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Garifuna Celebrations theme announced
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2016. 10:29 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Rísiti, Pántati, Gabafuti, Iúnrahowa meme la (English): Rich, Proud, and Powerful let us continue to preserve it. So reads this year’s...
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Motorcycle stolen from parking lot in Belize City
Posted:Thursday, September 8, 2016. 10:35 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Ascuncion Bol, 40, has made a police report that his motorcycle was stolen in Belize City. According to reports, Bol of # 31 Marage...
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Police arrest two young men in PG for keeping firearm and ammunition without...
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2016. 11:13 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Punta Gorda police have arrested two men for keeping firearm and ammunition without license. According to reports, on September 7th...
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Bus fares hike along western route, rates not approved by the Transport Board
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2016. 1:23 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Belizeans who commute between Belize City, Belmopan, San Ignacio and Benque yesterday saw a a one-dollar increase in bus fares by 2 bus...
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BPP enjoying response to “People’s Referendum”
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2016. 1:27 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: As of this morning, more than 1,000 responses have been made to the Belize Progressive Party’s non-binding People’s Referendum which...
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Hoteliers claim hotel standard amendments ‘insane’
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2016. 1:34 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Belizean hoteliers are questioning proposed changes to the Belize Tourism Board (BTB)’s National Classification System for...
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How I got my first job
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2016. 2:48 p.m. CST. By Richard Harrison: I had just turned 18 when I graduated from Belize Technical College Sixth Form (junior college)…..where I had a great...
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Ministry of Transport and Bus Operators Reach Agreement on Bus Fares
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2016. 3:55 P.M. CST. By BBN Staff: According to a GOB press release, “The Hon. Edmond Castro, Minister of State in the Ministry of Works, Transport and National Emergency...
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BREAKING: BNTU Cayo Branch votes in favor for industrial action
Posted: Thursday, September 8, 2016. 4:49 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: The Cayo Branch of the Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) has voted in favor for industrial action to be taken by the union. A...
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Man killed in San Pedro
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2016. 10:25 a.m. CST. By Zoila Palma: Yesterday afternoon Elton Polonio, a 32-year-old resident of San Pedro town was inside Maya hardware store where he got into an...
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Man shot in Belize city
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2016. 10:31 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Jason Longsworth, 37, was shot in Belize City on Thursday night. Last night Longsworth was speaking to his common-law-wife at the front...
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Belize prepares to celebrate the Battle of Saint George’s Caye
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2016. 10:49 a.m. CST. By Zoila Palma: Every year on September 10, Belizeans celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Saint George’s Caye. In the 1500s, the Spaniards made...
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Tourism Minister “come again” on Auditor General’s reports
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2016. 12:54 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Far from his previous comment that he will not lose any sleep over the Auditor General’s report on Immigration, Tourism Minister...
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Who lost Pakeman cocaine test for DPP?
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2016. 1:04 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Police Commissioner Allen Whylie commented on the report from the DPP’s Office that when police sent over the Dorian Pakeman accident...
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Police Commissioner waiting for personal copy of Audit report; denies Valdez...
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2016. 1:18 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Police Commissioner Allen Whylie says he cannot start an investigation until he has formally received copies of the Auditor General’s...
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Why September is police’s least favorite month
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2016. 1:21 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: As the countdown begins to the first major weekend of the September Celebrations, spare a thought for the men and women in khaki, white...
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Half a million dollars in fantasies
Posted: Friday, September 9,2016. 1:29 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: What would you do with half a million dollars? That – almost – is how much Carmen Gamboa from Concepcion Village in the Corozal District...
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Man fatally shot at his home in Belize City
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2016. 3:18 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Marvin Ottley, 35, was shot to the left hand in a shooting incident that happened last night in Belize City. Ottley was at home and heard...
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A Guatemalan flag on a September 10th parade?
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2016. 3:32 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: A video posted on social media this morning shows a Guatemalan flag in a student parade for the Battle of St. George’s Caye celebrations...
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Government agrees to challenge part of Section 53 ruling
Posted: Friday, September 9, 2016. 10:02 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: As previously indicated, the Government of Belize and the religious community, including the Belize Council of Churches, have reached...
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