But at the start of the weekend, a terrible road traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway on Friday evening resulted in the death of two men and blocked the road for hours. Thirty-one year old Duane Pelayo and forty-eight year old Gerald Gillett are said to have died almost instantly when the motorcycle they […]
The death of Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist teacher, Stephen Michael Junior, shocked the community. Michael Junior was found dead on a bed inside his home at the corner of Jaguar Avenue and Tapir Street off Fabers Road Extension. He was found by his housekeeper bleeding from the mouth and nose and the door to his […]
Police have not released the name of a man who died at the health centre in Burrell Boom on Saturday. According to reports, the man was drinking in front of the gas station in the village when he allegedly complained that he was not feeling well. He was immediately taken to the health centre and […]
Hattieville Chairman Kevin Carcamo has been missing since July twentieth and the search for him has continued unabated. The Discover-seis employee went to work that day and never came home. Every day since then employees of the company have joined his friends and family, the Police, Coast Guard and B.D.F. in combing the area where […]
In the wake of the unexplained disappearance of Hattieville chairman Kevin Carcamo, reports have been spreading like wildfire across the community that the company, for which he worked, had lost a cache of high-powered explosives. Over the weekend, the reports concerning the loss of charges from Discoverseis’ in Hattieville led to a police raid being […]
A Belizean fugitive wanted by the US has been spotted in Belize. Physician, Errol Elrington, a sibling of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is wanted in the United States on a slew of criminal offenses related to his profession as a medical practitioner. His name appears in the list of the U.S. Office of the […]
Quality of Life Crimes…they are on the books and are now being enforced as a way to target criminal elements. Over three hundred persons were detained in the past three weeks as police crackdown on quality of life crimes. The controversial arrests have caused public outrage because a number of persons have been arrested unnecessarily […]
The Belize City Police Department, under its new head of command, Assistant Commissioner of Police Dezerie Phillips, at its press conference today spoke of the success of several ongoing initiatives by the department. The police top brass says that aside from the Israeli Galile automatic rifle that was discovered in an abandoned lot off Fabers […]
A security guard is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot on Saturday night. Alejandro Calderon told Police that he was inside his home at Caribbean Shrimp in Ladyville when somebody stoned his house. He came outside and was immediately hit with a single blast from a shotgun. The area is […]
A twenty-three-year-old man, Edwin Flores and his sixteen year old Honduran girlfriend have been charged with the alleged extortion of an Orange Walk businessman. The couple is accused of attempting to blackmail Wilbert Valencia of eight thousand dollars, but a sting operation by the police on Thursday afternoon led to their arrests. The minor was […]
The arrest of Edwin Flores resulted in the arrest of another Honduran national, Francisco Rodriguez. On June twenty-five, a massive early morning fire on Newtown Barracks gutted two massive wooden buildings and tragically ended the life of twenty-one year old Jacqueline Arteaga. The mother of three children was pregnant and trapped in the upper flat […]
Both the arson and the sting operation that resulted in the arrest of a couple involved in the extortion of eight thousand dollars from an Orange Walk businessman also led to the detention of four other persons. Police confirmed today that known affiliates of the transnational criminal gang, Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 are operating in […]
Margaret Vasquez, her daughter, Kimberly Betran and son-in-law, Martin Matura were before the court late this afternoon to answer to the charges of Kept Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition without a Gun License. It follows the discovery at their house on Unity Street of a point thirty eight revolver loaded with three live rounds of ammunition. Only […]
Another land dispute which was put to rest today involves a parcel near the municipal airstrip in San Pedro which is under construction by Tropic Air. The airline company was in the process of expanding its operations on the island by building a maintenance facility when it received a stop order on June nineteenth. The […]
The ongoing dispute between the Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association, BGYEA, and the Government of Belize, over the use of the road reserve adjacent to Harmonyville, will see both parties attempting to resolve the matter amicably through mediation. Since making public its intention to plant corn within the buffer zone, BGYEA has come under intense […]
While BGYEA and government have been given a forty-five day window during which the matter should be discussed and resolved, the proceedings will be kept off the record. According to Matura-Shepherd, the idea of settling issues behind closed doors helps to ease an otherwise overloaded court system. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, Attorney for BGYEA “Whatever is […]
If you were glued to the TV over the weekend, you probably caught at least a bit of the Prime Minister’s extended sit down with banker Steven Duncan. It clocked in at just over an hour and a quarter and the nation’s leader spoke on a matter of issues from corruption and infrastructure to the […]
And while the PM can speak openly about the corruption of some members of Cabinet, he maintains that he personally has held firmly to his integrity, and that, more than anything else, will be the legacy he would like to leave behind when his political career comes to an end. Prime Minister Dean Barrow […]
It has not been a good year for manatees; a growing number of the endangered mammals has been killed in boating accidents. Over the weekend, a mature female manatee perished after she was hit by a Caye Caulker Water Taxi in the area of the tourist village. Conservationists, who were alerted by a passenger on […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. We jump immediately into yesterday’s big match at Lords Bank Field where Survivors played host to Willows Bank United. We’re in the 2nd inning were the base are loaded when Stacey Smith crushes this pitch from Jacqueline Cassassola of Willows Bank to bring in […]
As we reported earlier, late this evening a traffic accident took place around mile seven on the Philip Goldson Highway. Two persons died when the motorcycle they were riding on collided head on into a B.T.B. pickup coming from the opposite direction. The two persons on the cycle were killed when their bodies were flung […]
Early this morning the body of twenty-eight year old Stephen Michaels Junior was discovered in his home at the corner of Jaguar and Tapir Streets in the Faber’s Road area. He was lying in his bed, bleeding from the mouth, with a pool of blood under his head. Police were called to the area at […]
There was a murder on San Pedro on Wednesday morning, which is believed to have been the cause of a domestic dispute; a twenty-eight year old tour guide on the island was stabbed multiple times and succumbed after he hemorrhaged from an injury to the left thigh. Felix Alamilla was sleeping at a rental house […]
U.S. Capital Energy is tonight one step closer to drilling for oil in the Sarstoon Temash National Park. On Thursday, a convoy of vehicles carrying heavy equipment used to set up a drill rig entered the country at the northern border. The fleet is the first of several containing the necessary items to be used […]
Belizeans have been following with much interest the curious case of Nasley Sommerville, formerly the administrator of the Southern Regional Hospital. She has been under investigation for at least a year, for misappropriation of what is said to be hundreds of thousands of dollars. She has been the subject of particular interest in an […]
