Two persons lost their lives in Punta Gorda on Wednesday. One was murdered; eighteen-year old Luis Cabrera Junior was stabbed to death while at a bar. It is believed the violence was triggered by jealousy since the victim was friendly with a female who works at Dahanny’s Bar. But in a twist of events, one […]
There was also an overnight murder in San Pedro. A nineteen-year-old resident was out with friends and sometime after three o’clock this morning after leaving his friends in the DFC area, he was stabbed to death. Surveillance footage shows that he was walking alone when he was ambushed. Horace Cadle Junior lived on the island […]
Back to Punta Gorda where a sixteen-year-old student of Forest Home was injured in a traffic accident. Evalenda Pau is in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after she was reportedly run over by a bus at around nine o’clock this morning. The bus driver was reserving onto the highway when she was knocked down. […]
Just before eight on Wednesday night, two armed robbers held up the popular Atlantic Restaurant located on miles three and half on the Philip Goldson Highway. While the thieves managed to get away with a small amount of money, the situation was dangerous because a number of patrons were inside the restaurant purchasing food. Fortunately […]
It’s been two months since Evan Neal and his employee, Anthony Reneau, went missing off an island. Today police confirmed they have recovered one of the boats that belonged to Neal. On Wednesday, patrol team discovered the vessel and another boat among some mangroves. There was nothing onboard to provide police with a picture of […]
The trial of William ‘Danny’ Mason and four other men who have been indicted along with him for the murder Pastor Llewellyn Lucas, continued today before Justice Antoinette Moore. Taking the stand this morning was vehicle mechanic Eliasar Pineda. The automotive technician testified to receiving a call from an officer on the scene where Mason’s […]
There are new details in connection with a Colombian drug plane, allegedly bound for the U.S., but which crash landed about fifty-five miles south of Chetumal in San Pedro Peralta, Quintana Roo. According to Riviera Maya News, residents of the small town heard when the Cessna-type plane crashed into the jungle shortly before midnight on […]
New details were revealed today in day two of the Danny Mason trial. Mason and four others are facing murder charges for the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas and the kidnapping David Dodd and Alvis Wright in 2016 in Belmopan. Today, four witnesses were called and except for Pastor Richard Smith, all others gave Skype […]
In Belize City, Andrew Willoughby was sentenced to life in prison by Justice Marilyn Williams for the May 2012 murder of Muslim Primary School student, eleven-year-old Daniel Matura, who was shot and killed during a shooting on Central American Boulevard. Justice Williams ruled that Willoughby will be eligible for parole only after serving twenty-four […]
The Public Utilities Commission and Speednet Communications, the parent company of SMART, were back in court today. The case revolves spectrum fees which the P.U.C. is charging Speednet. In 2016, the C.C.J. ruled in favor of Speednet, stating that the P.U.C. could not charge seven hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars in spectrum fee from Speednet. […]
P.U.C.’s Attorney Senior Counsel Fred Lumor says that since Speednet was reportedly issued a license in 2013, it has been benefiting and should pay what it owes. Lumor says that Speednet is relying on ‘excuses’ not to pay its bill. Fred Lumor, Attorney for Public Utilities Commission “Since the license has been issued July […]
Mexican authorities continue to investigate the crash landing of a drug plane in fields near San Pedro Peralta, located south of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The pilot remains in a critical condition at the military hospital in Chetumal, while his passenger perished at the scene. The identity of the two men has still not been released, […]
A sixty-four-year-old security guard remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital recovering from gunshot wounds to the buttocks and leg. He was shot by four robbers who gained access to the compound of Prosser Fertilizers and Agrotec Company Limited by cutting through the perimeter fence. They would target the security guard to the entrance […]
Holy Angels Roman Catholic School, along the Stann Creek Valley in Pomona Village, is asking for the public’s help tonight. For some years now, the school has been tackling a growing infestation problem and decaying structures. It is really a maintenance problem; an issue, which according to the Roman Catholic schools handbook, falls directly under […]
A father of two was executed on Sunday morning in Sandhill Village. Residents in the village told News Five that they heard Denmark Casimiro and another man arguing inside his house that morning before gun shots rang out. Today, Casimiro’s family says they have received numerous reports that he was killed over a tattoo machine. […]
The trial against William “Danny” Mason and four other men began today in the Belmopan Supreme Court. Mason, who is known to have ministerial friends, is considered the mastermind in one of the most heinous crimes. He, along with Ashton Vanegas, Terrence and Keiron Fernandez and Ernest Henry Castillo, is charged with kidnapping as well […]
A small plane carrying one ton of cocaine crash landed into fields in the community of San Pedro Peralta, south of Quintana Roo, Mexico. One person was reportedly killed. Mexican media is reporting that before midnight on Sunday, a plane was reportedly flying low in the area. The Cessna type aircraft that is commonly being […]
A pair of fake cops robbed PUMA Gas Station on the Philip Goldson Highway Sunday evening and they made it look so effortless. Two armed men, dressed in what can easily be mistaken as police uniforms, waltzed inside PUMA Gas Station and demanded to speak to the manager. They forced themselves in the manager’s office […]
A Belize City man was one of two persons who lost his life on Sunday evening in traffic fatalities. Thirty-eight-year-old John Bennett was on his motorcycle en route to Belize City when he reportedly crashed head-on into oncoming traffic on the George Price Highway. The motorcycle, we are told, was extensively damaged and Bennett was […]
Sixty-two-year-old Guatemalan National Excequiel Lopez Leon was knocked down and killed on Saturday night at around seven-twenty. Police say that thirty-four-year-old Shaun Dortch of San Pedro Village, Corozal District was driving his Mazda SUV from Orange Walk to Belize City when he knocked down Leon, who was riding his bicycle, in the same direction. Leon […]
A traffic accident on the Burrell Boom Road on Sunday evening left six persons injured, but fortunately, there were no fatalities. Sidney Humphreys was behind the wheel of an Isuzu Rodeo when he reportedly lost control near the cutoff to Bacab Eco Park on the Burrell Boom Road. The SUV careened off the road and […]
Thousands of teachers gathered today at the UB gymnasium in Belmopan to take part in an I.C.J. forum fully sponsored and organized by the Belize National Teachers’ Union. The four-hour forum saw the participation of more than three thousand, five hundred teachers who listened to presentations from three invited guests. Ambassador and YES proponent Assad […]
There are thousands of Belizeans living and working outside of the country who will not be able to participate in the upcoming I.C.J. referendum. Notwithstanding the criteria for eligibility that has been put forth, many are unable to return home and remain here for at least two months, only to return sometime later to cast […]
The deadline for re-registration is March eleventh and across the country eligible voters are making last-minute efforts to ensure that they are able to cast their ballots on April tenth. But while many have successfully done so, they are still without a Voters ID card tonight and do not know when those cards will be […]
Another accused murderer walked free of the charge today. Tonight, Daniel Myvett is at home with his family after attorney Leeroy Banner was successful in getting his case thrown out. Myvett was accused of killing Nigerian national Kabiru Olongundudu. The security guard was stabbed to death while on duty at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza […]
