Tonight, we have full coverage of the events leading to the death of a little girl from Maskall, who has rallied the nation against the despicable sexual abuse of children. And the latest word to our newsroom just before five this evening is that a post mortem has concluded. The results show that she died […]
Seventeen-month-old Allyssa Nunez passed on Sunday morning, but from Friday, twenty-one-year-old Everal Martinez of Maskall was in police custody on a charge of dangerous harm. That charge has been lifted and he is now facing four counts of sexually-related offenses. This morning, as Martinez was read his charges, the police barricaded the Magistrate’s Court for […]
The death of the Baby Alyssa has sparked outrage across the country, some impromptu and others organized protests have held since the weekend. This morning before Everal Martinez was brought for arraignment, Belizeans came out in front of the Magistrate Court to make a statement that abuse against children cannot be countenanced in any shape […]
Prior to being arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford, Everal Martinez was charged with deadly use of harm on Friday evening. The single count was presumably a holding charge, a temporary indictment to keep Martinez in custody until this morning when the more substantive charges were preferred. While there were many at the protest earlier […]
As outrage grows against the vile circumstances that led to the death of Alyssa, there is another case that police are investigating. A seven-year old schoolgirl was allegedly abused by a sixty-seven year old man who she called granddad. The incident happened about two weeks ago and came to light when the behaviour of the […]
Today police went on the south side looking for what’s reported to be remains of a baby buried in a yard. Reports had been circulating since Sunday that a mother had killed and buried her newborn at a yard on Antelope Street Extension. This morning, there was no confirmation on this report at the press […]
Leader of the Opposition John Briceño has written separate letters to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie, and director of the Financial Intelligence Unit Kent Clare, demanding an investigation of Minister for Human Development Anthony “Boots” Martinez. Briceño writes that an apparent illegal and corrupt scheme was established between Martinez as minister […]
Two men were killed in a road traffic accident on Sunday night. Around eight-fifteen p.m., James Andrews and Michael Martinez were behind the wheels in separate vehicles travelling in opposite directions when they collided into each other near the Red Bank Junction in southern Belize. Two other persons travelling with Martinez were treated and released […]
On Saturday around ten in the morning, a man lost his life in a fatal freak accident in northern Belize. Elio Grajalez was reportedly fixing a tractor that had mechanical problems when it accidentally ran over him, killing him in San Luis Village. This is what police had to say about the incident: Insp. […]
The widespread condemnation and presentation of solutions in the wake of the death of Baby Allyssa is mounting. Separate press releases were issued by the Belize City Council Child Advisory Board; Maya Leaders Alliance/Toledo Alcaldes Association; National Evangelical Association of Belize and the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, offering similar words of condemnation of […]
In 2013, extensive amendments to the Criminal Code of Belize were passed in respect of fully delineating potential offenses of sexual assault against both adults and children. Those laws were endorsed by Special Envoy for Women and Children Kim Simplis-Barrow and the National Committee for Families and Children among others. Today, the Special Envoy told […]
It’s now official: the Government of Belize is going at it alone in the upcoming appeal of the August tenth, 2016 judgment of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin regarding the amendment of Section fifty-three of the Criminal Code. Following the withdrawals of the Belize Council of Churches, Association of Evangelical Churches and Anglican Diocese from the […]
Just in time for its first session of the year 2018, the Court of Appeal has a new judge. Jamaican national Lennox Kirkwood Campbell was sworn in by the Governor General Sir Colville Young in Belmopan this morning. Campbell, a retired Supreme Court judge, has had a long and distinguished career in his native Jamaica, […]
In the city, police presence is being felt as far more officers have been deployed to the streets following a recent flare of gun violence. Over the weekend, two persons were shot in separate incidents on Saturday. According to police, car dealer Raymond Wayne Davis was inside a vehicle with a female companion when a […]
That shooting was followed by another, hours later on Saturday night just after seven o’clock. According to police, Kearney Thompson was on Vernon Street when a lone gunman fired shots in his direction. Two of the bullets hit him and one slug was recovered from the scene. Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino shares the details of the […]
A routine patrol by rangers of the Southern Environmental Association, better known as SEA, and Belize Coast Guard officers resulted in the arrest of three Honduran fishermen. The patrol near the spawning and aggregation site in the Gladden Spit and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve on Sunday night led to the capture of Henry Castro, Joel […]
The Ministry of Health indicates it will launch another investigation into a British health practitioner reportedly based in Belize. The Daily Mirror in the U.K. has printed an expose naming forty-nine year old Amanda Mary Jewell, who goes by Mary, as a “quack,” giving victims of cancer false hope with bogus treatments using dangerous and banned products. […]
