Two of the four murders were simultaneously recorded around seven o’clock this morning by investigators in San Pedro Town and Benque Viejo del Carmen, hours before the scheduled police press conference in the city. On Ambergris Caye, the body of German national Raimund Adalbert Kolber was discovered with an injury to the head inside an […]
The fourth murder victim is an eighteen-year-old recent graduate of Mopan Technical High School, who was also found dead this morning on a farm in Benque Viejo Del Carmen. Police were called out to an isolated area on the Puga Farm where the body of Oscar Obando was discovered with a single gunshot to the […]
There was further loss of life over the weekend. Two American senior citizen tourists apparently drowned in separate incidents between Friday and Saturday. The incidents took place in the beach corridor of the Stann Creek District, in Hopkins and Maya Beach near Placencia. As police revealed today, both men went off alone, one after socializing […]
The People’s United Party on Saturday evening presented its team of eleven aspirants for the Belize City Council, which it has not controlled since 2006. The team consists of first time mayoral aspirant Bernard Wagner and councilor aspirants, Ayesha Gentle, Doctor Candice Pitts, Delthrude Hylton, Ryan Elijio, Micah Goodin, Oscar Arnold, Allan Pollard, Javier Castellanos, […]
The settlement of the acquisition of Belize Telemedia Limited and related concerns twice over by the Government of Belize between 2009 and 2011 remains a burr in the saddle of the People’s United Party. The P.U.P. contends that the issue should have been settled long ago, and that the reason it was not was as […]
Thirty-two million dollars later – though in many quarters that figure is far more – the Belize Civic Center on Central American Boulevard is scheduled to be opened early in 2018. According to Belize Infrastructure Limited, while physical works are close to completion, the search has begun for a private management company to take over […]
Up north, Corozal is experiencing a spike in burglaries and robberies. A robber made off with ten thousand dollars from the Western Union outlet in Corozal Town around nine this morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Doris Montejo reported to police that she was inside the western union office on Fourth Street when a man approached her holding what […]
Irish national, thirty-six-year-old Conway Murphy was today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for last Friday’s horrific traffic accident at mile eight on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Murphy was behind the wheels of a Ford Everest SUV that collided head on into a Toyota pickup, carrying watermelons and vegetables, and occupied by farmers Ricardo […]
News reports say that Guatemala will be reintroducing Belize as part of its official map. This is to take place due to an awareness campaign that is being undertaken in schools across the border in anticipation of their March eighteenth referendum on taking the territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice. The reports say […]
On Friday, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte took square aim at the church and fired off a salvo of very harsh criticisms, chiding the religious community for its tardy objection to the marijuana law. He even went a step further to challenge the church’s moral authority on matters having to do with individual vices. Well, the […]
The topic of marijuana possession and consumption, in the days following the decriminalization of a small handful, remains at the center of public discourse simply because there are still more questions than answers. Last Tuesday, the church raised serious objections to the passage of the new law, though it was too little, too late. With […]
While the public continues to ask questions, a countrywide education campaign is being held within the Belize Police Department to inform officers of the new law and its parameters. According to attorney Bart Jones, himself a career police officer, it is necessary to teach his colleagues about the law and its regulations, despite their individual […]
One of four murders over the weekend occurred in the Old Capital; and even though the loss of one life is too much, the murder did not occur within any of three zones designated as hotspots in the City. Less than two weeks ago, police rolled out the Addressing Crime Together, which is its latest […]
The World Customs Organization and the Government of Sweden are funding a five-day consultative workshop and national training on the National Committees of Trade Facilitation. In February, the World Trade Organization put its first multilateral deal, the Trade Facilitation Agreement, into effect. Implementation of the agreement, according to the W.T.O., is forecast to slash members’ […]
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Weed smokers across the country can exhale a marijuana-tinged sigh of relief tonight, following the decriminalization of ten grams of cannabis on Thursday. Governor General Sir Colville Young has assented to the passage of that piece of law after the bill was initially tabled in the House of Representatives back in August. Just last week, […]
The recent spike in violent crimes in Belize City is being attributed to an ongoing drug war among rival groups, purportedly over the sale of marijuana. With the decriminalization of that small quantity comes an insatiable appetite for various strains of the drug which will inevitably drive its demand. While the police department has made […]
The Belize Police Department, according to AG Peyrefitte, is fully onboard with the new law; however, there are officers within the agency that are averse to the idea of persons possessing any amount of weed on them. So how will that skepticism be addressed? The Attorney General says rest easy; you can’t be prosecuted if […]
Perhaps the AG’s most fiery response was reserved for the Council of Churches. When asked to give his two cents on their objection to the passage of the law, he minced no words. Peyrefitte said bluntly that the church has no moral authority to take aim at weed smokers when it does not oppose the […]
A routine trip, by attorney Audrey Matura to the Central Prison in Hattieville to visit with clients, turned ugly this morning. Around ten o’clock, Matura says she was removed from the prison compound by Kolbe personnel after she was refused visitation to one of her clients. It came as a surprise to Matura who had […]
Despite efforts made by Matura to reason with security personnel and to reach out to the C.E.O. of Kolbe, she was denied access to her client. She alleges that her client is being abused at the hands of prison management. When she pressed prison officials, Matura found out that following a court appearance on Monday, […]
A pair of siblings is tonight in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after the vehicle they were traveling in collided head-on with an SUV coming from the opposite direction. Just before four this morning, the traffic accident occurred near the cutoff to Vista del Mar on the Phillip Goldson Highway which […]
Tonight, residents of Crooked Tree village are on alert. For the past several days, there has been rain in the area, and the Crooked Tree Lagoon is now in overflow. Additionally, spillover waters from the Belize River and Spanish Creek, received from the Cayo District, have confluence to cause problems for some residents of the […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced during his Independence Day address that the Crooked Tree Causeway is also to be raised and resurfaced, and the Caribbean Development Bank was to have signed the contract for that scope of works design. In addition, according to Chairman John Gillett, roads within the village which have been long neglected are soon to […]
There was another shooting incident this morning in Belize City, however no one was injured. Just after five this morning, police were called out to Kut Avenue where shots were fired. They apprehended twenty-four-year-old Reese Fitzgibbon of Supal Street. From Fitzgibbon police recovered a nine-millimeter pistol and five rounds of ammunition. As of news time, […]
