Belize News

Ambergris Caye Elementary School held its fourth annual Miss ACES and Miss Popularity Pageant on Saturday, May 18th, at the Lion's Den.The four lovely young ladies vying for the Miss Aces and Miss Popularity title were Audrey Pott, Hailey Haylock, Danielle Rodriguez and Sueny Vasquez.

Members of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific Marine Mammal Team pose May 15, 2013, with one of the Navy's specially trained Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins.

These are the charred remains of John McAfee's luxurious Belize waterfront property after a fire ripped through the buildings.

Belize has always been high on my preferred list of destinations. So, when presented with an opportunity to visit its most remote coral atolls via an expedition style ship, the decision was easy.

The former island home of anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee burned down Thursday afternoon under circumstance he told FoxNews.com were "suspicious." It's an odd choice of words from a man whom the Belize police found suspicious, following the November 2012 murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull, a well-liked builder from Florida who was ... (more)

Isai Carrillo, a 4-year-old Belizean boy, holds a stuffed animal while sitting with his mother, Ruth, and his grandmother, Mercedes, prior to his surgery.

There has been wide outrage from every corner in Belize after word broke loose that one of the four largest Maya ruins of northern Belize, thousands of years old, has been bulldozed for roadfill aggregate.

Belmopan - May 13, 2013 - Graduation Ceremonies were held this morning, May 15, 2013 for 24 members of the Belize National Coastguard and 5 members of the Anti-Drug Unit , who all completed a 5-week intensive Special Warfare Operations Course.

The destruction of a 2,300-year-old Mayan pyramid by a company constructing a highway near the Nohmul archaeological site in northern Belize is "unforgivable," the government said.

The deputy prime minister of Belize is calling for full prosecution of those responsible for destroying a 2,300-year-old Mayan pyramid to turn it into rock for roads.

The deputy prime minister of Belize is calling for full prosecution of those responsible for destroying a 2,300-year-old Mayan pyramid to turn it into rock for roads.

A road crew in Belize has destroyed one of the country's largest ancient Mayan pyramids in order to extract materials for road fill, archaeologists in the Central American country reported.

Image Caption: Backhoe tearing into ancient Mayan pyramid. Only a narrow column remains after workers destroy the site.

A Mayan pyramid that has stood for 2,300 years in Belize has been reduced to rubble, apparently to make fill for roads.

Belizean police are investigating a construction company that has destroyed most of one of the largest Mayan pyramids in the Caribbean nation to make gravel to dump on village roads, according to reports from the Caribbean.

Huddling with A-list celebrities and top re-election donors, President Barack Obama bemoaned the partisan forces that have stymied compromise in Washington as he raised campaign cash for Democrats in New York.

A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract rock for a road-building project.

The clock hits 6:34 a.m. at the Jansen home in northwest Omaha, and five 14-year-olds hustle out the door with backpacks to catch their bus.

Boys will be boys??? Animal cruelty should never, ever be attributed to a stage of development in a child's life.

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