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 […]
As we told you, the Petrocaribe Bill was discussed by the N.T.U.C.B. after it was actually passed, and not before. So we wondered if perhaps the abstention by Senator Ray Davis could have been the result of his not being clear on the position of or mandate from the unions. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, Second Vice-President, […]
American Businessman and owner of the Palapa Bar in San Pedro, Scott Harnish, was busted with over one hundred thousand U.S dollars in his home. On Tuesday, April seventh, it is reported that authorities visited Harnish’s home on the north end of San Pedro when they made the discovery. Harnish was detained and released that […]
Three Belizeans and a Guatemalan were among a group of thirteen persons whose bail application was heard today by Justice Herbert Lord. The four were successful in obtaining bail. Well-known criminal figures Alrick Smith and Ronald Michael, were first to get bail. They were arraigned on March fifteenth, 2015, for the attempt on the life […]
It was an emotional time in court for five Honduran nationals who were caught illegally in the country; they are facing jail time since they are unable to pay their fines. They group left Honduras on March twenty third en route to Belize to seek employment. They spent six days searching for jobs in the […]
The Belize Police Department will be carrying out its national recruitment examination on Saturday at seven a.m. across the country. Today, Public Relations Officer of the department, Douglas Hyde took the opportunity to invite interested Belizeans to come forward and join the department. Hyde also spoke of the requirements. Douglas Hyde, PR Officer, Belize […]
The US naval Hospital ship, named the USNS Comfort sailed into Belizean waters earlier this week. It’s the first stop of a tour in the Caribbean and Central and South America. The USNS COMFORT has partnered with the Ministry of Health, B.D.F. and Belize Coast Guard to provide services and build capacity in a number […]
Earlier this week, we aired part one of a series produced by ITV News of the UK on the experience of British soldiers in Belize. Tonight, we have the remaining segments of the shoot that featured elite troops from other parts of the world training in Belizean territory undergoing combat preparation and more. Deep within […]
While battle readiness is equal parts physical and mental preparation, accuracy in identifying and eliminating hostile targets is a skill that is acquired with practice. Penetrating and negotiating thick foliage and surprising enemy troops with lethal force is an experience that cannot be lived in England. The British troops also detail the impact of jungle […]
And finally in our newscast, we turn to the Caribbean where a tragic event has occurred in Haiti. A total of twenty-one Haitians died and nineteen others are missing after the boat they were traveling in capsized off the northern coast of Haiti. The bodies began to wash ashore on Thursday morning in the coastal […]
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 […]
This morning, twenty-nine year old Special Constable Juan Moralez was all smiles when a charge of Wounding was withdrawn from him since his wife, the alleged victim, requested no further court action. Moralez’s wife, Betzabe, took the stand before Magistrate Ladonna John saying that on the day she made the report she was angry because […]
A Ghanian citizen who is a pastor was busted at the P.G.I.A. for attempting to enter the country with another person’s passport. Forty year old Wilberforce Sintim Kwako was found in possession of an altered passport which contained a five-year U.S. visa. Kwako was detained on Tuesday morning after he arrived on an Avianca flight […]
Magistrate Hettie Mae Stuart is to decide next Wednesday, April fifteenth, on a charge of loitering in a public place filed against radio personality and activist for the People’s United Party, Albert Vaughan. The charges were brought following protests by workers for Belize Maintenance Limited in August of 2014. While covering the arrest of forty-one […]
At this time, thirteen families are facing eviction from a privately owned property adjacent to landfill on the Lake Independence Boulevard. These families had been evicted twice before and the property was sold to a Chinese businessman three years ago. The businessman has requested them to get off the property by April fifteenth or face […]
The Institute of Social and Cultural Research through NICH is in the process of gathering data on historical events. The Belize History Association was formed to engage persons from all walks of life from across the country to add to the collective data about the country. But the association needed a trademark, a logo that […]
