The Belize National Youth Mainstreaming Strategy Framework Consultation kicked off today in Belize City. It’s a big name for a strategy that seeks a coordinated government approach to enable equity for all young people. The strategy looks at the social, economic and political bearings for Belizean youth in decision making process and planning. In order […]
In this our first newscast for 2018, we start with a story which was the headline at the close of 2017; the murder of popular barber Fareed Ahmad. This morning, a heavily armed detail of police officers cordoned off the perimeter of the magistrates’ court in Belize City from as early as eight o’clock, well […]
On the night of December twenty-seventh, WPC Brown reportedly signed off from duty at the Raccoon Street Police Station around eight p.m. and is said to have departed the compound with her service weapon. That firearm, a Bersa brand nine millimeter handgun, as it turns out, was to have been delivered to her superior. When […]
Despite facing a single charge of murder, the police constable has opted not to provide a caution statement. Instead, she has clammed up by exercising her right to remain silent. But eyewitnesses attest that Brown was the sole passenger inside Ahmad’s vehicle at the time of the incident. Likewise, investigators confirm that Ahmad was able […]
While police offered details of their investigation this morning, two of the Ahmad siblings, Taheera and Abdul, flanked by the leader of the Muslim Community, Kaleem El-Amin, their father Abdus Ahmad and attorney Dickie Bradley, made known their views on Fareed’s murder this afternoon. Expressing gratitude for the support they have been receiving in their […]
The Ahmad family has since been told that while the internal inquiry is being carried out by ACP Chester Williams, Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino is heading the murder investigation. The family also took the opportunity to dispel all allegations that Fareed and the WPC were involved and that information shared with the Professional Standards Branch suggests […]
This is not the first incident involving the Ahmad family. Back in June of 2016, the Special Patrols Unit conducted an early morning raid at their family homes. Later on, a cousin was killed in Philippines during a purported recruitment to join ISIS. While police has made no links to this, one of the last […]
Fareed’s father was philosophical about the way of life of his family. He believes that following the Muslim religion has led to a straight and narrow up-bringing of his children. Abdus Ahmad, Father of Deceased “We have made a lot of striving a lot of effort; sacrificing the discipline from our religion, our conduct […]
Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay has been retained by the Trinidad Law Association to a very sensitive assignment involving the judiciary in that country. Courtenay along with the president of the Grenada Bar Association Francis Alexis are to consider if there are grounds to refer a question of misconduct by Chief Justice Ivor Archie to the […]
Within hours of the start of the New Year, a Belize City man was murdered. At about three-thirty on the morning of January first, Leon Garcia was savagely stabbed by members of at least three gangs. He was along with Raheem Reed and others walking on Barrack Road when they came under attack by at […]
While Garcia was the first murder for 2018, police closed off the year with another murder on their hands, bringing the total of murders for 2017 at a staggering one hundred and forty-four. Around ten-thirty, a long time resident of Antelope Street Extension was murdered execution style and left to die in a drain. Fredrick […]
Belizean authorities are investigating the remnants of a burnt aircraft discovered off the Coastal Road. The airplane was found in a remote area near an illegal landing strip. Police say that they are unable to say if the aircraft was being used to carry illicit cargo such as drugs. On Sunday, December thirty-first, sometime around […]
Two Corozal men are hospitalized following an attack in a village in the north. According to Police, a man reported that a group of men attacked him with a machete on New Year’s Day. The man told police that he stabbed one of his attackers in self-defense. Today both men are in the hospital with […]
Several arrests have been made in a string of crimes that have been committed across the country over the past three weeks. In the case of the theft of copper wire in the Corozal District, police have arrested and charged Brian Hyde in connection with that incident in San Joaquin Village. He is also the […]
Thirteen babies were born on New Year’s Day. According to the Belize Health Information System, the Ministry of Health says that four babies were born in Belize City; three in Dangriga; three in Belmopan; two in Orange Walk Town and one in Punta Gorda. No births were recorded for San Ignacio and Corozal. This morning, […]
Teacher Desmond Lewis was brutally killed in the early hours of the morning of December twenty-eight sent shockwaves among his colleagues and the Dangriga Community. The teacher’s throat was slashed and he was stabbed to the upper chest. It happened inside his friend’s home in Belize City but Lewis was last seen with a male […]
Twenty-nine-year-old Charles Fortune is recovering from a gunshot wound to the right knee after being injured on Monday night by an unidentified assailant who opened fire on him on Ebony Street. He told Belize City police that he was seated inside a vehicle when he heard shots being fired. Fortune realized shortly afterwards that he […]
The holiday weekend wasn’t without its share of arsons. In the north and south there were two cases reported of the criminal burning of properties. On Saturday night, at around seven-thirty, Dangriga police were called out to an area along the Southern Highway where they saw a twenty-by-twenty feet wooden and thatched house engulfed in […]
Forty manatees were killed in 2017. It proved to be a dangerous and deadly year for the gentle mammals. Belize has one of the healthiest populations of the West Indian Manatee, but the specie continues to be under threat, particularly from boaters. And just two days into the New Year, one manatee has already been […]
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