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Southwest Airlines Is Adding Nonstop Flights to a Caribbean Island Filled With White-Sand Beaches, Green Hills, and Tropical Adventure

Southwest Airlines Is Adding Nonstop Flights to a Caribbean Island Filled With White-Sand Beaches, Green Hills, and Tropical Adventure

You step through the terminal at Cyril E. King Airport, palm trees swaying in the distance, the Caribbean sun warming your face — and this time, you’re arriving in St. Thomas on a Southwest Airlines flight, with a sip of Cruzan waiting for you....

Belize and Mexico Team Up to Fight Sugarcane-Killing Fusarium Fungus

Belize and Mexico Team Up to Fight Sugarcane-Killing Fusarium Fungus

A high-level Belizean delegation, comprised of cane farmers, technical experts, and senior officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise, along with other government representatives, yesterday traveled to the neighboring...

Tourism Push Continues With Plans to Add Hundreds of Hotel Rooms

Tourism Push Continues With Plans to Add Hundreds of Hotel Rooms

The tourism industry in Belize is looking to further expand via the installation of hundreds of new hotel rooms, particularly in Belize City. To date, there are some one thousand one hundred hotel rooms across the country. According to the...

Uniting to Support Belize Healthcare

Uniting to Support Belize Healthcare

Press Release – Island Donors Squad and Ambergris Hope Hospital -July 28, 2025 – 27 registrants and walk-ins came to the blood drive on July 5th, coordinated by Island Donors Squad (IDS) at Ambergris Hope Hospital (AHH). 13 pints were collected....

Belize’s march of peace to the ICJ

Just over three decades ago, when the PUP government in Belize was exhorting the population, including the Opposition UDP, to join in the campaign to support the passage of the Maritime Areas Act (MAA) as a vehicle toward ending the centuries-old...

Air Canada to Launch New Non-Stop Service from Montreal to Belize

Air Canada to Launch New Non-Stop Service from Montreal to Belize

Belize City, Belize—July 9, 2025: The Belize Tourism Board (BTB), in partnership with Air Canada, is proud to announce the launch of a new, nonstop flight connecting Montréal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) with Philip Goldson International...

Simone Biles & Jonathan Owens’ Belize Baecation Is A Whole Mood

Simone Biles & Jonathan Owens’ Belize Baecation Is A Whole Mood

Source: Roy Rochlin / Getty Simone Biles is on vacation. Her “do not disturb” notification is on. Her “OOO” is posted. And her vacation fits are hitting. The Olympic gold medalist and mental health advocate is living her best life in Belize with...

Southwest Eyes St. Thomas as New Caribbean Destination

Southwest Eyes St. Thomas as New Caribbean Destination

(Mix 93-1) East Texans who are thinking about a getaway to the Caribbean and visiting St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, could soon have a new choice in air carriers to get there. Southwest Airlines Targets New Caribbean Route Pending regulatory...

Barbados, Belize, Dominica and SVG to implement Full Free Movement by Oct 2025

Barbados, Belize, Dominica and SVG to implement Full Free Movement by Oct 2025

Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines will be implementing the full free movement of nationals by October 1, 2025. Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines will be implementing the full free movement of...

Maya King’s Tomb Discovered at Belize Reveals Early Royal Dynasty

Maya King’s Tomb Discovered at Belize Reveals Early Royal Dynasty

Archaeologists have uncovered a Maya king’s tomb in Belize. Credit: Ishan Khosla / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of a Maya king at Caracol, Belize’s largest ancient city, offering the first direct evidence of royal rule at...

You can visit a UK beach named among the most idyllic in the world - 'it's the English Seychelles'

You can visit a UK beach named among the most idyllic in the world - 'it's the English Seychelles'

Lounging on a beach and enjoying the sun is what many people look forward to on their holidays, but you don't need to travel far to find a "paradise" island. New research found Pentle Bay on the Isles of Scilly to be one of the world's most...

Simone Biles Issues Sharp Message Amid Plastic Surgery Rumors During Belize Trip

Simone Biles Issues Sharp Message Amid Plastic Surgery Rumors During Belize Trip

As the sun-drenched images from Simone Biles’ latest vacation ripple across social media, one photo in particular has drawn more scrutiny than celebration. The gymnast, who appeared in a bright bikini during her Belize trip, didn’t just spark...

CANADA: Air Canada's New Routes to South America, Ottawa Tourism's Accessibility Fund, Parkside Hotel Launches 'Drift' Wellness Experience, and More

NATIONAL: Air Canada announced it is further expanding its winter 2025-26 network by resuming nonstop service to Lima, Peru, with twice weekly flights from both Montreal and Toronto. The airline is also adding three new routes to Central America...

Germantown mom wants out of Philly so she can join her deported husband in Belize

Germantown mom wants out of Philly so she can join her deported husband in Belize

Earlier this year, I wrote about Jesreel Chimilio, a father of two from Germantown who was seized outside his home by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and whisked away for deportation. His wife, Charlene Maddox Chimilio, came...

Tourism Experts Say El Salvador Sets the Example for Central American Security.

Tourism Experts Say El Salvador Sets the Example for Central American Security.

Tourism leaders from the Mundo Maya region — Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Belize — have praised El Salvador’s improved public safety as key to boosting tourism. Their comments came during the Mundo Maya summit in Placencia,...

Air Canada Launches First Direct Montreal-Belize Flight

Air Canada Launches First Direct Montreal-Belize Flight

Air Canada is strengthening its commitment to Belize, announcing a new non-stop flight connecting Montréal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL) with Philip Goldson International Airport (BZE) in Belize City. This exciting development, set to...

Belize’s Wildest Season: When Rain, Mosquitoes, Sargassum, Lobster and Mango All Arrive at Once

Let’s be real, there’s a stretch of the year in Belize that tests even the most seasoned islander. We call it hurricane season, but it’s also rainy, mosquito, sargassum season, and the slowest of the slow tourism seasons all rolled into one. The...

Suni Lee reacts as Simone Biles poses in black swimwear during vacation with husband Jonathan Owens

Suni Lee reacts as Simone Biles poses in black swimwear during vacation with husband Jonathan Owens

Suni Lee has reacted to Simone Biles turning up the glamour in black swimwear during her vacation in Belize with her husband Jonathan Owens. Biles is currently enjoying her time away from gymnastics, having last featured at the 2024 Paris...

Simone Biles Is Glowing in Belize in a Designer Bikini That Shows Off Her Hard-Earned Abs

Simone Biles Is Glowing in Belize in a Designer Bikini That Shows Off Her Hard-Earned Abs

Simone Biles is basking in the Belizean sunshine and looking radiant as ever in her latest Instagram post. The 11-time Olympic medalist glowed, literally and figuratively, in a luxe Fendi bikini while showing off her strong, sculpted abs. The...

Simone Biles in Bikini Has “Gone to Belize”

Simone Biles in Bikini Has “Gone to Belize”

Simone Biles is keeping things hot in Central America – in her bikini. In a new social media post, the Olympian flaunts her fantastic figure in a Fendi swimsuit while vacationing in the tropics. “Gone to belize 🤍,” she captioned the series of...

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