Ranked: The World’s Oldest People in History

Mapped: Life Expectancy Around the World (2025) This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key Takeaways Monaco has the...

UNESCO Laureate, Aremu, Trailblazing Nigerian Academician – Rafi Mahamad

1 The Chancellor of NextGen University Int’ ‘l, USA, Prof Sir Dr. Muhammad Shaik Rafi has described Prof. Sir Bashiru Aremu, Vice-Chancellor, Crown University Int’l Chartered, USA as a trailblazing Nigerian Academician who contributions to the...

Attempts to locate potential alleged victims of Derry priest charged with child sex offences

A prosecutor has said it would be 'difficult to give a timescale' for police efforts to identify potential alleged victims in the case of a Catholic priest charged with sex offences. Edward Gallagher (58) of Orchard Park in Lifford, County Donegal...

Learning care, globally: A look at NC A&T’s medical travel abroad org

N.C. A&T is home to over 150 clubs and organizations, of these 150 clubs and organizations, it houses the largest HBCU chapter of an organization known as Global Medical Brigades or GMB. Global Medical Brigades (GMB) is an on-campus organization...

The greatest crime of all

Things are not well in Belize City lately, as the trend of violence continues, the most heinous occurring sometime over the weekend, as the brutalized body of a young woman was reportedly discovered on Saturday evening inside a garbage bin at the...

Integration or disintegration?

THE EDITOR, Madam: While overseas, I was pleased to learn that Barbados, Belize, Dominica, and St Vincent and the Grenadines have opened their borders to free movement and trade. This bold move toward regional integration deserves applause and...

Zones of Colonial Violence – Of Occupations, Dependency, and Deserts

Renuka N. Anandjit is a Guyanese-born, Trinidad-based scholar and activist. She is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born,...

Pallotti High School celebrates World Food Day with classroom breakfasts and gratitude

Views: 102 Views: 101 Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2025. 8:38 am CST. 2P’s (L-R) Riah Longsworth and Michelly Barela with a breakfast consisting of journey cake, fried beans, cheese, and Marie Sharpe pepper. Photo Credit: Rubén Morales Iglesias...

Tobacco control: Government arms to fight “epidemic” of tobacco use among younger population

Views: 22 Views: 21 Posted: Friday, October 17, 2025. 2:18 pm CST. By Aaron Humes: A Bill for an Act “to provide for the adoption and implementation of the tobacco control policies in accordance with the World Health Organization Framework...

Beyond the Headlines: Remembering ‘Big Tom’ – A Man of Many Dimensions

Views: 0 Views: 0 Posted: Tuesday, October 7, 2025. 10:18 am CST. By Alexis Milan – Editor, Breaking Belize News: I met the man known as Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers in 2003, around the height of his notoriety and criminal career. It was not the...

International day for the eradication of Poverty highlights need to end social and institutional maltreatment

Views: 0 Views: 0 Posted: Friday, October 17, 2025. 10:03 am CST. By Zoila Palma: The world marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17, a day that underscores the fight against poverty as a matter of dignity, justice,...

“Easy Glenn” Charged with Murder After Dismembered Body Found in Barrel

Goldburn Glenford Adolphus, 55 better known as “Easy Glenn” was this morning arraigned on a single charge of murder. In courtroom # 6, he stood before Magistrate Mannon Dennison wearing a long-sleeved white T-Shirt with the word “Belize” in bold...

Beyond Delphi: Discover Greece’s Peaceful Mountain Villages and a Magical Honey Farm

The ancient site of Delphi. Photo by elgreko from Getty Images via Canva Travelers planning to visit the Archaeological Museum at Delphi, Greece, and its antiquities, including the Treasury and Temple of Apollo, cannot avoid the multitudes of...

Marijuana Referendum Tomorrow, Does Iliya Have Public Support?

Tomorrow just under 1500 eligible voters on the island of Caye Caulker will be able to vote on whether they want to legalize marijuana in their village. The question voters will see on the ballot says: "Should the Government of Belize pass...

Vice-Chancellor’s Forum: “Promises, Passports, and Possibilities: Free Movement, the CSME, and the Caribbean Regionalisation Project.”

The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica, W.I. Thursday, October 16, 2025—On October 21, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) will tackle one of the Caribbean’s most pressing issues in an upcoming Vice-Chancellor’s Forum. Titled “Promises,...

What Can We Learn From Mexico’s Nonviolent Revolution Of Consciences?

Above photo: A Martin Luther King statue in Mexico City’s Lincoln Park. Wikimedia / Carlos Perez Chavez. Quietly, Martin Luther King Jr.’s commitment to Gandhian nonviolence, his effort to end poverty, and his push for a “radical revolution of...

Citizens can now live and work freely across multiple Caribbean countries in a new EU-style deal

You can now swap one island paradise for another – no visa required. A groundbreaking new deal has made it possible for citizens of Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines to live and work freely across each other’s shores....

Caye Caulker cannabis referendum: Evangelical Association issues concerns over crime and governance

Views: 0 Views: 0 Posted: Tuesday, October 7, 2025. 7:48 pm CST. By Aaron Humes: The National Evangelical Association of Belize has voiced significant concerns regarding the scheduled Caye Caulker referendum effort to legalize marijuana, which...

Four Caribbean nations launch free movement agreement

Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Citizens of Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines can now live, work and travel indefinitely among these countries without a visa or work permit under a free movement agreement in effect within the Caribbean...

Family Unable to Bury Shamar Faber After KHMH Lists Wrong Cause of Death on Certificate

The Faber family still has not been able to bury Shamar Faber because the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital had the wrong cause of death on his death certificate. Shamar had been battling complications from a gunshot wound since March 9 but sadly...