The weekend violence continued on Saturday night. In Belize City, Kjiel Young’s life was snuffed out of him and one knows for sure why he was executed as he sat in a yard on Vernon Street. Several shots found their mark on the back of the nineteen year old whose demise was immediate. His execution […]
The gun violence in the Old Capital continued today. Over fifteen shots fired and three injured this afternoon. That’s what happened on Gill Street around two today. Residents say they heard about fifteen or more shots that sent people in the area for cover. But when the bullets stopped flying and the air cleared, three […]
The fourth person to die over the weekend is from Belmopan where a freak accident claimed the life of thirty-two year old Zack Leonard August, who attempted to elude police after a robbery. According to reports, August had already cut the lock on the front door of the La Inmaculada Credit Union in Belmopan when […]
A U.S. fugitive is back in the U.S. after being apprehended by the Placencia Police on Thursday. On the strength of a warrant issued by the United States Government, forty-three year old William Elmer Pettijohn was wanted in Jones County, Texas for the crimes of “Child Sex Assault” and “Human Trafficking.” Pettijohn entered the country […]
An internal investigation by the Professional and Standards Branch of the Belize Police Department is currently underway in Dangriga following allegations of police brutality made by a family in that southern municipality. Twenty-one year old John Pascal is tonight in a state of coma at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was allegedly beaten […]
Almost four years ago, then forty-eight year old Lucilla Bartley, a single mother of two, was charged for the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Osborne Gordon, and remanded to the Belize Central Prison. The stabbing took place at the corner of Cemetery Road and Curassow Street just after midnight on Easter Sunday, 2011. The bicycle repair […]
Twenty-year-old Kashief Bevans was arraigned in the Orange Walk Magistrates Court this morning on a single count of murder. His indictment follows the shooting death of eighteen-year-old Derrick Romero who was killed while socializing inside his yard on Wednesday morning. Bevans, a resident of number twelve Waight Street, Belize City, appeared before Magistrate Merlene Moody […]
There is another arrest regarding a murder last weekend. A sixteen year old minor from Roaring Creek is tonight spending his first night behind bars following his arraignment for the fatal stabbing of Dernell Brown at the Agricultural Show Grounds. The minor is accused of stabbing Brown to the right side of the head following […]
If you’ve visited the Belize Met Service website anytime in the past six months, you’ve likely seen the words – RADAR IMAGE NOT AVAILABLE – with an explanation that the radar is not operational due to technical difficulties. Actually, the radar has been down since October last year, and it is not expected to be […]
Earlier we told you about the Met Service’s radar which is down, and has been down since last year October. But even so, the Met Service is doing its thing, and as it does every year, provided the media with the predictions for the Hurricane Season which opens in a few weeks. Chief Met Officer […]
David Enriquez, Francis Palacio, Hassan Palacio and Octaviana Lopez…Police believe all four are involved in the bold theft of half a million dollars from the government treasury. Enriquez, charged with theft, received bail a week ago. Hassan Palacio and Francis Palacio, charged with handling stolen goods, also received bail a week ago. And this morning […]
Today, the Board of Directors of the La Inmaculada Credit Union issued a release on an internal investigation taking place at that institution. That investigation has been common knowledge for more than a week now, and so has the fact that General Manager Yolanda Gomez has been placed on administrative leave. While the release comes […]
This Friday, a convention takes place in the Albert Division for the endorsement of Tourism C.E.O., Tracy Taegar-Panton as standard bearer for the U.D.P. Panton is to replace Minister of State Herman Longsworth who is not seeking re-election and is stepping aside for Taegar-Panton. But things are heating up on the eve of the endorsement […]
In other news on the U.D.P…..today, Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega and Ramon Cervantes Jr., the man who will contest him in Orange Walk North were in court. The DPM had not been showing up in court until today. He is suing Cervantes for libel, for causing the broadcast of a tape recording of a […]
There was another issue which Musa addressed when he exited the CJ’s Chambers. Rumours about very drastic changes within the executive structure of the People’s United Party have been making the rounds since municipal elections two months ago. And one of the names repeatedly mentioned in those reports is that of former Prime Minister and […]
A fire gutted a small house on Aloe Vera Street in Belize City just before noon today. The homeowner was not at home when she heard the dreadful news that her house was on fire. On the night before the fire, there were threats of arson. While Caroline Hamilton believes it is arson, the fire […]
A young girl died on Tuesday at the K.H.M.H., and it has resulted in a minor panic at the school she attended. Five year old Stella Maris student Veronica Cal took ill suddenly with flu-like symptoms last Thursday, and by the time she was admitted to the K.H.M.H. on Monday, there was nothing doctors could […]
An on-duty security guard of Guadalupe Street in Belize City is tonight recovering from a gunshot to the neck. Thirty-one year old Victor Hendy was shot as he stood watch at New Asia Restaurant on Vernon Street just before nine o’clock on Wednesday night. Hendy was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and underwent […]
A Burrell Boom resident was to get married this weekend, but instead he will be behind bars for Sexual Assault upon a Child. This morning, twenty-one year old Jamel Seguro appeared in court before Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith seeking bail for the sexual allegation made against him. But this afternoon bail was denied and […]
A mid-morning murder in Sugar City has left family and friends stunned and Orange Walk police none the wiser as to a motive for the fatal shooting. Shortly before eleven o’clock this morning, eighteen-year-old Derrick Romero became the fifth murder victim since the beginning of the year in Orange Walk Town. He was along with […]
At about three o’clock today veteran seaman and well-known Belizean Romaldo “Romy” Badillo passed away in Guatemala. It is tragic news for his family and many friends who have been praying for his recovery since he was hurt in a boat explosion on Holy Thursday, April second. His family is in Guatemala and has been […]
The murder of a cab driver in San Pedro last week has brought the police department under intense public scrutiny yet again for alleged use of excessive force. Twenty-three-year-old Luis Campos was a person of interest in the grisly homicide of Jose Beltran who was found dead inside his vehicle in a remote location on […]
According to Selgado, information included in the statement taken from Campos was tendered while his client was under extreme duress. The statement, Selgado further adds, will be dismissed in court since Campos was beaten into cooperating with the police. Oscar Selgado, Attorney for Luis Campos “The message I want to send to Mr. Broaster […]
P.U.P. leader, Francis Fonseca is taking Prime Minister Dean Barrow to court. He says the Prime Minister is acting illegally by not allowing the thirteenth Senator to be appointed. Five years ago, in 2010, this government passed the Sixth Amendment which contained twenty-three sections in total. All those sections have been put into play except […]
The thirteenth senator was actually a campaign promise of the Barrow administration, and the legislation contrived and passed by this government. So why hasn’t it happened yet? The Prime Minister has an explanation for that. He says that after second thought, he realized an additional Senator for the N.G.O.s could paralyze the government. That’s his […]
