A female Police Officer is tonight recovering from injuries she received when a group of persons assaulted her. WPC Tracy Stevens was doing extra duties at the Blue Angels Nightclub in San Ignacio over the weekend when she got into an altercation with a young woman who wanted to get inside. That altercation led to […]
Albert Genitty, a phlebotomist employed at the NHI clinic in Port Loyola, will spend three years behind bars after he was convicted today of sexual assault of a customer at the lab. Genitty was accused of inappropriately touching the woman, twenty-seven, when she went to the lab to do a battery of tests in 2015. […]
More than six months after he was charged for a sensational home invasion in Burrell Boom, Paul Jex Junior is back behind bars, charged with rape during that same incident in December, 2015. Jex Junior had been charged with at least eight other persons for a robbery at the home of Sarkis Abou-Nehra. Abou-Nehra and […]
School is out and summer camps are in. Across the country, various organizations are hosting recreational events for children who are presently on vacation. Over the next few weeks we will be covering a myriad of summer camps in everything from swimming to basketball and everything in between. Tonight however, we’ll look at an annual […]
Another Belize City youth has fallen victim to the relentless spate of gun violence in the Old Capital. Tonight, police are saying that the weekend murder of Giovanni ‘Blege’ Gentle may have been the result of jealousy. The vendor, who was well-known for selling coconut water across the city, was gunned down while leaving a […]
Eighteen-year-old Kent Brooks Junior remains bedridden at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being shot last Wednesday. During the deadly incident which occurred on La Croix Boulevard sometime around eight-thirty that night, his friend Kieran Morrison lost his life. The shooting is strongly believed to be the result of an ongoing feud between rival gangs […]
While a pair of men had been detained following the deadly shooting, they have since been released from custody. Williams says the challenge is getting witnesses to provide investigators with statements. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “We had two persons detained and those persons have been released and like we always […]
The house in which seventeen-year-old Jasmine Petillo was murdered has been identified. Today, the Rural Eastern Division of the Police Department held a press briefing in Ladyville to announce that an ongoing investigation in the Mahogany Heights community has led police to the house where Petillo was brutally stabbed fifty-seven times. The community is still […]
While one person has been detained for the murder of seventeen year old Jasmine Petillo, police are yet to lay charges on a suspect in the murder of Lyndon Murillo, who was also killed in the Mahogany Heights community less than a month ago. On June ninth, the well-known watchman, and a father of five […]
Today, exactly seven months after the aggravated burglary of the home of Lebanese Consul, Sarkis Bou-Nehra, Rural Eastern Division Police are looking to charge four additional suspects. In fact, a DNA sample sent out following the rape of a female at the home has come back positive as that of twenty-one-year-old Paul Jex Junior, a […]
Ladyville police are also investigating a shooting on Friday night in the Lord’s Bank Community. Seventeen-year-old Michael Aldana alleges that while driving a green Range Rover on the Lord’s Bank Road, he was shot to the knee and arm. But is there more to that story? That’s what we asked ACP Edward Broaster. ACP […]
Meanwhile, police are facing a roadblock in their investigation of another shooting incident that occurred last Tuesday night at the Crooked Tree junction on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Twenty-five-year-old Belize City resident, Stephen Palacio, reported to police that he was shot by someone as he stood outside his vehicle. Palacio was rushed to the Northern […]
Last Wednesday, Prime Minister Barrow held a press conference to explain the Belize Telemedia Limited arbitration award, as well as government’s interest in selling its shares of B.T.L. and Belize Electricity Limited to the Social Security Board. Since then, the grassroots organization, COLA, has been vocal in its objection to the proposed sale. It is […]
According to Rogers, the final cost of acquiring B.T.L. is considerably more than what the previous government had agreed to when it signed on to an accommodation agreement with the company’s previous owners. He says that the Barrow Administration blundered in its approach to dealing with the nationalization of B.T.L., particularly in delaying compensation for […]
The Belize Progressive Party has issued a stern release condemning the Barrow Administration for announcing its plan to amend the existing Referendum Act. A revision of that piece of legislation is widely viewed as sort of a quid pro quo should Guatemala ease tensions in the Sarstoon. B.P.P. contends that prior to any referendum on […]
A deadly collision involving a pair of vehicles in the Toledo District claimed the life of a young woman on Sunday evening. The accident which occurred approximately fifteen miles from Punta Gorda Town, left several persons, including Wendy Valdez, seriously injured. Upon impact she was violently flung from the vehicle she was traveling in and […]
There was another fatal road traffic accident over the weekend. On Friday evening, just after four o’clock twenty-eight-year-old Jodine Gill, a teacher of Roaring Creek Village, was driving her 2004 Nissan X-Terra SUV to Belmopan, when she lost control of the steering and overturned in the vicinity of mile thirty-five on the Hummingbird Highway. Traveling […]
The unremitting spate of crime and violence among rival groups is a social phenomenon which continues to grip Belize City. The problem has been observed keenly from the perspective of experts who study the Belizean society and the individual social institutions therein. It has also been scrutinized from the point of view of local law […]
According to ACP Williams, despite a fundamental difference in philosophy, he is still open to working with the team of social scientists. ACP Chester Williams, O.C., Eastern Division South “We must be real. Do not say things out there just because you want to sell a book.” Isani Cayetano “I think it was […]
On Friday night, exactly two months after the murder of Camalote youths, Akeem Thimbriel and Shawn Lopez, residents organized a vigil near the Westar Gas Station in the village. The message was two-fold—they want justice for the killing of their loved ones; that someone be brought in to investigate the double murder, and as an […]
There is good news for the tourism industry tonight. For the second year in a row, Ambergris Caye has been named Mexico and Central America’s leading Destination at the 2016 World Travel Awards. The awards ceremony took place last Friday in Lima, Peru and once again Belize has won. Dubbed the Oscars of the tourism […]
After a hiatus, this Saturday, Muffles College Auditorium in Orange Walk will come alive for the Taste of Belize event and its signature competitive culinary show. Chefs, bakers and bartenders from across the country will face off in a one-day competition to determine the best in their trade. Puga also took the opportunity to invite […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Saturday night brought out the big time showdown between Infotel and Belize Telemedia at Bird’s Isle. As the BDBA Firms Basketball season continues to roll. In the 1st quarter, Jason Vasquez power Telemedia first with this hammer. He comes back with the triple and […]
A gruesome discovery was made on Wednesday morning in Mahogany Heights. Seventeen-year-old Jasmine Petillo was brutally stabbed multiple times before her body was dumped in a ditch behind the community, off mile thirty on the George Price Highway. A postmortem exam conducted today on Petillo’s body confirmed that she had been stabbed an unimaginable fifty-two […]
A recent murder on LaCroix Boulevard in Lake I suggests that a longstanding feud between the PIV and bakaland gangs is escalating. These turf wars, rivalries and retaliations have accounted for much bloodshed. In the past months, we have seen the emergency of a creature called an intervention, in which players in rival gangs are […]
