A Bangladeshi national who operates a small business was strangled to death over the weekend. This afternoon police confirmed the cause of death after the nude body of Abdush Salam was found in his apartment by a roommate on Saturday afternoon. The motive behind the murder is not ascertained even though it is believed it […]
But there was other violence over the weekend in Belize City. On Friday night on Raccoon Street Extension, several blocks away from the Eastern Division South headquarters. In the cover of darkness, a gunman took aim at a group of men, hanging inside a yard. Several shots were fired, but only one bullet made its […]
Three years ago this week, the Cervantes family of Orange Walk Town was plunged into a personal and political nightmare. Personal, because of losing their patriarch, Ramon Cervantes Senior, to an alleged plot that left him battered and dead in a shallow grave along the Honey Camp Road. Political, because the absconded chief plotter Manuel […]
Orange Walk Police were not available for comment today. Meanwhile, twenty-two-year-old Noe Gonzalez, nineteen year old Angel Cardenas and twenty-eight-year-old Mateo Pott are charged with the murders of Ramon Cervantes Senior and housewife Sonia Abac, who was similarly buried in the same area. As we told you, also accused is Manuel “El Pelon” Castillo. But […]
Thirty-one-year-old Letson Broaster was missing since last Wednesday but over the weekend his body was retrieved from the Macal River, in the area of Branch Mouth in the Cayo District. His seventy-three-year-old mother was at the police station when she was called out to do what any mother would dread. She believes that her son […]
There are reports coming out of Guatemala that there has been an oil spill in the Sarstoon River. The tributary originates in Guatemala and forms the southernmost border with Belize. According to a published account, a tanker transporting oil overturned while on its way to Chahal, Alta Verapaz. A pipe is said to have come […]
Corozal Southeast area representative Florencio Marin Junior rose on the House adjournment on Friday after colleague Julius Espat’s urgent plea regarding crime in his Cayo South. In Marin Junior’s constituency, police shot Richard Garcia dead in Chunox following an eviction attempt, leaving villagers riled up. Marin Junior contended that it can’t hurt to give police […]
Police have issued a warrant for the arrested of one Erwin Dail Santos, also known as Toluck, in connection with two recent murders in the west. Twenty-four year old Santos, who maintains residences in both Teakettle and Unitedville villages, is officially wanted according to a police notice for keeping unlicensed firearm and ammunition and threat […]
Are the skeletal remains found on William ‘Danny’ Mason’s sprawling property near La Democracia Village the bones of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas? That’s what court prosecutors are trying to confirm. This morning, the skull of the deceased Christian minister, who was allegedly decapitated at Mason’s farm in mid-July 2016, was exhumed. News Five is reliably informed […]
A woman claims that a family dispute that started out with threats has gone too far. She alleges it has resulted in arson that wiped out her home on Sunday night. The unemployed, single mother says the fire has hit her hard because she has nowhere to go. She says that moments before her home […]
Sergeant-At-Arms Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett was back at his post during Friday’s meeting of the House of Representatives, having avoided being fired after assaulting several journalists a few weeks ago during a Senate Special Select Committee public hearing. A majority of U.D.P. parliamentarians voted to spare Audinett, only reprimanding him and making him apologize to […]
There are reports that the Barrow administration is cutting a ten thousand dollar education subsidy per constituency, according to members of the Opposition People’s United Party. The matter was raised inside the National Assembly during Friday’s House Meeting in the context of the debate on the Cultural Heritage Preservation Bill by former Prime Minister Said […]
The House of Representatives also dealt with the issue of the recent pitched battle about noise and other lifestyle issues as a result of concerts and other activities in the so-called “entertainment strip.” It is a four-cornered battle between Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley, his councillors, the various business owners along the Newtown Barracks area, […]
Seven bills were brought back for second reading from the last session held on May twelfth. An eighth, the Trade Licensing Bill, was deferred to the next session. A new motion for a loan of just over a million Belize dollars to finance support for the Placencia Peninsula Wastewater Management Project was tabled and approved […]
Tonight, some villages remain under water in southern Belize. Since five o’clock on Sunday morning, NEMO Toledo was activated because several villages were flooding and portions of the highway were impassable. Due to heavy rainfall over the course of Friday and Saturday, the overflowing Temash and Moho Rivers inundated several low-lying communities. Villages like Santa […]
The illegal marijuana trade continues to flourish, as the prohibited substance remains the recreational drug of choice for a number of Belizeans. Local demand for weed has led to a significant increase in wholesale supply, a fact that is evidenced in a sizeable bust on Sunday evening. At approximately six-thirty p.m., a joint operation involving […]
The lucrative business, though very much unlawful, has seemingly expanded to include church ministers turned drug traffickers as well. On Friday evening, forty-five-year-old Mark Humes, a pastor of Burrell Boom Village, was busted at a checkpoint near the corners of Victoria Street and New Road. He was driving his taxi when he was pulled over […]
Around eleven a.m. on Sunday, residents gathered at the Central Park in San Pedro for the Justice for Felix March, which took the gathering through the streets of the town. The initiative was organized by friends and family of Felix Ayuso Junior, a human rights activist who worked along with the National Aids Commission on […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of weekend sporting activities….]
