A woman has been detained in connection with the latest murder in the city. Police hope she can provide them with information that will help them crack the murder of Tyrone Gibson. The twenty-year-old south side resident, affiliated with the PIV gang, was killed last Friday night as he stood across from the Michael Finnegan […]
Following his murder, Dianne Martinez told News Five that she would like to know what role, if any, the woman played in her son’s murder. Martinez shared what she knows about her son’s final moments, while meeting up with the woman who is now being questioned. Dianne Martinez, Mother of Deceased “Apparently, they already […]
Forty-two-year-old Hilmar Alamilla returned to the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for a preliminary inquiry to determine if he would stand trial for murder at the Supreme Court. Alamilla is the right-hand man of Orange Walk’s Gaspar Vega, but he is accused of the sensational July 2017 murder of twenty-four year old Daniel Sosa, […]
In mid-January, a Guatemalan reporter with Prensa Libre, Rigoberto Escobar, entered into Belize from the western border and claimed he was confronted by the police within the adjacency zone also considered no man’s land. Escobar would go on to complain to the Guatemalan press about the incident going as far as to say that he […]
Canadian fugitive Jordan Bacchus was arrested for drug possession in Sudbury, Canada; he will also be charged for armed robbery and other crimes in Toronto recently. But will he be extradited to Belize? Bacchus is a person of interest in the May 2016 murder of Melvin Almendarez in San Pedro. Today, we asked Foreign Minister […]
We reported last week that Guatemala has finally sent its Ambassador to Belize in the person of career diplomat Georges De La Roche Du Ronzet. His appointment comes almost two years after his predecessor, Manuel Estuardo Roldan Barillas, was abruptly recalled to that country in the wake of the shooting death of Julio Rene Alvarado […]
While there is a new Guatemalan ambassador, another is departing the Belize Foreign Ministry. Today, Elrington confirmed that Ambassador Stuart Leslie is no longer a part of the Referendum Unit of the Ministry and has opted to move on to do political work with the Leader of the Opposition. The unit has focused on the […]
Now it is no secret that crime is a major issue in Belize. Elsewhere in the Central American region, border countries such as Guatemalan and Honduras have seen a decrease in its murder rate. Belize, on the other hand, in last year saw one hundred and forty-murders; and the murder count continues to climb in […]
At a recent special session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., convened to report on the Peace Fund, as many as thirteen nations expressed support for a resolution to the territorial claim. The foreign ministers of Belize and Guatemala, Wilfred Elrington and Sandra Jovel Polanco, brought the council […]
According to Elrington, the United Nations Development Programme, U.N.D.P., is also on board, providing funding to assist in the referendum process which is to take place after the a re-registration exercise. Elrington says all hands are on deck, including the L.G.B.T.I. community, specifically Caleb Orozco who has provided an advocacy proposal. Elrington says the campaign […]
The resolution of the territorial dispute has been the number one foreign policy issue for successive governments of Belize. The people, however, are yet to decide at a referendum on whether or not the claim will go before the International Court of Justice for resolution. Foreign Minister Elrington told the media today that it doesn’t […]
Ready to pay more for basic cable? It could happen as issues of copyright compliance come to Belize. Home Box Office, the giant pay-per-view movie and special programming service, sent principals of its Latin American subsidiary to Belize to meet today with the Board of Directors for Belize’s Cable Television Operators Association. Their discussion is […]
A forty-seven-year-old man has been accused of violating his nearly thirteen-year-old daughter not once, not twice, but five separate times between February and August of 2016. The man is accused of incest and was remanded on his appearance before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer on Wednesday evening. No plea was taken and due to the nature […]
On Wednesday night, couples were dining out showing their love for each other for Valentine’s. But for one couple, it ended in a stabbing and hospitalization. A woman stabbed a man on Princess Margaret Drive sometime around nine but no official police report was made. ASP Alejandro Cowo shares what Police have gathered so far […]
February fifteenth is a big day for fishermen and lobster eaters in Belize. It is the day when the lobster season closes off and that means no traps are to be set and no one should be eating lobsters for the next four months. The Belize Fisheries Department announced the closure of the consumption and […]
In the growing capital city of Belmopan, the municipal campaign is in full gear. Earlier, this week we caught up with the P.U.P.’s mayoral candidate Tanya Santos who wants to unseat the sitting U.D.P. mayor. Khalid Belisle is winding up his first term as mayor and is seeking re-election on March seventh. Belisle is perhaps […]
It is the only town council they control nationally, and have in whole or in part since 2012. The People’s United Party hopes to retain Orange Walk Town painting it as a model of propriety and independence in a sea of United Democratic Party control. Mayor Kevin Bernard and his team of councilors have crossed […]
The People’s United Party held a massive national convention on Sunday in Belize City, drawing a record number of supporters from the far reaches of the country and all points between. While the gathering saw representation from all thirty-one constituencies, Cayo South Area Rep Julius Espat was noticeably absent from the main stage. The deputy […]
The budget for the 2018 fiscal year is expected to be presented before the House of Representatives in early March, weeks before the start of a new financial calendar. The introduction of the General Revenue and Appropriation Bill, as the budget is formally known, is followed by a heated debate where parliamentarians weigh in on […]
The government of Taiwan has made a significant contribution to assist in the fight against one of the worst problems facing the nation. A million dollars was handed over to the Minister of Home Affairs to be used to acquire both equipment and crime fighting enforcement technologies for the Police Department. These include items such […]
We’ll start this next story with a quiz: where is the resting place of labour leader and early nationalist Antonio Soberanis Gomez? If you didn’t Google it, you may have guessed Lord’s Ridge Cemetery or somewhere else. And you would be wrong. It’s in fact in the tiny village of Santana, thirty-five miles north of […]
