Orange Police and the Orange Walk community are grappling with an escalating, internal gang war. Another Back-A-Town Gang associate was gunned down in broad daylight this morning. Twenty-one-year-old Jose “Duffy” Medina was fatally was executed as he rode his bicycle just a few feet away from the house he was renting off Mahogany Street. A […]
The Paz family in San Pedro Town has received confirmation of the death of forty-nine-year-old Jose Milo Paz. The veteran pilot and aviation pioneer died in a plane wreck in the mountains in Panama sometime on October seventh. While the news of his death had been widely reported, the Paz family was hopeful until today. […]
An elderly man is recovered at the Southern Regional Hospital following an explosion in San Isidro Village in the Stann Creek District. On Wednesday evening around six-twenty, Bella Vista Police were called out to the village where a vehicle was seen engulfed in flames at Garcia’s Butane Gas Depot. Sixty-five-year-old taxi driver, Jose Morales, was […]
Independence Fire Department personnel responded to the explosion, which occurred approximately nine miles away from the station. On arrival, they spotted the thirteen-seater van completely destroyed by fire, but they sprung into action to extinguish the blaze. But according to Deputy Fire Chief, Benisford Matura, the information they’ve gathered so far does not indicate whether […]
While Morales is lucky to be alive, the situation could have turned fatal. The incident has brought into focus the need for safety measures to be exercised at butane gas depots. So who is liable in this case? Morales or Garcia’s Butane Gas Depot? That’s what the media asked Deputy Fire Chief Benisford Matura today. […]
Two minors are behind bars tonight for the murder of San Ignacio teenager Bobby Garcia. Charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder were levied on the under-aged high school duo from the west on Wednesday. Garcia was stabbed multiple times inside a temple at the Cahal Pech Archaeological Site where a visitor found his […]
A twenty-six-year-old Belama resident was charged for the attempted murder of Thomas Ferguson. The nineteen-year-old Arlington Drive was targeted last Friday while talking to a friend a short distance from his house in Belize City. Ferguson was shot twice to the stomach and back and remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. Police say that they believe […]
Believed to be missing and feared dead, well-known pilot forty-nine-year-old Jose Milo Paz has not been seen or heard from since Sunday. His family in San Pedro Town has been bombarded with messages of condolences and sympathies. On Tuesday night, reports surfaced that Paz died in a plane crash on Sunday evening somewhere in the […]
While the death of Paz has not been officially confirmed, tonight we can report that another Belizean has been killed in the U.S. She is thirty-five-year-old Jacqueline Dawson. She too is from San Pedro Town and died on Sunday as well. Dawson lost her life in a traffic accident in Wilmington, North Carolina. Online reports […]
Two minors were arraigned today for the murder of Bobby Garcia, a nineteen- year-old San Ignacio resident. Garcia’s body was found inside a temple at the Cahal Pech Archaeological site with multiple stab wounds. Indications are that the bizarre murder was a ritual killing carried out by Emo followers. The minors reportedly have provided police […]
There was some straight talk on Tuesday by the P.U.P. southern caucus chair, Mike Espat, as well as from Cayo South Area Rep Julius Espat and Cayo Northeast Orlando Habet. The area reps spoke after a meeting with the Belize Progressive Party and activists’ organizations. That encounter in Belmopan was at the invitation by the […]
A meeting was convened earlier today between the executive of the Christian Workers Union, the Labour Department and the Port of Belize Limited. But soon after it started, it was ended because CWU President Evan “Mose” Hyde had a medical emergency and proceeded to leave the meeting. Tonight, the news is that while the parties […]
Epidemiologist, Doctor Ethan Gough has resigned from the Ministry of Health. His resignation, we understand, took the ministry by surprise because it has only been about a year since he has been back following several years of study abroad. The C.E.O in the Ministry of Health was tight-lipped about Gough’s departure, only to say that […]
The Republic of China (Taiwan) has appointed a new ambassador to Belize. He is Remus Chen and his new post was announced early this week by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chen is scheduled to assume his new position in November and will replace current Ambassador, Charles Liu who has served as ambassador since 2016. […]
It is known that there are many in the leadership of the People’s United Party, excluding its leader John Briceño, who are opposed to taking Guatemala’s territorial claim to the International Court of Justice. Because of the divergence of internal views, Briceño’s position has been for a conscious vote. Well earlier today, the Belize Progressive […]
The decision for members of the country’s oldest political organization to join forces with the B.P.P. is unconventional. It’s a move that Cayo South Area Representative Julius Espat says people have been clamoring for. Other members of the southern and western caucuses whose position is NO, including Stann Creek West Area Representative Rodwell Williams and […]
The People’s United Party does not have consensus on the I.C.J. matter so was the attendance of several of its elected members and standard bearers sanctioned by its leadership? It is a question that was put to Cayo South Area Representative Julius Espat following the meeting, in the context of Party Leader John Briceño’s personal […]
Area Representative Orlando Habet represents Cayo Northeast, which is one of the areas close to the western border with Guatemala. Habet also weighed in on the I.C.J. discussion, speaking on Belize’s independence and territorial integrity, as well as his constituents who are uninformed of the need to vote. Orlando Habet, Area Representative, Cayo Northeast […]
Two minors, ages fourteen and fifteen, remain in police custody in San Ignacio tonight. They are held in connection with the strange murder of nineteen-year-old Bobby Garcia, whose body was found inside a temple at the Cahal Pech Archaeological Site on Sunday morning. Garcia was reportedly lured to the area via a conversation with a […]
Unity Presbyterian School in Belize City has been targeted by burglars more than once. Last month, the school was burglarized twice and standard-three teacher; Stephanie Wade says she has had enough. According to Wade, the thieves made away with schools supplies she intended to use to teach some thirty plus students. Both incidents have been […]
Classes at Claver College Extension in Punta Gorda resumed at seven o’clock on Monday night, following a meeting of its board of directors. Earlier that evening, students gathered peacefully at the school compound in the presence of six police officers who were reportedly requested by the chairperson Lisel Alamilla. A total of seven board members […]
Police are perplexed at the murder of Bobby Garcia, a nineteen-year-old resident from San Ignacio who was viciously stabbed to death over the weekend. His body was found inside the Plaza E temple at the Cahal Pech Maya Monument. Garcia’s body was shirtless and in addition to multiple stab wounds, an X was etched on […]
Also in the west, two sisters perished in a horrible accident on Saturday morning. Cindy and Jarinet Cowo were travelling in the vehicle of fifty-three-year-old Belmopan contractor Carlos Martinez heading to San Jose Succotz Village when they met their death. Martinez picked up the sisters from their house and went partying in Benque Viejo. He […]
There is a third investigation taking place in western Belize. Benque police are looking into the sudden death of Pedro Pena. The elderly man was found with a large cut wound to the back of the head by his nephew who was visiting with a grandmother on October fourth. According to relatives, Pena was out […]
Human remains were found on Friday morning at BWS’ sewage treatment compound in Belmopan. Police were alerted of the discovery at around nine o’clock that morning. When they arrived on the scene, they came across a jaw bone and two shoulder bones confirmed to be that of a male person who is believed to have […]
