This past Wednesday morning, a hail of bullets rang out on Boots Crescent. A fourteen year old primary school girl was shot as she sat in the living room of her house. Alondra Trapp had to be hospitalized for the injuries to her leg. Two men, Anthony Dennison and Erington Flowers, who were outside the […]
Recaptured inmate Edgar Roberts was today slapped with charges of damage to property and escape. On April twenty-sixth, Roberts who was incarcerated in the medium security area of the Hattieville prison, escaped by breaking the lock of his cell. He was re-captured two days later at the intersection of the Southern Highway by Dangriga Police. […]
An attempted robbery was reported this afternoon at the Texaco Service Station near the Bel-China Bridge. The incident happened around four-fifteen as gas attendants went about their work. The two assailants did not enter the food mart, nor did they get away with anything, but they did unleash gunshots. Police visited the gas station and […]
Four men including a minor will be arraigned before the magistrate’s court in San Ignacio on Monday following arrests in connection with the Mother’s Day murder of Chinese national Zhen Zhennong in Santa Elena. This afternoon San Ignacio police jointly charged eighteen year old Anthony Dennison, twenty year old Denfield Tasher Jr., twenty nine year […]
The petroleum oil spill that killed eleven workers and injured seventeen more in the Gulf of Mexico is still causing havoc despite efforts to bring it under control. The Deepwater Horizon sank after an explosion blasted the rig on April twentieth. The oil rig was owned by BP, formerly British Petroleum, which is the planet’s […]
Earlier we told you about the community mourning the murder of Aubrey Lopez who leaves behind a wife and their eight year old son Jayden. His loss is not only being felt by family and friends but also by the sports enthusiasts. Yvette Price, the president of Belmopan’s Volleyball Association said that in his youth, […]
Students who recently sat the PSE are anxiously awaiting the results but teachers are worried that performance in one of two core subjects is significantly below their expectations. Math has long been a problem subject for most primary and secondary school students and their shortcomings in that discipline is evident in the PSE. The exams […]
There is an abundance of information on how to prevent HIV and for persons already infected, how to cope and take care of themselves. While a key area is counseling, the fact is that Belize has a shortage of trained counselors, which is why WinBelize has collaborated with PAHO and the University of the West […]
There were no classes today and the kids at the Liberty Children’s Home in Ladyville had another reason to celebrate. They got a visit today from their friends at the Radisson who brought along a van for them to hand paint. But it was not just for fun, the van will be a form of […]
The undeterred murder rampage on Belize City streets hit home for one politician whose family tonight is coping with the loss of their son. The shocking news spread early this morning that thirty year old Aubrey Lopez, the son of Belmopan Mayor, Simeon Lopez, was gunned down execution style on Wednesday night inside a car […]
The murder of Aubrey Lopez has sent shockwaves in Belize City and in the Capital. Lopez has made many friends over the years, some of whom consider him a brother. He is also a well known basketball player and was the captain and team leader of the Belmopan Bandits, which is the leader in the […]
On Tuesday, Cabinet admitted that crime has reached crisis proportion and that the behavior of rogue cops had contributed to the loss of confidence in the police department. Opposition Leader John Briceño says that government is stating the obvious. Along with two ultimatums, Briceño gave some indication of what his party would do to address […]
The People’s United Party also called for the removal of Carlos Perdomo as Minister of National Security and says structural changes within the top brass of the Police Department are urgently needed. John Briceño, Leader of the Opposition “When you start to lose confidence in, in an organization, like in this case in the issue […]
The number of persons who polled on the question if they supported offshore oil drilling rose to seventy-nine percent this morning. The environmental community has had its say and they have come out flatly against offshore drilling. On this hot button issue we ask: Do you agree with APAMO that there should be a ban […]
On Wednesday night’s newscast we showed you the updated Belize Petroleum Contracts map. The February map listed seventeen companies which have been given concessions to explore for oil on land and sea. That number now reaches eighteen as one more company, Northern Spirit Resources, has also been granted a license to search for oil. News […]
And if there is a time in which the various government departments need to consult, the time is now. According to Andre Cho, the Inspector of Petroleum in the Department of Geology and Petroleum, none of the oil companies are in the drilling stage. On Wednesday Citizens Organized for Liberty Through Action (COLA) joined the […]
A post mortem examination has been conducted on the body of twenty six year old Zhennong Zhen. According to Doctor Mario Estradabran, the cause of death is Exsanguinations. The gunshot wound to the chest injured the aorta which caused internal and external bleeding. On Mother’s Day after ten p.m., Zhennong and her husband were inside […]
On Wednesday night Belize City Councillor, Kevin Singh, revealed that there were no accounting of monies which vendors at the Queen Square Market had been paying into City Hall’s Finance Department towards their arrears for stalls. Singh explained that the Finance Department at City Hall could give him no satisfactory account about the monies the […]
There are enough complaints about the behavior of rogue cops. Well, there is one more the Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jefferies, has to deal with. His driver is accused of attacking a fifteen year old student on May tenth. The minor is enrolled at the Tubal Training School in Ladyville, but has been on job […]
For months complaints of brutality and even murder against cops have gone unheeded, but with public outrage at an all time high, there is now a rush to make arrests. It is reported that as many as six officers are being questioned after gunmen opened fire on the Western Highway checkpoint over the weekend. One […]
There are two reported cases of human trafficking of minors. In the first case, a fifteen year old girl was being kept against her will in Bullet Tree Falls. According to the police in San Ignacio, the young girl was allegedly being abused and exploited at the Riverside Bar and forced to work at the […]
Is he a shop-keeper or a chef? That was the question that the courts were trying to figure out today. Thirty one-year-old Chinese national, Zijia Li, of Corozal Town was caught in violation of his work permit and today they took him to court to answer to a single immigration charge of having failed to […]
It’s been a little over two weeks since Jamaican fishermen Anthony Hibberd and Jason Noble safely returned to their homeland after being lost at sea for over a month before being rescued near Mexico by a freighter en route to Belize. While their ordeal at sea ended miraculously one Belizean family is tonight praying for […]
Operacion Milagros or in English, Mission Miracle, is getting ready to send a second group of eye patients to receive free corrective eye surgery in Venezuela. The program is sponsored by that country’s government and it offers free testing and surgery plus covers the costs of transportation and accommodations. Mission Miracle had a successful first […]
The Miss Latina Pageant Organization in Corozal has announced it is sending a delegate to compete in the twenty-ninth Miss Latina America del Mundo 2010 Pageant. This is the third time a Belizean is participating and the organization has high hopes for eighteen year old Nayely Torres of Orange Walk. Torres was chosen out of […]
