Back in March, the Government of Belize decided to go after the Belize Bank for ten million U.S. dollars granted by Venezuela late last year in December. Well today, after what appeared to be endless litigation, the government received the monies in Round One of the G.O.B. versus Ashcroft match. And it was handed over […]
But the weekend was not without crime. Two persons were killed and we begin with the cold-blooded attack on a defenseless single mother and her children that ended fatally for the Belize City woman who was first raped and then brutally murdered at her home in the presence of at least one family member. Thirty-nine […]
In the second killing, one man was shot dead and police have detained and charged two suspects. The incident occurred before noon on Saturday inside a car as the three occupants zipped past the Yabra Police Booth on Caesar Road, reportedly playing with the gun. The incident claimed the life of eighteen year old David […]
While police were at a press conference talking crime, brazen robbers were busy at the offices of Baymen Cable. Two men went to the cable headquarters on Baymen Avenue on the premise that they were selling newspapers just before noon today. But when the security guard opened the door, the men pulled out guns, hit […]
And from robberies to traffic accidents, a young man is dead following a traffic accident last Thursday morning on the Yalbac Road in the Cayo District. According to forty-seven year old Ruperto Pinelo, at around six-thirty that morning he was driving towards Spanish Lookout when a motorcyclist travelling in the opposite direction crossed his path, […]
And there is more bad news. In weekend shootings, forty-three year old Adrian Robinson was admitted at the K.H.M.H. trauma room on Sunday night after he was shot six times. Police say an initial investigation shows that Robinson was shot when he went outside his Flamboyant Street home to check who was calling out for […]
The Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo, faced a tough session with the press this morning – the reason, the undeniable increase in crime, in particular murders. There was plenty of talk of the police department’s Operation Cycle Breaker, introduced by the Police Department shortly after the Barrow administration took office. And as is evident, […]
The ease that consumers received last week with the five dollar decrease in butane gas, has been cut short with an announcement that the price of both chicken and eggs has gone up. The wholesale price of whole dressed chicken increased twenty-six cents, from two-eighteen to two dollars and forty-four cents. Eggs on the other […]
A construction worker accused of stealing a licensed nine millimeter pistol was charged with Theft when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court this morning. The man, twenty-six year old Silvano Bustillos from the village of Guinea Grass, pleaded not guilty to the charge and has been remanded in custody since he was unable to meet bail […]
Two male minors appeared before the family court judge to answer charges for aggravated assault that occurred in separate incidents. The first incident involved a fifteen year old high school student. It was reported that on the twenty-seventh of July around ten-twenty p.m. the youth fired shots at twenty-one year old Wilworth Williams. Williams alleges […]
A man who had a one millimeter calibre bullet in his pocket, was denied bail today in the Magistrate Court. Gion Bernard was charged for keeping the bullet and when he pleaded not guilty to the charge, Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to him that she cannot offer bail because of the new legislation which […]
A Belize City man has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to drug charges. This afternoon, Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie charged twenty-nine year old Sydney Bradley for possession of point eight grams of cannabis, the equivalent of about one joint, and sentenced him to one year imprisonment. Bradley was obviously in […]
Eighteen year old Denfield Tasher was charged today with Attempted Robbery and Aggravated Assault. He was wanted by police for a June burglary of Femy Young’s home on Coffin Street. Police report that last Friday morning, Tasher entered Profile Jewelry Shop on Regent Street with a big brown bag which contained a pistol. The sales […]
Most Belizeans are familiar with child abuse, carnal knowledge, and incest, but mention the term Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents or CSEC, and many of them won’t know what you’re talking about. Simply put, CSEC refers to the act of using a boy or girl under eighteen years old for sex or pornography […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley welcoming you to this edition of Spots Monday. Week three of the RF&G Cup Tournament brought Wagiya of Dangriga to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday against the Belize Defence Force and as quick as four minutes in Dennis Serrano unleashes this header that gives the military a 1-zip lead. For its […]
