We start our newscast tonight with a murder deep in the south where a Guatemalan businessman was stabbed to death a stone’s throw away from the western border near the southern village of Jalacte. On Thursday night, a relative of Carlos Pop Xol notified police that they had discovered his motionless body a short distance […]
On Thursday we told you about the backlash against the Government’s dismissal of alleged manipulation of audits by senior management of the General Sales Tax Department conducted by lower level officials, such as officer in charge of Punta Gorda Town Elmer Reyes. Reyes wrote Solicitor General Nigel Hawke outlining his concerns, but he was dismissed […]
Ambassador of Belize Joel Nagel remains accredited to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and the International Atomic Energy Agency. The U.S. attorney was also accredited to Austria and several other European countries, but was dismissed by the Government of Austria for improper promotion of his private business. Nagel is a practitioner of law in […]
Documents released by the F.C.D. chronicle the growth of gold-panning inside the inside the Chiquibul Forest, primarily its sharp spike in the southern portion of the forest in the last few years. According to F.C.D., Gold panning is the biggest threat to the Forest present day. The impacts of this illegal activity still haven’t been […]
Earlier this month, we broke the news of an internal statement within the General Sales Tax Department where Officer in Charge of the Punta Gorda office, Elmer Reyes, alleged that there was influence in the result of the auditor’s evaluation and subsequent report. Reyes openly questioned whether any law exists that allows for the management […]
Fifty-seven-year-old cab driver Ernesto Robinson is recovering from injuries received during a brazen carjacking on Tuesday night in Belize City. His attacker, twenty-two-year-old Shawn Rodriguez, a resident of San Ignacio, is behind bars tonight serving a seven-year sentence. Rodriguez, a first time offender, appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer today, where he was arraigned on […]
Two Belize City men have been slapped with charges of “False Pretense of a Police Officer.” Sometime around four-thirty on Wednesday, police were informed that two men were dressed in what appeared to be police uniforms and were acting suspiciously near the Publics Supermarket on Phillip Goldson Highway. The men identified as twenty-two year old […]
The Belize Police Department is reeling from yet another black eye tonight, following the arrest and arraignment of one of its own, who has been charged for theft. An operation at a Chinese grocery store on Good Friday has landed a woman police constable in hot water after it was discovered that she stole money […]
A Belize City cab driver is lucky to have escaped grave injury during a carjacking on Tuesday night not far from the Lord Ridge Cemetery. Sometime around eight-thirty, taxi man Ernesto Robinson was driving his vehicle when he was flogged down by a man. Robinson was then held at knifepoint and injured to the neck […]
Peace is holding in the streets since last week’s committal to a gang truce among the string of opposing gangs in the city. There are still hurdles to cross, but for the past week there has not been any gang-related murder. The latest gathering of the gangs was held on Tuesday. Deshawn ‘Jawhi’ Morris is […]
This evening, A.C.P. Williams gave an update on the ongoing peace talks and said that while detractors may criticize the effort, the gang leaders have honored their word so far. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “We are grateful to the fact that yes, they have kept their end of the bargain […]
Back in late January, the Conch Shell Bay neighborhood was wracked by a spate of fatal shootings which prompted the police department to establish a permanent presence in the area. The feud was attributed to a deadly turf war among rivals within that community. Since then there has been a number of initiatives being undertaken […]
In an update to our story aired Tuesday night on persons wanted by INTERPOL, Belmopan police have informed that David Cruz, accused in connection with the Income Tax Belmopan robbery last July, has been captured and is back at the Central Prison. Cruz escaped in October along with another wanted man, Lincoln Bejerano, when an […]
A San Pedro resident met his untimely death allegedly at the hands of a chef under what appeared to have been a love triangle on La Isla Bonita. The fatal stabbing occurred on September eighth, 2016 when Elton Duran Polonio lost his life. Police charged Linden Kelly with Polonia’s murder. This morning, Kelly appeared before […]
The life of one person was cut short at the start of the Easter holidays in the City and it was a mentally challenged woman. Indira “Princess” Thompson lived her life on the streets when she was not at the Welcome Resource Center located in Lake Independence. Early Friday morning, she was stabbed multiple times […]
There has been a noticeable calm in the streets of the Old Capital since last Wednesday, when leaders of various Belize City gangs took the streets for a first-of-its-kind peace walk. Behind the scenes, a lot has been happening in an attempt to broker a truce, including a series of meetings that have been called […]
Jawhi, along with Brother Nuri Muhammad, has been busy with the leadership of the respective groups hammering out the terms of the peace treaty. While he has chosen, at this juncture, not to elaborate on those specific conditions, he says that the men are firmly committed to putting down the guns. We also spoke with […]
The International Criminal Police Organization, known as Interpol, has fingered six Belizeans among two hundred fifty-seven Caribbean nationals wanted this Easter by the agency, according to website News Americas Now. Boris Vostry is a national of both Belize and the Czech Republic who is wanted by the Czech Republic to serve a sentence for fraud. […]
That’s the good news, but thirty-nine year old Eldon Williams, an unemployed man of San Pedrito area of San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye, has been charged with the rape of a seventeen-year-old student. On Easter Sunday morning, the student and her mother told police that she was sleeping on a couch inside the living room. […]
The move to bring together various Belize City gangs to discuss a possible peace treaty is being facilitated by the Belize Police Department, as well as the Youth Apprenticeship Program, an initiative led by Diane Finnegan. Over the years, the wife of the U.D.P. area representative for Mesopotamia has played an integral role in enabling […]
With peace talks underway and another ceasefire in the days ahead, is there any optimism that the truce can be lasting? That’s what we asked Finnegan at the peace march on Wednesday. Isani Cayetano “How confident are you that an initiative such as this, given the fact that we’ve seen several truces in the […]
Despite the Government’s belt-tightening measures, if the allegations being made from within the G.S.T. Department have substance, do they not go against the stated intentions of limiting the pain of the tax-paying public? Speaking earlier this week, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s president, Nikita Usher, was willing to give the Government the benefit of […]
A truce is in the making among rival gangs in the City. Going into the Easter holidays, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, whose work in community policing has been bearing fruits, brought gangs together, today. It is not the first time that a truce has been tried, but Williams hopes that this time it […]
As we mentioned, ED-South Commander Chester Williams has played a critical role in bringing the gangs together and negotiating a truce. While the noble attempt is nothing we haven’t seen before, the initiative must be attributed to the respective leaders. According to ACP Williams, the idea was borne out of a mediation held earlier this […]
Despite the presence of F.C.D. rangers, police and B.D.F., illegal incursions into the Chiquibul continue. Over the past three weeks, a total of thirteen Guatemalans have been detained well inside Belizean territory, particularly in the Ceibo Chico area, in the south of the Chiquibul. The most recent detention of four adults and a minor occurred […]
