Corozal Police have been unable to identify the body of a young woman found on Tuesday afternoon. The partially decomposed body was discovered by a resident of Chan Chen, lying in a pond just outside that village. There were extreme signs of violence on the woman police are calling Jane Doe, believed to be caused […]
Twenty-two year old Patrick Bevans a resident of Port Loyola was shot and killed this morning by an unknown assailant. The latest Belize City homicide is believed to be the result of an ongoing rivalry between two established gangs. It is rumored that there is an imminent takeover of the Jane Usher Boulevard by the […]
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There was a road traffic accident in the village of Trial Farm in the Orange Walk District last Thursday. RTAs are very common, but the circumstances surrounding this one are not. A fourteen-year-old minor was allegedly given the keys to a pickup truck to run an errand. He was doing that when he knocked down […]
CHIKV, a mosquito-borne virus which causes an illness similar in transmission to dengue fever, has become an emerging threat within Latin America and the Caribbean. Infection causes an acute fever which can last anywhere between two to five days, succeeded by a prolonged period of joint pains, intense headache, sleeplessness, and weakness. While vector control […]
Armed confrontations along the Belize/Guatemalan border, involving the Belizean military and Guatemalans conducting illegal activities within our country, have been a perennial issue which some may say remain unresolved. And on Monday, a Guatemalan soldier was detained in Belize within the Chiquibul National Park. The soldier and three others were found approximately two hundred and […]
On Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister, Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington told News Five that American Investigator and Director of the International Forensics Science Laboratory and Training Center in the United States, Dr. James Hamdi, was in Belize. His mission is to conduct an intensive and comprehensive investigation into the shooting death of Guatemalan national Tomas Ramirez back […]
Tour operators Yhony Rosado and Vitalino Reyes both share a history of rivalry with each other. In December 2013, Rosado and Reyes became embroiled in a physical altercation and were later summoned to appear in court where they were charged with the offense of disorderly conduct. Today, the trial of the two men began before […]
Shortly after Patrick Bevans was gunned down in the Jane Usher Boulevard area early this morning; police set chased after a teenager who they caught up with and who was seen handing over a gun to a businessman. The weapon turned out to be a license nine millimeter pistol which belonged to Edward Westby, a […]
The brutal murder of the unidentified woman has shattered what has been a very peaceful month in the Corozal District. The traditional Easter weekend was uneventful save for a few minor incidents, and Police even went on the offensive by capturing two wanted criminals. Today officer commanding the Corozal Police Formation took the opportunity to […]
The B.D.F. today officially launched the opening of the new location for its Saint George’s Church located at the Price Barracks compound in Ladyville. The newly retrofitted chapel is to provide the soldiers with a location where they can pray and worship. While the force already provides for the physical needs of the soldiers with […]
The Belize National Teachers Union, the single, largest unified body of workers in the country, is hosting its forty-fourth annual national convention in Belize City. Educators from across the districts, for both primary and secondary schools, converged at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall today to discuss, among other things, the business of the union. While […]
According to Palacio, despite the unexceptional turnout the business of the annual gathering continues and issues, including the Occupational Safety and Health Bill will be discussed on Thursday. Luke Palacio, National President, B.N.T.U. “The participation of teachers from other parts of the country is there—it is not at the maximum that we would like […]
