There have been nine deaths reported across the country in the span of one week. But the last twenty-four hours have been especially bloody, with four deaths reported – two in Belize City, one in Corozal and another in Roaring Creek, Cayo. Our top story tonight is the suicide of David Doehm inside a room […]
Up north in Corozal, a bloody murder took place in the quiet community of Chula Vista, smacked between Altamira and Paraiso Villages on Wednesday night. The heavy rains and thunderstorm did not prevent a gunman from carrying out what is believed to be an orchestrated hit on thirty-eight-year-old Canadian construction consultant and father of three. […]
A homeless man was murdered in Belize City. He was found lying dead in the San Cas Plaza parking lot in Belize City. He has been identified as sixty-year-old Michael Garbutt. According to reports, Garbutt has been homeless for many years and his regular route would be in the San Cas Area. We were informed […]
Garbutt lived on the streets and that made him vulnerable – like all others who use bus stops, streets and other public spaces for shelter. Joyce Ellis of the Welcome Resource Center says that others who live on the street are also exposed to harm and she asks the public to refrain from disturbing or […]
There is another murder to report out west. Thirty-three year old Isau Perez of Cotton Tree, Cayo, was discovered dead and floating in the Belize River. The body was located in the vicinity of Banana Bank Resort around eight-thirty this morning. Police say he was stabbed to the chest and throat. There are reports that […]
Organizers of today’s protest march concerning record high gas prices worried as much about the turnout as the changeable weather. Despite weeks of public angst, there was still a fear that too many would choose to stay silent rather than let their voice be heard. And while the final figure of protesters was respectable, the […]
During this morning’s protest on gas prices in Belize City, political leader of the Belize Progressive Party Patrick Rogers alerted us to a novel way that Mennonites in the West are obtaining diesel fuel from crude oil extracted by Belize Natural Energy. He says it’s an idea that government should consider in light of the […]
A well-known resort on the Placencia Peninsula suffered a huge blow this afternoon after a massive fire gutted a large portion of Turtle Inn Resort. The beachside hideaway property was acquired by Francis and Eleanor Coppola in 2001; the twenty-five-room seafront property has thatched cottages, a wine cellar and sandy beaches. This afternoon, a fire […]
A Guatemalan national has been busted with a large quantity of contraband cigarettes. According to reports in the Guatemalan media, the cigarettes found their way into Melchor de Mencos from Belize presumably, the Corozal Commercial Free Zone, which has become a central point for contrabandistas smuggling cigarettes into Guatemala. Thirty-six-year-old Jorge Anibal Barrientos Mendez was […]
In the Orange Walk Supreme Court before Justice Herbert Lord, Edwin Castillo was convicted for the murder of his friend Javier Ack. The incident occurred back in mid-June 2012 in the village of Yo Creek. Both young men were friends but on that fatal day, following an argument while they socialized under a lime tree […]
Forty-two-year-old Ruben “Bird’’ Heredia is in trouble with the law for a fine of ten thousand dollars which he neglected to pay by July thirty-first for a conviction of drug trafficking. Heredia appeared today for a new matter before Magistrate Michelle Trapp and pleaded guilty to possession of point two grams of cocaine. That’s when […]
The Police Department has promised a review of the incident on September sixth at Tower Hill in Orange Walk. Supporters of the People’s United Party, having rallied in downtown Orange Walk against ex-Minister Gaspar Vega, went down to the toll bridge and blocked it, resulting in police pushing protestors back and releasing tear gas when […]
Tropical Storm Nate has killed twenty-two people in neighboring Costa Rica and Nicaragua and up to news time, fifteen more Costa Ricans remain missing due to the passage of the tropical storm. NEMO’s latest advisory puts Nate four hundred and sixty miles south east of Belize and has maximum sustained winds of forty miles per […]
As much as the Police Department dislikes the focus on the bad apples in its regime, it much more greatly enjoys promoting and praising those who have done well in their duties. On Wednesday afternoon in Belmopan, Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie and Officer Commanding Belmopan Formation, Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett, hosted seven officers who […]
The International Day of Older Persons is observed annually on the first of October. It is a day to acknowledge, honor and re-commit support to a vulnerable population around the world and here in Belize. In Celebration of International Day of Older Persons, the National Council on Ageing hosted the first National Conference on Ageing and the Rights of […]
There is some interesting news from southern Belize where a new species of tree has been discovered in the forests. The species is Parasenegalia lundellii which was discovered by plant ecologist Steven Brewer within the Bladen Nature Reserve. Ya’axché Conservation Trust, which co-manages the park, says that the new species is found in semi-evergreen tropical […]
The Bureau of Standards is hosting consultations with producers and manufacturers of prepackaged foods. The aim is to get the labeling on prepackaged goods up to industry established minimum required standards. As a part of the meetings with manufacturers, importers, distributors and producers of prepackaged goods, the draft standards will be revised for the labeling […]
September may have been the month of celebration, but this year it was also the beginning of a rapidly spreading conjunctivitis or pink eye epidemic. The latest information from the Ministry of Health is that from September tenth to today there has been over six thousand plus cases of pink eye reported in Belize – […]
