Three Guatemalans escaped from the Belize Central Prison in the early hours of Sunday morning. The men, all charged with illegal entry into the Chiquibul National Park and firearm offences, were on remand when they broke out between one and three-thirty on Sunday morning. Police say they have set up checkup points to try and […]
We’ve been reporting on the growing number of robberies at businesses and residences on the north side of Belize City. Over the weekend, a well-known couple was targeted on Saturday night in a home invasion at the residence of seventy-two-year-old Solangel Arguelles on Baymen Avenue in Belize City. Miss Soli of Florasol and her husband […]
The last re-registration of electors took place in 1997. Another should have followed ten years later, but the law was amended for it to occur fifteen years later, which should have been in 2012. The process has been postponed twice since then, but this morning it got underway countrywide in anticipation of next year’s ICJ […]
A Special Sitting of the Senate is schedule to take place on Thursday. Four resolutions will be tabled including the appointment of members to the Election and Boundaries Commission. Those persons are Phillipa Griffith Bailey, Naima Barrow, Orlando Espat and Magali Marin. They will serve for a period of five years retroactive to May first, […]
There were two unrelated stabbing incidents in the west over the weekend that occurred within minutes of each other and in separate villages along with George Price Highway. Both victims are currently hospitalized in stable condition at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan and police have since detained one of the suspects and are looking […]
The last murder in Belize City took place on June fourteenth, but that spell was broken on Thursday night when seventeen-year old Warren Rudon was executed on Lovely Lane. The gunman trailed Rudon as he walked towards the area known as Jungle. The teenager was on his way to visit some friends when the gunman […]
Brace up because beginning on Sunday, your light bill is going up for the next two years. This follows a decision taken on Tuesday by the Public Utilities Commission as applied for by Belize Electricity Limited. The electricity company made a submission was made on April first, the beginning of the 2018 fiscal calendar. B.E.L., […]
When B.E.L. objected to an initial decision by the commission, an independent expert was appointed to review that conclusion and make recommendations to determine regulated values, tariffs, fees and charges to be included in the final decision. Ambrose Tillett is the Director of Electricity with the P.U.C. John Avery, Chairman, Public Utilities Commission “One […]
There are new developments tonight in respect of Choice Bank following an announcement on Thursday that the institution would be allowing its customers to withdraw funds in three tranches leading up to its closure at the end of the year. The bank, in its statement, said that clients would be able to take out up […]
The problems of the bank started months ago when it started experiencing a liquidity crisis and was forced to suspend all withdrawals from deposit accounts. By May, the central bank had instituted preventative measure to ensure that the bank was meeting the obligations of depositors and customers. In her statement, Grant said that a liquidator […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice presided over a matter earlier today in which the principals of Titan International Securities are suing the Government of Belize. The lawsuit arises from the closure of the company, following a raid of its offices on the fourth floor of the Matalon Building on September ninth, 2014. On that afternoon, […]
Solicitor General Nigel Hawke appears on behalf of the Attorney General. During his turn before the bench, the Sol Gen argued that Titan International Securities folded as a result of the indictment and not as a consequence of the raid on its premises. Nigel Hawke, Solicitor General “It is our respectful submission that they […]
From the CCJ in Trinidad to the Supreme Court in Belize, a third and last person accused with the 2013 murder of sixty-one year old truck driver George Blanco was granted bail today. Thirty-year old Roque Middleton, received bail of twenty-five thousand dollars before Justice Adolph Lucas. Middleton, however, has to meet various conditions including […]
Attorney Arthur Saldivar is turning against his own party, which he wants to represent. This is all because he is not allowed to run for P.U.P. standard bearer in the Belmopan constituency. On June fifteenth, Saldivar filed an application requesting an injunction at the Supreme Court to halt the convention which was scheduled for this […]
The three candidates who have been accepted to contest the convention are Oscar Mira, Wiezsman Pat and Michelle Rodriguez. After this morning’s court session, Saldivar told supporters who had gathered at Battlefield Park why he wants to contest the P.U.P.’s Belmopan convention. Arthur Saldivar, Suing the P.U.P. “We are looking at a situation in Belize […]
A murder-suicide claimed the lives of a Belizean woman and her American husband. Thirty-five-year-old Rushan Tucker was shot and killed by her husband Malcolm Tucker on Sunday morning in their Seattle, Washington home. According to online media reports, Tucker, who lived in Belize City before relocating to the United States about ten years ago, was […]
Over the past month and a half, there have been a string of robberies within the city and elsewhere across the country and police are inching closer to the perpetrators. The versatile thieves pose as customers, dress as police officers and even as students when they carry out the armed robberies. But is it a […]
Despite an ongoing hunt, San Narciso businessman Omero Campos remains missing. Campos was abducted on June sixteenth when he headed to his farm in the nearby village San Victor, well known for contraband and other illicit activities. A one-million dollar ransom was demanded by kidnappers, but this week, an email surfaced where the purported abductors […]
Within twenty-four hours, there were three shootings in the north, west and south of the country that have left six persons hospitalized. On Tuesday, shortly after eight p.m., Orange Walk Police responded to the Northern Regional Hospital and then to the residence of Nazario Herrera in Trial Farm Village where a wild shooting landed four […]
Also on Tuesday night, there was a shooting shortly after nine p.m. in Bella Vista Village on the Southern Highway. Nineteen-year-old Valerio Bak was shot multiple times to the body by one of three men from the village with whom he had conflict. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett says that Bak was treated at […]
A pregnant woman is critical after a wild shooting at her home in Trial Farm Village on Tuesday night. Diana Ack was shot several times as she was with her common-law husband Nazario Herrera and friends at their house on San Narciso Street. A lone gunman made his way into the yard, pulled out a […]
An officer-involved shooting in Camalote Village on Monday flew below the radar for over thirty-six hours, despite several inquiries to ascertain what transpired that evening. Forty-four-year-old Truman Parham was shot by off-duty Corporal Luis Matute during an incident in which it is alleged that he entered the policeman’s yard wielding a machete. Parham, who reportedly […]
A post mortem examination, following the death of fifty-six-year-old Lindberg Anthony inside a holding cell in Crooked Tree Village, indicates that the well-known mechanic died as a result of asphyxia due to hanging. That’s according to a relative of his whom we spoke with by phone this evening. It is reported that on Saturday night […]
The controversy surrounding the Israel training of officers and civilians, in both the public and private sectors, easily eclipsed a government-led initiative to bolster the capacity of the police department in the area of community policing. That’s because the ceremony held at the Police Training Academy in Belmopan on Tuesday was overshadowed by the anti-Israeli […]
The idea of strengthening the substance of the department through community outreach, says Aragon, is a necessary means of fortifying those with shared interests within the society. That, according to the Minister of State, begins with building trust. Elodio Aragon Jr., Minister of State, Police “The neighborhood patrol officer, backed by the police organization, […]
