Two men, one woman and a minor were all murdered over the past weekend. In the west, a minor’s life was cut short on Sunday night and it is suspected that the culprits were his friends; two minors are detained. Fifteen year old Albert Valdez was stabbed a stone’s throw away from his home in […]
In the City, the gun violence broke out early with a double murder at the start of the weekend. Antelope Street looked like a war zone on Friday night. Two men were killed by a single gunman who simply rode up and opened fire on a group of friends. Eric “Lip” Arana died instantly while […]
The double murder of Eric Arana and Dwayne Tillett in the City was followed by another homicide on Antelope Street at the break of dawn on Monday morning. This time a woman fell victim to the street violence. Along with a group of friends, including a fifteen year old minor, Aldeen Idolly Zelaya was heading […]
Aside from the murders, two other persons were injured in Belize City over the weekend. Twenty two year old Randy Allen and eighteen year old Brandon Vasquez were both shot once on their backs. At two-thirty on Saturday afternoon, the men were at a shop on Caesar Ridge Road when a man identified as ‘White’ […]
We reported last week on the complaints by the Belize Bus Owners’ Cooperative over new zoning being proposed by the Department of Transport that granted West Line Bus Company Limited morning runs from Belize City to Benque Viejo and returning in the afternoons to Belize City. B.B.O.C.’s President Thomas Shaw made pleas to the Minister […]
The Toledo Cacao Festival took place over the weekend in southern Belize, the home of the organic cacao and of the prized Belizean chocolate. The festival attracted throngs of both tourists and Belizeans lured by the delights of chocolate as well as by the many ways to transform the cacao bean into delectable treats. Toledo […]
On Friday the Gang Suppression Unit carried out a predawn raid at Miguel Menjivar’s residence in the Las Flores community in Belmopan. Menjivar is the owner of La Cabana Bar and lives under heavy security. Commander of the G.S.U., Marco Vidal told us that before five o’clock that morning, the unit carried out a search, […]
Also in court, twenty-seven year old Bert Vasquez was arraigned on three counts; Aggravated Assault, Abduction and Harm upon a sixteen year old minor. Late in the hearing, Vasquez requested that the media be barred out of the session, saying that he cannot allow any further damage to his reputation, claiming he is being framed. […]
The accused gunman in a double murder was freed today due to inadmissible evidence. A Valentine’s Day ambush on Gill Street in 2008 left two men dead and one injured. Days later, police charged a sixteen year old minor for the murders of nineteen year old Eugene Flores and eighteen year old Roberto as well […]
A prisoner, who is considered to be dangerous, is on the loose after escaping from custody this morning. The Belize Police Department and the Kolbe Foundation are now asking for the public’s assistance to locate thirty-one year old Fabian Bain, who also goes by the name Carlos Escalante. Bain was being escorted from the Belize […]
The search for eighty-one year old Dalton Franklin, a resident of Lord’s Bank, who went missing on Monday afternoon, continued along the Belize River today. Franklin, who was accompanied by four others, went on a short fishing trip upstream when the vessel he was traveling in suddenly capsized near the Burrell Boom area. Franklin was […]
The case against the Attorney General’s Office which is being brought by Caleb Orozco and the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) challenging Section Fifty-Three of the Criminal Code is a little over two months away from being argued in the Supreme Court. Lawyers on both sides of the gay rights argument appeared before Justice Michelle […]
A sea of blue flooded the west and the north of the country was covered in red on Sunday as both major political parties held divisional conventions. In San Ignacio, two People’s United Party candidates made a bid for Cayo Northeast. Orlando Habet topped the polls with nine hundred and eighty-six votes and is the […]
We told you last week that a Belizean cuisine restaurant in Chicago would be featured on the Food Network’s hit show, Diners Drive-ins and Dives. The episode aired on Monday night and it definitely put our local dishes on the map as the host, Guy Fieri, as well as the patrons, had rave reviews about […]
Human Trafficking has become a global problem that rarely ends in convictions because victims are reluctant to go before the courts. Today the Embassy of Mexico hosted “A Day for the Rights of the Child,” in Belize and Corozal Districts to highlight the plight of vulnerable groups such as children who are trafficked. In Belize […]
Good Evening. I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. In week 13 of the Belize Bank Super League Tournament, the red hot Orange Walk United hosted the always dangerous Placencia Assassins Saturday night inside the People’s Stadium as the mad scramble to make the 4 team playoffs intensifies. It’s the visitors with the first […]
