The police department, in separate jurisdictions, is working overtime tonight to quell the late afternoon violence that has erupted on the north and south sides of Belize City. The first murder took place inside a residence on Castle Street where a teenager, identified as Tevin Palmer, was fatally wounded by gunfire. Neighbors told News Five […]
There was yet another fatal road traffic accident in southern Belize. On Tuesday night, a well-known electrician and father of two from Independence Village lost his life after the pickup truck he was driving, crashed head-on with a James Bus Line passenger bus on Savannah Road. Two passengers from the bus and its driver were […]
There was a second fatal road traffic accident under the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Southern Formation of the Police Department. It occurred on Saturday morning and also involved a passenger bus and a Chrysler van. About five-forty a.m., police were called out to an area known as Nuts Curve on the Southern Highway. There they […]
That’s a total of three fatal accidents in southern Belize since the weekend, two in the Independence area alone. But Inspector Ramclam says that there have been many other traffic incidents in the jurisdiction, despite the many efforts by the police to reduce the numbers. Insp. Sherlet Ramclam, Acting O.C., Intermediate Southern Formation “It […]
On July twelfth, ten working days after the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration was handed down, G.O.B. will need to make a payment of about one hundred and ninety-five million dollars to the Ashcroft Group. That’s only half of what G.O.B. must pay for its acquisition of Belize Telemedia Limited in 2009; the […]
The Prime Minister has vilified the Accommodation Agreement signed between B.T.L. and the P.U.P. administration of 2005. In fact, it’s been a main platform of every government campaign since 2008. But Courtenay says that propaganda aside, the incredible thing is that G.O.B. has never once challenged the validity of the agreement in Court and that’s […]
At his press conference last week, Prime Minister Barrow claimed sweet victory and vindication on one particular point of the settlement – a claim that G.O.B. will have total access to sixty percent of the entire award, the portion paid for the Accommodation Agreement. According to the P.M., that money will be used to pay […]
A family of eleven in Mahogany Heights is tonight homeless after the place they called home was gutted by fire this morning. Sometime around five a.m., Elstwin Willoughby, his wife and their eleven children and grandchildren were the victims of an inferno that is believed to have been deliberately set. But was the fire retaliatory? […]
It has been a little over a week since a devastating fire in San Pedro virtually leveled an entire block near the heart of the downtown area. The inferno gutted several buildings leaving as many as eighty-eight persons displaced. Since then there has been a concerted effort by various government and non-governmental organizations to assist […]
Tonight, Roaring Creek resident and teacher, twenty-eight-year-old Jodine Gill and her thirty-year-old colleague Dania Portillo remain hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, recovering from varying degrees of injuries sustained during a traffic accident last Friday at mile thirty-five on the Hummingbird Highway. Just after four o’clock, Gill lost control of her 2004 Nissan X-Terra […]
At five-thirty this evening, the administration of the Belmopan Comprehensive High organized a vigil at the school compound as a remembrance for Escoto. Residents, as well as former students, are asked to wear white and bring candles to share in the memories of the Spanish teacher. Vice Principal Guzman and English Lit Teacher Ysela Logan […]
With the start of the 2016 CODICADER Games less than three days away, final preparations are being made to ensure that Team Belize maintains the best chance of excelling in the regional competition. That being said, the National Sports Council is busy tying up loose ends logistically, both for the visiting teams, as well as […]
The cheque was presented to the National Sports Council by Communications Director William Neal. According to Neal, ASR/B.S.I. decided to make a contribution towards the initiative primarily because it will go a long way in terms of its impact on Belize’s participation in CODICADER. William Neal, Communications Director, ASR/B.S.I. “Generally, ASR is one of […]
The opening ceremony for CODICADER 2016 will be held at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex on Thursday evening and is being organized by the National Institute of Culture and History. Representatives, as well as other members of the respective national teams began arriving in the country on Monday, ahead of the launch of the games. […]
Another Belize City youth has fallen victim to the relentless spate of gun violence in the Old Capital. Tonight, police are saying that the weekend murder of Giovanni ‘Blege’ Gentle may have been the result of jealousy. The vendor, who was well-known for selling coconut water across the city, was gunned down while leaving a […]
Eighteen-year-old Kent Brooks Junior remains bedridden at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being shot last Wednesday. During the deadly incident which occurred on La Croix Boulevard sometime around eight-thirty that night, his friend Kieran Morrison lost his life. The shooting is strongly believed to be the result of an ongoing feud between rival gangs […]
While a pair of men had been detained following the deadly shooting, they have since been released from custody. Williams says the challenge is getting witnesses to provide investigators with statements. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “We had two persons detained and those persons have been released and like we always […]
The house in which seventeen-year-old Jasmine Petillo was murdered has been identified. Today, the Rural Eastern Division of the Police Department held a press briefing in Ladyville to announce that an ongoing investigation in the Mahogany Heights community has led police to the house where Petillo was brutally stabbed fifty-seven times. The community is still […]
While one person has been detained for the murder of seventeen year old Jasmine Petillo, police are yet to lay charges on a suspect in the murder of Lyndon Murillo, who was also killed in the Mahogany Heights community less than a month ago. On June ninth, the well-known watchman, and a father of five […]
Today, exactly seven months after the aggravated burglary of the home of Lebanese Consul, Sarkis Bou-Nehra, Rural Eastern Division Police are looking to charge four additional suspects. In fact, a DNA sample sent out following the rape of a female at the home has come back positive as that of twenty-one-year-old Paul Jex Junior, a […]
Ladyville police are also investigating a shooting on Friday night in the Lord’s Bank Community. Seventeen-year-old Michael Aldana alleges that while driving a green Range Rover on the Lord’s Bank Road, he was shot to the knee and arm. But is there more to that story? That’s what we asked ACP Edward Broaster. ACP […]
A gruesome discovery was made on Wednesday morning in Mahogany Heights. Seventeen-year-old Jasmine Petillo was brutally stabbed multiple times before her body was dumped in a ditch behind the community, off mile thirty on the George Price Highway. A postmortem exam conducted today on Petillo’s body confirmed that she had been stabbed an unimaginable fifty-two […]
A recent murder on LaCroix Boulevard in Lake I suggests that a longstanding feud between the PIV and bakaland gangs is escalating. These turf wars, rivalries and retaliations have accounted for much bloodshed. In the past months, we have seen the emergency of a creature called an intervention, in which players in rival gangs are […]
Those comments have not been taken well by those on the ground doing the interventions. Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams struck back in his own unique style. ACP Chester Williams, Commander, Eastern Division South “As it relates to that criticism and wherever it came from, I want to say – I really and […]
Fifteen persons, including ten Salvadoran men, a Belizean farmer and four Salvadoran women were today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for different offenses mounting from an alleged smuggling ring. Twenty-two-year-old Valley of Peace resident, Anivar Alvarenga was first to be arraigned; it is alleged that he aided and abetted the fourteen Salvadoran nationals […]
