The Belize District had the distinction at the close of 2018 as the most murderous area in the Jewel. The New Year is not shaking off that black eye and gang warfare is threatening Belize City. Twenty-year-old Joseph Babb, the leader of the Backalands Crips, was executed on Blue Marlin Boulevard where he was hanging […]
There was another shooting elsewhere in the city. In the south side, the life of Glenford Mossiah came under threat. While a gunman fired as many as sixteen shots, Mossiah was injured, but luckily survived the attack on him at Wax House on East Canal where he was socializing. The would-be killer exited a vehicle […]
In order to thwart another wave of gun violence in the wake of Babb’s murder, the police department has rounded up a group of young men who are considered affiliates of the Backalands gang and has placed them on preventative detention. It is one of several measures being taken to address the recent spike of […]
The first twenty-four hours of 2019 was nightmarish in Belize City as the violence would not let up even as police put more boots on the ground. Twenty-two-year-old Preston Reynolds was heading home to Neal Pen Road on bicycle when he was executed within minutes of another murder on New Year’s Day. He died instantly. […]
One of the persons to be killed during the bloodbath on the first day of the New Year was a young mother of three. Anita Pineda was reportedly stabbed by her ex-common-law husband while she was in the company of her mother at a house of her former brother-in-law in San Ignacio. Pineda’s ex-common-law husband […]
As we close 2018 with this newscast, investigating officers might have a first clue in the murder of Anisha Young. The young woman has not been seen or heard from since the morning of December eighth when she vanished after socializing with her boyfriend at a night club. Suspects have been questioned and released, but […]
Electricity rates are set to go up at midnight, along with the ringing in of a new year. The increase, however, is the second adjustment to the light bill that Belize Electricity Limited has requested within a six-month period in 2018 and energy consumers will begin feeling the pinch this “maga” season. Those teetering on […]
So on the eve of the New Year, the P.U.C. has not responded to government’s objection to the increase of forty-three cents in electricity rates. The P.U.C. chair, we are told, is away and so is the Prime Minister. But the People’s United Party is lambasting the government for the “smoke and mirrors act.” A […]
The family of Rosita Armstrong is tonight mourning her death. The sixty-six-year-old Ladyville resident was knocked down and killed at around seven-thirty on Sunday night. The incident happened between miles twelve and thirteen, near the Los Lagos Community, on the Philip Goldson Highway. The person who hit her is Winston Bud who has been served […]
There was another fatality on the highway, this time in the south. A road traffic accident two days before the New Year claimed the life of forty-seven-year-old Cliff Russell Usher. Usher, a Belize City resident, was driving a grey Grand Cherokee on the Southern Highway when something went wrong, causing him to lose control of […]
In a third accident, though not fatal, a police officer crashed on his motorcycle in Camalote Village over the weekend. The officer was driving his cycle around six-thirty that evening when he slammed into an oncoming vehicle in the village. Police say that the officer was overtaking another vehicle when it collided into a pickup […]
One hundred and forty-three, that is the murder count tonight for 2018 which trails the 2012 record-breaking figure by two. The first part of the year was the most violent and despite more boots on the ground and the imposition of a state of emergency in three areas of the City, this year, more persons […]
Will your light bill go up on New Year’s Day? The Ministry of the Public Service, Energy and Public Utilities has essentially requested a stay of execution, asking the Public Utilities Commission to reconsider and re-evaluate the submission made by Belize Electricity Limited, as well as the draft decision by the regulator. This follows a […]
In a letter written by C.E.O., Doctor Peter Allen earlier today, the ministry states, “that any potential losses to B.E.L. due to the variance between the Reference Cost of Power and the Actual Cost of Power for the period January to June 2019 should be evaluated at the subsequent Annual Review Proceeding.” For all intents […]
Just before news time on Thursday, shots rang out on Faber’s Road Extension at the residence of Dennis Hislop and his family. An armed man had targeted his son and a friend during which a struggle ensued. The fifty-three-year-old father pulled out his licensed gun and fired a single shot at the gunman, hitting him […]
There are no arrests to report on tonight, in respect of the daylight execution of Daniel Hughes on Boxing Day. Police are asking the public to come forward with any information that can help them in cracking the case. While a firearm was recovered from the scene of the shooting on Tibruce Street, test are […]
The Lotteries Committee has now decided to enforce a law that dates back to the early fifties. It’s a piece of legislation that governs the promotion and execution of any lottery or raffle. According to the law, any group, entity, established company or person must obtain a license or a letter of authorization for a […]
According to Samuels, any violation of this specific law and its regulations is an offence that carries a fine of three thousand dollars and/or six months in jail. Lewin Samuels, Secretary, Lotteries Committee “We have not really been receiving complaints, but we know that there are activity out there which are not regularized. So, […]
The Ministry of Education is siding with schools managements which have decided to dock the salaries of teachers who were absent on November seventh, the day that more than a thousand teachers demonstrated in Belmopan. A release from the ministry today states that the Education Rules provide clear guidelines in addressing unauthorized absences of teachers […]
A Belize City fisherman was shot and killed on Wednesday and police strongly suspect that the homicide may have been the result of a longstanding feud between two families. Daniel Hughes Senior is dead and his in-laws say that his murder is not related to the ongoing beef. Earlier this year, however, around mid-March, three […]
Police in Orange Walk are trying to stem the bloodbath in an ongoing gang feud which left two persons injured on Christmas Day. Twenty-eight-year-old Llamont Wade and twenty-one-year-old Pablo Reyes were exiting Reyes’ home on Muffles Street when they came under gunfire at around seven o’clock on Christmas morning. Both men survived the attempt on […]
Twenty-five-year-old Police Constable Keenon Bennett is tonight at the K.H.M.H. recuperating after he was knocked down on Wednesday night. Bennett, a member of the Special Patrol Unit, was on duty, patrolling Saint Martin’s Area on a motorcycle. When PC Bennett was at the corner of Mahogany and Santa Barbara Streets, he was hit from the […]
The cost of electricity is set to go up yet again, for a second time in 2018. This follows a formal request by Belize Electricity Limited to the Public Utilities Commission to recover monies that the company has been spending out of pocket to purchase energy from Mexico. The submission from B.E.L. is seeking an […]
The commission, in its decision, has approved a Mean Electricity Rate of point four-two cents per kilowatt hour. According to Avery, BEL has had to incur an increase in the cost of purchasing energy from Mexico and therefore is simply looking to recoup its funds. John Avery, Chairman, Public Utilities Commission “We expect prices […]
Director of Energy Ambrose Tillett also says that the rate increase being proposed is both wise and acceptable for the supply of service to consumers. Ambrose Tillett, Director of Energy, P.U.C. “The reason why we have to approve this increase is because a lot of these increases are actually locked in already. Pretty much, […]
