There is a development in the murder of Orange Walk’s Ramon Cervantes Senior. At around eleven a.m. this morning, accused murderers twenty-two year old Noe Daniel Gonzalez, twenty-eight year old Mateo Pott and nineteen year old Angel Antonio Cardenas were escorted back to Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court. There they were read the formal charge of […]
The Faber’s Road Extension has been the scene of two vicious murders and a shooting in a span of twenty-four hours. Edwin ‘Drive’ Flowers, one of the leaders of the PIV gang, was shot but survived the hit on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday afternoon, a body was found floating in a sewer lagoon nearby. […]
Hours before the murder of Duane Hilton, police made a gruesome discovery. A body was found floating in an open sewer lagoon, it was horribly gutted and already decomposing. The identity of the body could not be immediately determined but police can now confirm it is Davee Copius of Jane Usher Boulevard. His mother says […]
Felicia Chen, the young mother who drowned three of her children at Belizean Beach in April 2013, returned to court this morning. At her previous appearance she was unrepresented and pleaded guilty to murder but Justice Troadio Gonzalez did not accept that plea. Today, Chen pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder but guilty […]
The foundations of the Orange Walk community have been shaken by the recent violence and malicious conspiracy. Even as Police have been able to recover two bodies of persons abducted and cruelly beaten to death, they concede that it is a tangled web and there is much information they are still trying to unravel. We […]
On Wednesday, the first step to getting justice for the families of Ramon Cervantes Sr. and Sonia Maribel Abac was taken, with the formal arraignment of Noe Gonzales, Mateo Pott and Angel Antonio Cardenas. But it will take much more than that to quell the unease caused by the vicious crimes. For the community, the […]
Last week there was some consternation and concern when survey pegs appeared on the much used and much loved Goff’s Caye. It may not be a world heritage site, but for many years it has been the caye of choice for residents who want some sand, sea and sun for a day. So that’s why […]
The Belize Times and Alberto Vellos have settled with Minister Godwin Hulse in respect of allegations made on July third of last year by the newspaper. At the time the opposition newspaper alleged that after assuming office as a minister of government, Hulse acquired a parcel of land in the Darling Area of the Belize […]
A three-year old girl was molested while inside her home and the man who police say did it, pleaded guilty today in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the offense of aggravated assault of an indecent nature upon the child. Twenty-three year old Stanwell Bernardez, a mason of Antelope Street Extension in Belize City, is […]
Sixty-seven-year-old Mohan Thani, a Belizean businessman of Indian descent, was knocked down and killed on Wednesday evening as he attempted to cross the Phillip Goldson Highway near Belize Electricity Limited. Shortly after four o’clock, police visited the location where they saw the elderly man lying on the highway suffering from massive head and body injuries. […]
At around eight p.m. on Sunday, July sixth, a massive blaze in the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro destroyed eight homes, displacing sixteen families. They lost everything, all their possessions, and were left with only the clothes on their backs. But the desperation of those families has spawned a tremendous multi-agency relief effort. […]
A two-day workshop organized by UNICEF to provide participants with a greater understanding of the role that communication plays in individual and social behavior change, with a focus on violence against children, took place this week. Planning for communication to end violence against children in Belize is aimed at formulating a more detailed communication strategy […]
COLA’s private prosecution of former minister of state Elvin Penner for the illegal issuance of a passport to a South Korean fugitive picked up some support from the Rod of Correction today. R.O.C. issued a brief statement to say that having met today, it has seeking to meet with both the Director of Public Prosecutions […]
Today several Belize City based organizations received donations from the Ramada Belize City Princess. Two months ago the Princess entered into a partnership with the Ramada, owned by the international hotels giant Wyndham Group. The Princess Hotel and Casino became the Ramada Belize City Princess, and in addition to a complete rebranding, the partnership also […]
Fans of the beautiful game will be passionately rallying behind their favorite national teams in the upcoming World Cup Finals on Sunday. In Belize, a team of young athletes are completing an annual football training camp which has seen them learning the fundamentals of the sport over the past two weeks. The program, sponsored by […]
Summer is here! It’s hot, it’s humid and many families need very little excuse to spend some time outdoors. Unfortunately, bacteria also loves hot and humid conditions. This is part of the reason why during the warmer months, there are usually more cases of food poisoning. Tonight in Healthy Living, we sit down with a […]
