The killer of the Felix brothers remains on the loose tonight. Maurice and Emory Felix, well known street figures, were gunned down on Wednesday night at a club on Baymen Avenue, Belize City. The duo was inside the pool room when they were executed. The siblings were no strangers to the law and had been […]
Police are still gathering information in the near fatal shooting of Ozen Rhaburn of Hattieville. An attempt was made on the life of Rhaburn on Thursday morning, but fortunately, he survived the shooting and is in a stable condition. The twenty-three-year-old was shot at his house reportedly by someone he knew. A motive has not […]
A Sinaloa Drug operator was gunned on Thursday in Chetumal, Mexico. It’s making news in Belize because Juan Ulises Galvan Carmona, who goes by the drug alias “El Buda,” possessed several passports including one from Belize. Mexican media are reporting that “El Buda” not only possessed a Belizean passport, but also one from Mexico and […]
A pair of Belizean fishermen was busted in the southern waters off the coast of Placencia with a massive haul of out-of-season conch. According to the Fisheries Department, a team of rangers was out on routine patrol near the southeast corner of Channel Caye when they encountered Bartolo Jimenez and another fisherman. Upon closing in […]
The conch season was closed earlier than usual this year. Notwithstanding its premature closure, the Fisheries Department has been working closely with its maritime counterparts to enforce all laws at sea. According to Gamboa, there has been a joint effort over the past two months to patrol several hotspots, including the area where the fishermen […]
Early on Wednesday night, two notorious siblings were shot to death on the north side of the city far from their home in the Port Loyola community. The duo, Maurice and Emory Felix, was released from prison in January of this year and they were to check in with the police twice weekly, including Wednesdays; […]
The body of a Dangriga resident was found miles away in the village of Frank’s Eddy on the George Price Highway. The murder, execution style, of forty-four year old Jermaine Balthazar Flores is baffling police. It presumably took place sometime on Wednesday night and the body found at around seven this morning in a bushy […]
In Hattieville, a twenty-three-year-old man was shot at around nine o’clock this morning at his house located in an isolated area of the village. Police recovered as many eight expended shells at the scene outside his house. Ozen Rhaburn is said to have been ambushed by someone he knew. A witness who heard the shots […]
There was a brazen daylight robbery at the PUMA gas station on New Road. The gas station has been held up in other instances. During the lunch hour on Wednesday, a pump attendant was held up at gunpoint by three robbers, one armed with a handgun. The thieves approached the unsuspecting employee and demanded that […]
The Central Bank through the Belize Chamber of Commerce has released a statement on the matter of bank charges for the issuance of cheques which is stirring concerns in the business sector. The new fees are linked to the Automated Payment and Securities Settlement System which came into effect on July first. The Central Bank […]
On Wednesday night, we told you the story of the largest onion producer in the Belize District. The Orellana family produces upwards of one hundred thousand pounds of onion annually, but this year, they found themselves competing with contraband onions on the market. And because the contraband produce is going for a cheaper price, local […]
The BAHA Quarantine team has implemented a number of measures to crack down on the contraband business. Those efforts include checkpoints for inspections, as well as surveillance and intelligence gathering to regulate imports to prevent entry of pests and diseases. The contraband problem is not unique to onions. There is also a Medfly outbreak along […]
Amidst the leakage of documents showing B.T.L.’s purported multi-million dollars G.S.T. and business tax debt is a letter reportedly sent by Chairman Nestor Vasquez. In that rumored letter, Vasquez reportedly asked the Financial Secretary, Joseph Waight to waive the debt. When asked about it, Waight said that he has not seen the letter. However, there […]
The People’s United Party today mounted pressure on Belize Telemedia Limited, the Department of General Sales Tax and the Prime Minister as it relates to a throve of damning documents leaked to the media a week ago on Wednesday. The documents purport to show that Belize Telemedia Limited, the telecom giant that the Barrow Administration […]
According to the P.U.P.’s Kareem Musa, the government has been silent on the matter because the pile of documents which indicates B.T.L.’s true financial standing, is a huge political blow to the Barrow administration. Musa pointed out that after acquiring the company for more than half a billion dollars, B.T.L. invested tens of millions of […]
P.U.P. Leader John Briceño has written to Prime Minister Dean Barrow with regards to B.T.L.’s reported G.S.T. debt. In the letter, Briceño tells P.M. Barrow that since B.T.L. is majority owned by the people, the public is entitled to a full and frank disclosure. Briceño asks Barrow, who is also the Minister of Finance, for […]
Two days after the news broke, C.E.O. Rochus Schreiber handed in his resignation letter and according to B.T.L., Schreiber decided to pursue other personal interests and reunite with his family in the U.K. at the end of September. Notably, his departure also comes days after the Senate passed and ratified the Tax Administration and Procedure […]
Earlier today, the Ministry of Health confirmed that a new C.E.O. will be taking over at the Ministry as we had reported in Tuesday’s newscast. Doctor George Gough succeeds Doctor Ramon Figueroa who was not mentioned in the release but who was at the Ministry since 2015. Figueroa was said to be at odds with […]
Contraband onions are hurting local onion farmers. Several onion producing communities have thousands of pounds of onions on their hands and can’t sell them. The Belize Marketing and Development Corporation and the Ministry of Agriculture’s Extension Service conducted a yearly onion availability last Friday in three of the major onion producing communities, Maskall, Little Belize […]
More cell phone images have surfaced about Sunday’s unfortunate incident on a water taxi from Caye Caulker. The images show the chokehold used by the police to restrain and subdue another officer, Ralph Gillett, who was involved in an altercation with a group of women travelling in the water taxi. The boisterous passengers are heard […]
The murder of fifty-seven-year-old Errol Crown, a resident of Neal Pen Road, remains an open investigation as police are still trying to determine his cause of death and who may have committed the senseless act. Regrettably, Crown’s family shares the same sense of cynicism that most families have come to accept following the loss of […]
A young B.D.F. volunteer perished hours after he was hit on the George Price Highway by a vehicle whose driver did not stop to render assistance. Twenty-year-old Charles Bell Junior was a resident of Blackman Eddy; at about seven-thirty on Monday night, he was travelling on motorcycle heading to Esperanza village, when he was hit […]
Recent developments on Ambergris Caye have prompted the Belize Police Department to ramp up its presence on the island, where a series of incidents that are believed to be drug-related have been taking place. On Monday morning, sometime around five-thirty, police raided the homes of Alexander Fitzgibbon and Lucio Salazar, both fishermen of the Boca […]
We take a break from crime to report that Health C.E.O., Doctor Ramon Figueroa, is said to be on is way out. Reports of his anticipated departure are circulating in the Ministry of Health. From what we have gathered, Doctor Figueroa’s untimely departure from the ministry has to do with Minister of Health, Pablo Marin. […]
If you don’t know what a ‘Frenemy’ is, then the comedian extraordinaire Oliver Samuels will tell you what it is. The Jamaican king of comedy is in Belize to put off a three-night play, called ‘Frenemy,’ inside the Bliss. Samuels, who is no stranger to the Belizean stage, will be performing with some local talents. […]
