Gun violence is creeping back in the south side of the City where another senseless murder took place less than twenty-hours after the shooting death of Guatemalan national Ruben Esquivel during a home invasion. At about eleven o’clock on Wednesday night, twenty-three-year-old Christian Velasquez was executed by a gunman who opened fire from a vehicle. […]
Even as police continue to investigate the murder of Velasquez, this afternoon shots rang out in that same area of Antelope Street Extension. Information to News Five is that around two-thirty p.m. Ryne Arnold and Marion Ramirez were traveling in this Ford Explorer SUV seen here in the vicinity of Pitters and Antelope Streets on […]
The murder of Christian Velasquez is the third in four days on the south side of Belize City. The two others are Wednesday morning’s home invasion turn murder of Ruben Esquivel and taxi man Thomas Staine’s stabbing murder on Monday. It is has been just over a month since a change of command in the […]
Artist Shyne Barrow dropped a bombshell today when he abruptly resigned from the Belizean Society of Composers Authors Publishers. A leaked letter bearing today’s date and signed by the PM’s son, announces his sudden resignation to the BSCAP membership on the heels of claims by the former C.E.O. and current chair, Heather Cunningham, that she […]
Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood…he was one of three liaison officers within the Belize Police Department assigned to facilitate the media with daily situation reports and interviews. Tonight, he is no longer a member of the Media Relations Unit after being abruptly transferred on Wednesday. Yearwood’s relocation to a desk job at Precinct Three came just a […]
As we told you on Wednesday night, Nevis Betancourth was charged with the murder of Jose Castellanos that happened at a restaurant in Santa Elena, Cayo on July twenty-eighth. Bentancourth was hospitalized since then under police protection; his arm was almost severed when Castellanos chopped him with a machete. Betancourth’s family contends that he acted […]
Dueck says that Betancourth still needs medical attention for the chop wound on his arm and remains in pain. But he says that Police didn’t allow him to receive that much needed doctor’s care – instead they removed him from the hospital and slapped him with a murder charge. Jimmy Dueck, Brother-in-law of Nevis […]
The first Maya Land Registry was launched in southern Belize this week. After two years of inaction to a ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice that determined that a mechanism had to be put in place to protect lands, Maya communities started the process in the village of Crique Sarco. As we reported on […]
The Belize Tourism Industry Association today issued a stinging release against the Government and in support of Tropic Air. The carrier last week announced plans to suspend three of its international flights to Chetumal and Merida in Mexico and San Pedro Sula in Honduras. The flights had been established five years ago, but the organization […]
The Belize National Teachers’ Union may soon be involved in the battle between principal of Gwen Lizarraga High School, Doctor Lorna McKay, and chairman of the school’s board of management, Roosevelt Blades. B.N.T.U. president Elena Smith told us this afternoon that she has been in touch with Doctor McKay, who promised to forward official correspondence […]
A couple living in the Belama area went to court this afternoon for two counts of possession of controlled drugs and one count of drug trafficking with intent to supply for a much larger amount. Ryan Smith and Lydia Young appeared before magistrate Carlon Mendoza. Smith pleaded guilty to the possession charges for two small […]
On Monday you heard about the fatal traffic accident that claimed the life of twenty-year-old Alma Flowers on the Philip Goldson Highway at the entrance to Crooked Tree Village. She got off a bus and was crossing the street when she was knocked down and killed by Belmopan resident, Leonel Del Valle. Today, villagers say […]
Three weeks ago Blackman Eddy resident Obed Mojano knocked down and killed Seine Bight resident Dorla Flores. The thirty-nine-year-old cook was struck along with forty-four year old Lavern Arzu and twenty-three year old Henry Augustine when Mojano, a technician, lost control of his grey Chevy Silverado and crashed into the trio. Placencia police confirmed to […]
There is internal turmoil in the Public Service Union tonight. This afternoon, the Belmopan branch of the Union issued a release announcing plans for a meeting on Saturday with mediators, the Council of Management and president Eldred Neal. The meeting will discuss his suspension following controversial remarks made by Neal about the Garinagu people during […]
This week pharmacists from across the Caribbean and some international colleagues are convening in Belize for the annual conference of the Caribbean Association of Pharmacists. They will be discussing latest trends and news in their industry under the theme of promoting health and wellness in the community. But if you thought that meant how to […]
Twenty-four students will form the first cohort of a new program awarding Bachelor’s in Science degrees in Pharmacy at the University of Belize. It’s the first program of its kind in Belize and one that the Pharmacists’ Association says has been a long time coming. Today president Beverly Coleman indicated that it will offer different […]
We are in the middle of the rainy season when mosquito borne illnesses tend to increase. Dengue continues to infect a number of Belizeans each year and now Zika is a persistent threat to our population.. In tonight’s Healthy Living, the Ministry of Health reminds the public about the importance of staying vigilant. Marleni […]
