We have covered stories about gruesome murders, but tonight the slaying of a forty-one year old man in the north is one of the most horrific to report. Philip Hall was stabbed multiple times, his private parts were severed and then he was set on fire in a small house a few miles outside Corozal […]
As we said, sixteen year old Alexander Murray, a mechanic, was killed on Saturday morning. He and his older brother Alton, along with two friends, Glenford Martinez and Michael Stevens, were traveling in a black Pontiac Grand Prix car on Freetown Road, when they were cornered by two vehicles near Korea Electronics, a Ford F150 […]
The infamous fake cop, Aaron Wilson, who ran a scam on the Police Department for six months, was back in court today. On Wilson’s first appearance, he was charged with Forgery, Possession of a False Document, Unlawful Possession of Belize Police Department Uniforms and Accessories, Theft and Threatening Words. This morning the cop impersonator was […]
Anthropologist in social violence, Dr. Herbert Gayle, revealed a summary of his research on Male Social Participation and Violence in Urban Belize this past Monday. The findings are not entirely new, but still alarming. His research reveals among other issues that the education system, inherited from the colonial days, is placing Belize far behind standards […]
At the end of this week, the Supreme Court begins its summer recess. As it heads into its six week break, uncertainty and instability are hanging over the Justice sector. The PM and the Bar Association are still publicly at odds over the process of appointing the next Chief Justice. Last week, the government advertised […]
Dr. Herbert Gayle, the social anthropologist finds that the police are at war with the youths and sixty percent of young people have witnessed police brutality. This was disclosed on Monday by the Gayle research team. Well tonight, a twenty year old resident of Cayo is tonight hospitalized at the Belmopan Regional Hospital. His ordeal […]
Herbert Gayle’s Research also discussed the implications of the rift between the judiciary and the police department. While both are in disagreement, Gayle pointed out that there needs to be more training for members of the police department. But while the issues with the judiciary can be described as a philosophical difference, the issues that […]
Gayle did not stop with the police, the judiciary, or even the education system. He also knocked the government, which over decades had allowed people to squat, to expand in areas that have no infrastructure. The government essentially needs proper leadership. Dr. Herbert Gayle “What is the problem with the political and administrative power and […]
A substantial number of inmates at the Belize Central Prison have come down with what appears to be symptoms of dengue fever. Newly appointed CEO Earl Jones today confirmed that one hundred and fourteen prisoners at the facility are being monitored closely for the virus. Of the number currently under observation two have been confirmed […]
Nineteen year old Glenford Diego, who has been on remand for attempted murder since November of 2007, is tonight facing a maximum of eighteen years to life in prison when he was found guilty of trying to kill a taxi driver of Belize City. Today Diego appeared in Supreme Court before Justice Adolph Lucas where […]
A team of young basketball players are representing Belize in Guatemala at the Junior COCABA Under-15 games. So far the team has won a game against Mexico, but it is by default and they played Costa Rica this afternoon. But the young players and their coach are unsatisfied with the accommodation arrangements and the playing […]
The Belize City Council announced plans for a new cemetery near mile thirteen on the Western Highway about a week ago and it is already facing opposition from Hattieville residents. The Lord Ridge Cemetery is quickly running out of space and the twenty point seven acres at the new burial site is expected to offer […]
But Deputy Mayor, Philip Willoughby says that the council and ministries collaborating on the project did their homework before deciding on the site. Willoughby also feels there is no need for conflict over the issue and they are willing to discuss the concerns of the village council. Philip Willoughby, Deputy Mayor, Belize City “I don’t […]
