A Belize Defense Force officer lost his life of Wednesday in a traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway in the Orange Walk District. The on-duty officer was driving a B.D.F. Mahindra pickup which collided into a Mexican passenger bus traveling from Belize City to Cancun. Several persons received minor injuries from the impact, but […]
A special constable attached to the Orange Walk Formation of the Police Department is tonight in a stable condition at the Northern Regional Hospital after he accidentally shot himself in the foot, while in hot pursuit of an escaping prisoner. Just after six this morning, Special Constable and Prisoner Warden Lenardo Bol and several other […]
Two men were arraigned this morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer after they were busted with over eleven kilos of alleged heroin on December twenty-ninth. According to reports, tour guide Richard McDonald and fisherman Giovanni Requeña were in a taxi on the BelChina Bridge when elements of the Anti-Drug Unit swooped down on them. The […]
Another police officer is tonight accused of sexually assaulting a minor. Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Hubert Serrano, an officer attached to San Pedro Police, appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser earlier today. PC Serrano was arraigned on three counts of sexual assault upon a thirteen-year-old girl on the island. The charges stem from at least three […]
In his New Year’s Address, released on Wednesday, Prime Minister Barrow acknowledged that the landscape in 2016 will be different than that of 2015, and a significant feature of that change will surely be spending. At least where government expenditure is concerned, 2015 was a time of plenty because there were four elections, including the […]
Don’t go all melancholy just yet though. Government has successfully campaigned on massive infrastructure works, and Prime Minister Barrow says that for the most part, that will continue in 2016 and beyond. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “There is enough that we have set aside from the PetroCaribe days of plenty, to complete the countrywide […]
An investment agreement between Belize Electricity Limited and the Social Security Board concludes today, ending a three-year preference share purchase. In 2012, S.S.B. infused much needed capital into the cash-strapped utility company by purchasing ten million dollars in stocks. As part of the agreement, S.S.B. was also able to acquire five million dollars in debentures […]
At about eight o’clock this morning, Jamaican cruise ship MSC Divina called to port in Belize City. The inaugural voyage to the Jewel departed from its home port in Falmouth, Jamaica three days ago, calling on Georgetown, Grand Cayman and Cozumel, Mexico before landing in Belize City. Director of Destination Planning and Cruise, Valdemar Andrade […]
As we approach the final few hours of 2015, it is with the news that at least at this hour there have been no murders reported on the Southside of Belize City for the month of December, and only eight in the last six months. Those are unprecedented statistics, and a stark contrast to early […]
Interestingly, the decline in violence was not a result of strong-arm tactics by the Police, nothing to do with the infamous GSU breaking down doors and bones. Apparently, it’s quite the opposite. According to Commander of Eastern Division South Chester Williams, community police was able to achieve what no show of paramilitary force ever did. […]
At eight o’clock tonight, we will be revisiting the ten most impacting news stories of the past year. Indeed, 2015 was an eventful calendar which included four elections, massive overnight flooding in the city, a string of related murders in the Cayo District and a tragic fire at the Princess Royal Youth Hostel. Despite the […]
On Sunday, a ninety-three-year-old man was brutally beaten at his home on Fern Lane in Belize City. The vicious attack had the earmarks of a burglary, since Patrick Grant’s twenty-one inch television was stolen. But it is a miracle that the elderly man survived after being hit in the head with a cement block. The […]
In Toledo, charges have been brought against a trio of men, as well as a sixteen-year-old minor, in connection with the murder of fifty-five-year-old Luciano Evaristo Bul. The farmer was brutally slain on Saturday night while walking along the stretch of road between the villages of San Pedro, Columbia and San Miguel. The homicide is […]
There were shots fired on Curassow Street in Belize City on Monday night, and quick response from Belize City police has led to the arrest of a man who is not one of the usual suspects, and isn’t even from the Old Capital. Today, police told us that they got reports of gunfire in the […]
But don’t take Williams’ word for it, or be impressed by a title bestowed by a random media house. He says that the statistics don’t lie, across the board, and are testimony to the effectiveness of the new style of policing he brought to the previously violent Southside. Sr. Supt. Chester Williams, Commander, Eastern […]
At midnight on Sunday, the pump prices of fuel spiked, thanks largely to G.O.B. increasing import duties on Premium, Regular and Diesel. That import duty increase, tacked on to an increase in acquisition costs, led to Regular fuel going up to a controlled price of eight dollars and fifty-two cents in the city. But even […]
A fire on Antelope Street Extension has left a single mother and her two children without a roof over their heads. On Monday night in Belize City, a pair of unsupervised children playing with matches started a fire inside the room of Geneve Armstrong. The inferno damaged most of her household items and the mother […]
The Rural Eastern Division’s Rapid Response Team has been maintaining operations in the two thousand square miles of the Belize District, targeting narcotics and illegal firearms. They got lucky this morning after intelligence led them to an unlicensed shotgun and ammunition in a home on the Phillip Goldson Highway. You may think that a sixteen […]
At end of day Tuesday, three persons were missing in the Belize District – a sixteen-year-old female from Los Lagos, a sixteen-year-old female from Ladyville and a twenty-two-year old Guatemalan female from Vista del Mar. In at least one of those cases being handled by Ladyville Police, there is some good news. Guatemalan Mindy Espino […]
Twenty-three-year-old Michelle Reynard narrowly escaped jail today after appearing before Magistrate Deborah Rogers on a fourth conviction for drug-related offenses. The fish cleaner who works out of the Conch Shell Bay Fish Market pleaded guilty to possession of thirty-nine grams of cannabis. The young woman threw herself at the mercy of the court, seeking leniency […]
Today, the officers of the Eastern Division South conducted their final meet and greet exercise for 2015. We’ve followed the Police through some of the notorious hotspots in the city as they’ve tried to get the community in an interactive frame of mind. This afternoon, we caught up with them on Albert Street and they […]
It isn’t exactly mainstream news or a riveting item, but Chester Williams has been named the man of the year by the Amandala Newspaper. Williams returned from law school earlier this year and was placed in charge of the very volatile Southside of the city, always an iffy prospect with the very active gangs which […]
An overgrown area of Roaring Creek Village, often used by criminals to escape the reach of local authorities, has been cleared by Belmopan police. After a recent shooting incident during which the suspect evaded capture, Superintendent Howell Gillett wasted no time in organizing a task force of inmates from the Belize Central Prison to spearhead […]
International Yoga Teacher Yogi Charu is in Belize to schedule trainings for Belize City youths to become yoga teachers in their communities in 2016. Charu, who’s based out of New York, was born and raised in Belize City before learning the skills and techniques of the Hindu spiritual discipline. He is partnering with Michelle Williams […]
So how will the initiative get the youth to participate? Well that’s where Days of Healing and its Executive Director, Perry “Sticks” Smith comes in. With the organization’s assistance, a total of fifteen youth yoga instructors will be chosen for the course which starts in July of 2016. Perry “Sticks” Smith, Executive Director, Days […]
