After the hearing concluded late this evening, Solicitor General Nigel Hawke spoke to the media, explaining that there are fundamental and public issues present in the case that should be left for parliamentarians to decide. Hawke was specifically speaking on the definition of sex and the Chief Justice decision to expand the meaning to include […]
Two men charged with murder were freed by Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams today. They are twenty-five-year-old Christopher Sosa and thirty-five-year-old Ashton Anderson. Both men had been charged for the 2011 murder of fifty-three-year-old taxi driver, Romel Palacio Senior. The crown’s two main witnesses refused to testify before the courts which led Crown Counsel Kileru […]
A third missing piece of heavy-duty equipment that the Belize City Council was searching for has been returned. The John Deere tractor which was purchased for fifty-four thousand dollars was secretly delivered to the council’s works compound on the George price Highway about three weeks ago. No one knows who took it there or how. […]
Police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of an impounded SUV from under the noses of the officers attached to the Orange Walk Police Station. According to ACP Joseph Myvett, last Tuesday night, a Range Rover SUV with Dangriga license plate carrying what appeared to be a questionable insurance sticker, was retrieved by a patrol on […]
A criminal and internal investigation is ongoing in Dangriga following the police shooting of a gunman on Saturday morning. Thirty-nine-year-old John Elijio was shot to the right leg around four a.m. by an officer as he reportedly attempted to retrieve a firearm from his waist. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett says that the police […]
The body of a San Pedro resident was fished out of the Haulover Creek near the Swing Bridge. It is believed that Manuel Mendoza drowned sometime and his body spotted in the water sometime around eight-thirty on Saturday night. Residents gathered along the bridge and Scenes of Crime personnel from the Police Department arrived at […]
One person is detained pending further investigation into a fatal hit and run incident in the south. Alta Vista villager, forty-four-year-old David Cunil was discovered dead on the Southern Highway sometime after nine o’clock on Saturday night in the village. Police investigation has so far revealed that Cunil was drinking with friends that day and […]
There were two robberies over the weekend in Belize City for which two persons have been detained; one has since been arrested and charged. The first occurred on Friday during the lunch hour. Two thieves carried out the brazen broad daylight robbery at Pacheco’s Jewelry Shop on East Collet Canal. One armed with a gun, […]
On Saturday night, United Grocery and Laundromat on Euphrates Avenue was targeted by thieves. According to the Bangladeshi owner, four robbers, one armed with a firearm escaped with five hundred dollars in cash and two cell phones. ASP Alejandro Cowo told the media today that a minor, who is well-known to the law, has since […]
A school warden is in big trouble with the law after she was found in possession of approximately four point three pounds of weed. Forty-four-year-old Billie Jean Pitts was arrested and charged on Saturday for drug trafficking after she was caught red-handed picking up a parcel from the BPMS Office in Belize City. Pitts has […]
There was also a sizable drug bust in Dangriga, for which a couple has been charged for trafficking. Last Thursday, police conducted a search at the home of Andrew Garcia and Annabelle Perez which turned up approximately four point six pounds of marijuana. ACP Joseph Myvett says that both Garcia and Perez are well-known to […]
Attorney General Mike Peyrefitte is one of four United Democratic Party candidates contesting Sunday’s convention in Port Loyola. He enjoys the full support of Area Representative Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez who is retiring from electoral politics in 2020. Boots is highly opinionated and has a knack for words, but did he put his boots in his […]
Former City Councillor Phillip Willoughby and former Deputy Mayor Dean Samuels also have their hats in the ring as does one A.C. Castillo for the November fourth convention. Today, P.U.P. Standard bearer for Port Loyola, Gilroy Usher Senior, chimed in on the fight between the U.D.P. candidates. He says he is confident that he’ll take […]
There was a fire at the home of Damian Burns in Belmopan on Sunday night and all indications are that the blaze was deliberately set. Burns reported to police that he had an altercation with a tenant and after filing the report with officers at the station, the forty-four-year-old returned to find his Toucan Avenue […]
A number of residents from the south side of the City have completed a course on bartending. It took place at the popular Sip and Sip club and was organized by the Police Department with support from other business establishments. The idea is to offer another option to the participants for meaningful employment as well […]
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After spending more than six years in jail, today three Belize City men learned that they will spend many more years behind bars. Andy Forbes, William Vasquez, and Clinton Harris were found guilty of the murder of Joseph Myers. The incident happened on June fifteenth, 2012. The trio pounced on a group of men who […]
A woman has been ordered to pay the family of two-year-old Vernice Rodriguez Gonzalez four thousand dollars for causing her death. Thirty-one-year-old Danna Banner appeared before Justice Colin Williams who spared her a custodial sentence but rather, ordered her to pay the monetary compensation plus a two thousand-dollar fine after she pleaded guilty to causing […]
A third case before Supreme Court Justice Collin Williams was that of twenty-one-year-old Kevaughan Staine, who was sentenced to ten years behind bars for the attempted murder of his nineteen-year-old cousin, Taisha Staine. She was walking in the Lake Independence area of Belize City on December thirtieth, 2013 when she came under gunfire. Taisha says […]
There was a brazen armed robbery this afternoon in Belize City at Pacheco’s Jewelry Shop. Two thieves almost netted thirty-five grand – we say almost because quick police action led to the recovery of the items and the apprehension of one man in a matter of minutes. We were first on the scene this afternoon […]
Thirty-four-year-old Carlos Lopez is back in the news tonight for another drug offense. In late August, he was acquitted of drug trafficking and firearm offenses when a case brought against him fell apart in the lower court. Lopez, along with thirty-seven-year-old Peter Schmidt, was busted in December 2017 in possession of five kilos of cocaine. […]
Since his abduction from a cattle ranch on Father’s Day, there has been no sign or trace of businessman Omero Campos. The San Narciso resident was taken from his farm near San Victor Village on June sixteenth and is believed to have been held hostage by someone or a group of persons who demanded the […]
There is some good news coming out of Graham Creek tonight. We’re happy to report that since our last coverage of the teachers’ hardships in the southern village, there’s been some progress. Despite limited access to telephone communication, we have heard from Principal Jose Cuc and teacher Germuel Choco. They say that last week, the […]
The pros and cons of taking the territorial dispute between Belize and Guatemala to the I.C.J. are being discussed at the Chamber of Commerce. Ahead of the 2019 referendum, the B.C.C.I. has embarked upon its own education campaign to enlighten its membership on the importance of their vote. While the business community will not be […]
The annual report compiled by the International Monetary Fund which focuses on Belize’s economic performance includes recommendations for the growth and strengthening of certain areas of production, distribution and trade, as it relates to the consumption of goods and services. The business community is presently reviewing the IMF report ahead of the 2019 fiscal calendar […]
