2016 is off to a murderous start. Since the beginning of the New Year, there have been a total of ten homicides across the country. One of the most shocking that is receiving international attention and is having an impact on the local tourism industry is the strangulation of Anne Swaney, an ABC executive producer […]
Now to the murders … Ann Swaney, an executive producer at ABC Chicago who was vacationing in Belize was killed in the west; that murder is being reported by ABC network, CNN and numerous other media outlets. But who killed Swaney? On Thursday, two days before she was to return home to Chicago, Swaney was […]
There have been three other murders due to chopping since Ann Swaney was strangled to death. In Indian Church in the Orange Walk District, a Guatemalan national was likely lured to his death in a love triangle. Francisco Arevalo received a phone call from his lover on Saturday night and by Sunday morning his nude […]
There was a gruesome, bloody murder in San Pedro in broad daylight Saturday afternoon. It happened at a home in the San Pedrito Area of the island and involved alcohol, a machete and a large knife. According to reports, three men were drinking at an apartment belonging to Jose Alfredo Villeda. Villeda and another man, […]
The most recent murder occurred this morning. In the Stann Creek District, a Honduran national was hacked to death shortly before six o’clock. Independence Police visited Bella Vista Village where they discovered that twenty-four-year-old Maria Suyapa Garcia had been fatally chopped to the head, face, neck and arms. Their investigation revealed that the woman was […]
Bradley Paumen, the American resort and tour company owner who allegedly hired a hit man to kill four persons, one of them a local attorney, is currently free, out on bail. But two men who did work for him, accountant Ian Skeen and mechanic Linzburn Anderson, are behind bars. Over the weekend Skeen and Anderson […]
The prosecution in the Bradley Paumen case is convinced that they have more than enough to convict the wealthy American businessman on four charges of Abetment to Murder, each which carries a life sentence. One of the objections to bail centred on the fact that Paumen has the means to flee prosecution with relative ease. […]
On January eleventh, Paumen had been on remand three days already, but strangely, police made no noise about the very significant, very high-level arrest. So when the GSU found a gun in an abandoned garage on Plues Street—a gun registered to Bradley Paumen—it was reported as just another firearms bust. Now, with subsequent information on […]
On January second, a family was traumatized when they were jacked at gunpoint in Armenia Village. According to Melanie Popper Coc, she was heading to Pomona with her mother and four children when she received a phone call and pulled off the road to answer it. According to Coc, that’s when a man came out […]
The People’s United Party will elect a new leader at the end of January. Close to three thousand delegates will vote at the Belmopan convention to determine where Francis Fonseca keeps the job or whether John Briceño or Cordel Hyde will be leading the opposition party. The campaign is in full swing with the three […]
It is expected that in the first part of this year, an arbitration tribunal will determine the value of shares arising from the nationalization of Belize Telemedia Limited. Now, government has already paid a total of one hundred and sixty million dollars as part of a compensation package for B.T.L. assets agreed to between Lord […]
While we discussed the issue of the arbitration award, we also inquired whether relations between Barrow and Lord Michael Ashcroft were on the mend. The PM recently said that he was giving serious consideration for a major investment in a cruise port; that proposal is coming from the Ports Investment Limited which holds the receivership […]
A road traffic accident on Saturday proved fatal for a nineteen-year-old cyclist when he collided head-on into a vehicle whilst rounding a curve near Altun Ha, on the Old Northern Highway. Sometime before three o’clock that afternoon, Maykon Vivas, a resident of Lucky Strike Village perished at the scene of the collision. Upon arriving in […]
There were two other accidents, which were not fatal, but left victims traumatized. Robert Logan, a motorist traveling along the George Price Highway, is lucky to have escaped grave injuries over the weekend when his vehicle overturned and caught on fire. Sometime around ten-thirty on Saturday morning, Logan was driving a blue Ford Ranger pickup […]
A third mishap, this one in Lords Bank Village, involved the manager of a local business in Belize City. Enrique Minima is lucky to have escaped unhurt when he lost control of the wheel of his mini SUV as he was driving towards Edwin Parks Avenue. The vehicle overturned once and was extensively damaged as […]
There’s still more crime…A vessel moored near Middle Long Caye came under attack last Wednesday by pirates operating in waters southeast of Belize City. During the incident, passengers onboard the boat were held at gunpoint before being relieved of a number of possessions, including cash, camera, computers, food, drinks and jewelry, as well as an […]
Last Wednesday, Chinese businessman Zu Chu Wu reported to Ladyville police that whilst at his business in Vista del Mar, he was robbed by two men of East Indian descent. According to the proprietor of Mike’s Store, he was held up at gunpoint by one of the men who demanded cash from his register. The […]
Well-known Belize City moneylender Pamela Bennett and Burrell Boom resident Alfredo Navarette perished in a road traffic accident along the Phillip Goldson Highway over the New Year’s weekend. During the head-on collision the Toyota Tundra in which Bennett was traveling slammed into an oncoming vehicle driven by the elderly Navarette. The pickup truck was being […]
While police have their hands full, they did take time today to receive a small but thoughtful contribution that will be used for elderly residents in the Hattieville community. This morning, a charitable group calling itself Silent Santa presented officers with three beach cruiser bicycles that will be used to conduct house to house visits […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The NEBL basketball season got off to a roaring start over the weekend and we caught up with the Belmopan Bandits hosting Smart Belize Hurricanes inside the U.B. Gymnasium Saturday night. For the home team, the start couldn’t have been better—Nick Brown finds Kurt Burgess […]
