Gary Sewell has been fighting extradition to the US since 2010, and after a decision handed down by Justice Michelle Arana today, he will need to take that fight to the Court of Appeal. In 2013, Sewell’s extradition was given the green light in the Magistrate’s Court, and attorney Arthur Saldivar then submitted a habeas […]
The interim Auditor-General’s report was submitted almost four months ago and there is no sign of the final report which, hopefully, will be made privy to the public. Now we know the wheels of government grind slowly, but four months? There are still plenty of unanswered questions coming out of the interim version, which was […]
Seventy-one-year-old Ramon Cervantes Sr. has been missing since Tuesday. Early that morning, the Orange Walk Town businessman, cane-farmer, former senator and mayor left home for his farm, located on the San Roman road in the Mamayal Area. His family hasn’t seen him since, and his vehicle was found abandoned on the cane-field. Today, Orange Walk […]
While the Cervantes family is convinced that Ramon Cervantes Sr. was taken against his will, the police are treating the matter as a missing person report – but not just any ordinary missing person report. By ten this morning, there were checkpoints set up in at least three different locations, a call for reinforcements and […]
The concern over the disappearance of Ramon Cervantes Sr. has been overwhelming. As we told you, the family believes that the elderly man was overpowered at his cane-field and then taken away by unknown persons. Cervantes is a prominent businessman in Orange Walk Town, and also served as Mayor of that municipality from 1989-1991 and […]
Vehicular traffic along the BelChina Bridge on Youth for the Future Drive came to a brief standstill around nine-thirty this morning when Belize City police were called out to bank of the Haulover Creek. Floating nearby was the lifeless body of an unidentified female. With the assistance of residents in the area they were able […]
Corozal police are seeking public assistance in identifying the body of a middle-aged man who succumbed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Tuesday morning from injuries he received almost one month ago. The individual of Hispanic descent was found along the Xaibe Road on June ninth in an unconscious state and was subsequently transported […]
Late this evening, arguments concluded before Supreme Court Justice Courtney Abel in the case of the Belize Tourism Industry Association (B.T.I.A.) and the Department of the Environment and National Environmental Appraisal Committee (NEAC). The B.T.I.A. is challenging separate decisions of NEAC and D.O.E. in relation to the environmental impact assessment for Harvest Caye, a project […]
Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith has sentenced convicted police officer Ronald Sutherland to four years two months in prison after finding him guilty of wounding, aggravated assault with a machete and threatening words upon his estrange common-law wife Tanisha Ortiz. Ortiz testified that on the night of September 26th, 2013, an irate Sutherland came home and stoned […]
On Friday night a resident of Independence was savagely mauled by vicious dogs while coming home at around eleven thirty from a fishing trip. The attack happened on a deserted stretch of road which connects the lagoon to a residential area known as Malacate. Twenty-three year old Jeffery O’Brien was bitten all over his body. […]
Three days, three murders in the city…The killing of Malcolm Wagner and Samuel Miguel was followed by another homicide in the dangerous streets of south side Belize City. Shortly after eight on Monday night, a minor, Myron Smith, was gunned down on Brown Street in the Lake Independence. Smith was riding along with two other […]
Police are reporting another loss of life to violence. Lloyd Augustus was attacked back on April sixteenth in Belize City. He was badly beaten and sustained numerous injuries and had to be hospitalized. His attacker, Sherman Rodney, who is no stranger to the law, was charged with Attempted Murder a few days after the incident […]
There was a frightening home invasion a few days ago. Just before nine o’clock on Sunday night, a thirty year old woman was held up at gun point at her house on Faber’s Road Extension. The woman was with her six-month old baby when an unidentified masked man entered her house. Scared and fearing for […]
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Twenty days ago, baby Laureny Pena was born to Corozal resident, Laura Pena, by cesarean section. She was past the due date by a week, but nothing seemed amiss and the mother and newborn were discharged from the Northern Regional Hospital in Orange Walk Town. All seemed well until Saturday night when the couple had […]
Vanessa Paris Champagne is causing another quandary, but this time, she is behind bars. And it is because it is not clear if the transgender woman should be placed in the female or the male block of the Belize Central Prison. Champagne, who has been attacked more than once, was today before the court to […]
There were two murders over the weekend and by any account both were senseless. Early on Saturday morning, the body of Samuel Miguel was found in a parking lot on Cemetery Road. Weeks ago, the twenty-two year old landed his first job at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and had just received his pay check. […]
Approximately twelve hours after the lifeless body of Samuel Miguel was found, several shots rang out on Flamboyant Street in the Lake Independence Area. Malcolm “Frisky” Wagner was targeted by a gunman in a car. His family believes he was lured to his murder because he interrupted viewing the World Cup and headed out of […]
The gun-violence continued through to the wee hours of this morning. Thirty-one year old Albert Castro is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the head on Fabers Road around three-thirty this morning. The taxi operator was in the company of a female friend in his taxi when […]
There is another shooting to report; twenty-three year old Carlton Augustine, a B.D.F. soldier, is recovering from gunshot wounds he sustained over the weekend. On Saturday night, shortly before eight o’clock, Augustine was returning from dropping home his girlfriend when he visited a residence on Curl Thompson Street. Reports are that he had only just […]
There were several accidents over the weekend resulting in one fatality in Independence and at least ten person injured in Independence and Belmopan. We start with a fender bender in Belize City on Sunday afternoon. At just after two p.m., a white government issued Toyota Prado being driven by Minister of Education Patrick Faber was […]
An elderly man is dead and at least six others injured in a horrible road traffic accident this morning. It happened in the Savannah area about two miles from the junction with the Southern Highway. At around seven fifteen am a school bus was heading to Independence High School carrying new first form students for […]
There is another death to report tonight and it involves a man who was mauled to death in Independence in southern Belize. Jeffrey O’brien was returning home from a fishing trip when he was attached by two pit bulls after eleven on Saturday night. It is not clear who are the owners of the […]
Four years after being behind bars for dousing and setting her husband on fire, Lavern “Anti-Christ” Longsworth heard her fate. This afternoon, she smiled on the docks as President of the Court of Appeal Justice Manuel Sosa read the decision of the court to her. Longsworth was convicted of the murder of her common-law husband, […]
One year and a half after the charge of facilitating the landing of a drug plane was struck out against six men by Justice Denis Hanomansingh, the Court of Appeal has ordered a retrial. The men – Police Officers Lawrence Humes, Renell Grant, Nelson Middleton, Jacinto Roches, Customs Boatman Harold Usher and civilian Victor Logan […]
