The Auditor General is on the case of a senior officer of the Belize Defence Force who is being questioned on whether his private company benefited from an inside connection in the training of a troop of German soldiers in 2015 and 2016. C.E.O. in the Ministry of Defence Felix Enriquez has confirmed to News […]
Youth activist Justin Usher was today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate Court for assaulting a female police officer. The twenty-six-year-old U.B. student from Los Lagos, Belize District was detained over the weekend after an incident inside a nightclub in which Police Constable Christal Noralez claims that he struck her on the chin. In the […]
There were three shooting incidents beginning Friday evening in the south side of Belize City that left one person dead and five others injured. Shooting victim Cardinal Andrews also succumbed and elsewhere, police are trying to determine the cause of death of a person whose remains were discovered off the Coastal Road. We go to […]
A second person succumbed to the ongoing gun violence in the Lake Independence area of south side Belize City. Four days after he was shot to the head by a gunman on bicycle, twenty-eight-year-old Cardinal Andrews succumbed to his injuries inside the Intensive Care Unit of the K.H.M.H. His murder takes the murder count up […]
But on Friday morning, investigators in southern Belize had a murder on their hands. A taxi operator, who is originally from Orange Walk, was shot dead inside his vehicle and his body was found in an orchard off the Southern Highway. The body of thirty-two-year-old Jose Alfredo Majil was discovered around seven a.m. near a […]
But police are also investigating the remains of a body which was discovered on the Coastal Road on Sunday, which may be upgraded to that of a murder. Today, Police said that they have not determined the sex or identity of the skeletal remains because it is charred beyond recognition. Information late this evening to […]
But the strangest death over the weekend involved one of two Belize City brothers, who are believed to have inadvertently consumed a toxic chemical as they socialized on Saturday afternoon. Ryan Swift, a well-known exterminator died immediately while his sibling, Steve Swift, remains alive and has pulled out of a coma at the Karl Heusner […]
But on the other side of the law, there have been several recent videos of uniformed police officers acting out while on duty; being drunk and disorderly, embarrassing themselves and the department. Belmopan police have moved to discipline an officer attached to the Roaring Creek Police Station after video posted on social media captured him […]
The Government of Belize has been given one last chance by the Caribbean Court of Justice to live up to its promises made in April of 2015, when it agreed and consented that the Maya of the Toledo District have a right to communal land title among the villages in which they are the majority. […]
The Belize Police Department has launched a new offensive on gang-related crimes in the city. We will show you what is being done in an attempt to curb the spike in murders on the south side, but first there’s a breaking story to report on in the Lake Independence area, where the three recent murders […]
Police today launched an initiative called ACT, which stands for Addressing Crime Together, to tackle the spiralling urban violence related to gang activities. ACT will boost police presence in three hot spots in the south side where the number of murders is at an alarming upward trend. In fact, up to this point in the […]
Minister of State Elodio Aragon Junior whose office is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Belize Police Department, says the plan of action has the full support of the Ministry of Home Affairs. That branch of government has since acquired fifteen new vehicles to be assigned to the operation. The junior minister says the […]
While police put more boots on the ground in the city, police in southern Belize continue investigations into the apparent murder of thirty-two-year-old Jose Alfredo Majil, a taxi operator based in Dangriga. Majil’s body was found around seven this morning by an attendant at an orange orchard about one hundred yards from the Southern Highway […]
A pair of relatives is being laid to rest this weekend, following a series of murders in the Lake Independence area over the past few days. The family and friends of twenty-five-year-old Shaqwuan Almendarez bade him farewell today, while his killer is still at large. According to ASP Alejandro Cowo, an all points bulletin has […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Cardinal Andrews was shot once in the back of the head on Wednesday and remains in a life-threatening condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Tonight, his attacker remains on the loose and police say they have an idea who may have pulled the trigger that evening. According to Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, the […]
Seven-year-old Malli Herrera was the unintended target of a gunman who opened fire on a New Road residence on Tuesday night in Belize City. The Saint Joseph School student was shot once to the lower back and remains hospitalized in the I.C.U. at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The daring attack during which the child’s […]
A proposed loan by the Social Security Board to the Belize Airports Authority is making the headlines tonight. The said loan is to finance construction of the Caye Caulker Airstrip Runway. Tonight, S.S.B. Chair Doug Singh says the Investment Committee has yet to consider the application before it even gets to the main S.S.B. board. […]
In Friday’s House meeting, Prime Minister Dean Barrow said that the amount being asked for was four million dollars and that the Board had yet to consider it. Meanwhile, Tourism Minister Manuel Heredia told reporters days before that winning contractor Imer Hernandez has already been advanced funds; though he did not say from where. In […]
Since the confirmation of the incumbent United Democratic Party’s slate in August, the announcement for the unveiling of the People’s United Party slate in Belize City has been hotly anticipated. The press was able to tease details from Briceño during this afternoon’s press conference, such as the name of the mayoral candidate, who he confirmed […]
By far, C.E.O. of Belize Telemedia Limited Rochus Schreiber’s salary and benefits, amounting to more than seven hundred thousand Belize dollars, is the most paid to anyone in that role in Belize. In fact, even ministerial salaries are beneath that amount. Opposition Leader John Briceño raised it in the House on the occasion of the […]
The battle over custody of the three surviving Cannon siblings continues in the Family Court. They are the younger siblings of the late Faye Lin Cannon, found dead with severe trauma at a San Pedro resort in July. Initially questioned about the death of the child, the siblings’ adoptive parents, David and Anke Doehm, were […]
The Court of Appeal concludes its business for the current term on Friday, but one of its judges is facing a fight to keep his job. Recently appointed Franz Parke continues to face criticism over his lack of judicial experience and ties to Prime Minister Dean Barrow and shortly before his appointment, P.U.P. Leader John […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow promised a significant fuel price reduction at a press conference, but he asked for a couple days grace for it to happen. According to the Prime Minister, the fuel shipment was on its way from Venezuela. Effective Wednesday, regular gas prices are down sixteen cents, to ten dollars and thirteen cents […]
Belize today played host to the fourth gathering of the heads of government of the Caribbean and Mexico. Mexico is one of the most populous nations surpassing by far the combined population of the Caribbean islands, but there is plenty that the two sub-regions share. Most recently, natural disasters impacted the two so that the […]
The CARICOM/Mexico Summit concluded just after five o’clock this evening at the Best Western Hotel and it was immediately followed by a press conference led by Doctor Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, who is the current chair of CARICOM. Doctor Mitchell summarized the top-level diplomatic conference by stating that Mexico has pledged to strengthen […]
