August 24, 2023

Family feud goes to court – theft charge for fan withdrawn

Ramos was accused by younger brother Raynard Kurt Samuels in September 2022 of stealing a $30 fan belonging to his late mother. He was out on [...]
July 27, 2023
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The BGYEA rift: Ex-leader Nigel Petillo lashes out at Harmonyville ‘haters’

But the name is most associated with the community that sprung up at Mile 41 on the Philip Goldson Highway entering Cotton Tree village – Harmonyville, [...]
May 26, 2023

Government continues to wrangle with communal land rights issues, village disputes

As outlined by the former, Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, the trouble is not with lands within the village boundary of Laguna which, she noted, has not been clearly [...]
May 25, 2023

Tensions simmer in South as communal land rights issue returns to center stage

This week, Minister for Indigenous People’s Affairs Dolores Balderamos-Garcia reiterated that a “modus vivendi” must be reached between the rights of the Maya and those of [...]
May 24, 2023

Department of the Environment approves Cockroach Caye development and George Price Highway upgrade

In the case of the Cockroach Caye Limited development for the proposed private residential facility located on Cockroach Caye, Turneffe Atoll, Belize District, the National Environmental [...]
May 1, 2023

“Belize does not belong to Guatemala!”: Territorial Volunteers complete memorial trip despite armed forces’ aggression

This year’s trip was held on Saturday and was marked by Guatemalan Armed Forces personnel demanding the Belizean boats “show them their documents” and insisting that [...]
April 7, 2023

Sanctuary Bay mastermind Andris Pukke charged with embezzling investor funds

Pukke, 54, was arrested in Los Angeles, California, and appeared in court there on the strength of an indictment in the Federal Court in Manhattan (New [...]
March 31, 2023

Maya leaders in public quarrel over funds for mapping of Toledo communities

Today, the TAA and Julian Cho Society (JCS) hit back, announcing that it has “secured another multi-year extension to continue to support the implementation of the [...]