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Tourism is the main industry on the island of San Pedro and among the top revenue generators for the country. Residents on the prime tourism destination depend on it for their livelihood; from hoteliers to restaurateurs, tour guides, vendors and small entrepreneurs thrive from the tourism dollar. But tensions have been bubbling since the beginning […]
Belize has been in the news for all sorts of wrong reasons lately – from murder to fraud. The Las Vegas Review Journal is today reporting the conviction of four Belizeans in Las Vegas for their roles in stealing money from the US Government. According to the Journal, Frederick Vernon Williams and his sister Jacqueline […]
Of the ten murders so far reported in 2016, five have been terrible deaths from wounds inflicted by machetes or knives. Tonight one youth is lucky to escape being a murder statistic, but wasn’t lucky enough to escape some nasty wounds. Eighteen year old Jonathan Zetina, a Ladyville resident, showed up at the Roaring Creek […]
Written on January 21, 2016 | Posted in
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Three days before a national convention to be held in Belmopan, Francis Fonseca, John Briceño and Cordel Hyde, the three men who want to be leader of the P.U.P., will be squaring off in what has been dubbed a historic debate to be held at the Radisson Villa Wing. Or at least that’s the plan. […]
Written on January 21, 2016 | Posted in
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A meeting of high level policymakers is taking place in Belize to discuss ways to tighten up on money laundering, human trafficking and private security, which are perennial issues in the region. The Forum of Presiding Officers of Legislative Assemblies of Central America and the Caribbean Basin, FOPREL, convened a meeting to present proposed legislations […]
The proliferation of guns and ammunition into the country is forcing lawmakers to take a critical look at existing measures, as well as alternative means of dealing with persons found in possession of illegal firearms. While the method of gathering ballistics information was introduced several years ago, Peyrefitte says that other options are being explored […]
Written on January 21, 2016 | Posted in
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The Government of Belize has been ordered to shell out a total of four and a half million U.S. dollars to Titan International Securities after losing a major case in court last Friday. As we’ve reported, a massive raid on the offshore company’s Coney Drive office in September 2014 was ruled unconstitutional by Justice Courtney […]
Written on January 21, 2016 | Posted in
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After an announcement made in August 2014, a pair of UH1H Huey helicopters, to complement the B.D.F.’s existing fleet of aircrafts, has arrived in Belize. The generous donation is from the Republic of China (Taiwan). Since the withdrawal of British troops several years ago, the Belize Defense Force has been without air support. But in […]
There’s a chilling report of rape against a minor. The names of the victim and the aggressor will not be disclosed to protect the girl’s identity. The heinous incident reportedly happened last Thursday in southern Belize after the girl headed home from school. She claims that her stepfather forced her into a bungalow house and […]
Written on January 20, 2016 | Posted in
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Fugitive David Nanes Schnitzer slipped through the cracks immediately after he was granted a ten thousand dollar bail by the Supreme Court on November twentieth, 2015. Nanes, who was caught in San Pedro on November sixth, where he was living for some years, was arrested with a slew of illegal Belize documents—from a social security […]
Carrot farmers in the Orange Walk District have reported that seventy percent of their produce has been rotting in the fields because government has been issuing licenses to select persons for the importation of the vegetable from Mexico. The Government has countered that claim saying that it allows carrots to be brought in only when […]
The contraband of goods into Mexico from Belize and from Belize into Mexico is a thriving trade. The Commercial Free Zone is an area of particular concern. It is known that cigarettes and other goods enter the zone and eventually make it into the Mexican market. Contrabandistas are also known to use the Rio Hondo […]
There is also the issue of the transshipment of illicit drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana that get into Mexico from Belize. Just two weeks ago, on January third, Orange Walk’s Quick Response Team came up on a very large quantity of drugs that was suspected of being a drug cartel shipment. The compressed […]
On Tuesday, there were widespread reports of an aircraft landing in the Louisville area of the Corozal District. It was not clear at first whether it was a commuter plane, a private aircraft or even a drug plane that had touched down in the expansive location. Law enforcement officers, accompanied by personnel from the Department […]
Well-known Belize City money lender Pamela Bennett and Burrell Boom resident Alfredo Navarette perished in a horrible traffic accident on the Philip Goldson Highway on January second. Bennett and her husband Calvin Cumberbath were heading out of the city, while Navarette was heading into the city when the fatal collision occurred. Today, Cumberbath who is […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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The sensational and very disturbing case of Dark Night owner Bradley Paumen continues to attract major scrutiny. Paumen, charged with four counts of Abetment to Murder, is out on fifty-thousand dollars. Two of Paumen’s employees, Ian Skeen and Linzburn Anderson, are behind bars tonight. They were charged on Monday for Abetment to Murder. Paumen is […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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At news time tonight, Police Officers from Corozal and a team from the Civil Aviation Department are scouring the cane fields behind Louisville in the Corozal District. Just before midday today, reports circulated that a small plane went down somewhere in the vicinity of that community at around mile seventy-three on the Phillip Goldson Highway. […]
A pair of young men is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for separate murders in Punta Gorda Town. Twenty-one-year-old Albert Valentine Junior, along with a fifteen-year-old minor, was indicted on two counts of murder when he appeared before Magistrate Emerson Banner on Monday. Both PG residents are accused of […]
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On December third, 2015, eight men stormed the Burrell Boom home of Lebanese Consul General Sarkis Abou-Nehra. He and his wife were not in the country, but the men stayed the night, cleaning out the house of money, valuables and electronic appliances. The men also brutally beat the caretaker while at least one of them […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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A trio has been charged in connection with a robbery on board a vessel anchored near Middle Caye last Thursday. On board was US retiree, John Picard who was awoken by two men who demanded money, ransacked his vessel and stole an assortment of items. Three persons have been arrested for handling stolen goods and […]
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A pair settled out of court this morning and saved themselves jail time. He was facing the possibility of ten years for burglary while she was facing imprisonment for dangerous harm. This morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser, Shanice Smith paid Erlin Butler six hundred dollars in cash and withdrew charges against him for burglary […]
Written on January 19, 2016 | Posted in
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2016 is off to a murderous start. Since the beginning of the New Year, there have been a total of ten homicides across the country. One of the most shocking that is receiving international attention and is having an impact on the local tourism industry is the strangulation of Anne Swaney, an ABC executive producer […]
Written on January 18, 2016 | Posted in
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Now to the murders … Ann Swaney, an executive producer at ABC Chicago who was vacationing in Belize was killed in the west; that murder is being reported by ABC network, CNN and numerous other media outlets. But who killed Swaney? On Thursday, two days before she was to return home to Chicago, Swaney was […]
Written on January 18, 2016 | Posted in
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There have been three other murders due to chopping since Ann Swaney was strangled to death. In Indian Church in the Orange Walk District, a Guatemalan national was likely lured to his death in a love triangle. Francisco Arevalo received a phone call from his lover on Saturday night and by Sunday morning his nude […]
Written on January 18, 2016 | Posted in
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There was a gruesome, bloody murder in San Pedro in broad daylight Saturday afternoon. It happened at a home in the San Pedrito Area of the island and involved alcohol, a machete and a large knife. According to reports, three men were drinking at an apartment belonging to Jose Alfredo Villeda. Villeda and another man, […]
Written on January 18, 2016 | Posted in
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