Another violent weekend across the country has ended with three murders being reported. Two men were shot and killed in Belize City and San Pedro on Sunday, while another man was hacked to death down south. The most recent of those killings happened on Neal’s Pen Road shortly after nine p.m., when gunshots rang out […]
On Sunday afternoon, in the heart of San Pedro Town, gunfire erupted inside a bar, just a stone’s throw from the Central Park. Thirty-four-year-old Armando Lopez, who was originally from Corozal, was the target of at least one gunman who pounced on him as he had a beer at the bar. News Five’s Duane Moody […]
Four days prior to Lopez’s murder, his friend Scott Charles was targeted inside his home in the Bayside neighborhood. Charles heard a knock and when he opened the front door, a barrage of bullets would be unleashed on him. The twenty-four-year-old was airlifted to the K.H.M.H., but died just after one on Thursday afternoon. But […]
The gun violence on the island began one week ago in the San Pedrito area of town. On August twelfth, Lloyd Tyndall was shot multiple times to the abdomen and left leg and remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. During that attack at the Easy Does It A and A […]
Over two hundred rounds of ammunition and six firearms were taken off the streets during operations conducted across the country. A significant amount of those came from San Pedro, for which eighteen-year-old Aureliano Pascual and a seventeen-year-old female have been charged for kept unlicensed and prohibited firearm and ammunition without a gun license. ACP […]
There was also a murder in Santa Cruz Village over the weekend. On Sunday morning, shortly before ten o’clock, Independence police were called out to the roadside community where they observed the lifeless body of a Hispanic man. He was later identified as Juan Jose Ortega. The Salvadoran laborer was seen with several chop wounds, […]
A countrywide law enforcement operation which began at the stroke of twelve last Wednesday morning has resulted in a number of seizures, including contraband alcohol, illegally harvested seafood, firearms and ammunition, as well as illegal immigrants. POSE, short for Police Operations Simultaneous Everywhere, concluded over the weekend, but not before a significant haul on the […]
A Salvadoran national is under police guard at the Western Regional Hospital where he is receiving medical attention for a gunshot wound he sustained on Saturday. Twenty-four-year-old Juan Jeremias was shot by officers attached to the Mobile Interdiction Team after being chased into a citrus orchard off the Hummingbird Highway. According to police, Jeremias and […]
They were first mentioned to Prime Minister Dean Barrow a few weeks ago, at which time he claimed not to have seen them. But one hundred and eighteen leaked documents from the Lands Department reveal another land grab by members of the family of former minister Gaspar Vega on Ramsey Caye and the Spanish Creek […]
And perhaps in acknowledgement of the continued problems in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Prime Minister Dean Barrow brought three bills to the House on Friday for first reading. The Land Utilization Amendment Bill strengthens the membership of the Land Subdivision and Utilization Authority; a second amendment to the Registered Land Act establishes the Land […]
The Belize Airports Authority was featured in a patronage scandal in 2014, when then-Minister in charge Edmond Castro was discovered to have used its funds for work in his Belize Rural North constituency. While in that instance the entire board resigned and control was transferred to Manuel Heredia Junior’s Tourism Ministry, the authority is back […]
Cayo South Area Representative and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Julius Espat, is anticipating next Monday’s meeting of the committee in Belmopan to examine, consider and ultimately report on the Auditor General’s Report for 2012-2013 tabled in the House on Friday. But Espat wants to go much further than that. He has questions of […]
Former president of the Public Service Union Eldred Neal has handed over the reins to a Belmopan-based public officer, Doreth Cayetano Obermayer, who was elected over Gerald Henry Junior by delegates at Saturday’s ninety-fifth annual general meeting at the National Agriculture Show Grounds in Belmopan. Following a mediation meeting last week, Neal apologized for incendiary […]
Even as the Misuse of Drugs Act is in the process of being amended to decriminalize possession of less than ten grams of marijuana, today businessman Zane Galvez was hauled before the court for a charge of possession of six point two grams of cannabis. The twenty-eight-year-old Vernon Street resident appeared unrepresented this morning before […]
Twenty-one-year-old Dwight Orosco appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer on charges of keeping a prohibited firearm and unlicensed ammunition for a point-twenty-two pen gun and three rounds found next to him by police. Pleading not guilty to the charges, the father of a newborn girl who works as a DJ and tour guide said he […]
The National Meteorological Service is reporting that the remains of what was once Tropical Storm Harvey are expected to reach the coast of Belize or the Yucatan Peninsula early on Tuesday. It is still possible for the system to organize, but whether it does or not, expect lots of rain starting tonight and continuing through […]
Most of the United States got a rare opportunity this afternoon when they witnessed a total eclipse of the Sun. While solar eclipses generally occur twice a year, the Moon completely blocking the sun, as happens in a total eclipse, is much rarer. In Belize, as in most of the rest of North America, the […]
Belize’s certified massage therapists were busy last week developing their interpretations of a signature Belizean massage, conveying an authentic Maya spa experience. BELTRAIDE and the Belize Spa and Wellness Association organized the first ever “Maya Spa Experience Brand Competition.” The branded massage will be copyrighted and promoted extensively, with a special showcase at this year’s […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
