Over the Easter weekend, there were four murders: one in the north, two in the west and one in the city. We begin today’s newscast with the gruesome discovery of the body of a man in the San Pedro Village of Corozal District. The decomposing body of Louisville villager Eleazar Chan was found properly wrapped […]
The murder of Eleazar Chan has rocked the small village in the north. His nephew, Eliodoro Ya, is also the chairman of Louisville and tonight he is imploring the police department to solve this crime as soon as possible because villagers have lost their sense of security. Eliodoro Ya, Chairman, Louisville Village “As an […]
This morning, police escorted twenty-two-year-old Evyn Ardon, a Honduran national and construction worker of Antelope Street to court to be charged for murder. Forty-two-year-old Manuel Canales, who lived in the ‘London Bridges’ network located behind Antelope Street Extension, made a life for himself as a respected private contractor and raised two sons and two step-sons. […]
Police have also made an arrest in the murder of forty-four-year-old Emmerson Anderson who was killed six days ago at the long barracks at the corner of Sibun and Ebony Streets in Belize City. While he was not the intended target, it is believed that two persons he was playing dice with managed to escape […]
In western Belize, two persons were also murdered in separate violent crimes. A twenty-one-year-old Teakettle villager was reported missing by his family on Wednesday and two days later, his body was found not far from the village in Camalote Village, Cayo. He had been shot to the head and buried in a shallow grave. But […]
The second murder in the Cayo District occurred in Buena Vista Village just outside of Spanish Lookout. Thirty-six-year-old George Hyde was killed in front of his friends. The group of men was hanging out at a friend’s house when a fight broke and Hyde was chopped to the neck. He died on the veranda where […]
There is an international search for a U.S. marine believed to have spent time in southern Belize or may still be here. Earlier today, the San Diego Police announced it is offering an eleven thousand U.S. dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of a thirty-four-year-old veteran from Arizona suspected of murdering his girlfriend […]
Forty-year-old Russell Casimiro, a dive master from Boca del Rio, San Pedro Town, has pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding. But residents of the island are upset that he only apparently got off with a fine. According to American bar manager Carrie Tripodi, she was preparing for bed on Monday night around twelve-fifteen a.m. […]
It is a rare charge in cases of sexual offenses, but a Belize City man has been charged with attempting to suppress evidence in a court case – specifically, by allegedly threatening the accuser’s life. Fifty-eight-year-old Franz Hamilton was read the charge before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer. He is accused of attempting to pervert the […]
The national referral hospital has resumed some services after certain areas had to be closed off due to a leaking roof. The K.H.M.H. Authority earlier today announced that specialists’ clinic services have resumed and that appointment are now being scheduled. A very brief release says that patients with appointments will now be treated. A team […]
There was also death and injury on the highways and by-ways, in both instances involving motorbikes. Truck driver forty-six-year-old Endhir Guerra of Orange Walk Town was found dead and decomposing between miles twenty-eight and twenty-nine on the Philip Goldson Highway in the bushes early on Good Friday. He still had on his motorcycle helmet and […]
According to Guatemalan newspaper El Periodico, a potential monkey wrench has been thrown into the plans for the April fifteenth referendum on taking the Belize-Guatemala claim to the International Court of Justice. Two Guatemalan men have filed a constitutional claim challenging the ratification by Congress of the December 2008 Special Agreement and its amendment in […]
The Senate wrapped up its deliberations on the General Revenue and Appropriation Bill very late last Wednesday. All the bills it has debated are now law, but several of them will continue to spark discussion even so. One example is amendments to the Immigration, Belizean Nationality and Passports Acts. These respectively speak to dividing the […]
Concerns were raised that dividing the Immigration Department as proposed in the bills could invite further mischief in a department already badly bruised by the 2011-2013 scandal discussed during last year’s Senate Special Select Committee public hearings. At those hearings, it was abundantly clear that the department had little in human resources to keep it […]
The twenty-first Commonwealth Games gets underway later tonight in the land “Down Under” – Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The Commonwealths are the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympics and held about halfway during each Olympiad. The Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association has selected thirty-six-year-old cyclist, Alicia Thompson as Belize’s flag bearer for the […]
It has been said, only half-jokingly, that in Belize the Easter weekend is not as fun if a Belizean doesn’t win the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic. Indeed the nation’s longest-running sporting event, coming after the quiet of Good Friday, is the signal of a weekend of fun. So as eighty-plus Belizean riders took […]
