years and work in the tourism industry. Lately, I’ve been feeling conflicted. I’m grateful that visitors keep our island economy alive, but I also think that the constant noise, traffic,...
GOB Suing Its Own Ombudsman To Block Release Of Payments Made To Top Law Firms
Tonight, the Briceno Administration is making dubious history - by suing its own Ombudsman - Herman Swazo, all because it refuses to disclose the legal fees paid to its big name attorneys in the legal challenge to the re-districting. As we...
Sobers raises concern after PM branded ‘persona non grata’
DAREECE POLO Senior Reporter [email protected] Foreign Affairs Minister Sean Sobers has voiced strong concern over Venezuela’s decision to declare Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar “persona non grata,” confirming he raised the issue directly...
Court Takes Elmer Nah To Scene Of Triple Murder In Belmopan
The Elmer Nah trial for the triple murder of Jon, Vivian and David Ramnarace continued today but with a major change of scenery. It went from the courthouse to the scene of the crime in Belmopan in what is called a "locus" visit. Just before 11:00...
Josephine Shoman Preschool inaugurated in Santa Elena Town
Views: 57 Views: 55 Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2025. 10:12 am CST. By Zoila Palma: On October 27, 2025, the Belize Social Investment Fund (BSIF), in partnership with the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Ministry of Education, Science and...
NDACC can’t show us the drunk kids
By Colin Hyde Some of us don’t like to think about “body” postmortems — leave the morticians to their business — and for various reasons some don’t like to think about postmortems of any activity they were involved in. Hmm, some, maybe they just...
Woman’s car deliberately burned in Orange Walk Town
Views: 513 Views: 510 Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2025. 9:18 pm CST. By Aaron Humes: Police are investigating a suspected arson on a car in Orange Walk Town on October 26, early in the morning, around 12:30 a.m. Staff Officer Assistant...
Jamaica braces for “storm of the century” as Hurricane Melissa threatens massive destruction
Views: 82 Views: 79 Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2025. 6:43 am CST. By Breaking Belize News Staff (HP); Hurricane Melissa is being described as the “storm of the century” for Jamaica, with officials warning of catastrophic impacts and widespread...
Three killed and several injured in Jamaica while preparing for Hurricane Melissa
Views: 10 Views: 12 Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2025. 6:32 am CST. By Breaking Belize News Staff (HP); According to a report from the BBC, three people have been killed and nearly 15 others injured in Jamaica while preparing for the arrival of...
Students Helping Students Through NSUB
And while Belize has committed to help Jamaica after the storm - as you heard, Belizean students in that country are asking: "what about helping us before the storm?" For struggling university students, there is no way they would have been able to...
Toledo Teen Crowned Miss Garifuna Punta Gorda 2025
15-year-old Sherdanny Garbutt, a third form science student at the Toledo Community College, has been crowned Miss Garifuna Punta Gorda. Sherdanny won the competition from among three other participants on Saturday at the Toledo Sports Complex....
Caribbean threats: hurricanes Melissa and Trump
Despite the professional expert weather forecasts, which are increasingly accurate with improved technology over the years, it is still conceded by one and all that a creature as powerful as a major hurricane can occasionally “have a mind of its...
Feinstein’s British Legal Team Seeks Stay in High-Stakes Stake Bank Case
The stakes are high in the embattled Stake Bank case and this morning in the High Court the Finestein fraud case was supposed to begin before Justice Goonetilleke but Feinstein’s team of British attorneys headed by Richard Salter KC, widely...
Miss Earth 2025: Fil-Aussie Alexa Roder carries Australia's back-to-back hopes
October 30, 2025 | 9:27am MANILA, Philippines — A back-to-back victory is a rare feat in pageantry. And though few and far between, it happens once in a while — the latest being the Philippines' historic back-to-back feat at the recently-concluded...
Triple Murder Trial Takes New Turn as Elmer Nah Returns to Crime Scene
It’s been nearly three years since the shocking New Year’s Eve triple murder in Belmopan, and today, a new chapter unfolded in the ongoing trial. Former Police Corporal Elmer Nah, the man accused of carrying out the grisly killings, was escorted...
Cruise chaos as Hurricane Melissa carves through Caribbean
Cruise lines have been forced to change itineraries throughout the Caribbean this week to avoid the destructive Hurricane Melissa. The category 5 hurricane began churning though the southern part of the Bahamas on Wednesday evening after carving a...
Canada warns travelers of rising dengue cases in Philippines
October 30, 2025 | 11:47am MANILA, Philippines — The Government of Canada has advised its citizens traveling to the Philippines to exercise a “high degree of caution” following rising cases of dengue fever. In a health notice issued on October 27,...
Youths Lead Disaster Preparedness in Corozal
While Hurricane Melissa dominates headlines across the region, something inspiring is happening right here at home. In San Roman, Corozal, dozens of young Belizeans came together on Friday for the second National Youth Forum on Disaster Risk...