As cops are on the frontline to shut down illegal gatherings, these encounters with large groups can further expose them to the virus. Currently, the department has been hit hard with close to one hundred and seventy cops off duty as a result of the pandemic. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that at the […]
As police arrest and charge civilians for COVID-related violations, what about those cops who may also be breaking the law? Commissioner Chester Williams says that he is taking a hard line when it comes to his officers because they cannot be sending one message and appear to be doing the opposite. These comments come after […]
A staffer at the Belize Postal Service in Belize City has tested positive at a private facility for the novel coronavirus and as a result, eighteen others who came in direct contact with that patient will be swabbed for the virus. These employees are now in self-isolation at home and are not to report to […]
A gas attendant was shot over the weekend at his place of work, the Puma Gas Station on Freetown Road. Adrian Perrera was attending to a customer when he was pounced upon by an armed robber wearing an orange hoodie. Perrera was shot to the back during a struggle with the robber who made off […]
Two men, including a B.D.F. soldier, have been arrested and charged for kept firearm without a gun license. Around two-thirty on Saturday afternoon, cops were doing random stop and search in Trinidad Village when they found an unlicensed nine millimeter pistol inside a vehicle. The duo was arrested. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes […]
A Belize City woman reported to police that she was held up at gunpoint and robbed of her personal belongings in Belize City. Police say that the woman was in a vehicle near the seaside by the Bliss Institute when the incident happened. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “On […]
A couple’s domestic dispute has left a man hospitalized. According to police, David Pou and his girlfriend were having an argument when she called for her family to help her move from the couple’s home. The woman’s family reportedly got into an altercation with Pou and he was stabbed. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy […]
For three consecutive general elections, the electoral divisions in Corozal have been split between the two major political parties, the U.D.P. holding three of the four seats and P.U.P. one. But is a blue tidal wave going to sweep over the north? On the campaign trail in Corozal, the People’s United Party is confident as […]
A Corozal man is suspected to have drowned after his body was found floating in the sea. On Sunday morning, Corozal police were called out to the seafront where they discovered Dudley Nugent’s body in the water. The suspicion is that Nugent may have drowned as no sign of violence was observed on his body. […]
One man is in the hospital following a chopping incident in Yo Creek Village. Police say that sometime around two on Sunday morning Emmanuel Garcia visited the home of another man and they were socializing when they got into an argument. Garcia sustained chop wounds that landed him in the hospital in a critical condition. […]
A fire in San Miguel Village in Toledo has left one family homeless. Police say that just before three on Friday afternoon, a fire broke out at Alicia Jucub’s home. She managed to save some items, but the fire wiped out the rest of her belongings, as well as the roof over her head. […]
There is more tonight from the P.U.P. standard bearer Jorge “Milin” Espat whose trouble started on Thursday when it came to light that he had not registered to vote. But Espat is fighting back. Espat who is running for Cayo West says that the U.D.P. is desperately trying to attack his campaign and is being […]
The U.D.P. candidate for Corozal Southwest Doctor Angel Campos escaped unhurt after he was involved in a vehicular collision this afternoon. It happened at the entrance of Orange Walk Town, near the Belize Sugar Industries. Doctor Campos was in a white Toyota 4 Runner when it crashed into Dodge Nitro SUV. There are no reports […]
Police are following all leads in the gruesome murder of Guatemalan national Humberto Ramos. The caretaker was found dead inside a small wooden shed at his place of work in the village of Santa Cruz in southern Belize. He had been chopped to the head and his body was found on a bed. There are […]
It’s been more than a week since the twenty-eight prisoners escaped from the Belize Central Prison. And twelve days after the prison break, seven of the escapees remain on the run. They fugitives at large are: thirty-three-year-old Jaroud Lamb of Camalote Village who was convicted for murder and thirty-three-year-old Michael Faux of Kut Avenue in […]
The Southern Environmental Association, SEA, has been ramping up its presence within two marine locations that it co-manages, resulting in a number of fisheries busts over the past few weeks. On Thursday, rangers on patrol in the waters off the coast of Seine Bight Village confiscated three gillnets that were illegally placed in an area […]
Since its establishment, SEA has built on its relationships with the Belize Coast Guard and the Fisheries Department. That partnership has proven fruitful, says Palacio. Arreini Palacio Morgan “We’re very appreciative of the coast guard and their accompaniment on all of their patrols with us. We have a very good relationship with them, as […]
An Asian man who has given his address as Prince Street, Punta Gorda Town, Toledo and Calcutta Village, Corozal was granted bail today, one week after he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison on six counts of Trafficking in Persons. Justice Herbert Lord granted forty-one-year-old Jin Zhou Wu bail in the sum of fifteen thousand […]
A man whose profession is to sell and advise patients on the safe use of legal drugs and medicines is out on bail for a charge of possession of almost three pounds of cocaine. Thirty-two-year-old Albert Requeña, a pharmacist of New Road in Belize City, was today granted bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars plus […]
Across the country, police officers are among the many frontline workers who are exposed to COVID-19, even those who are not on active patrol, and more than one hundred and thirty are off duty. At the prosecution branch, an office within the Belize Police Department that works closely with the judiciary, over fifty officers have […]
Turning to the overall COVID numbers…on Thursday night, we reported on the record number of samples processed at the Central Medical Lab – a total of four hundred and thirty-seven tests. As we told you, fifty-eight of those were confirmed to be positive for COVID-19. Tonight, we share a breakdown of that number. Eleven are […]
Nomination Day has come and gone – without much fanfare in most parts and that’s because of COVID-19. And with elections less than two weeks away – it’s left to be seen how that will play out. One would think that it will also be low-key and without mass gatherings. And while the authorities are […]
Director of Health Services Marvin Manzanero also discussed the retesting of COVID-19 positive patients. Doctor Manzanero spoke of one case where one man tested positive at day forty-nine. Here’s how he explains the health officials are moving forward with testing and quarantine. Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services “The determination we made as […]
Doctor Marvin Manzanero has confirmed that there is a back log on processing the COVID-19 samples at the Central Medical Lab. Manzanero shared that the lab was putting in extra hours to catch up with the few hundred samples in backlog. But the Ministry is hopeful that the lab will cut down the time by […]
With the cases mounting every day, there is a welcome donation. The Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization have donated a patient ventilator and accessories to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The use of the ventilator is critical in the treatment of COVID patients with respiratory conditions. The equipment and accessories were handed […]
