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Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley is set to demit office in the next five weeks and is currently in the process of transitioning back to private life as an attorney. Over the past six years, he has remained at the helm of City Hall, having succeeded former Mayor Zenaida Moya. Since then, the mayor acknowledges […]
Written on January 23, 2018 | Posted in
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The hallmark of Bradley’s success at City Hall is perhaps the floating of the municipal bond, monies which were used to concretize over a hundred and sixty streets across the city. That project, though welcomed in some quarters, was also criticized by Bradley’s detractors who complained that the funds used to undertake the paving of […]
Written on January 23, 2018 | Posted in
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As we said earlier, the outgoing mayor is easing back into private life, with a renewed focus on other career interests, including his law firm. But, politics is still very much a part of his personal and professional identity. Bradley says he will use his time as a private citizen to re-strategize a political approach […]
Written on January 23, 2018 | Posted in
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Two Saturdays ago, a Belize City family claims it was forcibly separated at the decision of a landlord who reportedly called the Gang Suppression Unit to help evict them from their rental property on Kelly Street. Brenda Augustine, who lives and works in San Pedro Town, admits to have been behind on rent payments due […]
Written on January 23, 2018 | Posted in
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A grisly discovery of two nude bodies on a remote road in the Toledo District has left the southern community in shock. The bodies are that of two sisters – sixteen-year-old Josephine Oh and nineteen-year-old Cricencia Oh. The girls received huge chop wounds – and photos of the scene shows a chopped off part of […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A trio of Mexican nationals was arraigned this afternoon before Magistrate Sharon Frazer for scamming the Atlantic Bank of a substantive amount of cash. The trio comprises of a couple and a resident from Cancun who were charged with the sophisticated theft of various Atlantic Bank ATM’s up north, but police are investigating more than […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A week after killing his mother with a crowbar, wanted Carmelita resident, Andy Rhaburn was captured by Orange Walk Police in the vicinity of Rhaburn Ridge on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Rhaburn was on the lam for the past six days and was considered armed and dangerous after he attacked and killed fifty-four-year-old Braulia Pech […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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On Friday, thirty-six-year-old William Godoy of San Pedro was charged for the murder of twenty-eight-year-old Alfredo Cowo, who had foretold his demise a week before. Cowo claimed that his life had been threatened as two officers were on trial for a shooting incident on the island involving him and five others. Officers Norman Coye and […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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There were two separate shootings on Sunday night on the south side of Belize City. Around six-thirty p.m., a data entry clerk was shot to the right arm as she spoke with a man on Casaurina Street. Twenty-six-year-old Ajesha Humes is tonight hospitalized in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. The duo was talking when […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Minutes later, gunshots rang out again; this time on Antelope Street Extension. Eleck McKoy was shot to the face by a lone gunman who came up to him at close range and opened fire. Police say that they have not been able to gather much information as McKoy discharged himself from the hospital minutes after […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Over in San Pedro Town, a couple was targeted by a gunman in the San Juan area. Gilberto Lara and Catherine Torres were on their way home, traveling on a golf cart sometime after three o’clock on Saturday morning when someone opened fire on the unsuspecting couple. The bullets grazed Torres, while Lara was hit […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Western Paradise labourer Shakeem Humes was charged with possession of five hundred and eleven grams or one point one pounds of cannabis with intent to supply for drug trafficking today before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer. Police say that on Friday night, a vehicle coming from Central American Boulevard onto Mopan Street refused to stop when […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Last May, Director of the Government’s Press Office, Dorian Pakeman, walked out of the Magistrate’s Court a free man. Then-Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer upheld a no-case submission for lack of evidence against Pakeman, who was accused of causing the death, by careless conduct, of Gardenia resident Dean Dawson on the Phillip Goldson Highway the previous […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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A retrial is pending in the case of Tyrone Meighan, Orel Leslie and Brandon Baptist, who were acquitted in 2015 of the November 2012 murder of Belize Defence Force soldier James Noralez. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions successfully appealed the decision of then-Supreme Court Justice Troadio Gonzalez in the Court of Appeal, […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Separate busts of marijuana were made in Camalote village and in Western Paradise village on Sunday. Belmopan police recovered five parcels containing a total of four and a half pounds of cannabis on a feeder road which was deposited as found property. Around five in the evening, the Gang Suppression Unit was on operations in […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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When you do the right thing, it pays off. Just ask Johana Ramos – the fourteen-year-old student of Maud Williams High School was recognized today with an award for her commitment to the Police Department’s ‘Du Di Rait Ting’ program. The award is for October 2017 but the first former is not slowing down with […]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
Written on January 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Brace yourself for another increase in butane prices. That’s the official word from the government following eight days of negotiations with Liquid Petroleum Gas Importers: BWEL, Gas Tomza and Zeta Gas. As we have been reporting for days, both sides were at an impasse earlier this week after the importers were not too happy with […]
Written on January 19, 2018 | Posted in
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There have been developments in respect of relations with Guatemala. Special Representative of the O.A.S. Secretary General for Belize-Guatemala Affairs, Magdalena Talamas, has been reassigned from her post at the Adjacency Zone, following a protest by the Guatemalan government demanding her removal. President Jimmy Morales, as well as former Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales, complained […]
Written on January 19, 2018 | Posted in
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Still on Guatemala…a journalist Rigoberto Escobar Lopez who claims he was assaulted on Tuesday at the adjacency zone at the western border is taking his case to the Guatemalan Human Rights Office. Escobar told the Guatemalan media that he is pressing ahead with his complaint. The reporter says in an interview that he has been […]
As many as thirty-eight persons, adults and children, have been left homeless due to raging fires in Belize City. This weekend, twenty-five artists and fifteen DJ’s are coming together in a benefit concert that will hopefully uplift the spirit of those affected as well as raise money to help them rebuild their homes. The idea […]
Over the years, we’ve reported on the work of the Friends for Conservation and Development and the illegal activities of Guatemalans inside the Chiquibul. We’ve documented the incursions and the measures implemented to curb those illegal activities. The FCD says that the past ten years of work have resulted in significant achievement for the protection […]
Written on January 19, 2018 | Posted in
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Thirty-three-year-old San Pedrano William Godoy has been formally arrested and charged for the murder of Alfredo Cowo. Cowo was killed on Tuesday morning as he sat in a golf cart with his girlfriend in front of Jaguars Nightclub. A lone gunman came up to the couple and opened fire on the twenty-eight-year-old fisherman. That murder […]
Written on January 19, 2018 | Posted in
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A string of unrelated, fatal shootings across the country, involving police officers and allegations of their participation in these incidents, has given the department another black-eye. The most recent cases including the death of Mario Vernon in Punta Gorda and the murders of Fareed Ahmad and Alfredo Cowo in Hattieville and San Pedro, respectively. Public […]
Written on January 19, 2018 | Posted in
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Guadalupe Reymundo Flores, a labourer of Guinea Grass village, Orange Walk was charged for drug trafficking and also faces a Customs case after a major bust was made this morning around nine. Police searched his residence and found just over three pounds of cannabis in a black knapsack. They also recovered sixty cases of different […]
Written on January 19, 2018 | Posted in
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