A small plane carrying one ton of cocaine crash landed into fields in the community of San Pedro Peralta, south of Quintana Roo, Mexico. One person was reportedly killed. Mexican media is reporting that before midnight on Sunday, a plane was reportedly flying low in the area. The Cessna type aircraft that is commonly being […]
A pair of fake cops robbed PUMA Gas Station on the Philip Goldson Highway Sunday evening and they made it look so effortless. Two armed men, dressed in what can easily be mistaken as police uniforms, waltzed inside PUMA Gas Station and demanded to speak to the manager. They forced themselves in the manager’s office […]
A Belize City man was one of two persons who lost his life on Sunday evening in traffic fatalities. Thirty-eight-year-old John Bennett was on his motorcycle en route to Belize City when he reportedly crashed head-on into oncoming traffic on the George Price Highway. The motorcycle, we are told, was extensively damaged and Bennett was […]
Sixty-two-year-old Guatemalan National Excequiel Lopez Leon was knocked down and killed on Saturday night at around seven-twenty. Police say that thirty-four-year-old Shaun Dortch of San Pedro Village, Corozal District was driving his Mazda SUV from Orange Walk to Belize City when he knocked down Leon, who was riding his bicycle, in the same direction. Leon […]
A traffic accident on the Burrell Boom Road on Sunday evening left six persons injured, but fortunately, there were no fatalities. Sidney Humphreys was behind the wheel of an Isuzu Rodeo when he reportedly lost control near the cutoff to Bacab Eco Park on the Burrell Boom Road. The SUV careened off the road and […]
A well-known courier service provider from Corozal and a cargo agent for a local airline company are on Supreme Court bail tonight after they were intercepted by police last Wednesday with three kilos of cocaine. Fifty-nine-year-old Henry Menzies and thirty-eight-year-old Melvin Cal were nabbed after three p.m. by officers who were at the Ranchito Municipal […]
It is not the first time that local airlines are being used to transport illicit cargo across the country; in fact, the police department has intercepted packages carrying suspected drugs, including marijuana and contraband, multiple times at the Corozal airstrip and elsewhere. Today, the media questioned why the scope of the investigation did not include […]
The Belize Defence Force carried out a destruction of marijuana fields in northern Belize over the weekend. The B.D.F. carried out an operation in the early hours of Saturday near Little Belize in Corozal and found a weed plantation with three thousand marijuana plants. No one was found in the area and the trees were […]
Today was the final day to register for the April tenth referendum. In Belize City, long lines were formed at various registration centres as electors waited to apply to be placed on the voters list. Only those persons who applied for registration will be able to vote yes or no on whether to take the […]
Belize is among ten new jurisdictions blacklisted as tax havens by the European Union. These include: Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Vanuatu. The measures were announced today in Brussels due to shortfalls in rules that could favour tax evasions in other countries. It means that these […]
Tonight, a trio of men caught in connection with a house burglary at the home of a supervisor is on remand at the Belize Central Prison. Kevin Alvarez, James Fitzgibbon, and Clinton Geban, appeared in the Magistrate Court for stealing an assortment of items from the house of Jevon Hernandez. Alvarez was charged for burglary […]
On Friday night, criminals seized the opportunity to commit crimes when there was a brief interruption in power in Belize City. Sometime around seven-fifteen that night, during the “black out”, nineteen-year-old Belize City resident Melroy Pelayo was on Rio Grande Crescent in the Faber’s Road Extension when he was shot in the leg. He was […]
Belize City resident Linsford Baldwin also fell victim to a gunman in the city over the weekend. Police say that sometime after nine on Saturday, twenty-eight-year-old Baldwin was shot to the upper body. ASP Alejandro Cowo says they don’t have a motive at this time and there are no known suspects. ASP Alejandro Cowo, […]
Belize City police are investigating the sudden death of a one-month-old baby girl. Her name is Rhynaye Alexandra Rowland and she was found dead in her bed at her home on Kelly Street, Belize City, at around three o’clock on Monday morning. According to the mother, Simbiat Garnett, they went to bed at around eleven […]
The team from NICH established itself as a force at the start of the four-day Ruta Maya River Challenge race. Covering as much as one hundred and eighty miles, sixty-one teams took off from San Ignacio on Friday and paddled their way to Belize City on Monday morning. NICH would go on to win the […]
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Thousands of teachers gathered today at the UB gymnasium in Belmopan to take part in an I.C.J. forum fully sponsored and organized by the Belize National Teachers’ Union. The four-hour forum saw the participation of more than three thousand, five hundred teachers who listened to presentations from three invited guests. Ambassador and YES proponent Assad […]
There are thousands of Belizeans living and working outside of the country who will not be able to participate in the upcoming I.C.J. referendum. Notwithstanding the criteria for eligibility that has been put forth, many are unable to return home and remain here for at least two months, only to return sometime later to cast […]
The deadline for re-registration is March eleventh and across the country eligible voters are making last-minute efforts to ensure that they are able to cast their ballots on April tenth. But while many have successfully done so, they are still without a Voters ID card tonight and do not know when those cards will be […]
Another accused murderer walked free of the charge today. Tonight, Daniel Myvett is at home with his family after attorney Leeroy Banner was successful in getting his case thrown out. Myvett was accused of killing Nigerian national Kabiru Olongundudu. The security guard was stabbed to death while on duty at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza […]
During the Prime Minister’s Business Forum on February twenty-first, the head of government took advantage of an opportunity to chide the court system, taking particular aim at a sitting judge. PM Barrow’s keynote address dealt with a deprivation of roughly fourteen million from government’s treasury, monies that were offset from Belize Bank’s taxes. Not only […]
Many questions have been asked relating to Assad Shoman’s recently formed non-governmental organization. Citizens for the Defense of Sovereignty was formed less than three months ago and its primary objective is to ‘promote the sovereignty of peoples and the struggle for freedom, justice, and equality.’ In fact, the most urgent object of the movement today […]
During the forum today, Ambassador Assad Shoman explained what steps will be followed if a YES vote is secured on April tenth. According to Shoman, Belize will exercise its rights to ask the ICJ to implement provisional measures such as issuing a stop order to Guatemala from aggressing Belizeans who traverse the Sarstoon. Assad […]
So what happens if there is a NO vote? Well according to Assad Shoman, there is no clear plan as to what steps will be taken. Shoman says he cannot predict what will happen, prompting backlash from Attorney Audrey Matura and Former Border Commissioner Lindsay Belisle. Assad Shoman, Citizens for the Defence of Sovereignty […]
One of the most repeated questions relating to Guatemala’s claim over Belize has to do with the historical role of England and future intervention. Some feel that Belize inherited the claim from England and as such, England and Guatemala should resolve the dispute between themselves. So today when Ambassador Assad Shoman was asked about it, […]
