Police find marijuana and ammunition in Belize City
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2016. 11:15 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Belize City police found 967 grams of cannabis and a black plastic bag containing 24 live 9mm ammunition on November 22, 2016 at 7:03...
View ArticleS&P drops Belize’s rating again
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2016. 11:13 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: For the second time in less than two week, Standard & Poor’s has downgraded Belize’s long-term credit ratings. On November 14,...
View ArticleMajor Mexican Drug Cartel in Belize?
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2016. 4:04 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Rumors that US authorities extracted a Mexican drug lord in Belize, are just rumors. Yesterday this misleading information was...
View ArticleBelize to make amendments to Special Agreement with Guatemala
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2016. 4:09 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: In a Special Agreement signed in May 2015, Belize and Guatemala agreed to hold a referendum on whether or not to have the ongoing...
View ArticleNo ham for Thanksgiving?
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2016. 4:09 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: 53,000 pounds of ham was rejected from entering Ecuador on October 27, 2016 and is now sitting at the Benque Viejo Del Carmen Free...
View ArticleBreaking: Attempted armed robbery at LA Fashions Boutique in Belize City
Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2016. 9:13 p.m. CST. BREAKING NEWS By BBN Staff: Reports are that a short while ago, 2 gun men stormed into LA Fashions boutique on New road in Belize city. They held up...
View ArticleBreaking: Teachers November salary deferred
Posted:Thursday, November 24, 2016. 9:45 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Teachers were due to collect their monthly salary tomorrow. However, a memo issued to managing authorities from the Ministry of...
View ArticleSecurity officer shot in Belize City; one man detained pending investigation
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2016. 10:35 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Marco Tulio Sanchez, 65, a security guard at J.E.C. Co located on Youth for the Future Drive, Belize City was shot to the left arm last...
View ArticlePolice find marijuana plantation in Corozal
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2016. 10:48 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Yesterday between 5:30 am and 7:30 am, police conducted a drug operation in an overgrown area about ½ mile Northwest of Dominguez...
View ArticleSan Ignacio Police meet and greet in Santiago Juan Layout
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2016. 10:49 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: On Tuesday, Deputy Officer Commanding San Ignacio Police, Assistant Supt. Daniel Iche and members of the COPP, San Ignacio Branch,...
View ArticleBelmopan Police, City council and Kolbe foundation partner for clean up campaign
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2016. 10:54 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Yesterday Belmopan police, the Belmopan City Council and Kolbe Foundation partnered to clean the Central Walkway and the Rivera area to...
View ArticleConvicted pedophile free in three years
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2016. 10:56 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: A 39-year-old man, accused of a disgusting act of perversion, may only face 3 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old baby...
View ArticleUS Embassy launches activism against gender based violence
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2016. 3:09 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Last night, Ambassador Carlos Moreno officially launched the Embassy’s Official 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence...
View ArticleCaribbean health facilities to receive improvements with funds from UK
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2016. 3:11 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: The SMART Health Care Facilities Project is improving and reconstructing an estimated 50 healthcare facilities in seven Caribbean...
View ArticleTropic’s latest charitable effort its biggest yet
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2016. 3:25 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Tropic Air, as part of its ongoing #TropicGivesBack charitable campaign, donated over $1,300 split between the San Pedro Roman Catholic...
View ArticleMore rainy weather this weekend
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2016. 4:44 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff: The 24-hour forecast is for moist and unstable conditions with overcast clouds and showers to continue. Periods of rain, showers and...
View ArticleBreaking: Vehicle collides into low lying bridge, passengers trapped inside
Posted: Friday, November 25, 2016. 9:30 p.m. CST. By BBN Staff:A white car heading from San Ignacio to Santa Elena collided into the low lying wooden bridge a short while ago. The driver and a female...
View ArticleFidel Castro, Cuba’s former leader, dies at 90
Posted: Saturday, November 26, 2016. 5: 14 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Cuba’s former president, Fidel Castro has died aged 90. Raul Castro, his younger brother and successor announced the news on state...
View ArticleBelize National Coast Guard celebrate eleventh anniversary
Posted: Saturday, November 26, 2016. 9:13 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: A ceremony was held yesterday to celebrate the Belize’s National Coast Guard’s 11th anniversary at the Coast Guard Headquarters on the...
View ArticlePM Barrow expresses condolences on the passing of Fidel Castro
Posted: Sunday, November 27, 2016. 6:34 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Prime Minister Dean Barrow sent the below letter of condolences to President Raul Castro of Cuba on the passing of Fidel Castro. 26th...
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