Breaking: Belize Workers Union says it is time to ‘move the cause to the next...
Posted: Friday, September 30, 2016. 3:44 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff:The Belize Workers Union issued a release today expressing their full support for the BNTU’S decision to strike. The release states that...
View ArticleMatthew strengthens to a Category 5 Hurricane
Posted: Friday, September 30, 2016. 9:30 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff:This evening, hurricane Matthew was upgraded to a category 5 hurricane with top winds measured at 160 mph as it moved across the...
View ArticleNEMO issues Advisory 1
Posted: Friday, September 30, 2016. 9:49 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff:The National Meteorological Service and the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) has issued advisory No. 1 on Hurricane...
View ArticleChamber of Commerce supports BNTU
Posted: Saturday, October 1, 2016. 8:26 a.m. CST By BBN Staff: The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) issued a release yesterday outlining their support for BNTU’s issues of Governance. The...
View ArticleBPP supports BNTU
Posted: Saturday, October 1, 2016. 8:45 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff:The Belize Progressive Party issued a release yesterday expressing their ‘unequivocal’ support for the BNTU’s industrial action. The...
View ArticleNational Evangelical Association of Belize disappointed at Senator Rocke’s...
Posted: Saturday, October 1, 2016. 2:21 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff:The National Evangelical Association of Belize (NEAB) sent out a release today expressing extreme dissatisfaction and disappointment at...
View ArticleBPP celebrate its 1st Anniversary
Posted: Saturday, October 1, 2016. 2:38 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: The Belize Progressive Party (BPP) today celebrated its first anniversary. The party says that it is “The New Political Consciousness of...
View ArticleHurricane Matthew to hit Jamaica
Posted: Saturday, October 1, 2016. 3:05 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff:Hurricane Matthew remains a powerful hurricane in the Caribbean sea. It is expected to turn north toward Jamaica tomorrow morning and make...
View ArticleUB supports BNTU
Posted: Saturday, October 1, 2016. 3:34 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff:The faculty and staff of University of Belize in a letter dated Friday September 30, 2016 expressed its full support for the BNTU’s strike...
View ArticleBelizean Students’ Association of Jamaica prepare for Matthew
Posted: Saturday, October 1, 2016. 9:35 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff:The Belizean Students’ Association of Jamaica has sent out a press release to note that there are currently sixty three (63) Belizean...
View ArticleWhen Teachers Strike: I Am Here for Them, Where Are You?
Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2016. 9:45 a.m. CST. By Leon Westby: Teachers are not audiobooks. They are not recordings of interesting facts or fascinating literature which students sit and listen to,...
View ArticleMinister of State Barnett: Economy will recover; taxes will not be raised
Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2016. 6:39 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Newly appointed Minister of State for Finance; former Financial Secretary, and former vice-president at the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr....
View ArticleBNTU calls Monday meeting of branches
Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2016. 6:48 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: President of the Belize District Branch of the Belize National Teachers’ Union (BNTU), Kathleen Flowers, has announced via Facebook that...
View ArticleUDP holds National Party Council meeting amid national crisis
Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2016. 6:53 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Members of the ruling United Democratic Party’s National Party Council met Saturday at the party’s headquarters at Youth for the Future...
View ArticleCWU stands in solidarity with BNTU
Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2016. 7:00 p.m. CST. CWU President Audrey Matura-Shepherd By BBN Staff: Following a Saturday meeting of the Christian Workers Union’s executive board and committee in Belize...
View ArticleBREAKING: Murder in Orange Walk
Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2016. 7:01 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff:Reports reaching BBN is that a man was murdered today in front of a residence on Palmer road in the Louisiana area of Orange walk. It is...
View ArticleBNTU proceeds with industrial action
Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2016. 7:44 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: The Belize National Teachers Union (BNTU) announced last week its plan of industrial action. The union has been to several meetings...
View ArticleWill pre-school teachers receive pension?
Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2016. 8:24 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff:Pre-school teachers are concerned because the Ministry of Education informed them in a meeting on September 28, that they will not receive...
View ArticleBREAKING: Hit and run in Benque Viejo
Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2016. 8:37 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: A hit and run accident is being reported in Benque Viejo tonight. A man is seriously injured to the right side of his forehead as a result....
View ArticleBREAKING: Police deployed to Kremandala building
Posted: Monday, October 3, 2016. 8:37 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: It is being reported that police officers were deployed to the Kremandala building on Partridge Street. Talk Show host Mose Hyde has said...
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