There had not been a murder in the city since January twenty-seventh. During that time, police put more boots on the ground to curb gun violence and restore some peace on the streets, following the 2017 bumper murder rate. But early on Friday night, the life of Norman Tyrone Gibson, aka Ty Ty, who had […]
Just twenty-three days from a municipal election, supporters of the People’s United Party descended in the city seven years after its last national convention. The Opposition, on Sunday, took full advantage of the opportunity to galvanize its base and give the Old Capital a show. They came by the thousands, men, women and youths from […]
The National Convention’s primary business aside, the P.U.P. also has a lot to say about the major issues of the day. From crime to Guatemala, the party produced a number of resolutions outlining its plans and pleas to the government. Reporter Aaron Humes has more on this facet of the convention. Aaron Humes, Reporting […]
The P.U.P. is counting on the surge of energy presented on Sunday to prevail less than a month from now. But with the U.D.P. already boasting of sweeping all sixty-seven seats including Party leader John Briceño’s native Orange Walk Town, where does the Opposition think they have a chance? Briceño was not cowed, placing great […]
Lake Independence area rep Cordel Hyde is the acknowledged field general of the P.U.P. in Belize City. It will be his task to shepherd voters to the polls for Bernard Wagner and the P.U.P. slate of municipal candidates, but as he acknowledged on Sunday, it won’t be easy. Wagner and his team face twelve years […]
A new Guatemalan ambassador has taken up residence in Belize, almost two years after his predecessor Manuel Estuardo Roldan Barillas was abruptly recalled. Roldan returned to a new post as Guatemala’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs amid heightened tension between both countries, following the shooting death of Guatemalan teenager Julio Alvarado Ruano in the Chiquibul […]
As you heard earlier the P.U.P. is demanding a greater say in the education campaign on the Belize-Guatemala issue. But as to taking a formal position on the coming referendum on taking the dispute to the International Court of Justice, party leader John Briceño is less concerned. As he himself admits, the party is squarely […]
And while the P.U.P. effectively countered the suggestion of disunity on Sunday, another elephant in the room is financing. The party has consistently maintained that it will not accept campaign monies as quid pro quo for political favors for when, especially and including Lord Michael Ashcroft. But the United Democratic Party has once again raised […]
Are Punta Gorda police interfering with a purported witness in the officer-involved killing of Mario Vernon? Amateur footage has surfaced showing an altercation between a PG resident who emotionally charges to have seen firsthand the fatal shooting of the twenty-four-year-old grandson of famed Belizean musician Leela Vernon. While none of the officers in the video […]
Thirty-five-year-old taxi driver Reginald Garoy was shot to the right side of the cheek and right ring finger on Sunday night in Belize City. Garoy told police that he and another person were inside his car by the Rocky Road Bridge at the East Canal when a man walked up to him and fired several […]
A man and his girlfriend were shot in Orange Walk on Sunday night. Police say that twenty-four-year-old Amin Mendez Junior and twenty-year-old Jessica Melendez were inside Mendez’s grocery shop on the corner of Liberty Avenue and Boundary Road when a man entered the store and fired several shots. Mendez was hit to the lower left […]
Mahogany Heights resident Floyd Escarpeta has been charged with burglary and theft in connection with breaking and entering into the home of a senior citizen farmer and stealing his valuables and pick-up truck. The twenty-three-year-old is alleged to have entered the residence of ninety-two-year-old Modesto Bardalez on the Coastal Road with one other person and […]
Around three-thirty on Saturday morning, police on mobile patrol in Orange Walk found a point thirty-eight revolver and four live rounds of ammunition on Santa Lucia Street. Police say they saw a man in the area acting suspiciously but when they searched him, they didn’t find anything incriminating. They were escorting him back to the […]
The Fire Department’s quick action on Sunday night averted a major disaster on Sixth Street in Belize City. An electrical fire broke on an ice cream truck just as its driver was concluding the day’s work and parking the van. Fortunately, the driver was not injured, but the blaze threatened another van and house nearby. […]
Meanwhile a family of four from the Bainesville community, just outside of Hattieville, is tonight without a roof over their heads following an early morning fire last Thursday that swept through their wooden house. Twenty-seven-year-old Erica Belisle, her twenty-two-year-old common-law husband Scott Usher Senior and their two children, ages four and one, were not at […]
But as it turns out, Belisle says that the alleged culprit is well-known to the family. While she is not sure what could have triggered the torching of her home, she believes he was paid to burn the house down. But when her common-law-husband confronted his uncle about the fire, Usher Senior was instead detained […]
The Belize Defence Force and the Belize Coast Guard received more than eight hundred and fifty-thousand dollars in drug fighting equipment and training packages. The US Embassy handed over the donation gifted by the US Southern Command’s ‘Counter Narcotics Program Office.’ While the U.S. and Central America have cooperated on defense and security, there have […]
There’s an article online that’s been attracting attention in the area of tourism. Naughty Island. It’s off the coast of Belize, and according to a U.K. newspaper, later this year; visitors on a special vacation package get to live out their fantasies there. The private island in question is eight miles off the coast or […]
Guatemalans head to the polls on April fifteenth to decide on the following question: Do you agree that any legal claim by Guatemala against Belize on continental inland territories and any maritime areas corresponding to those territories be submitted to the International Court of Justice for final determination and that it determines the boundaries of […]
Twelve bikers set off on a six-day adventure across Belize and into the Chiquibul Forest Reserve last week in support of Friends for Conservation and Development. It was organized by the European Nature Trust, which creates unique wild experiences to connect people with nature while raising funds for selected conservation organizations. According to the Trust, […]
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