As many as four Belizeans died violently in a sweeping crime wave while four others were shot and injured over the weekend. Belize City was hardest hit by a double murder in which the life of a young boy was snuffed in a drive-by shooting on Daly Street. The seven-year-old school boy, Tyler Savery, died […]
According to Savery’s mother, a celebration of his life will be held on Wednesday. In an extended interview with the media, Shakera Young is appealing to the community to stand up in solidarity and bring an end to the violence. Shakera Young, Mother of Tyler Savery “What I am appealing to you mothers out […]
Hours later on Friday, a Belize City man was murdered around midnight. Forty-one-year-old Andrew Williams was driving a taxi on Mahogany Street when a man fired several shots at his vehicle. Williams was hit multiple times; he lost control of the car and crashed into a zing fence and perished. By today, twenty-eight year Kareem […]
The Stann Creek District has not seen a murder for months, so news of the weekend’s gruesome murder has rocked the community. The victim and the apparent reason for her sudden and shocking end have residents reeling. A sixty-three year old housewife, fruit and food vendor and devout Christian was viciously attacked in her home, […]
Another Belizean lost his life, but across the western border. The body of Wilber Gabriel Sanchez from the Belize side of Arenal was found by minors on Sunday at a farm in the area of Melchor de Mencos. Sanchez had wounds to his head believed to have been caused with the use of a firearm. […]
Prime Minister Barrow, accompanied by Financial Secretary Joseph Waight and Economic Ambassador Mark Espat, returned from a working visit to New York on Saturday, following a series of meetings with G.O.B.’s legal and financial advisors in the United States. The three-man team met with Citigroup Global Markets Incorporated and Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton seeking […]
Ambassador Mark Espat, who will meet with bondholders directly, outlines three possible outcomes. While it is too early to determine any figures and dollar amounts, Espat says that the formation of a creditor committee is pending. Mark Espat, Economic Ambassador “I think there are only three possibilities in that regard. There is the coupon […]
The government said last week that the economy is in dire straits and is severely underperforming. With the proposed restructuring of the existing debt, there is anticipation that a tax increase may be on the table in 2017 budget. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “We’re both in this and stuck with the arrangement which sees […]
Meanwhile Standards and Poors is expected to downgrade Belize in its credit rating from a ‘B’ to a C.C.C. plus. The downgrade is due to government’s inability to meet financing requirements which are impaired by fiscal and external funding, reduced foreign exchange reserves and loss of correspondent banking relationships. S and P also projects government […]
Following a period of relative calm and somewhat downplayed encounters, activities by the Guatemalan armed forces in the Sarstoon, are sparking up again in southern Belize. A few days ago, the rangers of SATIIM, the N.G.O. that monitors the area, were stopped by the GAF while on patrol. The encounter was recorded and the video […]
So far, we’ve reported on four Belizeans who were murdered over the weekend. But there was other violence. On Sunday night, there were two separate shootings on the south side. A fourteen year old female student was shot in her legs. Police believes the adult who was with the minor at the time of the […]
There were two shootings on Sunday in the Rural Eastern Division area. The first occurred in Ladyville where a woman was shot at. While police discovered a bullet hole on the door of the wooden house, fortunately no one was injured. The second incident took place about an hour later on the Old Northern Road […]
Later that night in the city, a minor was grazed on the cheek by a bullet. She was standing in front of her home on Raccoon Street Extension when shots were fired. She was treated and released. The CIB say that they are questioning several persons and at least one has been detained. Sgt. […]
Between Friday evening and Sunday night, the city saw three people killed and three injured in separate shootings – the Daly Street double murder and the Mahogany Street midnight homicide and then the south side shootings. Today we asked Police what was being done from an operations perspective to curb the spike in shootings and […]
Supreme Court Justice Troadio Gonzalez today ruled that Charles Herrera, also known as Bundy, was not guilty of the murder – by stabbing – of Ezekiel Nicholas Medina in May of 2014. In a trial without jury, Justice Gonzalez found that the evidence presented to the court was not of the kind ordinarily able to […]
As we said earlier, Prime Minister Barrow was in New York last week when elections were held for the forty-fifth president of the U.S. As you know, Donald Trump’s victory is a historic upset that has left many American cities in uproar. While the prime minister has congratulated President-elect Trump, he did acknowledge that Democratic […]
Tyron Coleman is back in Belize after completing several successful rounds of open heart surgeries at Health City Hospital in the Cayman Islands. The popular James Bus driver was diagnosed with a rare heart condition earlier this year and after assistance from Belizeans living in Cayman, he was flown via air-ambulance for the urgent medical […]
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