From there, the plot takes a very sinister twist because, as Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett explained, members of the Belize Coast Guard arrested three men; including main suspect Oscar Williams, for the disappearance of Derrick Ramirez at Cross Caye. But Williams was removed from detention by Inspector Kevin Hernandez and another officer and […]
Investigators have forty-eight hours to gather enough evidence and criminally charge the two police officers. The police constable has already been slapped with the disciplinary charges of allowing a prisoner to escape from lawful custody and bringing the police department into disrepute. According to Commissioner Williams, the constable, along with the inspector, has been placed […]
Fifty-year-old Teakettle villager, Margarito “Pulu” Vanegas was struck by oncoming traffic on Thursday morning. A cargo truck was traveling on the George Price Highway, through Teakettle Village, when Vanegas was hit. Vanegas, who was reportedly consuming alcohol before the incident, was attempting to cross the highway when the truck which was travelling in a westerly […]
Police in the west are also investigating the circumstances leading to the death of an unidentified young man in Saint Margaret’s Village. The body of John Doe was found late on Thursday evening at a farm behind the village. He was found with a large cut wound on the leg. Belmopan police are treating the […]
A trio of Mexicans caught stealing money from an ATM in Orange Walk and Corozal in January of last year has been acquitted of the charges of theft after spending seventeen months at the Belize Central Prison. Joscan Jafet Uriostequi, Belen Isai Uriostequi and her common-law husband Leonel Peralta Rodriguez appeared in court this morning […]
A thirty-two-year-old stevedore of Belize City was executed on Wednesday night. Brian Armstrong spent most of his adult life in prison and according to his family, he had been attempting to reform. On Wednesday night, however, a second attempt ended the life of the father of one. Armstrong was gunned down in the Gungulung area […]
When police responded to the call of a barrage of shots being fired in the CET Site area, they found no one in the immediate vicinity, save for Armstrong’s motionless body. Despite having canvassed the neighborhood in the wake of the shooting there are very few details that have led to a suspect thus far. […]
In the peninsula, police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a Santa Cruz resident. The forty-four-year-old was at the Placencia Hotel and Casino along with two of his brothers when he was stabbed. An argument started inside the casino and escalated when the men went outside the premises. Twenty-four-year-old Everaldo Samayoa was stabbed and died, […]
A Ladyville resident left work, but never made it home. Forty-six-year-old Jordy Bainton was riding his bicycle on Chetumal Street when he was run over and crushed by a heavy duty truck near the roundabout on the Philip Goldson Highway. The traffic fatality happened just after five in the evening at the heavily trafficked roundabout. […]
The family told News Five that the injuries they saw on Jordy Bainton’s body suggest that he had been dragged by the truck before it came to a stop on the roundabout. While his name has not been disclosed, the driver of the Mack Truck was initially detained, but later released. He has also been […]
Dangriga native Derrick Ramirez has been reported missing, but family members have a strong suspicion that he has been killed. Ramirez was last seen on August fourth at around two o’clock in the afternoon. He was in the company of his brother, Kevin Hernandez, who filed the missing person report, and brother-in-law, Joseph Coleman. The […]
Guillermo says that he attempted to locate Hernandez several times after Ramirez’s disappearance but has not been able to locate him. Guillermo is seeking answers to many questions that Hernandez left him with. In fact, Guillermo asserts that his son was lured to his death. Guillermo Ramirez, Father of Derrick Ramirez “He said that […]
Health Minister Pablo Marin today broke his silence regarding his ministry’s intention to apply for a one point six million-dollar grant to be drawn from the National Health Insurance Reserve Funds. News of the ministry’s intentions broke after a memo dated July twenty-ninth, 2019 was leaked. The memo signed by Artemio Osorio on behalf of […]
According to Marin, the ministry intended to draw one point six million dollars of the three million dollars that make up the N.H.I. reserve. He says that he identified the source for the funding. In a previous interview with the C.E.O. of the S.S.B., Doctor Colin Young, it was made clear that the N.H.I. funds […]
So what the Ministry of Health did was to identify a project, in this case, the construction for a medical stores facility in Belmopan, and award the contract to Joehann Construction and Engineering, which is owned by the brother of Minister Rene Montero. The ministry, however, failed to secure funding for the project. It is […]
In 2018, a toddler was raped and murdered while she was in the care of her stepfather at their Maskall home. The mother of the child, Denika Flowers, was not there when the horrific incident occurred. Her boyfriend, twenty-one-year-old Everal Martinez was eventually charged with the heinous crimes and has been on remand since then. […]
In April, the People United Party fired off a release stating that the country should be appalled and outraged over the malfunctioning morgue at the Southern Regional Hospital. On Friday, August second, residents down south were notified that the morgue was once again down. It’s a grave concern for Dangriga residents and those residing in […]
The Belize Bus Association was able to come to an agreement with the Ministry of Transport about foreign owned buses making stops in Belize. On Tuesday, the association met with Minister of Transport Edmond Castro, as well as the Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, and other government officials. That meeting was to discuss a way forward […]
So, how will these changes take place? The B.B.A. says that the Attorney General committed to getting this done over the next few days and that it may not have to go before Cabinet to accommodate the agreed terms. The changes will come into effect by September of this year. Here’s more from the association […]
An accident in downtown Belize City this morning caused a stir for commuters in the heavily trafficked area. But for two women, it was a scary ordeal when their SUV plunged into the Haulover Creek near the Swing Bridge around eight o’clock. A Good Samaritan, however, was joined by a fisherman and both bravely jumped […]
Caribbean Shores Area Representative Kareem Musa returned from China on Sunday, following an unofficial visit to the East Asian country last week. Accompanied by a contingent of three persons, including Deputy Mayor Oscar Arnold, Councilor Michael “Chips” Noralez and attorney Kevin Arthurs, all members of the People’s United Party, the group took in the sights […]
According to Musa, the Chairman of the Belize Chinese Association may have been pressured into distancing himself from his role in facilitating the visit since the matter has become political. His opponent in Caribbean Shores, Lee Mark Chang, has roots in Mainland China. Musa says that the very invitation that was extended to him was […]
Is Mainland China attempting to curry favour with Belize by inviting members of parliament to visit that country? It’s a perception, Musa says, that can be drawn from the invitations. Isani Cayetano “In the context, however, of a majority of Taiwan’s allies or former allies on this part of the world who have since […]
Thousands of Belizeans illegally enter Mexico through the village of Santa Cruz in Orange Walk and into Botes. Normally, they are lured to the area for beer, vegetables and other contraband goods which are brought into Belize. But a recent incident in the village is sparking outcry. A fundraising activity has been going on to […]
Squatting is a perennial problem in urban cities. In Belmopan we have been following the story of a group of families who have cleared land and have made it their homes in the Maya Mopan area. One of the families has been there for more than ten years and they feel they have a right […]
