The family of Kevin Hyde of Hattieville, Belize District is still coming to terms with his untimely and senseless killing on Monday evening. Hyde, a forty-seven-year-old security guard employed by City Hall, was waiting for a bus when his life was ended in proximity of the police station. He was to report to work, but […]
Kevin Hyde was waiting on a bus so he can report to work at City Hall. He was under the bus shed in Hattieville village under the nose of the police and a police checkpoint. Unfortunately, the checkpoint was dormant but officers were inside the station when shots rang out. The Hyde family in Hattieville […]
A Belmopan resident is clinging to life tonight at the Western Regional Hospital where he was rushed to on Monday night. Forty-four-year-old Brian Chavarria was shot by a person he knew well. It is reported that the mechanic was hanging out with friends at his shop on Sinsonte Street in the Capital after nine o’clock. […]
A man was shot earlier this afternoon in Belize City. He is the third shooting victim in the past twenty-four hours. It happened at around three o’clock on Amara Avenue near the bus terminal. Residents say they heard the sound of multiple gunshots and later saw a man on the ground. The victim is said […]
A nine-year-old girl was killed inside her home in the village of Unitedville, Cayo. At the time of her killing, the other person in the house was her mother, Emily Ico. The death of the child is baffling police and it is yet to be determined if any charges will be levied against Ico for […]
According to Edwardo Ico, a psychiatric evaluation will be conducted on Emily to determine her mental health. Ico lives in Sarteneja Village, Corozal. He was only able to see Emily briefly last Friday, but says that he remains in contact with his son-in-law who is keeping him abreast of what’s happening. Ico says that he […]
The passage of a new piece of legislation which paves the way for the formation of the National Gas Company, via a public/private partnership to regularize the liquid petroleum gas industry, is being met with skepticism and concern in certain corners of the business community. Earlier today, the Belize Business Bureau, a productive sector organization, […]
A man was murdered down in a brazen late evening shooting today in Hattieville Village, Belize District. Forty-seven-year-old Kevin Hyde was sitting at a bus shed along the highway in the village when two men pounced on him, one of which released a barrage of bullets. Hyde, a security officer at the Belize City Council, […]
The unexplained death of a nine-year-old girl was baffling police authorities, but late this evening, it was confirmed that the Danielle Hall was killed by manual strangulation. The child was found dead by her father inside their home in the village of Unitedville in the Cayo District. The child’s father was called to the house […]
A Salvadoran farm hand who worked at the Marie Sharp farms in southern Belize was hacked to death on the eve of his birthday. The forty-five year old, according to all accounts, was well-liked in the village of Hope Creek where he has been living since he made Belize his home. Kelvin Guerrero Hernandez was […]
Gunshots rang out in the vicinity of the Inspiration Center late on Sunday night and when the shooting subsided forty-four-year-old Brindel Munnings was suffering from multiple injuries to the body. According to investigators, Munnings had a previous misunderstanding with someone who may have waylaid him as he made his way through an alley that adjoins […]
Around eight o’clock, a fire broke inside an elevated wooden house in Lord’s Bank Village on Sunday night. The home was occupied by an elderly person who escaped unhurt. The blaze spread quickly through the building, which could not be saved and by the time fire-fighters arrived on the scene, the building was gutted. Police […]
At midnight on Tuesday August twentieth, the pump prices of regular gasoline and diesel will see a decrease. The prices for regular gasoline will decrease by forty three cents from ten dollars and fifty five cents to ten dollars and twelve cents. Diesel will dip a mere four cents and will sell at ten dollars and […]
Oliver Peters was acquitted of the murder of his uncle on June eleventh, after spending almost five and a half years on remand at the Belize Central Prison. Tonight, he is listed in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a stabbing incident on Saturday night. It is not clear what precipitated the […]
The House of Representatives met today in a special sitting during which several bills, including the Belize City Council (Municipal Paper) and the National Liquefied Petroleum Gas Project, were brought up for second reading. The session, we note, did not see the attendance of Opposition Leader John Briceño who is still recovering from injuries received […]
According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, the idea of forming a public/private partnership goes beyond party lines since a majority of those who make up the board, as well as other stakeholders are affluent members of the People’s United Party. The purpose of this agreement, he says, is to ensure that the price of butane […]
The much needed upgrading of the Corozal/Sarteneja Road, as well as the construction of the Pueblo Nuevo and Laguna Seca bridges, will be done using a loan of fifty million U.S. dollars from Taiwan. While the rehabilitation of that forty-seven mile stretch of road is long awaited, there is some controversy surrounding the monies that […]
Vocal in his objection to how these monies will be spent, in the absence of a contractor general, is Lake-I area rep Cordel Hyde. Not only is he apprehensive that there may not be proper accountability for the expenditure of these monies, Hyde also says that it will serve to expose the so-called fraud that […]
Members of staff at the Dangriga Polyclinic are up in arms over what they describe as an injustice being perpetrated on them. Some eight employees staged a sickout today for the second time this week. The first was on Tuesday when they learned that their annual bonus was reduced by ten percent, from sixty percent […]
Kareem Musa’s visit to Mainland China two weeks ago is still the subject of much debate in political circles across the country. While it may have died down in the news this week, it is being resurrected following the Prime Minister’s take on the unsanctioned visit and the impression it gives in light of Belize’s […]
Sixty-nine-year-old Ofelia Hernandez Cruz was bludgeoned to death inside her home in Sand Hill Village. Her body was discovered on Tuesday afternoon and it is believed that she was attacked and killed by two young men who managed to enter her house in search of her husband’s licensed shotgun. The shocking and cold-blooded murder of […]
Devin “DJ Perf” Peyrefitte and Denzel Usher have both been charged for the crime of rape. The men stand accused of allegedly raping a woman in the wee hours of Monday morning, while at a social gathering at a residence in Belmopan. The allegation is that the men had sexual intercourse with the woman against […]
In May, Belize City resident Vince Martinez visited our office to share his case of police brutality. Martinez claimed that on May twelfth while at his house on Far West Street, he was shot in the groin with a rubber bullet by a police officer; officers were responding to a call of domestic abuse at […]
Vince Martinez made an official complaint to the Professional Standards Branch after he was shot in the groin. According to Martinez, there hasn’t been any progress in the case. Commissioner Williams told the media that some cases are complex. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Some investigations are complex because we have found that at […]
The Ministry of National Security issued a press release late this evening to clarify false information which has been circulating in the public domain. According to the ministry, back in May they announced that an exercise was completed to correct an issue in the yearly increments for warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of the […]
