Belmopan’s Mayor Khalid Belisle was awoken on Monday night to the sound of gun blasts. Located on Cohune Walk in the capital, there were at least four bullet holes on the concrete structure of his house and another four shots to a car parked on the street in front of the mayor’s house. Belisle retired […]
Monday night’s shooting in Cohune Walk happened less than a hundred feet away from a police booth at the entrance of the community. That checkpoint, according to Mayor Belisle, has been out of operation and is in need of urgent repair. While those works are pending, he is focusing tonight on beefing up security at […]
There has been a recent trend of accused murderers seeking bail while on remand for their charges. It is a symptom of the heavy backlog in cases at the Supreme Court, and defense attorneys have been taking advantage; though not all cases have been successful. Today, Tibruce Street residents Jedd Burgess and Micah Tillett sought […]
The Belize City Council says it is not interested in taking back any of the six employees fired a week ago. A meeting took place today with the executive of the Christian Workers’ Union and employee representatives. Notably, Mayor of Belize City Bernard Wagner and C.W.U. president Evan “Mose” Hyde are brothers-in-law—a fact which Hyde […]
Barely two weeks after the last change, there are further changes to report tonight in relation to fuel prices, which take effect at midnight on Wednesday. Premium gasoline moves down from eleven dollars thirty-nine cents to eleven dollars thirty-six cents, a difference of three cents, and kerosene moves down to seven dollars and seventy-five cents […]
It was one of those rare court cases that didn’t wrap up when the courts normally close at five o’clock. But that’s not even the most unusual thing about the case of Andre Perez and others versus Daniel Guerrero and others along with Catherine Cumberbatch and the Attorney General. Perez and Guerrero were the two […]
At around midday today, San Pedro police conducted a search at the residence of thirty-seven-year-old Brionne Deston Swift, a fisherman of the DFC area. The joint operation led to the discovery of a transparent plastic bag containing eight point four grams of cocaine hidden inside a speaker. They also found several quantities of cannabis amounting […]
A Belize City man was caught red-handed supplying drugs to an undercover police officer and took the rap for it today. Emmerson Neal of Aloe Vera Street admitted a charge of supplying a controlled substance to another and was fined three hundred dollars due by June fifteenth, in default two months’ imprisonment. Police conducted a […]
An apparently shocked William “Danny” Mason was told this morning he would face yet another Supreme Court trial. Back in February of 2017, Mason and his co-accused were similarly committed for trial for the murder of beheaded Pastor Llewellyn Lucas and conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping of Pastor Lucas and David Dodd. Today, Senior […]
Two men are charged in connection with the aggravated assault by firearm of twenty-one-year-old Joshua Augustine on May fifth, 2018. Eighteen-year-old Phozhaun Lewis was charged last week and today it was the turn of mechanic Charles Young Junior of Police Street. Augustine told police that he was walking on Police Street and saw two men […]
Former Prime Minister Said Musa, in a statement, has called on the Government of Belize to join in condemnation of Israel for using excessive and deadly force to respond to Palestinian Arabs protesting the establishment of the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem. More than sixty persons were killed and over two thousand injured by […]
San Pedranos are up in arms about a proposed development within the Hol Chan Marine Reserve. A small caye called Cayo Rosario was sold off to a private developer and since acquiring the land, San Pedranos say that the developer has published plans to build several structures over water. It is a massive proposed development […]
There have been an alarming number of homicides countrywide for the first five months of this year and counting. More than sixty-five are recorded which means that so far, there are as many as seventeen more than in 2017. Even worse is that over fifty percent of those murders have been committed in Belize City […]
A postmortem examination is pending following further investigation into a body found on Monday morning off the Placencia peninsula. Reports are that the remains of a man, who has since been identified as Juan Cordero Caducio, was seen floating near Harvest Caye in southern Belize. The seventy-three-year-old naturalized Belizean left his home on the peninsula […]
Over the past few months, the Wildlife Conservation (WCS) has been rolling out a mobile app used to determine local fish consumption. The app, which is compatible with android phones, is being utilized to record which species of fish and how many pounds are being eaten. It is just one part of a bigger sustainable […]
One week ago, we reported on the apparent pollution of the New River in the area of Orange Walk Town as well as villages to the north and east, including San Estevan, Trial Farm, and San Jose. Toxic chemical waste from ponds overlooking the river are leaching into it, causing the deaths of hundreds of […]
The school year is fast winding down and while most students are already looking forward to summer camp, visits abroad or just generally hanging out, there’s still lots to learn. Today our neighbors across the street at Nazarene High School invited us to their first-ever showcase of activity, a school expo. In addition to the […]
Day one of the 2018 Festival of Arts for the Belize District got underway at the Bird’s Isle in Belize City. Over one hundred items from twenty-five primary schools and fifty-two from twelve high schools in Belize District will take to the stage from today through to April seventeenth. The Festival of Arts provides somewhat […]
