Police have located a man accused by a Belize City youth of sodomizing him earlier this week. On Wednesday, a fourteen-year-old Belize City boy told police the driver of a red van with taxi plates induced him and a friend to get in his vehicle by pretending to be the youth’s uncle. The friend panicked […]
Two youths, one of whom is only fourteen, have been arrested in connection with the murder of Cleofo Lambey. Nineteen-year-old Leroy Ramsey and the minor appeared in court today and were remanded to Hattieville pending trial by jury in the Supreme Court. On June twenty-sixth, Lambey, better known as “Kerob” had just exited Lion King […]
The judicial resolution of the passport scandal will just have to wait a little longer, as one of the two defendants in the high profile case once again failed to appear. Hassan El-Sayed, who is jointly charged with Gabby Affif on ten counts relating to the forgery of passport applications, did not appear for the […]
He has been sitting on death row for over a decade, and waiting for a possible commuted sentence since 2002. But today, Adolph Harris, sentenced to hang for the death of Lavern Orosco in 1993, was still unable to get a change in his sentence due to the long lapse in time since the original […]
Police are asking for the public’s help in catching the culprit who stabbed a Belmopan businessman at his home. On Thursday, friends discovered Ming Kuo Hung critically wounded at his house on Haulover Street and rushed him to the hospital. Police were unable to get a statement from Ming that afternoon because he was unconscious. […]
An apparent hunting accident has sent one man to the hospital with gunshot wounds to his face and has led police to detain his companion. Leonardo Ortiz told Dangriga police that early Thursday morning he and Gabriel Cho went hunting in an area off the Coastal Road. Ortiz reports hearing a shot and then realized […]
A new Accountant General took up her post today. Anita Eck is succeeding Carmen Barrow who will become the Technical Coordinator for the Tax Reform Process in the Ministry of Finance. Eck has been working with the Government of Belize since 2001 and has served as Director of Budget and Finance in both the Ministry […]
Tonight a confusing press release printed in the local media has added yet another bizarre twist to the fiasco that has become the sale of Belize Telecommunications Limited. This is the latest development: a statement from Ecom claiming that “public comment has sought to suggest that the Government intends to divest twelve point five percent […]
Imagine this, you have a nice little house in a pleasant rural neighbourhood and then suddenly one day you wake up and find yourself engulfed by the smell of pigs. And what’s worse, it seems there is nothing you can do to remove the smell, or the animals. No big deal? Well, we didn’t think […]
Some might call it a free field trip, but the organizers of this morning’s river outing for young offenders say its part of their rehabilitation strategy. Just what did the guys make of the fast-paced boat ride compared to their dull existence at the prison? Well, see for yourself. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning, under […]
