We begin tonight’s newscast with a third murder to report in just over twenty-four hours. Gunmen executed the attack with precision in broad daylight through Lindos Alley late this afternoon around four-thirty. Dead is one Windell Gibson, while Keron Santos continues to fight for his life at news time, at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. […]
A team of divers from the police department, the coastguard and civilians gave up the search for an unidentified body on Wednesday evening, following a report of foul play in the waters just off Princess Margaret Drive. While the incident unfolded in plain view a short distance from the shoreline near St. Anthony’s Trading Company, […]
Meanwhile the body of a man found off the George Price Highway on Wednesday has also been identified as a Belize City resident of a Neal’s Pen Road Extension address. Was twenty-five-year-old Linton Wilshire taken from his house, his throat slit and then his body dumped off the George Price Highway? And is his murder […]
After twenty-four hours on the run, accused murderer Jevon Belizaire has been recaptured by Belize City police. The twenty-four-year-old suspect fled from custody on Wednesday morning while being allowed to use the restroom at the Raccoon Street Police Station. Belizaire is alleged to have shot and killed Ryan ‘Fish’ Thompson on Sunday night on Neal’s […]
A pair of brothers is awaiting arraignment in San Pedro after being charged for one of two recent homicides on the island. Jose Armando Marroquin and Sarbelo Marroquin have been charged for the brazen murder of Scott Charles on the night of August sixteenth. Twenty-four-year-old Charles was inside his house in the Bay Side area […]
Today, former residents of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, David and Anke Doehm, are charged with child cruelty in the death of thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon almost two months ago. The teenager’s body was found in a condo at a north end hotel on the island, showing signs of physical and sexual abuse, including a large swelling […]
A Belizean-American couple and their visiting friend were read drug charges after a police search of their Caye Caulker cabana on Tuesday afternoon. Twenty-four-year-old Sloane Breaux; his wife, twenty-three-year-old Catherine Martinez; and thirty-five-year-old Christopher Shroyer, were jointly arraigned before Acting Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer for possession of utensil used for smoking controlled drugs, specifically a […]
Embattled businessman John Zabaneh has been cleared of the kingpin designation that was given to him and two others, including Dion Zabaneh, by the United States Treasury a few years ago. According to the former banana grower, his family has virtually lost everything in the wake of being blacklisted. His once thriving agribusinesses, Maya King […]
In order for Zabaneh to move on with his life, he now has to rebuild his businesses from the ground up. He says the ordeal has also taken a significant toll on his elderly mother whose Maya King banana processing company he had been managing. On the Phone: John Zabaneh, Businessman “We were reduced […]
The United Democratic Party’s Belize City Council convention is set for Sunday morning at the ITVET grounds from ten a.m. to five p.m. It is headlined by the race to succeed Mayor Darrell Bradley, between incumbent councilors Dion Leslie and Philip Willoughby, and whether any of the incumbent councilors, a total of eight, will lose […]
We caught up with Leslie at the basketball court on Flamboyant Street in Lake Independence constituency, where residents were hard at work laying plants and cleaning up the neighborhood’s basketball court. Residents told us they wanted to see more of their representatives at work and today aspirant Dion Leslie and a few helpers swung through, […]
To continue to engage at risk youths, the GREAT and Cadet Programmes have joined forces for an event they call the GREAT Cup. It will feature three sporting disciplines and will see youths from different precincts join forces for the games. It will kick off in October. Inspector Elroy Carcamo tells us more. Insp. […]
The Tyler Savery Foundation distributed close to one hundred school bags to under-privileged children. The kids were treated to a fun day at the pool at the Pickwick Club and they each received backpacks with school supplies for the new school year. We spoke with the founder, Shakera Young. She explains why she decided to […]
