Five Mexican nationals, who were detained on Thursday evening at a boutique, were released on Saturday afternoon. After being held for almost three days, forty-seven-year-old attorney Reymundo Choc, his wife thirty-year-old Norma Gonzalez, forty-seven-year-old Victorino Rivera, thirty-five-year-old Jovita Sagredo and Blanca Sagredo were free to go without any charges. Choc and Rivera were held at […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital turned twenty-three on Saturday. The authority at the national referral hospital, which has endured good and bad times, held a brief ceremony to acknowledge the milestone. Over two months ago, Michelle Cox-Hoare was named as the new Chief Executive Officer to replace Doctor Adrian Coye, who resigned from the position. […]
The People’s United Party today reacted to a statement by the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry in respect of the U.H.S. loan motion which was taken to House, but voted down. The P.U.P. notes that it took a very long time for the social partners to condemn the childish and petulant behaviour of the […]
Five Mexican nationals, two men and four women, were detained by Belize City Police on Thursday evening. They are forty-seven-year-old attorney Reymundo Choc, his wife thirty-year-old Norma Gonzalez, forty-seven-year-old Victorino Rivera, thirty-five-year-old Jovita Sagredo and Blanca Sagredo. Choc and Rivera are being held at the Raccoon Street Police Station, while the three women are in […]
Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber today chimed in on the recent drug plane landing in northern Belize for which two Mexicans and three Belizeans including superintendent of police, David Chi, have been charged. The fourteen million dollar cargo on board the CESSNA plane was cocaine packed in bales. Faber says that Belize is a victim […]
The proclamation on a “State of Public Emergency” on two south side neighbourhoods in Belize City has been met with criticism from various quarters on the basis that it violates the human rights of persons living in these areas. The measure was approved by Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber on September fourth as a reaction […]
Two minors are in police custody pending charges of armed robbery. The two young men, one fifteen and another sixteen years old, believed to be from Belize City, were captured on camera holding-up the owner of Tai San Shop in Belmopan with a pellet gun. The robbery lasted for about a minute, before noon on […]
Smack in the middle of the national celebrations there has been encounter in the Sarstoon. The Belize Territorial Volunteers, lead by Wil Maheia, was up the Sarstoon River prior to this weekend’s eco-challenge. As the group was on the river, a vessel with at least five members of the Guatemalan Armed Forces drove up and […]
The misuse of government resources has been a recurring public complaint under both administrations. In the Auditor General’s Report for the period April 2013 to March 2014, the audit team lends some of its focus on the issuance of fuel for the use of Government vehicles and equipment, specifically in the Ministry of Works. As […]
Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai today reported on the cleaning-up of the voters list during the still ongoing re-registration process. Now, Stann Creek West pulled out the biggest number of voters to register while the Fort George Division in Belize City had the lowest. Both are constituencies held by the People’s United Party. More women […]
Three Belizeans and two Mexican nationals were arraigned in court this morning on charges relating to a drug plane that landed on September eleventh in Tres Leguas, near Blue Creek, Orange Walk District. The cargo was one thousand two hundred and twenty-six pounds of cocaine, with a value of fourteen million dollars. The arraignment took […]
Forty persons including adults and minors who police have determined are gang members have been transferred to the Hattieville Central prison where they will be locked up until the end of this month. On Wednesday, which marked the seventh day since they had been detained, the group was transported to prison from the holding cells […]
Amid the ongoing public discourse on the state of emergency in parts of Belize City is a fear that upon release, there is potential for aggrieved gang members to retaliate on members of society. It’s a serious concern that may not be allayed by tough talk alone. Earlier today, Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams […]
With a state of emergency in effect for two south side neighborhoods, are other Belize City gangs laying low or is there potential for a flare up elsewhere? When asked that question at today’s press conference, Deputy ComPol Williams revealed that similar documents have been drafted for the entire south side of the Old Capital […]
Tonight we have part two of our report on Sargassum. Aside from San Pedro, residents of the Placencia Peninsula are battling with the awful stench of decaying Sargassum that has piled up along the beaches. Massive amounts of the Sargassum seaweed are covering miles of beach, posing a threat to the local tourism industry and […]
Anke Doehm returned to court today seeking a variation to her bail conditions so that she can travel to the U.S. to visit with her doctors. But even as that application was brought before the courts, Doehm was faced with being remanded after the person who had initially posted bail for her withdrew his recognizance. […]
On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas found twenty-five-year-old Ernest Thurton Junior guilty of a double homicide, but has reserved sentencing until October eighth. Thurton was charged with the murder of forty-one-year-old Frank James and fifty-year-old Robert Young. Both men were fatally shot on October twenty-fifth, 2012 while at a dockyard on North Front Street, […]
Seven days ago in the dead of the night more than one hundred purported gang members from the Mayflower/Banak and George Streets were detained and placed in c ells at the Queen Street and Raccoon Street police stations. The round-up happened within-hours of a proclamation of the controversial special public emergency zones in the two […]
The state of public emergency which has been effected in the George Street and Mayflower neighborhoods waives certain constitutional rights enjoyed by the citizenry of those respective communities. With the incarceration of almost sixty persons, will they also be denied privileges that have been extended to those on remand or convicted inmates? Those freedoms include […]
The Human Rights Commission of Belize late this evening issued a letter to the Commissioner of Police, seeking a report and status of prisoners held as a result of the State of Public Emergency. The Commission says that along with the Bar Association of Belize, it has been monitoring the implementation and the legal progress […]
As you’ve heard, the legal fraternity, including the Bar Association and the Human Rights Commission of Belize, has weighed in on the state of emergency that has been declared in parts of Belize City. Their position has resounded across the media in the days that followed the rounding up of gang members. But what about […]
Still on the State of Public Emergency, the Taiwanese Government has issued an advisory to its citizen living in Belize to exercise caution. The advisory was issued on Monday by Taiwan’s Bureau of Consular Affairs which advised its citizens to remain vigilant and pay attention to their own safety, avoid crowded places and stay tuned […]
Police have charged three persons in connection with Sunday drug bust. They are Peter Friesen Junior, a Blue Creek resident along with two Mexican nationals, Eli Figueroa Nunez and Azarias Manzano and are yet to be arraigned. The charges are importing drugs into Belize and drug trafficking, but according to the charge sheet, others will […]
While three persons are charged, Police Constable Norman Anthony was released sometime before ten p.m. on Tuesday, after being held in detention since Sunday evening in connection with the landing of a drug plane in Tres Leguas that night. Anthony is the officer in charge of the Blue Creek police substation which also has jurisdiction […]
Police have confirmed late this afternoon that a senior officer has been placed on a five-day administrative leave beginning today pending further investigation into a huge cocaine bust over the weekend. He is Superintendent David Chi, who is the officer in command at the Orange Walk Police Station. Chi has been heading that formation for […]
