It is the kind of crime that is considered utterly shameless and unimaginable… preying on the elderly. But tonight, we report on a barefaced theft that could have very well resulted in a home invasion. Seventy-six year old Loretta Wright, mother of Anglican Bishop Phillip Wright, was at home inside their Southern Foreshore residence on […]
Two men are in police detention for the senseless murder of forty-one year old cyclist Ernest ‘Dangalang’ Thurton. He was killed by a single bullet to the left side of his chest at about four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. The Weekend Warrior and long time member of Team Santino’s lived on Queen Charlotte Street […]
The Belize Tourism Industry Association which has consistently opposed the Norwegian Cruise Lines port at Harvest Caye is heading to court having exhausted a number of other avenues. It is challenging an environmental appraisal to the fifty million dollar tourism project provided by the National Environmental Appraisal Committee on the grounds that the appraisal did […]
Luke Cox and Saul Garcia are dead while Guinea Grass shop owner Edison Johnson is in jail, charged for two counts of murder. The deadly incident occurred on Friday at a remote family farm in Carmelita owned by Johnson. Cox and Garcia were allegedly there to steal items from the farm when they were shot […]
Around midday on Tuesday, the body of a homeless amputee was carted off to the morgue from the sidewalk at Mule Park in the downtown area of the City. His name may have been unknown to many but he was a constant on Albert Street moving around in his wheelchair. The homeless man passed away […]
Former University of Belize President Dr. Cary Fraser demitted office in mid-November of last year, amid a swirl of controversy as to whether he was indeed granted leave by the Board of Trustees or if he left on his own will. Since his departure six months ago, Dr. Wilma Wright, the university’s provost, was appointed […]
Two firearms were recovered in the past few days by police…one on Rhaburn’s Alley near the residence of fifty-seven year old Alfonso Cruz who was murdered on Saturday night and the other, in a vacant lot in the Jane Usher Boulevard area and reportedly in proximity of the home of Sunday night’s murder victim, eighteen […]
Two persons, an interdicted cop and a Ladyville businessman, were offered Supreme Court bail today. The cop, PC Ronald Sutherland, was on remand for not adhering to bail conditions. Sutherland was initially charged for the aggravated assault of his common-law-wife, Tanisha Ortiz, back in October 2013. In the alleged domestic dispute with Ortiz, Sutherland was […]
The appointment of a new justice to the Supreme Court is imminent. Justice Sonya Young of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines arrived in the Jewel on Tuesday and was today given a tour of her the Supreme Court buildings by Registrar, Velda Flowers. The newly appointed judge will be sworn within the next two weeks. […]
A Belmopan resident, who stepped in to break up a fight, ended up a victim of maim. Thirty year old Leon Humes reported to the police that after he socialized with friends at the Cabana night club in the Capital, he headed to a food stall in proximity of the club, at about two o’clock […]
The Belize Police Department has been making the rounds of the media in the days before the Easter weekend. It is unfortunate, but true, that traditionally during this time there is a spike in burglaries, alcohol-related accidents and incidents and accidental deaths. With the focus to break tradition, Police Departments countrywide have stepped up patrols […]
In March, business operators and residents of Sixth Street in King’s Park raised the alarm when City Hall changed the street to one way overnight. Business owners in particular claimed that they would lose significant revenues, since customers would be inconvenienced by having to take another roundabout route. Mayor Darrell Bradley was advised of the […]
