This morning at Excelsior High School it was classes as usual but with the presence of a team of counselors. They were on hand to support the grieving members of staff, as well as the students, whose principal was among the trio of victims slain in Tuesday’s horrific incident. We caught up with high school […]
Former teacher and mainstay at Excelsior, Marshal Nunez, also visited the campus this morning to lend moral support to the mourning students. He has been around the school for the past thirty years and quickly befriended Andrewin when she took the job as acting principal several months ago. Marshal Nunez, Former Board Member, Excelsior […]
Former deputy Director of Health Services Augustina Elijio remains in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, after she was stabbed multiple times by a mental health patient on Tuesday afternoon. The fifty-seven-year-old psychiatric nurse practitioner was at the Port Loyola Health Centre when a patient, who has since been identified as Collin Frances […]
Four men have been criminally charged for the brazen armed robbery which was committed in Dangriga Town this past weekend. Investigators strongly believe that thirty nine-year-old Fredrick Anthony Arzu, thirty-four-year-old Marvin Amaya, twenty-year-old Travan Smith, and Edmond Camal are the culprits who barged into Family City Imports on George Price Drive and proceeded to rob […]
The spate of armed robberies across the country has seen a ramping up of police patrols in several municipalities. Notwithstanding the efforts of the police department, home invasions and burglaries are also on the rise. During the press brief today, Commissioner Williams took umbrage to a release issued by the Belize National Teachers Union asking […]
While Troy Banner is under investigation by police, his ex-common law wife is speaking out. According to the woman, Banner fathered a child with her but the baby reportedly experienced bruises and injuries while in Banner’s care. The baby is now seven years old, and according to the mother at one-month-old, her son suffered not […]
Back in April we reported on the three Honduran fishermen caught illegally fishing within the Spawning Aggregation Zone at the Gladden Spit and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve in southern Belize. But that is just one of the many illegal fishing encounters we have told you about and the Southern Environmental Association which co-manages the site […]
A horrifying discovery was made this afternoon at a home on the George Price Highway. The lifeless bodies of three persons, including a high school principal whose absence from work today prompted the very phone call which led to their location, were found inside the isolated residence. On the scene, police were able to confirm […]
Late this evening, Superintendent Hilberto Romero spoke with the media and provided details of a preliminary investigation. Supt. Hilberto Romero, CIB, Belize City “Around 3:00 p.m. police responded to a call at mile ten on the George Price Highway. It is a residential area; one house is situated in this particular area. Police entered […]
Just after four this evening, there was an attack on an employee at the Port Loyola Health Centre on Faber’s Road. Matron Augustina Elijio, who retired in December from her post as the Deputy Director of Health Services, was stabbed to the abdomen and the chest by a patient she had treated earlier in the […]
A resident of Sandhill is tonight recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot in the arm. Around eight-thirty on Monday night, Jordan Murillo who lives at mile sixteen on the Philip Goldson Highway left his home in the village and headed to a store when he was approached by an unknown […]
Police in Belmopan are investigating the death of a two-month-old baby boy. Thevane Banner was rushed by his parents to the Western Regional Hospital on Saturday after he began experiencing breathing complications. According to the father, Troy Banner, Baby Thevane was choking on food and had to be rushed to the hospital for emergency attention. […]
Eleven-year-old Kyron Green remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. after being shot in the face on May seventeenth. The Standard Four student of Saint Luke Methodist remains paralyzed from the neck down but has been making significant progress, given a poor prognosis in the wake of his near-fatal injury. The family is in the process of […]
There was a murder in Belize City on Sunday morning in an area off Cemetery Road known as Taylor’s Alley. Just before nine-thirty a.m., gunfire erupted and despite attempting to flee from his attacker, Alvin ‘Big Ben’ Cumberbatch was mortally wounded when a round caught him in the upper body. The thirty-six-year-old security guard, a […]
Three men have been arrested in connection with a brazen armed robbery which police say they committed, with a fourth accomplice, in Dangriga Town. On Saturday night, four men, three who were wielding firearms, targeted Family City Imports on George Price Drive. The robbers stormed into the establishment, held the employees at gunpoint before escaping […]
One of the oldest and most well-known Belizean bakeries was robbed on Friday night. Police say that two armed men walked into Sunny Side Bakery on Racecourse Street in Belize City just before seven o’clock and held up the owner and his wife. One of the robbers trained a point thirty-eight revolver at the owner’s […]
Two armed robbers held up two butane delivery-men in Hattieville on Friday. Salesman Tyrique Arana and his co-worker were out delivering gas around ten-thirty that morning when they were approached by the pair of thieves. The men used t-shirts with cut-out holes for their eyes to conceal their identity. ASP Alejandro Cowo says that a […]
Police are investigating the death of a two-month-old baby. On Saturday, a man in Camalote village took his son Thevane Banner to the Western Regional Hospital. There he told doctors that he was feeding the baby when he started to experience difficulties breathing. The baby was pronounced dead and health officials called in the police. […]
Last week, the Ministry of Health issued a warning about medicines that are not officially recognized and registered by the ministry. The ministry, through its ongoing monitoring, detected that there were several brands and types of these medicines being sold to the public, which can pose a health risk. Today, Health Minister Marin said that […]
One last thing from the police… investigators are looking into a shooting incident that happened in Ladyville. Shortly before ten o’clock on Sunday night, someone fired several shots at a residence in the Hollywood area. Police say the owner of the house, retired police officer Ezart Anthony and his family were inside at the time […]
A Belize City woman was robbed at gunpoint at around eight o’clock on Thursday night. Thirty-year-old Rachel Wallace was riding her bicycle near the Lord Ridge Cemetery when she was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a pistol. The men grabbed Wallace and pulled her off her bicycle and dragged her […]
A female tourist was robbed and sexually assaulted while in the Village of Seine Bight in Southern Belize. Reports are that the tourist was jogging when she came under attack by a young man. Her attacker reportedly dragged her into the bushes and attempted to rape her. Fortunately, she managed to fight off her attacker […]
A brazen attempt was made on the life of Guatemalan national Edin Perez on Tuesday night in Armenia Village. The twenty-year-old was shot multiple times when a group of men showed up at his residence and asked for him by name. When Perez came outside to see who was calling him, he was met with […]
Sixty-seven-year-old Frank Arnold is fighting for his life at the K.H.M.H., after he was stabbed multiple times by Ronald Flowers, who is known in the neighbourhood to be suffering from a mental health condition. The elderly man was exiting an unnamed alley off Neal’s Penn Road Extension in Belize City when he was attacked. Today, […]
Who wants Guatemalan national Edin Garcia Perez dead and why, is still up in the air tonight as police officers continue to investigate a shooting incident that occurred on Tuesday night Armenia Village, Cayo. Perez remains hospitalized after he was shot multiple times by a gunman. Around eight-thirty p.m., four persons arrived at Perez’s home […]
