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The government of Guatemala is incensed at comments made by Prime Minister Dean Barrow at a press conference held in Belmopan on Tuesday. So incensed that today Guatemala issued a fiery release which states that, “The Government of the Republic of Guatemala regrets and rejects the unfortunate statements made by the Prime Minister of Belize, […]
That very interesting and passionate release from Guatemala also took another turn, in between furious rant and commitment to peaceful resolution. It makes reference to the bi-lateral meeting between Belize and Guatemala held on Tuesday, stating that, “there was a meeting between the foreign ministers of both countries, in which this and other matters relevant […]
The murder count went up by another two in the past twelve hours but since Saturday, a total of seven persons have been brutally murdered in the Belize and Cayo districts. This morning just after nine, a shooting ended in murder on the south side. Troy Cole was shot twice as he rode his bicycle […]
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The second murder took place on Tuesday night in the Ladyville area where gunshot blasts were heard as early as nine o’clock in the night. A resident of the Japan area was showered by bullets as he was preparing to take a bath. Thirty-one year old Lloyd Gerald Robateau was ambushed and died near the […]
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An expecting mother whose pregnancy was terminated under dubious circumstances remains at the center of a police investigation tonight. Police were notified late Tuesday that a fetus had been discarded in a shallow grave on Jane Usher Boulevard in the south side of the city. They have since been posted at the location where preparations […]
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Turning to the weekend murders….Today, postmortem examinations were conducted on the bodies of thirty-nine year old cosmetologist Miriam Mai and her sister-in-law, twenty-nine year old Daisy Miralda. The duo was killed on Saturday evening around five-thirty by the estranged common-law-husband of Mai, Andy Bustillos, who turned the gun on himself after he committed what the […]
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The double murder of Mai and Miralda in Santa Elena occurred two days after the bodies of two Guatemalan nationals were discovered off a feeder road between mile sixty-nine and seventy leading to the Mopan River in San Ignacio. Last Thursday, fifty-two-year-old Santos Ramon Gomez and thirty-seven-year-old Orlando Antonio Garcia Calletal, who are believed to […]
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Tonight, Belmopan Police are tentatively one step closer to a breakthrough in the weekend murders of Camalote youths, Akeem Thimbriel and Shawn Lopez. The friends were gunned down as they walked towards Lopez’s house, targets of gunmen who fired at them from a grey pickup which pulled up beside them. Police have confiscated a vehicle […]
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Nineteen-year old Akeem Kirklin Trapp Junior will stand trial at the June session of the Supreme Court for the murder of eighteen year old Ian Adolphus which occurred on February twenty-fourth 2015 on Gill Street, Belize City. That is the result of a preliminary inquiry that concluded today during which Trapp made attempts to challenge […]
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There is a major change at the Immigration Department which has been persistently rocked by scandals involving the issuance of illegal visas and passports including the very public case of the former Minister of State Elvin Penner in the Kim Wong Hong debacle. Acting Director Maria Marin, who was the head of the department during […]
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On Tuesday, we brought you the highlights of the Prime Minister’s press conference on the very volatile state of events between Belize and Guatemala. But there was much more of interest coming out of that short briefing during which the PM fielded questions – including this pointed query. How did we get from the point […]
The People’s United Party announced on Tuesday that it plans to proceed with a scheduled trip to the Sarstoon River, despite an existing Statutory Instrument forbidding travel to the river now controlled by Guatemalans. The last trek to the river by a delegation of Belizeans was met with resistance by police and coast guard. So, […]
So the P.U.P.’s National Executive and delegates of the Party Council may head to the Sarstoon sooner, rather than later. But as the BTV found out on Saturday, heading to that controversial river is not the same thing as actually reaching that controversial river. It’s going to be an interesting proposition for the constitutional Opposition, […]
And speaking about fishing, since the Coast Guard and Police are so diligently enforcing the laws in the Sarstoon and surrounds where Belizeans are concerned, will they do the same for Guatemalans who are breaking the law by not only fishing illegally, but also trespassing illegally on the Belizean side of the Sarstoon? You probably […]
The P.U.P.’s position on the recently enacted SI is fairly simple. From the onset, the party has flatly rejected and continues to criticize the knee-jerk piece of law, banning local travel to the Sarstoon. In fact, the Opposition is challenging the legality of the Sarstoon Law and wants it rescinded. On Tuesday, former P.U.P. Leader […]
Since the shooting death of reputed George Street boss Gerald ‘Shiny’ Tillett several weeks ago in Dangriga, there has been a spate of gun violence in Belize City. The series of shootings, believed to be acts of retaliation by various gangs, have prompted Assistant ComPol Chester Williams to once again reach out to the feuding […]
Officers from Eastern Division continued their weekly meet and great sessions in Belize City this afternoon. Assistant ComPol Chester Williams led a team of policemen and women into Taylor’s Alley where they met with residents in the neighborhood. Now, Pregnant Alley, as it is otherwise known, is a hotspot for gang activity and police have […]
Over the past few days, a number of residents have come forward to complain about police brutality. Martha Phillips and her sons claim that they were manhandled by police officers at their home on Armadillo Street over the holiday weekend. Similarly, Noel Maheia’s apartment on George Street was reportedly stormed and ransacked by GSU officers […]
There has been a sustained clampdown of businesses selling liquor after nine p.m. that are not restaurants or nightclubs. For the past few weeks, the police department has been actively enforcing the shutting down of shops and other establishments that are operating outside of the Intoxicating Liquor Licensing Act. Officers have been briefed by Assistant […]
