As of five p.m., a total of six shelters have been opened. In Corozal Town, Our Lady of Guadalupe R.C. School in Altamira and Church of Christ School in Port Saul. While four others have been opened in the coastal villages of Copper Bank, Sarteneja, Progresso and Chunox. DEMO coordinator Willard Levy says that all […]
Two persons lost their lives in separate road traffic accidents on Thursday. Perhaps the more heart-wrenching of the two occurred just after four p.m. on the Iguana Creek Road in Spanish Lookout, Cayo. Thirty-three-year-old Stephen Hochstetler Senior ran over his fourteen-month-old daughter as he reversed the family’s SUV out of the yard. Hannah was rushed […]
There was another fatal accident overnight in the west. Sometime after nine p.m. on Thursday night, Police Constable Edgar Coh, who is attached to Roaring Creek Police Station, was on his way to a special duty assignment on his motorcycle. But upon reaching Camalote Village on the George Price Highway, he lost control of the […]
A family of four is admitted to the Southern Regional Hospital in Dangriga in stable condition following a traffic mishap. Forty-seven-year-old Benjamin Paul, an American national, was driving a black Jeep Liberty registered to Barefoot Rental between Dangriga and Belmopan. He was accompanied by thirty-six-year-old Katherine O’Brien and two children Rafael, aged six, and Carmelita, […]
For the second time this week a murder has been reported in Orange Walk Town. While involving less drama than the sensational shooting between friends Daniel Sosa and Hilmar Alamilla last Saturday, the death of eighty-five-year old retiree Gregorio de Leon at his home in the Marcus Canul area north of the town center is […]
The sensational story of the murder of Daniel Sosa in Orange Walk over the weekend has left many with questions – particularly as it relates to the alleged killer. Forty-two-year-old Hilmar Alamilla, associate of former government minister Gaspar Vega, was arrested and charged on Monday in connection with Sosa’s murder. Today, when the media got […]
San Ignacio Police say that investigators continue to gather evidence in the shooting death of Jose Castellanos, as the shooter, Nevis Betancourth remains hospitalized in a stable condition after being chopped to the arm. According to one report, Castellanos was at “Comida Belicena y Latina” restaurant in Santa Elena on the night of July twenty-eighth, […]
Roger Bradley has several previous convictions for crimes of dishonesty, but tonight he is a free man, after Justice Denis Hanomansingh set him free on Thursday from a burglary charge. Bradley was serving a seven-year prison sentence after being convicted of a 2014 home burglary at the Freetown Road residence of Luana Sosa, from which […]
Fifteen thousand dollars for groping and kissing a teenage minor, that’s the bail amount that was set in the Supreme Court earlier today when thirty-two-year-old Freddy Espinosa appeared before Justice Denis Hanomansingh. Espinosa’s appearance follows an incident on July twenty-fourth in Belmopan where it is alleged that he sexually assaulted a fifteen-year-old girl. Represented in […]
Police are trying to puzzle out a strange incident reported on Tuesday afternoon involving three men from Orange Walk. There was a traffic accident reported in front of M-1 Sugar. Thirty-seven-year-old Tiburcio Fernandez and twenty-two-year-old Abdi Aban had been drinking and driver Fernandez lost control of the vehicle. But the story actually starts, according to […]
Tropic Air has suspended three of its international flights to Chetumal and Merida in Mexico and San Pedro Sula, Honduras. About five years ago, the domestic airline further expanded its services outside of Belize and picked up five additional international flights – to Cancun, Merida and Chetumal in Mexico and Roatan and San Pedro Sula, […]
According to Greif, the airline company is constantly looking for new routes and combinations to work. He says that if the current tax structures change, the company will revisit the routes. Meanwhile, its domestic service and the other destinations remain intact. John Greif III, President, Tropic Air “If the situation changes, if some huge […]
On August third, 2016, residents across the central and northern areas of the Belize District braced themselves in anticipation of Hurricane Earl which made landfall in the early hours of August fourth. The category two storm caused severe damage to homes and businesses in Vista del Mar, Ladyville, as it made its way inland. The […]
The Belize City Council, as part of its revenue generating initiative, is selling personalized license plates to motorists. The move has generated quite a buzz among car owners across the city, amid concerns from the Transport Department that the practice may very well be against the law. Despite those apprehensions, City Hall is proceeding with […]
The robbery of a Guatemalan businessman went under the radar until it turned murder forty-eight hours later. The thirty-nine-year-old businessman who was robbed and shot early on Saturday morning, perished at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and tonight police are looking for a suspect. Josue Ambrocio Arizarieta was with another Guatemalan national, Walter Lopez, on […]
A teenager remains in a coma tonight after she was knocked down in Orange Walk sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. Sixteen-year-old Monique Morey was out partying with a relative on Sunday and while heading home, she was struck by a vehicle a short distance away from her grandmother’s house in San Andres Layout, […]
The teenager remains hospitalized in a critical condition. She has swelling on the brain and remains in coma after she was left for dead. The family says that they don’t want any problems with the driver who hit Monique, but are appealing for assistance with the medical bills which are mounting. Frederic Morey, Father […]
In the southern village of Bella Vista today, a young man was laid to rest after being fatally shot over the weekend. But the circumstances that led to the death of Wilfred Malcolm on Sunday at a shrimp farm are under question. Malcolm was shot by a security guard who claims there have been numerous […]
After a year on remand for a broad daylight murder in the city, twenty-eight-year-old Valentine Baptist was committed to stand trial at the Supreme Court for the murder of nineteen-year-old Devin Adolphus Parham. Baptist, a construction worker and resident of Castle Street, Belize City was arraigned on July eight, 2016, two days after the murder […]
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers’ Association has officially written to American Sugar Refining/Belize Sugar Industries Limited, announcing that while it supports the investment of twenty-two million dollars for production of direct consumption, value-added sugars at the Tower Hill factory, it wants several amendments to the existing commercial agreement and a chance to negotiate same before […]
At the start of the sugar crop last December, farmer Eloy Escalante was effectively disowned by the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers’ Association. The Association was facing a third suspension in eight years from Fairtrade after it was discovered that a “phantom farmer” – the son of Government minister Edmond Castro – was granted administration of […]
There are more questions than answers in the fatal shooting of a fisherman in South Stann Creek. Wilfred Malcolm was along with a friend when a single gunshot from a security guard at a shrimp farm caused his immediate death. The Malcolm family believes he was murdered when he got lost during a thunder storm […]
There is another fatal shooting that is under investigation. Last Thursday in San Ignacio, Jose Castellanos was at a restaurant when he was fatally shot by Nevis Betancourth. Tonight we speak with the owner of the restaurant, who says that an unsuspecting Castellanos retrieved a machete to defend himself from Betancourth. In the altercation, Betancourth’s […]
The murder of twenty-four-year-old Daniel Sosa in Orange Walk continues to rattle the northern community. Sosa was shot on Saturday morning inside a red Dodge Ram pickup belonging to forty-two-year-old Hilmar Alamilla, who was arrested two hours later at his home for the heinous crime. It is believed that Sosa sat across from Alamilla in […]
Police have released details of a man wanted for the murder of twenty-year-old Samuel Mendez, a resident of Salvapan, Belmopan. He is twenty-two-year-old Angel Antonio Orellano, also known as Weche, who is five feet eight inches in height with light brown complexion and brown eyes. Police also believe Orellano is armed and dangerous. Mendez was […]
