Twenty-eight year old Wilhelm Gillette was today acquitted of the murder of twenty-one year old Norval Belisle, stabbed to death in the parking lot of La Cabana Club in the Las Flores area of Belmopan in 2015. Gillette was tried alone by Justice Antoinette Moore in April in Belmopan. In her ruling today, Justice Moore […]
Corozal police have detained two of four men accused of robbery and kidnapping and are seeking two others. Twenty-three-year-old Jason Espinosa and forty-five-year-old Elio Lopez handed over a bag containing a gold chain and ring stolen from twenty-six-year-old Eder Stevenson Hall of Corozal Town, while Lopez handed over six thousand, five hundred dollars, half of […]
The clinic which treated five-month-old Ricardo Quintero is shut down tonight, following an investigation by the Ministry of Health. Following the departure of the original owner a few months ago, the clinic continued operations even though its sole nurse was not licensed to practice her profession and the manager had no sort of medical qualification […]
Doctor Manzanero told News Five that their investigation of Baby Ricardo’s death overlapped with that of the investigation into the clinic, but to affix a particular cause of death and apportioning blame will be difficult because of the murky circumstances of the baby’s treatment and care, both at the home and at the clinic. The […]
An Orange Walk man is accused of killing his cousin in the early hours of the morning over in Chetumal. The murder sent shockwaves across that northern municipality because the Pech cousins were well-known – not just in the north, but across the music scene, particularly in the rock band community. The tight knit duo […]
Investigations into a double murder in Corozal continue tonight. The only suspect in the murder of a Canadian woman and her American boyfriend remains in police custody. That suspect, John Deshaies, was transported from Corozal to the Placencia Police Substation where, this morning, he was questioned about a theft at a casino in March. That […]
The family of missing secondary school teacher, Pamela Lino, is seeking closure for what can only be described as a most puzzling disappearance. It is widely believed that the Belmopan resident perished in an automotive fire on Tuesday morning. The police, however, have not been able to conclude definitively whether the charred skeletal remains found […]
The murders of Canadian national Francesca Matus and her American partner Drew Thomas DeVoursney continue to receive news coverage in both countries and around the world. Unfortunately, it’s not the kind Belize would want. And while they have been few and far between, murders of foreigners visiting Belize, like those of Anne Swaney and Matthiew […]
In January, the Central Bank (International Immunities) Act and the Crown Proceedings (Amendment) Act were passed by Parliament. The former is intended to protect Belize’s foreign reserves in the Bank from poaching by companies claiming arbitral awards, including Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited. C.I.H.L. charges that the legislation’s effect is to clearly attempt to intimidate and […]
Former Minister of State with responsibility for Immigration and Nationality, Elvin Penner, is confirmed to be testifying before the Senate Special Select Committee next Wednesday. It has been a long time – in fact, nearly five years – since he was fired from Cabinet by Prime Minister Dean Barrow for facilitating South Korean fugitive businessman […]
Three men, including a pair of siblings, were lucky to escape with their lives during a robbery turned kidnapping on Wednesday afternoon in the Corozal District. According to Eder Hall, a land consultant of Corozal Town, he visited a well-known businessman in Ranchito Village sometime around four o’clock that evening to purchase a sports utility […]
The murder by strangulation of fifty-two-year-old Francesca Matus and thirty-six-year-old Drew Thomas DeVoursney continues to baffle police up north. The Canadian woman and her American boyfriend went missing last week and six days later, their bodies were found in a cane field, on Monday. The couple was to travel back to their respective countries last […]
Belmopan teacher, Pamela Lino, is still missing tonight. Her vehicle, a Kia Sportage, was found burnt on the Gracie Rock junction on the George price Highway early on Tuesday morning. Charred remains found inside are inconclusive as to the identity of the person that was travelling in the vehicle when it went up in flames. […]
We can confirm tonight that the Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Vidal, has directed the police to proceed to bring charges against a magistrate serving in south. The magistrate, however, is at this time travelling overseas so it is expected that he will be charged next week on his return. The charges against him are […]
Sometime between Friday night and Saturday over the holiday weekend, Belize City police reportedly discovered a grenade on Fern Lane in the Saint Martin De Porres area. The grenade has been identified as a nonlethal British-type Practice Grenade. We understand that no one was in the area and so it was labelled as found property. […]
The situation on the ground appears to be returning to some normalcy following Monday’s suspension of Valentino Blanco as C.E.O. of the Corozal Commercial Free Zone. The Board suspended him for a month citing loss of confidence with administrative staff and private sector, breach of contract and confidentiality. The board took that decision after the […]
The Senate Special Select Committee’s public hearing at the National Assembly this morning was truncated due to logistical issues with bringing witnesses to Belmopan. The sole witness to testify is actually a return witness, Rodolfo Bol. He manages the Immigration Department information technology network and was the system manager during the time of the audit […]
What does this mean for what happened with the Won Hong Kim passport? The Department’s records state that a file was opened just before eleven in the morning and closed about one in the afternoon, after which it was printed and distributed, though it did not reach its intended destination. The Senators honed in on […]
A Canadian woman and her U.S. boyfriend were strangled to death in the Corozal District. The couple was reported missing since last Wednesday, her SUV was first found on Sunday and then on Monday, their bodies were found off the road in the area of Chan Chen. The double murder is still under investigation and […]
As police grapple with the double murder up north, there is another homicide that is baffling authorities. Early this morning, a burnt vehicle was found on the George Price Highway. It went up in flames at about two-thirty this morning in Gracie Rock and when police searched the heavily tinted vehicle, they found the charred […]
Three-year-old Lindsey Babb lost her life this morning during a horrifying traffic mishap in Orange Walk Town. The toddler was being transported on a motorcycle driven by her father, thirty-three-year-old Eulalio Babb, when he was overtaken by a Bowen & Bowen delivery truck in the vicinity of Liberty Avenue. The sudden impact upon being passed, […]
A baby was also killed in a fatal road traffic accident over the holiday weekend, this time the mishap took place on the George Price Highway near mile nine. Seven-month-old Esmay Ferguson perished when a Mitsubishi Endeavor driven by twenty-three-year-old Darrel Jackson. The vehicle was headed in the direction of Belmopan when Jackson lost control […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has dropped his largest hint yet that he will, sooner rather than later, be stepping down before the end of his term in 2020. Back on Independence Day last September, he had vowed not to leave office without solving the Superbond. That was accomplished just before the Budget, so time may […]
There were some sweets offered to the businessmen by Prime Minister Barrow in his address, which he couched as offering a listening ear and helping hand to the business community. Foremost among the plans is what P.M. Barrow calls a targeted tax cut for producers paying import duties on packaging and labelling materials. The Economic […]
The recently passed General Revenue and Appropriation Bill prescribed increases in taxes totalling eighty million dollars to cover a shortfall, while limiting cuts in expenditure. Prime Minister Dean Barrow pointed to his statement in the Budget presentation of a ‘bold, Belizean recovery’ in addressing the Chamber. He pointed out that Belize’s economy had grown steadily […]
