Belize News

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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What started as a simple show giving light to agricultural practices and success in Belize has become one of the country's major events, attracting thousands of Belizeans - despite the fierce heat - to the nation's capital each year.

By Frank Edward Paco Smith, Jr., JP Belizeans and true friends of Belize, in the ongoing saga concerning Guatemala's unfounded claim to Belize's sovereign territory, there is a new and deeply troubling development.

In March of this year, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora voted to list five commercially fished species of sharks and three species of rays currently threatened with extinction.

Caleb Orozco, fighting to overturn country's anti-gay laws, is said to have faced more threats of violence since start of court case The supreme court in Belize, where Caleb Orozco is challenging colonial-era laws criminalising homosexuality.