Four persons lost their lives to gun violence and road traffic accidents over the extended weekend. There was also a string of robberies and shootings across the Old Capital and elsewhere that has left several persons hospitalized. Tonight, we start the newscast with the execution of a Corozal resident in Belmopan on Monday afternoon. Twenty-three-year-old […]
Twenty-one-year-old Eric Staine was shot and killed on Sunday night in the vicinity of Krooman Road near the George Price Highway. The young barber lost his life in a hail of bullets, before being dumped on the roadside. The incident, according to police, happened around ten p.m. When they responded to the scene of the […]
Police say a sixteen-year-old boy suffering from gunshot injuries is hospitalized at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan. The minor has shared conflicting reports about what led to his injuries and police have since placed him under guard at the hospital. Police say the teenager, who is from Belize City, is being investigated for a […]
A Belize City man was shot on Sunday night sometime around eight-fifteen. Stephan Tablada was hit with a single bullet to the right calf as he entered his home on Neal’s Pen Road. Tablada recognized two men on motorcycle in the area and police say they are now looking for those persons. Tablada is a […]
An attempted robbery at Tommy’s Wholesale on Central American Boulevard in Belize City has left one man injured. On Sunday night, sometime just before nine-thirty, police were called out to the business establishment where they found Chester Humes, an employee of the store, with a gunshot wound to the left arm. Police say that two […]
Two persons also lost their lives in separate traffic accidents over the extended weekend. On Friday night, around seven o’clock, between miles ninety-one and ninety-two on the Southern Highway, a businessman of Big Falls was driving his truck when he crashed into a motorcycle driven by B.D.F soldier, Ruben Orlando Sho. Sho received massive head […]
Another motorcyclist lost his life on Saturday shortly before six p.m. around mile ten and a half on the Stann Creek Valley Road. The victim has been identified as thirty-three-year-old Pedro Shol of the Valley Community, along the Hummingbird Highway. Shol was reportedly driving his motorcycle when he reportedly lost control and collided into a […]
An American national is lucky to be alive tonight. Jack Turner was saved by police and rescue teams after rushing waters swept him off the Buena Vista Road in Spanish Lookout. The incident happened around six-thirty on Monday evening and since then, there have been numerous reports circulating that as many as three persons were […]
Thirty-five-year-old Carol Orellana was knocked down in Camalote Village and up to news time, she remains hospitalized recovering at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan. Earlier today at its weekly press brief, police said they have no information on who knocked down the Camalote resident. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Roaring […]
In 2017, a multimillion dollar investment was supposed to give way to a world-class tourism development in Belize, but the Puerto Azul project turned out to be nothing more than Ponzi scheme. More than two hundred private investors were jilted out of millions of dollars and Belize was at the center of it. Sounds familiar? […]
…and while we wait to hear from Prime Minister Barrow, former Prime Minister Said Musa has weighed in on the matter. Musa, who is also a seasoned attorney, has been to Sittee River Wildlife Reserve on a site visit, not as a government official but in the capacity as a lawyer. According to Musa, he […]
An AeroMexico E-one-ninety airplane touched down at the Philip Goldson International Airport on Saturday, becoming the first direct non-stop flight from Mexico City to Belize. AeroMexico is Mexico’s global airline with more than eleven years serving the region. The new flight to and from Mexico City is being offered on Saturday and Sunday only; at […]
Earlier in the month, eyebrows were raised after two aircrafts landed at the privately owned, Marco Caruso’s airstrip on the Placencia peninsula. It so happens that the planes were for wealthy Guatemalans attending a wedding on the peninsula. The reasons it raised eyebrows were because immigration and police officers knew of the planes landing minutes […]
The United Democratic Party is in the middle of its convention season with dates and candidates having been established for eleven divisions prior to the Port Loyola Convention on November fourth. There is; however, one division for which a convention date has not been set. That is the Belize Rural South constituency, which is currently […]
Gary Grief is not the only person who Minister Manuel Heredia Junior is not seeing eye-to-eye with. There is presently a disagreement with the San Pedro Town Council over the collection of fees related to the use of the public pier. The issue is that San Pedro Belize Express is paying a two-thousand-dollar flat fee […]
A parent’s comprehensive guide to raising children, it’s a publication that was launched earlier today to coincide with Universal Children’s Day. The Government of Belize, the National Committee for Families and Children, the Belize Family Life Association and UNICEF partnered for the initiative and an official event was held this morning at the Biltmore to […]
For years now, there have been talks about compiling and maintaining a sex offenders registry. An official move from the government was taken back in 2014 when the National Assembly passed amendments to Belize’s Criminal Code. This made it possible for the creation of the National Sex Offenders Database. The registry will contain the name, […]
A fifteen-year-old girl reported to police that she was raped. Sometime after four-thirty on Saturday evening, the girl and her mother visited the Roaring Creek Police Station where the minor stated that she was at a house in Camalote village with her uncle and one of his friends. The man reportedly raped the girl while […]
Two men were electrocuted while they were cutting trees in Roaring Creek. According to police, the two persons were working near the Westar Gas Station when they received life threatening electrical shocks. The men are now hospitalized in the K.H.M.H. in critical condition. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Two persons, namely […]
On Monday, November nineteenth, three men, one of whom was armed, robbed the security guard posted at the University of Belize compound on Chancellor Avenue in Belize City. The men were said to be looking for firearms, but when the guard couldn’t produce one, they handcuffed and robbed him of his personal items. Inspector Wilfredo […]
On Friday, we reported on a robbery at Yi Long store in Unitedville. Today, police say that they have arrested and charged a seventeen-year-old from Belize City for the crime. The minor was slapped with charges of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery and attempted robbery of a customer. Police confirmed today that the teenager has […]
There are two more guns on the street after burglars made off with a nine-millimetre pistol and one hundred live rounds of the same caliber as well as a twelve gauge shot gun with fifty-one of its cartridges. Last week, Randy Gaithor of the River of Life Ministry on the Valley of Peace Road reported […]
On Sunday afternoon, two men attempted to rob a tacos vendor in Orange Walk Town. One of the robbers was armed with a handgun, but quick response from the police led to the detention of a minor from Carmelita Village. ACP Joseph Myvett says they are investigating this incident and are yet to determine if […]
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The men who brutally stabbed attorney Richard Stuart and his wife, Maria to death in 2010 today learned how many more years they will be spending behind bars for the vicious crime. Milton Maza and Eli Lopez Avila were sentenced to thirty-five years in jail by Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams. On October nineteenth, the […]
