In Belize City, six children were left without their father when the life of a well-known taxi driver was cut short. Forty-eight-year-old Walter Beaton, also known as Welch, was shot multiple times and his body found in a drain on Reggae Street early on Saturday morning. Beaton’s common-law wife recalls that they were being trailed […]
Four persons have been charged and arraigned for the brazen robbery of money changers at the northern border on Thursday morning. The four men, Eugene Myers, Zander Myers, Randolph Crawford and Joshua Hall, were all charged with robbery, unlicensed firearm and ammunition in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court. Myers, Crawford and Hall were slapped with additional […]
Across the country, the YES Campaign organized by the Referendum Unit has been carrying out a propaganda blitz, promoting a ‘YES’ vote on April tenth referendum day. Aside from the media rounds, billboards and posters have been erected at prominent locations. There is one of Philip Goldson, another of former Prime Minister Said Musa along […]
The anticipated expert opinion on the Guatemala claim to Belize is now available. The Bar Association commissioned and is now in receipt of the opinion from a Caribbean expert on international law. The highly respected attorney and professor, Stephen Vasciannie was scheduled to present his opinion publicly, but since he will not be available in […]
An eighteen-year-old teenager is accused of sexually assaulting a fourteen-year old minor. Tonight, he is on remand at the Belize Central Prison awaiting a possible Supreme Court bail following his arraignment on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse. Kevon Palmerston is charged for the offenses that are allegedly to have occurred on August thirty-first, and […]
There was more violence in Belize City aside from the murder of the cabbie. A man was shot just after five on Sunday evening. Police say Clinton Pou was inside his house on North Front Street in Belize City when he was shot in his left hand and to left side of the chest. He […]
Six men are in police detention following a brazen armed robbery at the northern border on Thursday morning but no charges has been levied on them as yet. The group includes the driver of the get-away vehicle and the robbers. Now, five masked and armed robbers held up a group of ‘peseros’, snatching their money […]
One of the robbers who was injured during the shootout with police at the northern border is twenty-four year old Randolph Crawford. He was shot on both legs and according to his uncle, Mansfield Philips, Crawford has not received medical treatment. Philips says that while his nephew has been taken to a hospital, the bullets […]
A small protest was held today in front of The Inspiration Centre where the Elections & Boundaries Department was meeting with monitors for the upcoming Referendum on April tenth. Leading the group was Patrick Rogers of the Belize Peace Movement which includes a number of small political parties. The movement was not invited to appoint […]
The Peace Movement is also calling on Prime Minister Dean Barrow to back off from the judiciary. The organization is responding to comments made by P.M. Barrow with respect to a sitting judge. During the Prime Minister’s Forum in February, P.M. Barrow accused Justice Courtenay Abel of treating crown counsels slightingly and dismissively. The Peace […]
Minister of National Security John Saldivar was in Punta Gorda today and reportedly led a large civilian delegation under joint military and coastguard patrol to the Sarstoon River. The trip precedes the April tenth I.C.J. referendum and that area of southern Belize remains a point of contention between Belize and Guatemala. Minister Saldivar had proposed […]
Eighteen-month-old burn victim Zela Usher left the country this afternoon. She is on her way to Galveston, Texas, where she will receive treatment at the burn unit at Shriners Hospital. Baby Zela is suffering from second and third degrees burns to her face and head. She is expected to stay at Shriners Hospital for an […]
Twenty-four-year-old Stephan Pasos was convicted today for inappropriately touching a twenty-one-year-old woman who is his sister-in-law. Pasos appeared before Magistrate Emerson Banner and pleaded guilty to sexual assault, telling the court that he was intoxicated when he committed the offense. He was fined two thousand dollars plus a five dollar cost of court which he […]
A brazen armed robbery at the northern border this morning led to a shootout between police and armed robbers. Five masked men, at least three who were armed, robbed seven money changers at the border terminal in the Corozal District. Surveillance footage captured the entire robbery. It shows the men exiting a S.U.V. before stripping […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams had good words to say about the bravery of the cops who responded to the shootout at the border. He praised their bravery and said that the authorities can do more if the public cooperates. He told the media that the police are doing their best to respond to the […]
The tragic double murder in Punta Gorda on Monday night still has that southern municipality in shock. Kevin Moro and Oscar Humes, who were lifelong friends, were shot and killed as they socialized at a house on Main Street, Punta Gorda. Earlier this week police said that they believe the murders were linked to gang […]
Police say that while they have made arrests and charged two men for the shooting that happened prior to the double murder on Monday in Punta Gorda, they have not yet established what motivated that shooting. Two men on bicycles, Adwan Usher and Albert Valentine fired several shots at two persons. The duo was slapped […]
Eighteen-month-old Zela Usher remains in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after receiving severe burns to fifty percent of her little body on Tuesday evening. Baby Zela was at home in Punta Gorda when a fire broke. The cause of the fire is believed to be electrical. The child was rushed to the Punta Gorda […]
Doctors are giving Baby Zela a fifty percent chance of survival. According to Gamboa, baby Zela isn’t responding. Aaronie Gamboa, Mother of Zela Usher “Right now she is a critical condition. She is not corresponding. She is not moving, She is just pretty much sleeping, sleeping. That is all she is doing right now. […]
A woman in Salvapan is without a roof over her head tonight. Nicolasa Cus, who lives in the community just on the outskirts of Belmopan, says that this morning personnel from the RECONDEV knocked at her door and served her a notice to get out of the house because it was going to be dismantled. […]
As the families of Oscar Humes and Kevin Moro prepare to lay their loved ones to rest, residents of Punta Gorda are still reeling from Monday night’s double murder. The Police Department, meanwhile, has stepped up presence in the town to avert further violence but there have been no arrests. The two friends were inside […]
As we said, Punta Gorda police are yet to make an arrest in a double homicide that has rocked the southern community, but they have been able to make progress in another investigation which preceded the murders of Kevin Moro and Oscar Humes. Earlier today, twenty-four-year-old Albert Valentine, a resident of Punta Gorda, was arraigned […]
The Moro and Humes families of Punta Gorda Town continue to grieve the loss of their loved ones. In the wake of the tragedy they have organized a candlelight vigil which they hope will bring other families together in the name of peace and solidarity. While they have not heard anything official from investigators, the […]
Aside from the spate of violence there was another unfortunate incident in Punta Gorda where a baby was injured. Eighteen-month-old Vela Usher was transported to Belize City and is hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a fire on Tuesday evening at her home in Punta Gorda. According to the toddler’s mother, twenty-five-year-old Aaronie […]
PUP Belize City Councillor, Micah Goodin remains without a portfolio tonight. After being benched following an altercation with City Administrator Stephanie Lindo-Garbutt, Councillor Goodin took to Facebook to respond to the Council’s unified position on the incident. Councillor Goodin posted that he was being used by the ‘bigger heads’, stating that “the bigger heads loved […]
