When someone in Belize is seriously missing, whether at sea or on land, the lead search and rescue agency is usually the Belize Defence Force. Well tonight one of the B.D.F.’s very own is missing in the Chiquibul Forest. Juvencia Aguilar, Mother ?I just want my son to come back. That?s all I want, him […]
He was a popular police commissioner whose openness and candour set him apart from most of his predecessors … but as Director of Immigration, not even his extreme likeability could save Carmen Zetina from losing his job. A government press release today announced that the embattled director will be stepping down at the end of […]
Two years ago, if someone told you he was happy to see the price of premium gasoline at nine fifty-four a gallon you’d think he was smoking too much weed. But that was two years ago … Today we are indeed happy to see gas at nine fifty-four, especially when twenty-four hours ago it was […]
Financial assistance from the United States government has diminished over the years, with the bulk of Uncle Sam’s grants to Belize going to drug interdiction efforts and his loans coming via multi-lateral institutions like the I.D.B. and World Bank. But now and then the U.S. Ambassador is able to shake loose some funding for special […]
The drug trade is similar to many other high risk business ventures in that it is not unusual for arrangements to come unglued. But what makes narcotics trafficking different is that when a cocaine deal blows up in your face somebody usually winds up dead. On Saturday afternoon in Orange Walk nobody died, but one […]
In Magistrate’s Court today, the accused killer of Mark Gardiner was formally arraigned on a charge of murder. Twenty year old Kareem Lopez of Faber’s Road turned himself in to authorities on Friday afternoon after he was named by the cops as someone who could assist in the official investigation into Gardiner’s death. Following an […]
In an astonishing turn of events, a police officer convicted of rape and sentenced to twelve years behind bars, has had that verdict overturned and his sentence set aside. According to court reports, acting on his own behalf Evan Reynolds appeared before the Justices of the Court of Appeal this morning and successfully persuaded the […]
He’s only a boy but Belmopan police say he’s a prime suspect in a number of burglaries in the capital city. So when fourteen year old Ian Albert Tun tried to escape from the police station, cops had to get him back behind bars. The official version of events is that shortly after four on […]
Two men on remand for the September fourteenth attack on a sixty-five year old man in Dangriga have had their charges upgraded to murder after the victim died. Twenty-six year old Frank Arzu and twenty-seven year old Eldon Leslie were charged with attempted murder after they allegedly burglarised Nunez’s Sharp Street home, hit the owner […]
A Belize City woman is lucky to be alive tonight after she was accidentally shot in the head. According to the police, around ten on Saturday night, a patrol spotted a grey S.U.V. in the area of Berkeley Street going the wrong way on a one way street. The officers tried to pull the vehicle […]
Meanwhile, cops in the old capital are also on the lookout for a gang of men that shot a security guard in the stomach … for his bicycle. According to thirty-seven year old Marcial Toledo, around ten on Sunday night he was heading to his Vernon Street home when six men approached him and ordered […]
Today countries around the world took time out to bring attention to an often neglected health issue: mental illness. In Belize, an official ceremony commemorating World Mental Health Day was held at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall in Belize City. Guest speakers cited some grim global and local statistics relating to this year’s theme: “Mental […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and here?s your dish of Sports Monday. If we lived in the desert people, the nine days of continuous heavy rain would have been a most welcome thing. Unfortunately, these here flatlands located inside the tropic zone are now largely inundated under the relentless deluge. In fact, a look at […]
