There is some good news to report on the latest murder and robbery involving Bowen and Bowen employees which happened shortly after five on Monday evening in front of the Belize Bank in San Ignacio Town. One worker died on the spot and the other, Millard Tun was shot to the head and right arm. […]
In other crime news, police are currently looking for twenty year old Clifford “Bebe” Flores in connection with a shooting incident that occurred around seven-thirty Saturday morning. Twenty-three year old Wayne Rocke said that on January third, he was riding his bicycle on Caesar Ridge Road and was approached by Flores who got off his […]
And burglars in Corozal hit the mother load when they broke into the Brodie’s Warehouse in the Free Zone. Store Manager, twenty-five year old Hensleigh Jones, reported to police that sometime between five-fifteen p.m. on December thirty-first and the morning of January second someone gained access to the premises. Once inside the thief or thieves […]
Also in Corozal, police are investigating the sudden death of a one year old baby. According to twenty-one year old Denise Chable of San Roman Village, around eleven p.m. on Friday she was feeding her daughter and noticed that the baby’s belly was swollen. Chable said she massaged it, but she continued crying and so […]
And in the south, in a sting operation Tuesday, Dangriga police visited a plantation where thirteen marijuana shrubs measuring two feet in height were found. The plants were being grown by thirty-four year old Hector Diaz and thirty-one year old Ricky Polanco. The two farmers of mile twenty-five on the Hummingbird Highway were arrested and […]
Today the battle between two well known contenders went back to court and from the looks of it, it might end without a flurry of blows. Late last month tourism developer, David Gegg filed an application seeking the court to order Jaguar Paw Resort to reopen its zip line operations to his tourists. But Jaguar […]
A man who appeared in court for failing to report to the police, was slapped with a subsequent charge of Aggravated Assault. Fate was not kind to twenty-four year old Michael Young, a deportee when he appeared in the Magistrate Court today. Young pleaded guilty to the charge of failure to report and as a […]
A man who was serving one of two years in prison for drug trafficking was sentenced to an extra year in prison for another drug trafficking incident. Today, nineteen year old Charles Leslie appeared in Magistrates’ Court where he was found guilty of possession of forty point six grams of cannabis. Magistrate Edd Usher stipulated […]
As suspected, there was a dramatic increase in crime last year, in particular in reported cases of carnal knowledge. Murders went up and so did robberies, burglaries and firearm offences. And Belize City gets the dubious distinctionas the crime capital. Figures were released today by the police department that show a comparative review of crime […]
It’s almost complete – that is the paving of Albert and Regent Streets. The works are in the last stages which would end the dust and the traffic congestions in the two main arteries in the city after five in the evenings by the end of this week if all goes according to plan. That’s […]
In political news, the temperature is expected to raise as the two main political parties go eyeball to eyeball in the race for municipal bodies. The City Council and Town Board Elections are important not only for the running of local governments in the city and municipalities around the country, but it will serve as […]
Electricity rates have gone down; that’s the word from the Public Utilities Commission in a press release issued late this evening. The Mean Electricity Rate dropped just under six cents from forty-four cents to thirty-eight cents. While the over seven thousand customers accessing the social rate will not see any movement, residential, commercial and even […]
Since the start of the New Year police are conducting special operations at the major bridges in Belize City. The stint by the armed officers of the Anti-Drug Unit aims to crack down on traffic, drug and firearm offenders. This evening we got a glimpse of how the operation was being conducted at the northern […]
