There were three murders over the weekend, one in Ladyville, another in Belize City and the third occurred this morning in Dangriga. We start tonight’s newscast with the stabbing murder of forty-one-year-old Gavin Palmerston on Friday night. Palmerston was with a lady friend around eighty-thirty when he was fatally stabbed by thirty-seven-year-old Robert Brown, the […]
A Hattieville resident was the second murder victim for the weekend. Jermaine Hyde aka “Onion’’ was executed on Saturday morning here in the city. Hyde was last seen alive in the area of the Swing Bridge buying his favorite tacos. His body was found on Thurton Lane with a single gunshot to the head. Bernadette […]
In Dangriga early this morning, an artist from San Pedro was found dead. Miguel Angel Guerrero was chopped to the neck and left to die on the street near the Havana Club in that southern municipality. Guerrero was seen alive on Saturday night, but so far no one has come forward with information on any […]
On Saturday morning in Punta Gorda, despite inclement weather, residents, including family and friends of Mario Vernon Junior took the streets to protest his killing. The twenty-four-year-old grandson of Leela Vernon was shot and killed by police constable Tevin Aranda on January thirteenth. While his death has been ruled a manslaughter, the grieving family is […]
This evening, there was loss of life on the Burrell Boom Circuit. The details we have gathered so far are that just before five p.m. today, a Toyota Rav-Four SUV with Belize City license plates was traveling on the Boom Hattieville Road when the driver’s side of the SUV was crashed by an eighteen-wheeler towhead […]
A two-year-old girl is dead after a relative driving a vehicle accidentally knocked her down on Saturday afternoon. Thirty-year-old Elba Cruz was driving up the street to another relative’s home in Teakettle Village, Cayo District to get change for the girl’s father, Clifford Reyes. She apparently did not see Sosphie Reyes crossing the street to […]
For security reasons, the three men accused of killing Jamaal Paul Jex last Tuesday on Ambergris Caye were brought to Belize City for arraignment. Nineteen-year-old Nelson Paguada and a fifteen-year-old minor, both fishermen of San Mateo, and forty-five-year-old Timothy Carcamo, a fisherman of San Juan area, were arraigned for the sensational murder of Jex, who […]
But following the murder of Jex, several persons were detained for questioning. One of the detainees was Simon Velasquez, who was murdered two days later on Plues Street in Belize City, in George Street Gang territory. While it is speculated that the murders are related because Jex is associated with GSG, police today say that […]
William Godoy is accused of murder, following the shooting death of twenty-eight-year-old Alfredo Cowo in San Pedro on January sixteenth. Despite having been charged and placed on remand at the Belize Central Prison, his family says that there is an ironclad alibi which proves that the mechanic was not involved in Cowo’s execution. Police say […]
One man remains hospitalized after being chopped multiple times on Saturday night in South Stann Creek. The incident took place just outside of Independence Village where the victim was reportedly approached by several persons who viciously attacked him. While the police department was very limited in the information that it shared with the media earlier […]
Thirty-three-year-old Edgar Flores is listed in critical condition at the K.H.M.H., after being shot in the right side of his face on Sunday night. The incident happened on Jones Street, near its intersection with Complex Avenue. Flores was along with several other persons inside a yard when a lone gunman emerged on the scene. He […]
Brother police officers twenty-eight-year-old Kenrick and twenty-four-year-old Akeem Gamboa saw charges of grievous harm against them dropped today in Magistrate’s Court. Exactly one year ago, twenty-year-old Michael Crawford, a security technician and supervisor, told police that he was attacked by the brothers and a third unidentified man in Belize City after being shot at while […]
In health news, Belize has not seen a case of measles since 1991. But there is a general alert out tonight from the Ministry of Health after the highly infectious viral disease recently showed up in neighboring Guatemala, on the heels of an increase of cases in the region in 2017. The suspected cases are […]
A British-Belizean dual national who formerly held diplomatic status for Belize was pulled over by cops in London on January nineteenth. He was cited for using illegal diplomatic license plates and an expired diplomatic ID card. He was also suspected of driving without insurance. Fifty-one-year-old Andrew Wigmore was a trade and investment envoy for Belize […]
Police are looking for this man, Sergio Aguirre for sexual related offenses. Aguirre is from the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan and is twenty-seven-years-old. His occupation is listed as a labourer, he has dark complexion, weighs about one hundred and forty-five pounds and has brown eyes. Anyone with information of Aguirre whereabouts is asked to […]
Over the past week we’ve been featuring the mayoral candidates contesting the March seventh municipal elections. Today, we reached out to the mayoral hopefuls in Dangriga. Incumbent Francis Humphreys is up again for the U.D.P., whilst newcomer Derrick Velasquez is throwing his hat in the ring for the People’ United Party. The candidates say that […]
On Friday the Minister of Defence John Saldivar addressed an unexpected visit to Belize from members of the Guatemalan Armed Forces who were said to be asking about an earlier engagement between Belizean police and a Guatemalan reporter. While there are few such encounters at the western border, it is much closer quarters in the […]
On a more positive note, the Isidoro Beaton Stadium at the corner of the Ring Road and San Martin Road was recently certified to FIFA-standard. It is the second stadium in Belize after the F.F.B. Stadium on the Hummingbird Highway to reach this standard and the first using artificial turf. The Belmopan Bandits football team, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
