A brazen mid-morning shooting along East Collet Canal in Belize City has left two men dead and a young woman injured after gunfire erupted in a busy area near the Vernon Street Fish Market Bridge shortly before eleven o’clock today. Initial reports indicate that more than two dozen shots rang out when a gunman targeted Clinton Pou and his sister as they were setting up to assist their mother in selling food along the canal side, an activity the family reportedly carries out almost daily at the l

Tensions boiled over in Belize City today as a protest against a proposed business acquisition turned confrontational outside Belize Telemedia Limited. More than a hundred demonstrators, led by opposition figures and joined by union members, forced their way into the BTL compound on St. Thomas Street amid mounting concerns over the proposed acquisition of SMART. Police were deployed, tempers flared, and the protest unfolded. Richard Herbert was at the protest and filed the following report. #Bel