The case of the five accused murderers, including Terrence and Keiron Fernandez, Ashton Vanegas as well as William “Danny” Mason and Ernest Castillo, had been on hold for many reasons. Among the delays were changes in legal representation, and non-appearances of both witnesses and attorneys. Mason was finally able to secure legal representation from Dexter […]
A teenager has been arrested and charged for Tuesday’s murder of Nixon Pinto. Nineteen-year-old Jovi Hernandez, a Honduran national living in the village of Hattieville, was arraigned this evening in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a single charge of murder. Hernandez is accused of fatally stabbing eighteen-year-old Pinto during what police say was a […]
An arrest has been made three and a half months after a murder in Armenia Village, Cayo District; at the time, B.D.F. volunteer soldier Hermelindo Ical was killed. Police now have enough evidence and today arrested and charged Maximino Chiac, a farmer of Springfield, for the March thirty-first murder of Ical. The body of the […]
Long time educator and staff member of the Institute of Technical and Vocational Training died in the early hours of this morning. Roderick Elijio was found dead inside his crashed vehicle along the Philip Goldson Highway. Elijio was driving through Gardenia Village, heading towards to Belize City, when he ran off the road and crashed. […]
A family in Roaring Creek Village has been left homeless following a devastating fire. The blaze consumed the house in which they lived for seventeen long years. It is believed that the fire was caused by an electrical fault displacing the Arnold family. In the aftermath of the fire, the Arnold’s need help. Here is […]
The allegations made by the Federal Trade Commission against Prime Minister Dean Barrow are so damning that the Prime Minister hired his law firm, Barrow and Williams, to warn that any re-broadcast, re-publication or repeating of F.T.C.’s allegations against him may result in civil action. Musa views the letter as an attack on the fourth estate, […]
And the Prime Minister has made good on his warning. Barrow and Williams has written Vaughn Gill, host of the P.U.P.’s media organ Positive Vibes Radio. The letter speaks of statements made by Gill on The Whip Talk Show on several occasions in which he made allegations against PM Barrow, concerning the Sanctuary Bay scam. […]
In a recent statement made on social media, Minister of National Security John Saldivar spoke on crime and perception. The minister said that murder, burglary, theft, and robbery all declined between January and June of this year when compared to last year. The violence in the past days, however, has added to the growing number […]
Round four of the village council elections took place this past weekend. It saw the election of thirty-five new village councils across the country. But there seems to be a fundamental issue between both political parties. Both the P.U.P. and the U.D.P. are and have been claiming victory since the first round. Today, P.U.P. Leader […]
Today more than two hundred young students from across the country proudly received their certificates for having completed this year’s Growing the Future Project. It is an educational summer camp that has been growing over the past fifteen years. It nurtures the intellect of the students and better equips them with the skills to advance […]
The Ahmadiyya Basketball League is an athletic movement in Belize that has grown exponentially since it was launched a few years ago. It has proven to be an effective means of bringing young men together and fostering in them a spirit of brotherhood and camaraderie. Beyond building a solid team, the boys are all talented […]
The World Customs Organization and the Belize Customs Department wrapped up day-four of an all week training for agencies involved in cross-border trade. The event brought together agencies that are involved on the cross-border chain, including the Bureau of Standards, BAHA, the F.I.U. and the Ministries of Agriculture and Health, to introduce them to a […]
Have you ever heard about the summer slide? Well, if you’re a parent of a child on summer break, it’s something you need to know about. It’s a term used to describe the academic regression some students may experience after the summer holidays. We find out more in tonight’s Healthy Living. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting […]
Four persons were killed in the mayhem of a very violent Tuesday evening. In a span of five hours, two were killed and died on the spot, while two others succumbed hours after they were injured and there is nothing to indicate any connection in the violent spree. The violence started in the crowded downtown […]
Allyson Major was a very close friend of Caribbean Shores Area Representative Kareem Musa and a lifelong friend of former COLA President Giovanni Brackett. Like Major’s immediate family, both men are also reeling from his senseless death. This afternoon, they shared fond memories of the teacher, from personal accounts of having spent time with him. […]
A Belize City vendor was shot and killed on Tuesday evening shortly after the shooting of Allyson Major Junior. Naturalized Belizean Jose Diaz, a clothing vendor, was inside his small shop on Cemetery Road when he was murdered. At this time, police are looking for two persons of interest in connection with this homicide. Police […]
The following story is heart-wrenching. A six-month-old beautiful baby of Belizean parents was left abandoned at a hospital in San Benito Poite, in Guatemala. The parents, from what we gather, are Belizeans Victor Manuel Avilez and Tameka Vargas. Now, the infant was admitted at the hospital as Kyle Manuel Avilez Junior and authorities are looking […]
One of the murders in Tuesday night’s madness that is baffling police involves Ghanaian Emmanuel Ampomah. The fifty-two-year-old cabbie was fatally stabbed inside his taxi by his fare after eight o’clock. He lost consciousness and crashed on Seashore Drive dying instantly. Ampomah has no family in Belize; he is well known in this area of […]
A feud between rival groups in the area of Antelope Street Extension has resulted in the stabbing death of nineteen-year-old Nixon Pinto. Sometime around six o’clock on Tuesday evening, Pinto and another man, identified as nineteen-year-old Jovi Hernandez, got into an altercation at the Lord Ridge Cemetery in the vicinity of Western Avenue. Hernandez, a […]
The Mayor of San Ignacio Earl Trapp and his wife were victims on Tuesday night of the violence that is sweeping across the country and spares no one. The Trapp’s were inside their house when armed thieves, who were posing as police officers, targeted them. The mayor’s wife was held at gunpoint when the fake […]
A house was completely destroyed by fire in Roaring Creek today. Shortly after four this evening, a fire broke out inside the house of forty-four-year-old Denise Arnold in the ‘Another World’ area in the village. No one was at home at the time of the blaze and nothing was saved. We’ll have more in Thursday’s […]
Charges of extortion have been dropped against a Special Constable and a police officer attached to the San Pedro Police Formation. An American visitor accused them of shaking him down for three hundred U.S. dollars. Timothy Braun was on the island when he was busted by the officers on the night of June fifteenth, 2017. […]
Police have formally arrested and charged Lynroy Longsworth and Kenosha Beaton for the crime of possession of control drugs with the intent to supply. The duo was busted with many parcels of high-grade weed and more than ten thousand Belize dollars. The anti-drug operation took place on Tuesday morning at a residence around mile-four on […]
Police are moving quickly to defuse a feud between two rival groups in Sandhill Village, Belize District. That feud led to the shooting of Ivan Hyde who was injured while at his home in the village on Tuesday morning. Hyde was shot multiple times and luckily for the victim, the injuries were not life-threatening. He […]
On Saturday morning, thirty-six-year-old Fidel Edilberto Bardalez was found brutally murdered in Alta Vista Village in the Stann Creek District. He had been beaten and chopped to death by a seventeen-year-old minor with whom he was socializing before his demise. Investigators say that the two got into a fight, which resulted in the minor producing […]
