An eighteen-year-old Belize City resident was shot and killed on Monday evening, shattering a period a relative calm in urban gun violence. It is not known whether the murder of Ludwin Lalin is gang-related, but we can say that his life had been under threat by persons he knew. Lalin left his home on Jane […]
Magistrate Norman Rodriguez, accused by a twenty-seven-year-old woman of rape, is expected to be charged and arraigned in the lower courts on Wednesday. Despite the crime having allegedly been committed in Dangriga on April eleventh, the magistrate will face charges in the Belize City jurisdiction. The woman, an ex-girlfriend of the accused magistrate, did not […]
In describing her ex-boyfriend, the alleged victim says that Rodriguez has managed to turn her family against her, reportedly through unfulfilled promises. During their brief relationship, the woman alleges that she was forced into having intercourse on a number of occasions against her will. Voice of: Alleged Rape Victim “We mi deh together like […]
From a legal perspective, Magistrate Rodriguez has retained the services of attorney Herbert Panton who will represent the accused when he is brought before the Chief Magistrate on Wednesday. According to Senior Counsel Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, while Rodriguez enjoys protection from legal challenges in his capacity as a sitting magistrate, he is not insulated from […]
The murders of fifty-two-year-old Francesca Matus and Drew Thomas DeVoursney remain under investigation by Corozal Police, with the assistance of the F.B.I. A suspect has been in custody for one week, but has still not been charged for the murders. Police have still not ascertained what when wrong two weeks ago after the Canadian-American couple […]
Maskall Village on the old northern highway is without running water and the Water Board says it is because most of the residents have not paid their monthly water bill. The electricity bill that accompanies the rudimentary water system has not been paid because the accounts are empty and even those residents who have paid […]
Airbnb, an online marketplace which allows travelers to lease or rent short-term accommodations, is budding in Belize. The hospitality service includes vacation rentals, apartments, homestays and hotel rooms. While it does not own any of those properties, it serves as a commercial agent, receiving percentage services fees from both guests and hosts. There are presently […]
Director of Tourism at the B.T.B., Karen Bevans, says that the collaborative consumption and sharing that Airbnb enable are the future of the travel industry. It is, however, being met with mixed reception from local stakeholders in the hotel sector. Karen Bevans, Director of Tourism, B.T.B. “This is the way the industry is going. […]
Two of the four men alleged to be involved in the kidnapping and robbery of three young men in Corozal last week were arraigned on Monday in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court. They are twenty-three year-old Jason Espinoza and forty-two-year-old Elio Lopez for three counts of kidnapping and three counts of robbery. On May third in […]
Police have made an arrest in a shooting in the city of Telswin Lara on Sunday on Arlington Drive. This morning, eighteen-year-old Dane Khalil Gillett, a resident of Pinks Alley, Belize City was taken to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court where he appeared before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza and was read two criminal and indictable offenses […]
A Turkish national employed with the Princess Hotel and Casino was today arraigned on a single charge of using threatening words against his common-law wife, a Guyanese cosmetologist. She reported to police that her husband threatened to shoot her over the weekend. Ozcan Aydogdu appeared before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza for threatening his wife, Sady Aydogdu […]
On Wednesday, former Minister of State for Immigration and Nationality, Elvin Penner, is to be questioned by the six members of the Senate Special Select Committee. It makes for high stakes and high drama especially as many of the witnesses that have gone before him have implicated him by name as the moving hand behind […]
Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley enjoyed significant majorities in his two elections to the post in 2012 and 2015, continuing a dominant run by the United Democratic Party at City Hall. But his personal ambitions for national office have not fared as well – he lost to Kareem Musa in general elections in the Caribbean […]
The last we heard, vendors in the Fort George Tourism Zone were resistant to the efforts of the Belize City Council to collect a three-hundred dollar trade license for service in the vicinity of Memorial Park. In conjunction with the Belize Tourism Board, there is also effort to regulate traffic around the Zone, out of […]
The annual symposium organized by the Central Emergency Management Organization, arm of the Belize City Council, begins on Wednesday at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. In addition to discussions about preparation for tackling massive disasters such as fires and hurricanes, an expo will be held featuring information from key stakeholders targeted at a younger audience. CEMO […]
