A resident from Camalote is in critical, but stable condition tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was severely injured during an accident on the George Price Highway. William Franco and Jose Gonzalez were on a motorcycle travelling to Roaring Creek when they collided head on into a pickup truck. Gonzalez was also […]
Last week, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams indicated that Sergeant Shawn Walton and Constables Edward Pitterson and Bernard Cayetano are being recommended for dismissal from the force, resulting from the death of Nestor Vasquez Junior. The sixty-year-old died in June of massive injuries to his head sustained while he was locked up in a cell […]
The latest IMF report, though in preliminary stages, says that while economic recovery is underway, the pace is slowing. It reports heightened spending on wages and public investment and weaker revenue than expected, putting the 2019 budget’s target at risk. As to the macroeconomic outlook; the news is bleak. Elevated public debt is as high […]
Turning to a grave issue endangering the eco-system… Coral reefs world-wide are under pressure from a number of threats—climate change, pollution, coastal development, invasive species and even diseases. But about five years ago, a disease appeared off the coast of Florida that has been killing out large swathes of its coral reef. The disease, called […]
As you heard, the coral reef monitoring team is working with regional partners to learn more about the stony coral tissue loss disease. But that is just one problem that the corals in Belize are facing. Another threat that we’ve reported on is the issue of coral bleaching. In recent years, Belize has reported high […]
Three days after he was shot on the back, Jamal Elijio died while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Elijio was standing along with his cousin Justin Richards and a third person, Marquin Drury, on Santa Barbara Street in the south side when they came under fire from someone in a vehicle that […]
Within days of taking up a job as a security officer, Rodman Welch was shot. The stevedore was eating while on duty at Excelsior High School when he came under fire on Saturday night. A gunman targeted Welch as he sat inside the security booth. The bullet hit him on the face injuring his jaw. […]
There were two cases of unlawful sexual intercourse reported in the Cayo and Corozal Districts. In the west, an alarming report has been made by a young girl. Police visited the Western Regional Hospital on Sunday evening to interview the young female student, who, in presence of her mother, told police that’s she had been […]
Police are investigating another sexual crime against a female. Also in the Cayo District, a twenty-four-year-old woman reported to police that just after midnight on October fifth she was in the company of a man, who is also from the same village. The man invited her to his house and soon after they got inside, […]
At Friday’s House meeting, Area Representative Julius Espat made a presentation on the political interference in the election process. Tensions quickly heightened during a meeting on September twenty-eighth in Georgeville, Cayo. Representatives of twenty-two villages of that district met with officials from the Ministry of Human Development including former U.D.P. Minister Ruben Campos. The meeting […]
The Public Service Union is not giving up its headquarters in Belmopan so easily. Last month, attorney Estevan Perrera sent the P.S.U. a letter on behalf of Simplex Designs Limited, which acquired the property. The letter told P.S.U. President Gerald Henry that the property must be vacated by October thirty-first, 2019. Perrera warned the P.S.U. […]
A house was destroyed by fire in Belize City. According to residents in the Jane Usher Boulevard area, the two persons who lived inside the house weren’t at home when the fire started in some bushes near the house. Residents say that the fire was set to control the mosquitoes in the area, but the […]
The case brought against City Hall by the former City Administrator Candice Miller, came to end this afternoon around three-thirty after days of gruelling arguments and counter arguments from both sides. Closing submissions were held on Thursday and by this afternoon; Justice Courtenay Abel was ready with a decision. The justice ruled in favour of […]
Today, members from both political parties were back before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser on a series of challenges of voters registered in a division where they do not reside. In the morning session, which concluded just after midday, the case brought against Deputy ComPol Edward Broaster was heard. Broaster, according to the voter’s list has […]
The House of Representatives met in Belmopan today. One of the significant actions involved the controversial forty- thousand dollars loan motion granted to Joshua Perdomo. Perdomo, the son of Cabinet Secretary Carlos Perdomo, was approved twenty-seven months study leave to pursue a master’s degree in Forensic Genetics at the University of North Texas and was […]
A six-point-eight U.S. million dollars loan motion was presented during the Sitting of the House of Representatives. The loan was offered by the Caribbean Development Bank and the monies have been earmarked to assist Belize Electricity Limited to reduce B.G.B. emissions and improve the reliability of the supply of electricity to Caye Caulker, with increased […]
Tonight there is another home invasion to report in San Lazaro Village in the Orange Walk District. A woman was attacked while she rested in her bedroom, rendered unconscious and woke up on her kitchen floor. It happened on Thursday night and is one more frightening assault coming out of the village, leaving residents scared. […]
There was a shooting in the city just before eight o’clock on Thursday night which fortunately was not fatal for the victims. It happened on Santa Barbara Street where a trio of men were socializing. A car, reportedly carrying taxi license plates, drove up and someone from inside opened fire on Justice Richards, Jamal Elijio […]
A ninety-year-old man was the victim of a broad daylight robbery earlier this week. Just seconds after Llewellyn Tillett had withdrawn money from the Saint John’s Credit Union on Basra Street, he was jacked of two thousand dollars. The robbery was captured on surveillance camera and today, twenty-two-year-old Aaron Munnings was arraigned in the Belize […]
Earlier this week, a Gulfstream jet was found damaged and abandoned near the Blue Creek community at a feeder road. It had all the seats inside so the thinking was that it transported a drug king pin but not the drugs. Well today, Mexican newspapers are reporting the find of a significant amount of parcels […]
There is a development in the case of a U.S. national captured at a Ladyville apartment on September nineteenth. The police apprehended sixty-year-old Ladd Duane Ottofy who was residing at the apartment complex owned by former U.D.P. senator Juliet Thimbriel. The Kentucky man was indicted in March on four counts of first-degree sexual abuse, one […]
Thirty-six-year-old Tomas Alexander Paises has been deported to his country of origin. Paises was arrested for being a member of the MS-thirteen gang and deported to El Salvador. He was arrested by the Anti-Gang Task Force and Interpol officers in Belize last month but was handed over to Salvadoran and Guatemalan Interpol representatives at the […]
The case against William “Danny” Mason and four accused men continues to languish in the Belmopan Supreme Court. A statement from a witness, a U.S. Embassy employee, for Mason has not yet been secured because Tim Reid is no longer in Belize and arranging his testimony has met hurdles. Mason and accomplices are accused with […]
A decision will be handed down this Friday afternoon in a claim brought by former city administrator Candace Miller against the Belize City Council for unlawful termination. Attorneys Magali Perdomo for Miller and Anthony Sylvester for the Council made their final submissions before Justice Courtney Abel. The council terminated Miller’s contract back in 2018 on […]
Reynaldo Verde remains locked up in the U.S. on charges of extortion and attempted extortion having been denied bail on Wednesday. His attorney, Tyler Trumbach, says that his client denies all accusations. The F.B.I., however, has amassed damning evidence against Verde who reportedly attempted to use his position as Deputy Director of Belize Tax Services […]
