The body of a missing Immigration Officer was found today at Harmonyville, off the George Price Highway. Israel Perez, a resident of Saint Matthew’s Village and father of a young boy, had been missing for days and this morning, his family, friends and colleagues had the most difficult time coming to terms with his brutal […]
There is another murder for which a motive has still not been established. It is now six weeks since the popular barber, Fareed Ahmad, was murdered in his car on December twenty-seventh, 2017. A female police constable with him at the time is behind bars charged with his murder, but as far as we know, […]
Twenty-one-year-old Hezron Parks is making the headlines in the U.S. where he shot and killed an Arizona fire captain. According to international media, Parks faces second-degree murder charge and was given a three hundred thousand dollar cash bail and put under electronic surveillance because he is considered a flight risk. U.S. media says that Parks’ […]
2017 ended as one of the most murderous years with one hundred and forty-four homicides. This January, there have been as many as fourteen murders, topping the statistics for the same month last year. This morning, the Ministry of Home Affairs launched a two-year anti-crime strategy. First and foremost, police want to reduce the murder […]
So what is the fate of Operation ACT now that a National Crime Fighting Strategy has been introduced which will remain in effect for the next two years? The campaign has been ongoing since late October and while it covers three specific hotspots in Belize City, it has also expanded to other areas of the […]
The scandal that is the forty-million-dollar loan to the former Universal Health Services, compounded with interest of more than fifty million dollars, continues to reverberate in the public consciousness. The government is making a last-ditch effort to stave off potential payment by taking a pair of arguments to the Caribbean Court of Justice which ordered […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry issued two separate statements this afternoon. The first concerns the launch of the first San Pedro Town chapter of the business organization. It is scheduled for next Tuesday, February thirteenth at the Mahogany Bay Resort, on Sea Grape Drive in San Pedro Town. It is a partnership with […]
It’s definitely election season, but not much has been heard from the third party-alternative camps apart from Belize City’s mayoral candidate Ernesto Torres. That is until today, when the Belize Progressive Party held a low-key launch of its countrywide municipal slates. Eighteen candidates will contest, including a full slate in Punta Gorda, the stronghold of […]
It has been legally due at least twice since it was first completed in 1997, but for various reasons was put off and postponed. We are talking about a complete re-registration of voters across the country, which should nominally take place every decade. Earlier, we told you that the Belize Progressive Party took a pause […]
The Elections and Boundaries Department has released the particulars for the next pit-stop in the race to March seventh. In our previous newscasts, we have showed you most of the aspirants for political office in the nine municipalities, but they are not candidates unless and until they have visited the returning officers in each municipality […]
As many a weary Belize City resident can tell you, we have learned to appreciate the silences between the outbursts of gun and other violence we report nightly on the daily news. The trick has become managing those periods of calm through mediation efforts like those led by Dianne Finnegan, Nuri Muhammad and ACP Chester […]
On Monday, Anglican Bishop Philip Wright also addressed the crime issue on a general basis. He said we must all acknowledge that crime masks a number of societal problems that must first be addressed in order to eliminate much of the problem. It comes down to making serious overtures to affected youth, and the mentorship […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Jason Noralez admits to swinging a machete at Llewelyn Courtenay’s bicycle tire and tube valued at thirty-seven dollars. But he says he was acting in self-defence during an altercation. Noralez appeared before Magistrate Michelle Trapp and pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and damage to property. For the latter he was fined a hundred dollars […]
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a Belize City couple may be back together. But it may be difficult to celebrate for Allison Cuthkelvin, who is accused of breaking into his partner’s residence on January thirty-first and taking a microwave. Worse, he is alleged to have violated a restraining order put on him by the […]
Over forty persons received job preparedness training housekeeping and wait staff. The Belize Training and Employment Center presented certificates to the trainees today after they completed three weeks of intense trainings. For the past three years since it opened its doors, BTEC has trained over a thousand persons in a number of service related areas […]
