We don’t know whether to classify tonight’s lead story as crime, politics, or international relations… but whatever you call it, be sure that something very fishy went on Monday evening on the southside of Belize City. The barebones story, as released by police is that around six in the evening a vehicle with three occupants […]
Details remain sketchy, but the buzz this afternoon was all about a big bank robbery in Dangriga. Between one-thirty and two, a group of armed thieves entered the Bank of Nova Scotia and left with what unconfirmed reports say may have been over a hundred thousand dollars. Eyewitness accounts differ, but people say the robbers […]
Cops in Cayo have their hands full with a murder and attempted murder that occurred Monday night in San Ignacio. The body of eighteen-year-old Quinn Waight of Santa Elena was found at dawn this morning in the Macal River Park with bullet wounds to the head, chest, and arm. Last night, thirty-year-old Jonathan Smith told […]
He came in the same police car as Mark Jones, and like his seat-mate, twenty-one year old Russel Dougal is also charged in connection with a shooting; that of Cyril Jones on July eighth on Kraal Road. Dougal has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm, and use of deadly means of harm. Jones lies […]
He has successfully defended some of the baddest of Belize’s criminals, but early this morning well known attorney Simeon Sampson himself became a victim of crime. According to police, Sampson was fast asleep at his home on Allenby Street in Belize City when around two this morning he was awakened by something pressing down on […]
Following industry protests against the Belize City Council over parking fees for taxi drivers in the old capital, on Monday the unions, associations, and their attorney Michael Peyrefitte met with Mayor David Fonseca in an attempt to reach a compromise. According to the City Council, the implementation of fees for the preferential parking spots had […]
The recent decision by the European Union to cut prices paid for sugar sold to E.U. member states by thirty-nine percent over four years will not only cause Belize to lose millions of dollars, but other African, Caribbean and Pacific countries will also be hard hit. Today representatives from the sugar industries of ten countries […]
This Sunday will mark one month since four year old Rudy Misael Lopez disappeared without a trace from his parent’s home at Trinidad Farm. Today Rosalina Lopez says while they may have called off the search for her son, she has not given up hope of finding him. Rosalina Lopez, Mother of Missing Boy ?I […]
Last week the government announced that as of Monday July eleventh, the money changing houses, known as casas de cambio, would close. The idea was to plug what was believed to be a very large leak of uncontrolled foreign exchange. The question that immediately arose was how would Belizean shoppers convert their money into pesos […]
