An Orange Walk pastor has been arrested and charged on multiple counts of child pornography of two minors. Honduran national Gerardo Lopez of the Evangelical Church in Trial Farm was questioned in connection and confessed that he took the photos of the children, ages two and ten years old. He told police that he was […]
As we reported earlier, there were six persons injured in three other shootings in the Old Capital, but are not linked. Prior to the murder of Vern Magdaleno at the junction of Faber’s Road and Central American Boulevard, three other persons including a fourteen year old girl had already been shot and transported to the […]
Belize’s star striker Deon McCauley is back in the Jewel. As we reported on Thursday, a petition to return McCauley, in time for the Jaguars to prepare for the second round of World Cup qualifying competition, had been spearheaded earlier this week by a dedicated group of football fans. They simply wanted to see the […]
Now that McCauley is back in the country, F.F.B. President, Ruperto Vicente, says that the ball is in his court and he must now show and prove in the days ahead. Isani Cayetano “What’s to happen going forward? He’s here in Belize, have you been able to have an informal conversation with him coming […]
Following a congress of the Football Federation of Belize last Saturday, President Ruperto Vicente informed the media that embattled second vice president Rawell Pelayo was expected to tender his resignation from the post in the days ahead. The Orange Walk businessman and F.F.B. executive was recently deported to Belize after serving time in a U.S. […]
In February 2014, Deon McCauley inked a one-year contract with the Atlanta Silverbacks to play in the North American Professional League. During that time he has had to undergo surgery for an injury he received while playing for the team. McCauley has since recovered successfully but only to find himself without a team. Along with […]
It hasn’t happened just yet, but the Caribbean and Central American regions are keenly aware that there is some intention by large European and US banks to end relations with small domestic banks in countries like Belize. The threat is serious enough that the matter was raised as a priority on the agenda at the […]
The Belize Tourism Board is in a financial crunch and has been for some time. The company which is responsible for marketing Belize, we are told, has had to impose serious austerity programs after amassing debts in the millions of dollars. Sources at the Ministry of Tourism point to mismanagement as one factor, but also […]
The tourism industry has lost one of its pioneers. Peter Tonti, the C.E.O. of Cahal Pech Village Resort passed away on Thursday. Tonti has been visiting Belize since the nineteen seventies as part of the Peace Corps. He fell in love with the country and decided to make it his home. He made his first […]
Mayor Darrell Bradley has been anointed the U.D.P. candidate in Caribbean Shores, no messy convention, no nasty mudslinging, no big spending and no bloodshed – just…well for lack of a better word – suavecito. The announcement came from U.D.P. leader Dean Barrow at the Party’s headquarters today. Flanked by both Santiago “Santino” Castillo Junior and […]
The sudden departure of Castillo raises eyebrows, since when last we spoke to him he was very critical of Bradley, and very confident of victory in any convention. He claimed that he had the support of the people and in fact the entire Cabinet. Almost overnight, it seems, that tune has changed from salsa to […]
So on June seventh, there will be a convention, but it will be an endorsement of the U.D.P.’s crown prince Darrell Bradley. It’ll be the Mayor’s first time in the big leagues, but true to form he is unfazed and ready to roll. Darrell Bradley, New Caribbean Shores Candidate “At this present moment I […]
Following his political announcement, the PM spoke to the media on a myriad of issues, including one very recent and serious discovery. Auditors and the police have been called into the Treasury Department to investigate an inside scam which netted perpetrators somewhere in the region of half a million dollars – allegedly diverted when persons […]
Puerto Azul, arguably the largest foreign direct investment in tourism in Belize, should it become a reality, was the subject of a press conference earlier today by a debt holder who is claiming ownership of Northern Two Cayes, the islands on which the billion-dollar development will take place. John Mills returned to Belize recently and […]
The government hasn’t been having much luck where mega-million dollar tourism investment in Belize is concerned. The interest is there, and perhaps so is the real intent, but the projects don’t seem to be able to get off the ground. Two of those grand-scale visions have been the Puerto Azul eight star resort complex and […]
N.T.U.C.B. Second Vice-President, Audrey Matura-Shepherd has called for the head of Senator Ray Davis because he abstained when asked to vote on the controversial Petrocaribe Bill. Matura has gone so far as to say that she will lobby for him to be removed, though she feels that he should do the honourable thing and resign. […]
Last Friday, a bail hearing for Coastguard Seaman Keyren Tzib was deferred to today, following orders of Justice Herbert Lord that an evaluation be conducted to determine the psychological condition of the officer and the medical condition of the shooting victim. Tzib was charged and arraigned for Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and the Use of […]
Tzib was returning from a twelve-day operation at sea with a team of Coast Guard, B.D.F., Police and Port Authority personnel. One hundred yards from shore, she allegedly turned her M-four Carbine on Captain Hyde, and shot him once in the jaw. The incident reportedly occurred in front of many persons, but could it have […]
Ray Davis….he is the union senator, who, since the passing of the Petrocaribe Loans Act, has come under much fire for his abstention from vote in the senate. A document has been circulating in the media that the embattled senator had written to the N.T.U.C.B. asking for C.W.U. President, Audrey Matura-Shepherd, to be involved and […]
As to the criticism that Matura-Shepherd wants to replace Davis as the union senator, the second vice president had some choice words for those persons. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, 2nd Vice President, N.T.U.C.B. “Oh man, those who think so, I hope you are not one of them Daniel…that’s so low. I respect all senators; been there, […]
A weekend incident between an Orange Walk resident and three law enforcement officers, caught on candid camera, has gone viral. Actually it’s more than just an incident. A Police Constable and two Special Constables were allegedly following up a report that Andres Rodriguez was following an unidentified woman. They caught up to Rodriguez at his […]
Today, two completed sections of road were officially inaugurated – that section from San Narciso to San Victor in the Corozal District, and another section from the old Northern Highway to its junction with B.S.I. It’s a total of seven point eight miles of road which cost a little over eight million dollars, funded by […]
The Road Rehabilitation done in the area of San Narciso and san Victor will benefit the farmers and residents in those communities and in the vicinity. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s just a drop in the bucket. The industry is faced with major concerns because indications are that farmers across the board […]
There is a gruesome murder to report in the community of Maxboro on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, thirty-one year old mechanic Leon Leslie Sr. was brutally killed in his home. His decomposed body was discovered Monday evening, and it was immediately obvious to Police that his death […]
Two men have been charged in connection with the latest homicide in San Ignacio. Twenty-one-year-old Wendell Ovando, a construction worker of Kontiki area in San Ignacio, Cayo, and a fifteen-year-old student were slapped with murder charges for the death of twenty-four-year-old Aurelio Montero Jr. San Ignacio Police say the third suspect has since handed himself […]
