Belize News: Newspapers, Radio, TV stations, and News Blogs

For a small country Belize punches above its weight in the news department and presence on the web. In the past news was tightly controlled and even today the government of Belize day uses subtle control in the form of selectively doling out official advertising funded by public tax money. Thanks to the Internet more news sources are now outside the Belize government control.

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New Belize Newspaper - The Independent

Veteran newspaperman and former Amandala Editor Glenn Tillet has launched The Independent. "Because it’s intended to be independent. It will be independent opinions, a variety of opinions, but independent as in we won’t kowtow to any partisan political lines."

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Belize's Chaa Creek prepares for Maya summer solstice - San Francisco Chronic...
16 May 2012 at 1:10am

Belize's Chaa Creek prepares for Maya summer solstice
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The ancient Maya's reverence for the summer solstice would have taken on even great significance during t...

From Belize to Kiev, the complex web at heart of Sean Quinn court action - Be...
16 May 2012 at 9:07pm

BBC News
From Belize to Kiev, the complex web at heart of Sean Quinn court action
Belfast Telegraph
This concerns businesses, property and ventures across the globe including England, Prague, Belize, ...

Artifacts From a Time of Many Droughts - New York Times (blog)
16 May 2012 at 3:55pm

New York Times (blog)
Artifacts From a Time of Many Droughts
New York Times (blog)
By LISA J. LUCERO Lisa J. Lucero, a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is s...

Un-Belize-able! - New York Post
15 May 2012 at 1:08am

New York Post
Un-Belize-able!
New York Post
Today, Paridis is chairman of the nonprofit Home Ownership Preservation Program, which provides foreclosure counseling, and co-owns the Blue Tang Inn in Bel...

Direct Global Media Initiates Coverage on CMG Holdings Group, Inc. - MarketWa...
16 May 2012 at 12:49pm

Direct Global Media Initiates Coverage on CMG Holdings Group, Inc.
MarketWatch (press release)
BELIZE CITY, BELIZE, May 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Direct Global Media gives shareholders valu...

Area Residents Enjoy Passport DC - Washington Informer
16 May 2012 at 11:58am

Area Residents Enjoy Passport DC
Washington Informer
Welcome to the Embassy of Belize. I'm Nestor Mendez. Thank you for joining us," he said. "Did you say you were the ambassador?" one man asked. "Ca...

Barrow urges Belize Bank to help break impasse - Amandala
15 May 2012 at 11:47am

LoveFM
Barrow urges Belize Bank to help break impasse
Amandala
The Belize Bank has a 110-year history, dating back to the founding of the Bank of British Honduras in 1902, and this past weekend, it ce...

PORT OF BELIZE AND STEVEDORES REACH AGREEMENT - LoveFM
16 May 2012 at 1:41am

LoveFM
PORT OF BELIZE AND STEVEDORES REACH AGREEMENT
LoveFM
A dispute between stevedores and their employer, the Port of Belize Limited, has ended with an arrangement – albeit after two sessions today...

BELIZE CITY – The founder of the computer virus software company McAfee, Inc ...
7 May 2012 at 4:28pm

BELIZE CITY – The founder of the computer virus software company McAfee, Inc ...
Fox News
BELIZE CITY – The founder of the computer virus software company McAfee, Inc. says he is being persecuted by ...

Kamla off to Belize, New York and B'dos - Trinidad & Tobago Express
14 May 2012 at 10:56pm

Kamla off to Belize, New York and B'dos
Trinidad & Tobago Express
By Carla Bridglal Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be leaving today on official business to Belize, New York and Barbados, ...

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Family of four perish in fatal highway accident
17 May 2012 at 12:23am
There was a horrible traffic accident this morning at mile forty-four, a dangerous stretch of the Western Highway. Four of five family members between the ages of twelve and sixty-eight perished. T...

Another Matura murdered on Boulevard on broken dreams
17 May 2012 at 12:20am
While the highways turned deadly, there was another homicide in the City this morning and from our records it is murder victim number fifty-one for this year. It happened just before seven o’clock;...

GSU busts infamous Brian Brown
17 May 2012 at 12:18am
A warrant is out for Brian Brown, a well known street figure. For about ten hours today, the Gang Suppression Unit raided Brown’s house on Fabers Road where they found cash in Belize and US currenc...

Commonwealth Local Government Forum opens in Belize
17 May 2012 at 12:12am
The Commonwealth Local Government Forum opened in Belize City today. Trinidad’s Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, flew in for the event as did the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Kamal...

Commonwealth Sec. Gen. talks development for Belize
17 May 2012 at 12:11am
The Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma, began the first of his three day visit to Belize on the occasion of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum. Prior to arriving in the country, ...

Under protest, Justice Awich officially elevated to Court of Appeal
17 May 2012 at 12:09am
The Bar Association and the opposition party both objected to the appointment of Justice Samuel Awich to the Court of Appeal last month. But this morning, the justice took the oath at the Belize Ho...

New Director of Tourism is Laura Esquivel Frampton
17 May 2012 at 12:08am
There is another appointment to report tonight. Word to News Five is that Director of Quality Assurance, Laura Esquivel Frampton, is being named the new Director of Tourism, replacing Seleni Matus ...

Coalition and COLA join Oceana in Referendum suit
17 May 2012 at 12:05am
Oceana filed an application on May fourth for leave to apply for judicial review of the disqualification of eight thousand and forty-seven signatures from the petition for a referendum on offshore ...

NGO explains why COLA and Coalition jump on to claim
17 May 2012 at 12:04am
As for the application for COLA and the Coalition to become interested parties in the case, Crown Counsel Herbert Panton, holding over for Crown Counsel Nigel Hawke on behalf of the ministry, indic...

Ervin Reneau will face trial for gas station murders
17 May 2012 at 12:03am
A preliminary inquiry concluded this morning, in the case against Ervin Reneau, who was committed to stand trial on numerous charges, including two counts of Murder. The charges are in connection w...

Ambergris Caye Belize Latest News

Daily Roundup of breaking island news from San Pedro, Ambergris Caye Belize.

PUP’s first leader dies in the USA
16 May 2012 at 7:28pm
John Smith became the first Party Leader of the People’s United Party September 29th, 1950 after the People's Committee was dissolved making way for the first political party in Belize's history

COLA and The Coalition apply as co-claimants challenging Oil Concession Contr...
16 May 2012 at 6:59pm
PRESS RELEASE 15 May, 2012 For Immediate Release COLA and The Coalition apply as co-claimants challenging Oil Concession Contracts In the Supreme Court today, Citizens Organized for Liberty throu...

Justice Sam Awich sworn in as new Justice of Appeal
16 May 2012 at 6:50pm
Justice Samuel Lungole Awich was today sworn in as a Justice of the Belize Court of Appeal by the Acting Governor General, His Excellency Carlos Perdomo, at Belize House, Belmopan

Four dead in fatal traffic accident on the Western Highway
16 May 2012 at 3:37pm
The Western Highway proved deadly once again, after four people died in an accident on Wednesday morning, May 16th. According to Belmopan Police, they responded to a scene of an accident at mile 44...

NEMO Week planned for Belize Rural South
16 May 2012 at 1:35pm
As part of the national activities, all schools throughout the country have been invited to join and participate in a National poster contest to be judged in Belmopan for NEMO Week

Collaborative Network of Persons Living with HIV holds Media Meeting
16 May 2012 at 11:10am
C-NET+ Belize held its first ever HIV Solidarity Day and Media Round Table introducing peer counselling groups for Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV)

2 Horse Power Yamaha takes 1st Place in 2012 Eco-Challenge Kayak Race
15 May 2012 at 3:14pm
Both junior and senior kayakers alike took to the creeks and waves of Ambergris Caye for their chance to claim the coveted prize and bragging rights of what has quickly become the most popular spor...

The San Pedro Police force gets 27 new Special Constables
15 May 2012 at 1:29pm
There will be more boots on the ground conducting patrols along with the police after 27 islanders were sworn-in as Special Constables

SPTC honors San Pedro Mothers
15 May 2012 at 12:11pm
Mothers are truly treasures, and on Saturday, May 12, the San Pedro Town Council showed their appreciation for the town's mommies with a special program designed for laughter, entertainment and lot...

Weekly Weather Outlook for Belize: May 14th to 21st
15 May 2012 at 11:06am
A quasi-stationary front over the Louisiana Gulf Coast to the central Gulf of Mexico has an induced surface trough of low pressure over the Yucatan Peninsula

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