Police are reporting a significant cocaine bust in San Pedro Town involving known members of the Victoria Street gang. It happened at around 12:30pm today in an apartment in the San Pedrito Area. When the Police Strike Team descended on the apartment, they found well known gang affiliated players in the drug trade – forty-five […]
On Monday night, we told you about the employees who had gathered at the grounds of Santander because they had issues about salaries. Workers were complaining about payments they received on Friday, but according to Santander, it was really workers who were confused about the monies they received and that everything was resolved by the […]
On Monday, Lake Independence Area Representative Mark King announced that a total of eleven families that have been settling illegally on a six-acre parcel near the Chetumal Street Bridge will be relocated with government’s assistance. While title for property within city limits is virtually impossible to come by without purchasing privately, the squatters will be […]
According to the area representative, the expedited process should be completed by the end of this week. That was, of course, for the initial list of squatters who needed to be relocated. The additional names would require identification of other parcels in Cotton Tree Village. Nonetheless, King encourages residents to follow the existing procedure to […]
On Monday evening, a video was uploaded to Facebook showing a police officer and two special constables attempting to handcuff a man and hitting him in the process, resulting in a bloody face. The incident, which happened on Sunday night in Orange Walk Town, shows the civilian, Andres Rodrigues, on the ground appearing to refuse […]
Tonight, a small community in Roaring Creek Village known as Hattieville is still in shock, and residents are afraid, following a bold execution of one man and the attempted murder of another over the weekend. Early Saturday morning, a lone gunman targeted twenty-four-year-old Allen Garbutt and his friend, twenty-four-year-old Jermaine Welcome, as they stood outside […]
The second murder of the weekend occurred after nine on Saturday morning in the heart of Ghost Town gang territory. Five bullets made its mark on forty-year-old Edward Usher inside his yard on Mayflower Street; his body was discovered face down on the steps of a two-storey wooden house. Family and friends gathered as police […]
On January seventeenth, B.D.F. soldier Denver Villafranco was stabbed and killed in Belize City. Three days after, Police arrested forty-one-year-old Phil Staine and thirty-eight year old Orlando Staine and charged them for the murder. Today, they say their investigation has been completed with the arrest and arraignment of a third brother, thirty-three-year-old Kareem Staine. Staine […]
Were Santander employees protesting salary issues this morning? Well, that was the word going around. Over twenty workers were in front of the company’s offices today querying about pay they received on Friday. According to a release issued by the Santander Group late this evening, the protest was the result of a misunderstanding which had […]
So, were the employees protesting or not? Santander rep in Belize, Beverly Burke says it wasn’t a protest but rather a miscommunication in the issuance of payments made on Friday, as result of an advance that the company had extended out of good faith to some employees. Here is how she explains it. Via […]
People’s United Party Orange Walk East Area Representative Dr. Marco Tulio Mendez was back in court today after being arraigned on six charges stemming from allegations made by a pair of minors. The beleaguered politician was arraigned in Orange Walk Town before magistrate Merlene Moody on February third where he was read a list of […]
In court on behalf of Mendez was Senior Counsel Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley. He explained the nature of the charges brought against his client. Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, Attorney for Marco Tulio Mendez “Because these charges are way out of time, the law requires that you can bring a matter in front of any magistrate court […]
On Easter Monday, twenty-four year old Coast Guard Seaman Keyren Tzib shot a senior Coast Guard Officer, Petty Officer Kurt Hyde, as they returned to base on board a vessel he was captaining. The sensational, bold shooting was witnessed by other members of the team on the boat. On Tuesday, following an investigation by Police, […]
Keyren Tzib is to return to Court on Wednesday, April fifteenth at two-thirty in the afternoon. At that time, a determination on her bail will be granted, based at least in part on the results of a psychiatric evaluation which must be conducted on her. Much has been said in the media about Tzib’s state […]
This week has been a particularly violent one … there have been three murders in the same number of days. On Thursday night, just before eleven o’clock, thirty-two year old Michael Horace Foreman of Iguana Street Extension, Belize City became the third murder victim. He was hanging out on Taylor’s Alley when he was shot […]
While there have been no leads in the murder of Foreman, twenty-seven year old Ladyville resident, Ehud Haulze remains in police custody in connection with the murder of twenty-four year old Mark Rhamdas who was killed on Wednesday. Haulze’s forty-eight hours in lockdown are about to expire, but no charges have been levied as yet. […]
San Ignacio Police have been piecing the story together of a man who was found badly beaten at the San Ignacio Welcome Center and died five days later at the K.H.M.H. It is reported that the man was drinking and later attacked by three men on Holy Saturday morning. After circulating the photo of the […]
On Thursday night, we reported that thirteen families were facing eviction from their homes in the Lake Independence Boulevard area. They have been removed twice before for squatting, but now, the parcel of land has been acquired from government by a Chinese businessman. The area is undergoing a multimillion dollar transformation and while the businessman […]
Senator Ray Davis, union representative, has come under sustained fire for abstaining to vote on the Petrocaribe Loans Bill. On April first, the N.T.U.C.B. met to discuss the controversial bill which was actually passed two days before that. Davis, who was a part of that meeting, was called up to explain his abstention which had […]
The Berkeley Street area in Belize City has quickly become a hotspot in the Old Capital. There have been several shootings and a murder in recent days. At about six o’clock on Wednesday night, there was another homicide. Twenty-five year old Mark Anthony Rhamdas was executed as he rode his motorcycle in an alley where […]
The second murder in the past twenty-four hours took place in the west and police needs the public’s assistance in identifying a man who was badly beaten and found at the Cayo Welcome Center with head injuries on Saturday. Police believe that he had been partying and was intoxicating prior to the violent attack on […]
On Wednesday’s newscast we brought you the story of nine year old Katerin Michel Perez, a student in San Pedro who was badly burned in an accident in her home on Good Friday. A network of Good Samaritans, here and abroad, worked a miracle to get Katerin and her father, Jose Roberto Perez, flown out […]
A senior employee of the Belmopan City Council, in fact the head of the Engineering Section, is out of a job with absolutely no warning. Javier Novelo was a head of section, responsible for inspecting and signing off on payment for Council contracts. All indications are that he was an exemplary worker. So why was […]
The Belize City House of Culture and Downtown Rejuvenation Project – it’s been dubbed revolutionary by its creators, the Government of Belize and the National Institute of Culture and History. The plan is to take downtown Belize back to the days of old when the area was a small colonial settlement on the Haulover Creek. […]
According to Musa, any search for identity or preservation of identity will not come from renovations to structures or a museum embracing colonial days. Instead, he says the fifteen million could be much better spend on our people, equipping them with the tools to move forward, and not backward. Yasser Musa, Former President, NICH […]
