Two weeks away from the Albert Division convention for the People’s United Party on June seventeenth, the campaign between Senators and People’s United Party’s aspirants Valerie Woods and Paul Thompson is getting contentious. Tonight, Senator Thompson finds himself on the defense and confirms that he is in fact currently registered to vote at the “home” […]
Paul Thompson is going head to head with fellow Senator Valerie Woods, who has prided herself as being born and raised in the division. But Thompson says he has been putting in the work on the ground with residents for two decades and wants another shot at Tracey Taegar Panton at the next general election. […]
In other political news, David “Dido” Vega, former mayoral candidate for the P.U.P. in Corozal Town, was elected standard bearer for Corozal Bay on Sunday in the party’s first contested convention of this campaign season. He defeated four other rivals to secure the seat with one thousand and twenty-seven of two thousand and forty-two votes. […]
When Rudolph Kelly perished following a violent collision on Central American Boulevard last Tuesday, speculations ran wide that he did not succumb to injuries received during the accident. It was a theory that his family firmly believed and that opinion has since been supported with the results of an autopsy. A post mortem examination conducted […]
A tour guide and a father of three from the Cayo area perished in a road fatality over the weekend. Carlos Panti, who was well established in the tourism industry, was travelling alone when he lost control of his vehicle at the start of a hectic tour day. In so doing, Panti was violently flung […]
A Sand Hill resident has also lost his life following a mishap along the Old Northern Highway over the weekend. In the predawn hours of Sunday morning, Jermaine Rhaburn was found in a semiconscious state between miles one and two on the Maskall Road. He was seen lying face up in the middle of the […]
There is a developing story tonight in the sugar industry. Santander, the Spanish sugar miller located in the Valley of Peace area is reportedly selling sugar in the domestic market. That company was granted an Export Processing Zone to produce sugar for export only. But the Santander sugar is being found on the shelves of […]
After spending a night in lock-down, eighteen-year-old Brandon Hughes was taken to court this morning and arraigned before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser for the murder of well-known businessman, Oscar Rosado Senior. Police are actively looking for two other suspects who remain at large. Hughes was picked up at his house on Aloe Vera Street and […]
Teachers and students were back inside their respective classrooms at Belmopan Comprehensive High School today, after a two-day sit-out effected by faculty and staff. The protest was led by fourth form teachers who were dissatisfied with the manner in which the school’s board of management went about addressing the issue of outgoing students who failed […]
According to Smith, the disqualification of so many students was the result of a miscalculation in the school’s electronic tallying system. Those discrepancies were compared with manual averages derived by each teacher which showed that a majority of those sixty-six fourth formers were indeed passing. Senator Smith says that all the teachers and board members […]
Back to the court…Thirty-seven-year-old Dwayne Davis on Thursday admitted to causing the death, though not intentionally, of fifty-two-year-old Doctor Ivan Enrique Garcia Gomez, a naturalized Belizean originally from Guatemala, in June of 2012. Davis pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter during his trial which began on May third. He told police that he […]
Twenty-three-year-old Windell Neal pleaded guilty to obtaining property by deception from the Belize Book Center. On April thirtieth, 2018, he’s accused of collecting one hundred dollars from manager Andrew Bennett after posing as a supplier from Carmelita Village in Orange Walk. He took a package to the center and told them that they had a […]
Thirty-five-year-old Rupert Thomas was released from a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse dating back to 2013. The Seine Bight resident, a police officer for nine years, was accused of raping a minor who was a month shy of her sixteenth birthday. But the now twenty-year-old complainant took the stand in the Dangriga Supreme Court and […]
In historic regional news, following a sweep of the country’s thirty seats in the House of Assembly by her Barbados Labour Party, Mia Amor Mottley was this afternoon sworn in as Barbados’ eighth Prime Minister and first woman to hold the post. Mottley took her oath in the presence of Governor General Dame Sandra Mason, […]
The unrelenting spate of gun violence in the Old Capital since last Saturday continues, as we open our newscast tonight with coverage of yet another murder. On Wednesday evening, a construction worker and his colleague became the latest victims of an armed assault as they walked along Dolphin Street sometime around six o’clock. Carl Tristan […]
Missing Belize City resident, Jose Zelaya Junior, was found dead on Wednesday afternoon in a cane field north of Calcutta Village. He had been missing for three days and his father believed that his son, who carried his namesake, had been kidnapped and killed as he traveled to Corozal to visit him. A postmortem conducted […]
Police are seeking two persons in connection with Wednesday afternoon’s murder of Carlton Moreira in an alley between Banak and Mayflower Streets. While the area is known for both external and internal gang rivalries, Moreira was not known to be a part of that world. So speculation from both police and the family is that […]
On Wednesday, alleged gang leader Nicoli Rhys appeared in court, charged with the murder of taxi operator Luis Carlos Moh, who was found near Homeland Memorial Park on Monday dead of gunshot injuries. He had been called to pick up two persons in Belize City and take them to mile eight on the George Price […]
Teachers at the Belmopan Comprehensive High School are on a sit-out. Today when we travelled to Belmopan, we found most of them sitting out in the school compound and most students were left on their own. But teachers say they are participating in the sit-out because they are not satisfied with the school’s Board of […]
Police have arrested and charged twenty-one-year-old Daron Gonzalez for the crimes of arson and murder. Twenty-four-year-old Jorge Magana was killed over the weekend inside Flomon’s Guesthouse, which was then set on fire. But ACP Joseph Myvett today indicated that from their evidence, the arson was not because of the murder; the events were separate. […]
Accident or murder? Police say it leans toward the former for now in the case of Rudolph Kelly, a landlord of Mile Eight on the George Price Highway who sustained two cut wounds and crashed while headed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for treatment on Tuesday night. Today Crime Investigation Branch chief Alejandro Cowo […]
A father of two was gunned down in Belize City around one-fifteen this afternoon in the middle of a gang-ridden neighborhood. But the authorities and his family don’t have a clear motive why because Carlton Moreira was a law-abiding citizen. He worked hard, took care of his family and avoided the criminal lifestyle. But someone […]
Within hours of the murder of Luis Carlos Moh, taxi operator of the Kings’ Park area of Belize City at mile eight on the George Price Highway, police have made an arrest. His accused killer, Nicholi Rhys, is a familiar face, having previously been charged with and acquitted of the murder of the late former […]
While Belize City police are yet to make an arrest in the Monday morning execution of Michelle Anderson, the children of the slain fish cleaner are seeking public assistance in defraying the cost of her burial. Daughter, Natalie Ortiz is making an appeal to anyone who is prepared to lend a helping hand in covering […]
There was a fatal accident on Tuesday night at the intersections of Central American Boulevard and Mahogany Street. Sometime before nine o’clock, Belize City police were called out to the roundabout where they saw an extensively damaged Toyota Camry on the traffic circle. Inside the vehicle was fifty-two-year-old Rudolph Kelly, a landlord of Eight Mile […]
