The murder in San Pedro last week, followed so shortly after by another Tuesday night – both violent – may give the impression that La Isla Bonita is becoming a dangerous place. After all, this is Mother Nature’s best kept secret, where hundreds of thousands of tourists flock annually to experience a bit of paradise. […]
San Pedro Police are also investigating a widespread forgery ring – specifically fake Orange Walk drivers’ licenses. From what we’ve been able to determine, these persons purchase forged licenses, with the objective of renewing them legitimately – exchanging fake for real, so to speak. And it would probably have worked, except that a vigilant transport […]
Female coastguard officer, Keyren Tzib, went back to court this morning. She is accused of manslaughter in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Thythis Blancaneaux on July eighteenth, 2015 in Lords Bank, Ladyville. The preliminary inquiry began around nine-fifty this morning to determine whether Tzib, who suffers from depression, will stand trial at Supreme Court. […]
Another preliminary inquiry took place today. Thirty-five year old Jorge Velasquez who in September 2014 was accused of raping a twelve-year-old girl is back behind bars at the Belize Central Prison. At the end of the P.I., Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith ruled that a prima facie case has been established against Velasquez and he […]
There have been at least three recent cases of fake cops on the loose. Today, a case came up in court which seems to involve the fake cops. Security officer, Elmoore Spencer, claims that three men, claiming to be police officers, drove up while he was on duty on Wednesday night at Moon Superstore on […]
The Caribbean Development Bank held its 2016 media conference today at its headquarters in Barbados. President William Warren Smith opened the conference outlining the major issues that the Caribbean region is being challenged by. These include the current state and uncertainties of Caribbean economies and he outlined how the C.D.B. can help in building resilience […]
This Thursday, Jamaicans go to the polls to decide where Prime Minister Portio Simpson known as Mama P will remains as the P.N.P. Prime Minister or whether Opposition Leader Andrew Holness of the J.L.P. will be elected to run the country where sixty-three seats are up for grabs. Last minute campaigning is underway in the […]
Primary school students at St. John’s Vianney Primary School were ecstatic this morning when they were allowed onto a new playground. The swings, seesaw and slide are a donation from the Rotary Club of Edmonton, Canada. Members of the organization volunteered their time to paint and set up the various components of the set and […]
The GREAT program funded by the U.S. government has become an important element in the work of the police department. It first started in the City and has now spread to the districts as an effective way to prevent violence among youths. Today, another group of police officers completed their training and will be deployed […]
Telecommunications giant B.T.L. colluded with registered game show company Mek Mi Rich to steal entrepreneur Curtis Swasey’s concept and use it as their own. That’s the bombshell handed down by Justice Courtney Abel in a decision which took more than an hour to read. In a nutshell – in 2012 Swasey signed an agreement with […]
So why did the Justice refer to the victory as Pyrrhic? Well…probably because even though Swasey won a total vindication on all his claims, he was only awarded twenty-five thousand dollars in damages. The Judge almost seemed apologetic in stating that he could find no evidence in what was provided by the claimant to base […]
That’s the financial bottom line – not exactly a hard hit for B.T.L. or M.M.R. But what about the moral low ground where Justice Abel claims both B.T.L. and M.M.R. tread? Will it affect the businesses in the short or long term where public sentiment is concerned? Naima Barrow, Attorney for M.M.R. “I think […]
Two men plunged into the crocodile infested waters of New River, which runs through Orange Walk Town, on a whim on Monday evening. They would never surface again and this morning the body of twenty-one-year-old Carlos Reyes, was pulled out of the dark waters by a search team from the Belize National Coast Guard. Reyes […]
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On February tenth, sixty-four year old Estela Gonzalez of Temptation Bar, was convicted of Trafficking in Humans by a jury. The jury believed the sworn testimony of a fifteen year old who claimed that Gonzalez brought her into the country under false pretences and forced her to have sex for money. It only took an […]
A Belizean woman, identified as thirty one year old Kisha Michaels and a man were fatally shot early on Sunday morning in Inglewood, California. Michaels died instantly while the man succumbed at the hospital where he was being treated. Inglewood Police say they intercepted and stopped a vehicle with two occupants in the middle of […]
Images of a recent shark kill near Lighthouse Reef have sparked public outrage about the continued use of gill nets. While it is not believed that local fishermen are behind the lurid act, the use of this type of fishing gear is not outlawed in Belize. Earlier today, the Belize Game Fish Association spoke out […]
This morning at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court, before Senior Magistrate, Sharon Fraser, a newlywed couple was read a single charge of possession of controlled drugs, being forty grams of cannabis which is equivalent to one and a half ounce of the drug. Acting on a tip, police searched the home of B.D.F. Corporal William Swan […]
But another Belize City resident was imposed a stiffer fine of ten thousand dollars in the court room of Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith for drug trafficking. Ryan Cole was ordered to pay three thousand dollars upfront and the balance by June 2016. Ryan took the wrap for the possession of one hundred and fifty […]
A twelve-year-old minor was sexually assaulted at her home in Benque Viejo del Carmen over the weekend. Her parents and other family members left her home with her three-year-old sister and her much older uncle preyed on her. Police report that on Monday, they have charged forty-eight year Feliciano Merejildo Sutherland for the crime of […]
There is a report tonight that a stolen vehicle has been found in the possession of a local politician in Belmopan who is employed at the City Council through the efforts of the Ministry of National Security. No one is talking but the vehicle is believed to have been crossed into this side of the […]
This morning in Barbados, a two-day media law workshop got underway. The seminar brought together sixty-eight representatives of media houses and civil societies from thirteen countries across the region. The seminar was organized as a part of the “Improved access to Justice in the Caribbean” known as the IMPACT Justice project. Funded by the Canadian […]
One emerging concern expressed by media professionals at today’s seminar was the need to examine and define the role of the citizen journalist who are persons, who report, analyze and impart information but are not trained journalists. The main concern expressed is the accountability and credibility of the recent trend of social media news. Our […]
Nine years ago Junior Buddy was born at the Belize Zoo on the George Price Highway. Today, he celebrated another milestone in the company of school children from the area. We’ve been following Junior Buddy for years and today we found him as charming and graceful as he turned nine-years-old. Jaguars are extinct in other […]
The ancient Maya culture thrived primarily in parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. Originally considered primitive, the Mayas are now known to have had knowledge of science, art, architecture, language and mathematics that flourished in their culture. Their architectural skills are evident in the monuments dotting various parts of country. Recent discoveries have led […]
