Police in Orange Walk continue their investigation into the double homicide of Junior Triminio and Christopher Calderon. The duo was gunned down on Zericote Street in Orange Walk Town on Sunday evening during a brazen attack by a masked man. Triminio, a gang leader in that municipality, received seven shots to the body and head. […]
The armed robbery of seventy-nine-year-old retired educator, Harold Williams, on Monday afternoon downstairs of his home at the corners of Dunn and Landivar streets is presumably the result of the retiree being pursued upon leaving Scotiabank on the Philip Goldson Highway. The incident harkens back to a recent robbery on July twenty-seventh during which a […]
The unauthorized landings of private aircrafts in northern Belize, primarily in the Orange Walk District pose a grave national security threat to the country. Since the beginning of the year, at least four suspected drug planes have landed in an area known as Tres Leguas which is not far from the Belize/Mexico border in the […]
According to Elodio Aragon Junior, the efforts of the police department are compounded by the fact that criminal networks are often in cahoots with other members of law enforcement. There is mounting pressure, he says, from the public as well as Belize’s international counterparts. Elodio Aragon Jr., Minister of State, National Security “All of […]
A Belizean woman was among four persons injured in a traffic accident near Playa del Carmen. According to reports from the area, she was travelling in a van that was involved in a collision with another vehicle bearing Mexican license plates. It happened on Sunday night at the entrance of Nohbec, where the offending Mexican […]
Is Sapna Budhrani qualified to be the President of NICH? That’s what most people were asking when she was swiftly elevated to president of the National Institute of Culture and History, while retaining the rank of administrator. Back in June, Minister of Culture, Patrick Faber, defended the appointment, but ever since her presidency was announced […]
And according to Shyne Barrow, Budhrani has not been cooperative with him. Barrow says he is disappointed that the president has dragged her feet on securing funds for the Garifuna Collective to attend WOMEX, the World Music Expo. She has failed to correspond with him about the cultural group’s trip abroad and to date she […]
Back in June, we shared the good news that the Garifuna Collective was selected to perform at the WOMEX Showcase to be held at Grand Canary Islands, Spain, in October of this year. But to go to the showcase, the band needs over fifty-thousand dollars and today the Music Ambassador Shyne Barrow made a presentation […]
And so to get to Spain, the Garifuna Collective needs more funds. Al Obando, the long time road manager of the band, says that while they have not been back to the World’s Music Expo since the days of the late Andy Palacio, the event itself is significant for Belize’s music. However, to get there, […]
Taiwan’s President, Doctor Tsai Ing-wen concluded a visit to Latin America which included a three-day stop in Belize. She headed back to Taipei on Saturday, but first stopped over in Houston, Texas where she visited the NASA installations, which has irritated China. But the news today is that El Salvador has severed diplomatic relations with […]
All is in place over at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts where the grand finale of KTV, the Remix, gets underway at eighty-thirty with a red carpet segment. Five finalists, judges and fans will proceed inside the auditorium where a grand show is planned to culminate this season. The Garifuna Collective of international […]
P.U.P.’s Cayo South Area Representative, Julius Espat, has taken a firm ‘NO’ to the I.C.J. Espat announced his position on the matter on Saturday via his Facebook page. Having considered both sides, Espat wrote, “I have looked at the two sides of the issue when it pertains to Belize and the I.C.J., and I am […]
Two years ago, in 2015, a plaque with the name ‘Belize’ which had been installed on the Gracias Adios Border Monument down south was reportedly stolen. The plaque was installed by the Belize Territorial Volunteers in February of that year but a few weeks later, pictures surfaced showing that the monument was without the plaque. […]
Ten thousand, one hundred and forty-one registration applications were received by the Election and Boundaries Department between August twelfth and eighteen. This is a slight increase when compared to the week prior. So far, a total of one hundred and one thousand, and fourteen applications have been received through the registration centres spread across the […]
Marimba musical group, Los Hijos del West, returned to the Jewel today after a spending a month in Taiwan. The group, including Ian Yacab, Christian Archila, Emil Hernandez, Luis Quiroz and Leandro Pacheco, represented the country in the Yilan International Children’s Folklore and Folkgame Festival for the past twenty days. The five members of this […]
A double murder has shaken the Orange Walk community. Tonight the leader of the Back-a-Town Crips Gang, thirty-four-year-old Junior Triminio and nineteen-year-old Christopher Calderon, believed to be Triminio’s associate, are dead. Both men were fatally shot on Sunday evening at around five-twenty by a man who was wearing a ski mask. The brazen double homicide […]
A woman was killed by her husband in the early hours of this morning inside a hotel room where they were vacationing. Mariela Alpuche Rodriguez was choked to death in Independence Village at the hands of Arturo Rodriguez. According to Mariela’s family, her husband was insanely jealous and she was frustrated in the marriage, but […]
A trio of armed thieves followed an elderly man to his house on Landivar Street in Belize City. Fortunately, Harold Williams was unharmed, but the thieves got away with thousands of dollars in cash. The brazen robbery occurred just after one p.m., when Williams has arrived at his house from the bank. The thieves surprised […]
In recent months, there has been an escalation in the number of robberies across the country, particularly in Belize City, where thieves continue to prey on anyone, including the elderly. Not only are they targeting a vulnerable population of society, but their modus has been stepped up to home invasions. With September celebrations just around […]
A fatal traffic accident claimed the lives of two cousins in the north. Kairo and Henry Cob, both from San Victor in Corozal, died just after midday on Sunday. The two men were on a motorcycle on the San Juan Road when they crashed into an SUV traveling in the opposite direction. That vehicle was […]
A third person perished on Friday after a traffic accident which occurred over a week ago. Yuri Moralez was riding his motorcycle when he crashed into a parked vehicle on Joseph Andrews Drive in San Ignacio. The impact sent the twenty-three-year-old to the pavement; he received severe head and body injuries which led to his […]
There was further lost of life over the weekend. A toddler died on Sunday after falling into a well in Bella Vista Village, Stann Creek District. Three-year-old Benjamin Mas drowned inside the spring, despite all efforts to revive him. According to Arturo Mas, his son disappeared from sight earlier that afternoon and by the time […]
On Saturday night, Xiang Quan Chen was shot inside his shop in Ladyville. According to police, just after eight-thirty, thirty-eight-year-old Chen was inside his shop, Guan Ying on Marage Road, when two masked men entered and attempted to rob the establishment. One of the armed men fired shots which hit Chen in the chin and […]
Charges are yet to be brought against a group of women who were engaged in an all-out brawl outside of La Cabana Nightclub recently. The incident which was caught on video, last Thursday, shows the commotion near the nightclub. The six-minute amateur video shot by someone outside the club, captures the partygoers choking, kicking and […]
A fire ignited at an abandoned house on Joseph Andrews Drive in San Ignacio. The blaze erupted after three o’clock this afternoon across from the Falcon Field Park in San Ignacio and in proximity to the Town Hall in the western municipality. Residents say that the abandoned wooden building is occupied primarily by homeless persons. […]
