Belmopan Police believe that they have in custody the two persons who murdered American David Reichel and Filipino Alry Rose Sardido on Saturday in Roaring Creek. But even as they prepare to lay charges, they have been faced with two additional murders. Those murders occurred in Camalote on Monday evening and claimed the lives of […]
Within an hour, Honduran Oscar Leonel Benitez was murdered to protect the identity of the man who killed Juan Carlos Olmedo. In a tragic twist of fate, both killer and victim chose the same trail in the bushes behind Camalote – one was fleeing after a murder and the other was simply returning home after […]
There is another case that could turn out to be murder as a family from the Arizona area of Teakettle is convinced that their father and husband, Pedro Ruben Andrade Luna, is dead. The forty-nine year old farmer left home on Thursday afternoon to gather contrive, which he would then sell in Belize City on […]
While the overnight murders of two Camalote residents are making headlines tonight, the brutal slaying of a Guatemalan national, who was killed in Jalacte Village over the weekend, has gone below the radar. On Saturday, a pair of men from the neighboring country visited the residence of sixty-one year old Fernando Sacul where they sought […]
It has been twelve days since we first broke the story on the issuance of a Belize passport to a South Korean national who had never set foot in Belize and who obtained a passport while he was sitting in a Taiwanese jail. Cayo Representative Elvin Penner was dismissed from cabinet for his involvement. Last […]
On Monday, Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse commented on the ongoing investigation into the recent passport scandal involving junior minister Elvin Penner who has since been dismissed from cabinet. While a internal inquiry has is taking place, there are controversies surrounding the investigation since it is being spearheaded by the substantive minister. Today, outspoken legal […]
But will there be a criminal investigation into the current passport scandal? There should since there is enough to suggest that a crime was committed in the issuance of a passport to South Korean national, Kim Wonhong, who was behind bars in Taipei when he got the passport on September ninth. Elvin Penner lost his […]
While the issue of the passport scandal took center stage in the House last Friday, amendments to the Criminal Code as they pertain to sexual offenses against children and persons with mental disabilities were also introduced. Special Envoy for Women and Children Kim Simplis Barrow has been an advocate for the revision of the dated […]
After deliberating since midday today, a jury of seven women and two men delivered a verdict to determine the fate of interdicted cop, Burton Caliz. Caliz was accused of manslaughter but the jury decided this evening that Caliz was in fact guilty of Manslaughter by Negligence. Caliz was initially charged with manslaughter back in March […]
The government announced today the formal opening of the Belize Infrastructure Limited. The interim general manager of BIL is Christy Maestre. If the name sounds familiar that is because Maestre was contracted as the project director of the Sustainable Tourism Project where she managed thirty million dollars of infrastructure and construction projects. BIL was established […]
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and the Belize Sugar Industries, under the American Sugar Refining Limited, have been enjoying a fruitful relationship since ASR successfully purchased seventy-eight point six percent of the B.S.I. Group. Sugar production at the Tower Hill Factory has increased considerably and following a successful year for caneros in the north, […]
In Orange Walk Town today, a national workshop got underway to strengthen efforts to record Belize’s rich cultural diversity. The workshop is sponsored by UNESCO in partnership with NICH. Its objective is to ensure that Belize’s cultural forms are safeguarded. Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Almost a year ago, the National Institute of […]
