Eighteen-year old Elmore Neal was killed on Saturday afternoon in broad daylight. His death is still mired in controversy because it involved a police officer. Neal was fatally shot a stone’s throw away from the home of his friend, twenty-nine year old Glenford Matura, who was targeted next. As many were heading to the workplace […]
There have been eleven shootings in eight days in the City streets. The latest was on Tuesday night when Elvis Bevans was shot twice to his left leg and foot. Bevans was riding his bicycle on Neal Pen Road in the direction of Kraal Road when he was approached from behind by a male person […]
The murder and shooting were followed by an armed hold up on Albert Street. The thieves in downtown Belize City were brazen enough to carry out their deeds just before the busy lunch hour. Doony’s was the target once more. While the three culprits could not put their hands on any cash, they did rob […]
The post mortem examination on the body of a customs officer who died while in police custody in Orange Walk Town has concluded and it doesn’t offer much to the ongoing investigation into his death. Twenty-eight year old Mathias Duran died from a fractured skull due to a blow to the head. He was laid […]
The dust has still not settled over the Foreign Minister’s recent comments about artificial borders in the many twists of Belize’s number one foreign policy and national issue. But this week representatives from both Belize and Guatemala sat down to talk and it is becoming patently clear that the holding of a referendum and going […]
By the time the technocrats get through all the red tape, it’s going to be quite a while before the dispute reaches the ICJ, if it does. But in the meantime, the tension on the ground has not waited for diplomacy to find a way. Though Fred Martinez says that all Guatemalan settlements have been […]
The complaint from Guatemala about militarization of the border came shortly after the post was installed. The political spin by Guatemala was that Belize installed the outpost as a political strategy to demarcate the border long ahead of the ICJ resolution of the case. Martinez says that the response was that Belize has a sovereign […]
Judgment has been reserved in an appeal between the Public Utilities Commission and the Belize Electricity Limited. In October, Court of Appeals’ Justice Denys Barrow was one of three judges who presided over an appeal of a decision by the Supreme Court which went in favour of the Public Utilities Commission. But the opposing party, […]
He tried three times and tonight he is out on bail. That’s thirty two year-old Keon Williams aka Gambis, who made the news last November when he was accused of sodomizing a fourteen year-old primary school student. Twice bail was rejected at the magistrate court and in his third attempt at the Supreme Court; Justice […]
Another man who is out on bail is thirty year old Abisai Canul, the former cashier for the Insurance Corporation of Belize. According to ICB Financial controller, Abel Samos, Canul was fired on Friday, January eleventh and was instructed to hand over the cash he had collected for that day to the accountant. The following […]
A Belize City chef spent five years behind bars for crimes of dishonesty and he was released in February, 2009. But it seems that twenty-six year old Eugene Lanza hasn’t learned his lesson so tonight he is back in Hattieville for Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods. The charges were read to him by Magistrate Kathleen […]
Two entities of the Catholic Diocese clashed on Tuesday evening when Hand in Hand Ministries started breaking down a portion of Saint John Vianney School’s fence. But it wasn’t some random act of vandalism; the fence is on a parcel of land that both the school and Hand in Hand are claiming. The two had […]
It is estimated that as many as thirteen point one percent of Belizeans over twenty years old are affected by diabetes and that puts Belize as the country with the highest diabetes related deaths in the Caribbean. Still, it’s a growing health problem often called the silent killer because many who have it, do not […]
