The theme for this year’s September celebrations will be: “Belize @44: Stronger Together, Rising Forever.” The winning theme ...

The incident occurred aboard a Tropic Air Belize flight with 13 other passengers onboard when Akinyela Sawa Taylor tried to take over the aircraft at knifepoint after it took off from Corozal ...

Akinyela Sawa Taylor, 49, allegedly hijacked a Tropic Air Belize plane and was one of 14 passengers, officials said, per ABC News. The plane was traveling from Corozal to San Pedro. Around 8:30 a ...

Belize's Commissioner of Police Chester Williams confirmed the hijacking which he said happened after departing Corozal. It is understood that all flights at the airport have since been grounded ...

The plane then landed safely. The Tropic Air plane was carrying 14 passengers and two crew members, and was flying from Corozal, a small town near Belize's border with Mexico, heading to the ...

A U.S. citizen was shot and killed Thursday after hijacking a small airplane in Belize at knifepoint and ... had been due to fly the short route from Corozal near the Mexican border to San Pedro ...

The would-be hijacker threatened the pilot shortly after the Cessna Grand Caravan from Belize’s Tropic Air took off in the morning with 14 on board from the town of Corozal. It was headed for ...