Police and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions are in a pickle tonight because they are revisiting manslaughter charges slapped against three men in Orange Walk. Last Thursday, twenty-six-year-old immigration officer Leodegario Chan, twenty-four-year-old welder Carlos Westby and twenty-eight-year-old Delthran Perez, all of Trial Farm Village, were first jointly charged with the crime […]
There is some progress in the investigation into the brazen killing of American national Lamont Lipka in San Pedro. On Sunday night, the forty-nine-year-old restaurateur, better known as “Monty”, was shot and killed in front of his employees and customers inside his restaurant, Tropical Bar and Grill. Lipka was shot six times to the face […]
There is another case that police are trying to crack and they are not getting any help from the results of an autopsy conducted on charred remains of a human body, discovered after a fire in Belmopan. Those results are inconclusive on the cause of death and the identity of the person also remains unknown. […]
For weeks, there have been speculations about an incident in the State of Georgia involving Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber. It happened on April twentieth, while he was on vacation in the United States, visiting his two children who had relocated there with his ex-wife, the mother of the children. During an interview with the […]
With the re-registration process due to start in July, some Guatemalans find themselves in an absurd situation, particularly those who acquired Belizean citizenship by way of renouncing their Guatemala citizenship. At the core of the issue is the renunciation process. As it stands, Guatemala does not recognize the giving up of its nationality, since those […]
A criminal investigation into an attack on the residence of Mayor Khalid Belisle in the Cohune Walk area of Belmopan is still open. The split-level, two storey abode came under fire from an unknown gunman who unleashed as many as eight bullets, riddling the façade of the structure, as well as damaging the bumper and […]
Police today gave an update on the shooting at the Valencia Street residence of Mayor Belisle. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett confirmed today that the department is exploring a lead into who targeted the mayor’s house. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “The investigation is still ongoing. We are following one […]
This afternoon, the leader of the Belize Territorial Volunteers, Wil Maheia, issued a video response to the pronouncements of Prime Minister Dean Barrow on the I.C.J. issue. Maheia also spoke on the recent report about increased presence of Guatemalans in the Chiquibul and the efforts to reach across the border to help out. On the […]
A thirty-two-year-old accountant from San Jose Palmar Village in Orange Walk District was the victim of a shooting on Wednesday night. Jose Oscar Santana says he was inside his yard when someone from across the street opened fire at him. The gunman reportedly hid within an overgrown lot before taking aim at the unsuspecting man, […]
Austin Williams is tonight recovering at the Southern Regional Hospital, reportedly under police guard, following a shooting incident that occurred overnight in Seine Bight Village on the peninsula. Williams was socializing with another person when he was assaulted by a gunman who simply walked up to him and opened fire. He was hit twice and […]
As we reported on Wednesday, police arrested and charged Benjamin Reid for the murder of Daniel Guardado who was shot and killed on May fifth on Partridge Street Extension. Today, Assistant Superintendent of Police Alejandro Cowo confirms that the repairman was executed in a case of mistaken identity. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Eastern […]
On Friday, Supreme Court Justice Courtney Abel crushed the hopes of Sunshine Holdings Limited to receive a share, or at the outside, all of the more than one hundred and fourteen million dollars paid to Dean Boyce and the Trustees of the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust in the 2015 settlement agreement on Belize Telemedia. The decision […]
As has been noted, Sunshine Holdings did not get an exception in the 2015 settlement agreement for its debt as it was government-owned. The agreement explicitly obliged Government to take on all its assets as well as debts. So was this another error on the part of the legal team that drafted the agreement? The […]
On Monday, the United States inaugurated its embassy in Jerusalem, as the first country to relocate its headquarters from Tel Aviv, in the State of Israel. On Wednesday, Guatemala followed suit by also moving its embassy to the capital city, amid considerations being made by other countries, including Paraguay, Honduras, Czech Republic and Romania. The […]
Minister of National Security, John Saldivar, traveled to the western border on Wednesday to view firsthand security improvements that are taking place at the Benque/Melchor crossing point. The infrastructure work is being undertaken by the B.D.F.’s light engineers. The team is repairing, upgrading and strengthening security facilities at that location and is being done in […]
In light of teacher’s day celebration on Friday, we bring you a feature story of a young teacher described as an outstanding member of the Queen Square Anglican School teaching staff. Mary Ovado started teaching at the school in 2012 and since then she has made a mark on the school and students. Ovado is […]
The average Belizean doesn’t know that much about the island nation of Cuba – perhaps that it is a socialist state in a mostly capitalist region of the world, or that a classmate or two went there to study medicine. But there is much more, including that Cuba was one of the first nation-states to […]
Over the years we have seen many instances of disruption to life in Belize City, as a result of mutually exclusive activities being forced to co-exist with each other – examples include the battle over the ‘entertainment strip’ in 2017, or on Sixth Street a few years ago. The simplest explanation is that the Old […]
When last we left the situation of the Collet Canal, specifically the tributary that empties into the Caribbean Sea, the Belize City Council was beginning the process of draining out the massively heavy silt that has built up for many years in the area. But work just as quickly stopped. Today, the council’s finance director […]
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and its partner agencies want to recognize fisherfollks who are doing good work in the fishing industry. Two outstanding fishers will be awarded along with a “Fisher of the Year.” This is the fourth year the award is being given out and again, the organizers want you to help nominate […]
The Gateway Youth Center held its annual health fair today at the Constitution Park in Belize City. A number of the organizations shared informational pamphlets, interactive games, as well as free testing. We stopped by to speak with Counselor Erolyn Sebastian about the fourth youth-led health fair. Erolyn Sebastian, Counselor, Gateway Youth Center “This […]
Reducing the use of salt is a priority for health officials in Belize to prevent and contain the risk of heart diseases. The focus this year on the occasion of World Hypertension Day is to raise awareness about hypertension, more commonly known as high blood pressure which causes heart attacks and strokes. Healthy Living tonight […]
