There was a deadly traffic accident on the George Price Highway on Thursday. A forty-seven year old resident of Las Flores community in Belmopan was hit and killed. The vendor was riding his bicycle when he was knocked down by a police vehicle. Meanwhile in Belize City, there was a massive seven-vehicle pileup on the […]
Sixteen days after he allegedly discharged his firearm in public on election night, a close affiliate and supporter of Minister of Police John Saldivar has yet to be charged, or even detained – except for one brief moment when he was in Police custody immediately after the shooting. The incident was caught on video, including […]
The southern part of Belize was the most affected over the past weekend when heavy rains came down. Roads and other infrastructure were submerged under water and became passable when the waters receded. Hundreds of residents had to be taken to shelters. That was on Saturday and Sunday in Toledo, but this morning the gushing […]
San Pedro Police are currently investigating a particularly heinous crime on the island and are seeking one man who they believe is still on the island. It is believed that that man brutally beat and sexually assaulted a seventy year old woman and possibly raped her as she walked home alone on Monday night. The […]
On Tuesday afternoon, a post mortem exam was conducted on the body of sixteen year old Ivan Choc, who was heartlessly killed in front of his parents and siblings inside their house last Friday night in Roaring Creek Village. Pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran certified that the resident of a Young Bank Road address in Roaring […]
Two-year-old Nina Charlotte Barrera-Perez was removed from her home in Orange Walk Town and taken into protective custody by the Human Services Department five days ago, last Friday. To date her mother, Analiz Gutierrez, has not seen her, and has not been made privy to the location where she is being kept. Human Services officials […]
The Southside of Belize City, knock on wood, is calm. In fact, we’d go so far as to say that there is unprecedented calm where violent crimes are concerned. Here’s a statistic which may come as a surprise to you…since the beginning of September to present, there have been only two murders reported, and we’re […]
While the decrease in crime is significant and welcome, Williams says that if the police had the resources they needed, they would be able to do much more. Lack of resources is a constant cry in the Department, and in this case there is a sore need for vehicles to patrol the Southside. While there […]
Tonight, two Belize City fathers who are sole providers of their children are behind bars after both were convicted of drug trafficking. Two years ago in May 2013, Walter Beaten and Kirk Dougal were found with twenty-five point one kilograms or about fifty-five point three pounds of cannabis stashed inside a van at the George […]
At the end of October, in a landmark ruling, the Caribbean Court of Justice ordered Government to make reparation to the Mayan community for damages suffered. The court ordered the setting up of a fund of three hundred thousand dollars to facilitate the consultation process and dialogue between G.O.B. and the Mayan community. The victory […]
The lack of clarity on the issue, at least where G.O.B. is concerned, has led to some very volatile situations – Rupert Myles and the Santa Cruz Mayans being one of the most distasteful. While Mayans are before the Court after they arrested Myles for damaging a sacred site on their communal land, Myles has […]
The results of the CXC and CAPE Examinations were recently released but were lost in the election fever. We’re finally catching up with the results that indicate that Alisha Anipha Garraway from Stann Creek Ecumenical Junior College was the most outstanding candidate for the 2015 CAPE Exams. Alisha goes on to win the Belize Open […]
The Statistical Institute of Belize has released its trade figures for the third quarter of 2015, showing that the country imported less and exported more. Where imports are concerned, September 2015 saw a one percent drop when compared to September 2014. That has been attributed to a drop in imports to the Commercial Free Zone […]
A symposium held by Friends of Conservation and Development two years ago exposed the state of affairs in the Chiquibul Forest. Since then, the dynamics of illegal activities in the area have changed, primarily following the murder of Tourism Police Constable Danny Conorquie, who was killed while on duty, allegedly at the hands of Guatemalan […]
As to the decrease in illegal logging, Manzanero says that there is a pattern to since the beginning of 2015. In one hand, logging is down, but harvesting of xaté, poaching of the scarlet macaw are way up. Rafael Manzanero, Executive Director, FCD “Yes, there is even much more of a presence on the […]
A hostile battle over custody of a toddler began to unravel over the weekend. Two parents, one Belizean and the other Guatemalan, are tonight before the courts in Belize over guardianship of their two-year-old daughter. The child, Neña Perez, was brought here by her Belizean mother but her father is claiming that the child was […]
In Roaring Creek…a sixteen year old minor of Young Bank Road was callously killed in front of his parents and siblings just before eight o’clock on Friday night. It is a most horrific murder that has left the entire Choc family traumatized. As the family of Ivan Choc was having dinner, someone came knocking at […]
Prior to his murder, sixteen year old Ivan Choc was hit to the pelvis by a gunman about three weeks ago. He was shot near the cemetery in the village as he headed home on bicycle. David Cruz, who is the suspect in Choc’s shooting, is currently on remand at the Central Prison in Hattieville. […]
There is another homicide to report, but local police could not offer any details. A sensational double murder took place over the weekend in the neighbouring Chetumal. A businessman from the Belize Commercial Free Zone, Ernesto Alonso De Miguel, also known as “El Espanol,” was murdered on Saturday, at a popular restaurant across the border. […]
Just a few weeks ago, Belize City was underwater…inundated by a weekend of heavy rain. NEMO had to be pressed into immediate and urgent action to relieve suffering caused by the floodwaters. It hasn’t exactly rated the same attention, but sections of the Toledo District were flooded out this weekend, again because of incessant rains […]
We’ve been following the crisis in the shrimp industry where losses to jobs and finances are massive. Six hundred persons have been let go so far and losses are in the range of thirty million dollars. It is all due to a bacteria that has infected more than fifty percent of the fifteen shrimp farms […]
According to Henderson, the industry is trying to manage the effects of the bacteria to ensure that farms put the strategic response in place. Stakeholders are working along with the Ministry of Agriculture to contain the bacteria. Alvin Henderson, President, Shrimp Growers Association “Well it is a bacteria…and this is unusual. Bacteria is a […]
Today members of both houses of the National Assembly were officially sworn in at an inaugural sitting on Independence Hill in Belmopan. The procedure was primarily ceremonial, conducted with traditional pomp, protocol and political presence of thirty-one elected area representatives and twelve senators. Mike Rudon was in Belmopan as forty-three Belizeans placed their hands on […]
As we’ve reported, Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega was stripped of the natural resources portfolio which he had held since 2008. That powerful ministry was given to Senator Godwin Hulse. It hasn’t exactly been a smooth transition, and we are told that things have been chaotic at the Natural Resources building located in Cohune Walk, […]
There is a huge development in the shrimp industry, and amazingly it’s gone completely under the radar. Because of a widespread viral infection, the industry has lost tens of millions in the past weeks, and all farms countrywide have had to take steps to start all over again from scratch. The infection was transmitted by […]
