A Belize Defense Force officer lost his life of Wednesday in a traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway in the Orange Walk District. The on-duty officer was driving a B.D.F. Mahindra pickup which collided into a Mexican passenger bus traveling from Belize City to Cancun. Several persons received minor injuries from the impact, but […]
A special constable attached to the Orange Walk Formation of the Police Department is tonight in a stable condition at the Northern Regional Hospital after he accidentally shot himself in the foot, while in hot pursuit of an escaping prisoner. Just after six this morning, Special Constable and Prisoner Warden Lenardo Bol and several other […]
Two men were arraigned this morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer after they were busted with over eleven kilos of alleged heroin on December twenty-ninth. According to reports, tour guide Richard McDonald and fisherman Giovanni Requeña were in a taxi on the BelChina Bridge when elements of the Anti-Drug Unit swooped down on them. The […]
Another police officer is tonight accused of sexually assaulting a minor. Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Hubert Serrano, an officer attached to San Pedro Police, appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser earlier today. PC Serrano was arraigned on three counts of sexual assault upon a thirteen-year-old girl on the island. The charges stem from at least three […]
In his New Year’s Address, released on Wednesday, Prime Minister Barrow acknowledged that the landscape in 2016 will be different than that of 2015, and a significant feature of that change will surely be spending. At least where government expenditure is concerned, 2015 was a time of plenty because there were four elections, including the […]
Don’t go all melancholy just yet though. Government has successfully campaigned on massive infrastructure works, and Prime Minister Barrow says that for the most part, that will continue in 2016 and beyond. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “There is enough that we have set aside from the PetroCaribe days of plenty, to complete the countrywide […]
An investment agreement between Belize Electricity Limited and the Social Security Board concludes today, ending a three-year preference share purchase. In 2012, S.S.B. infused much needed capital into the cash-strapped utility company by purchasing ten million dollars in stocks. As part of the agreement, S.S.B. was also able to acquire five million dollars in debentures […]
At about eight o’clock this morning, Jamaican cruise ship MSC Divina called to port in Belize City. The inaugural voyage to the Jewel departed from its home port in Falmouth, Jamaica three days ago, calling on Georgetown, Grand Cayman and Cozumel, Mexico before landing in Belize City. Director of Destination Planning and Cruise, Valdemar Andrade […]
As we approach the final few hours of 2015, it is with the news that at least at this hour there have been no murders reported on the Southside of Belize City for the month of December, and only eight in the last six months. Those are unprecedented statistics, and a stark contrast to early […]
Interestingly, the decline in violence was not a result of strong-arm tactics by the Police, nothing to do with the infamous GSU breaking down doors and bones. Apparently, it’s quite the opposite. According to Commander of Eastern Division South Chester Williams, community police was able to achieve what no show of paramilitary force ever did. […]
At eight o’clock tonight, we will be revisiting the ten most impacting news stories of the past year. Indeed, 2015 was an eventful calendar which included four elections, massive overnight flooding in the city, a string of related murders in the Cayo District and a tragic fire at the Princess Royal Youth Hostel. Despite the […]
