There is a gruesome murder to report in the community of Maxboro on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, thirty-one year old mechanic Leon Leslie Sr. was brutally killed in his home. His decomposed body was discovered Monday evening, and it was immediately obvious to Police that his death […]
Two men have been charged in connection with the latest homicide in San Ignacio. Twenty-one-year-old Wendell Ovando, a construction worker of Kontiki area in San Ignacio, Cayo, and a fifteen-year-old student were slapped with murder charges for the death of twenty-four-year-old Aurelio Montero Jr. San Ignacio Police say the third suspect has since handed himself […]
Police are reporting a significant cocaine bust in San Pedro Town involving known members of the Victoria Street gang. It happened at around 12:30pm today in an apartment in the San Pedrito Area. When the Police Strike Team descended on the apartment, they found well known gang affiliated players in the drug trade – forty-five […]
On Monday night, we told you about the employees who had gathered at the grounds of Santander because they had issues about salaries. Workers were complaining about payments they received on Friday, but according to Santander, it was really workers who were confused about the monies they received and that everything was resolved by the […]
On Monday, Lake Independence Area Representative Mark King announced that a total of eleven families that have been settling illegally on a six-acre parcel near the Chetumal Street Bridge will be relocated with government’s assistance. While title for property within city limits is virtually impossible to come by without purchasing privately, the squatters will be […]
According to the area representative, the expedited process should be completed by the end of this week. That was, of course, for the initial list of squatters who needed to be relocated. The additional names would require identification of other parcels in Cotton Tree Village. Nonetheless, King encourages residents to follow the existing procedure to […]
On Monday evening, a video was uploaded to Facebook showing a police officer and two special constables attempting to handcuff a man and hitting him in the process, resulting in a bloody face. The incident, which happened on Sunday night in Orange Walk Town, shows the civilian, Andres Rodrigues, on the ground appearing to refuse […]
Twenty-two-year-old Darrington Lauriano Jr. has been sentenced to sixteen years in prison after being busted with a nine millimeter pistol loaded with eight live rounds of ammunition. During the swoop, Lauriano was also found in possession of a hundred and ninety-six grams of cannabis that was concealed among his clothing inside a suitcase. The search […]
A man who has been on remand for almost five years will have to wait even longer after the jury in his trial for murder was dismissed by Justice Troadio Gonzalez. Raymond Myers was charged with the May fourteenth, 2010 murder of Francis Figueroa. But today, the second day of trial, one of the jurors […]
As we reported in Monday’s newscast, an energy summit was held in Washington earlier this year and the U.S. is trying to move its energy influence back into the Caribbean. Last week, before his arrival at the seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama, U.S. President, Barack Obama made the first presidential trip to Jamaica […]
CARILED, the Caribbean Local Economic Development Project is working in collaboration with the Belize City Council and the Canadian Municipal Association to develop a Business Improvement Area concept. It seeks to have business owners and community agents develop their space for increased economic activity. The initiative which will roll out simultaneously with the Belize City […]
But the implementation of the BIA into the city’s framework comes with its compromises. Particularly for the business owners; while businesses will be given the opportunity to develop a collective voice on respective issues, it will come at a cost. Canadian Consultant, Andrea Steenbakker, spoke about the benefits to both the public and private sector. […]
But the Belize City House of Culture and Downtown Rejuvenation Project, following its launch last week, was blasted by the former President of National Institute of Culture and History, Yasser Musa. Musa spoke of the project being retrograde, racist and backward and that the fifteen million dollars to be invested in the project should be […]
As we reported on Monday, the Football Federation of Belize met in congress over the weekend to discuss a number of issues, including preparations for round two of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. While the agenda did not include the fate of beleaguered vice president Rawell Pelayo, the question of the financial documents he […]
