There is grim news from the island of San Pedro where residents are still recovering from a deadly fire last week. A six-year old girl was killed at her house this morning in the DFC area of the island. The young child, Daisy Acevedo, was shot on the neck and had partial amputation to her […]
Fifty-six-year-old jeweller Manuel Pacheco, a resident of Cockburn Lane, Belize City, appeared in court today for arraignment. Pacheco, whose business is located on East Collet Canal near to Pound Yard Bridge, is accused with the murder of fifty-year-old Jose Manuel Villanueva. He appeared before the Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser this morning having spent the weekend […]
Police, however, contend that there is sufficient evidence to charge Pacheco, despite reports that he was defending himself and property following an altercation with Villanueva over a dog. At the weekly press brief today, Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett said they are relying on surveillance footage to assist in the investigation. ACP Joseph […]
Corozal police are investigating what appears to be a kidnapping in San Narciso Village. Forty-three-year-old Homero Campos remains missing tonight, following an ominous phone call made to his family on Father’s Day. The businessman had set out from his home en route to his farm when he was reportedly abducted. It is a sensitive matter, […]
A mother of three was killed in a road traffic accident on Sunday afternoon in western Belize. San Ignacio resident, Neidy Cifuentes was driving with a friend and her daughter in a rental SUV when she experienced a tire blow out and lost control of her vehicle at the entrance of Succotz Village. The vehicle […]
By all accounts, the passing away of a police officer found unresponsive outside of the Corozal Police Station, appears to be of natural causes. On Sunday night, while his colleagues were making their rounds on the compound, they happened upon the motionless body of Police Constable Mitchell Cobb. Despite all efforts to rush him to […]
There are back to back changes to fuel prices announced within days of each other. The latest is a slight increase in the price of premium which goes from eleven dollars and sixty-seven cents to eleven dollars and seventy-one cents per gallon. That takes effect at midnight. After a number of price increases since the […]
Since sounding an alarm several weeks ago that Guatemalan farmers have been encroaching on land surrounding Otoxha Village in the Toledo District, the Belize Defense Force has been deployed to the area. But tonight, there is information that illegal activities continue to take place within the Columbia Forest Reserve at the hands of Guatemalan poachers. […]
A seat at the table is what the Belize Progressive Party has been clamoring for, in respect of the upcoming, countrywide re-registration exercise. That call has been heeded by the Elections and Boundaries Department which has since included the B.P.P. in all meetings related to the pending process. This morning during a press brief, Paco […]
The Court of Appeal today heard an appeal brought by Belize International Services Limited against the government. This follows a win by the government in October 2016, three years after the June 2013 compulsory acquisition of the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize and the International Business Companies Registry. At the time, the Supreme Court […]
From the Court of Appeal to the Magistrate’s Court…more charges were brought today against three Mexican nationals who are already facing charges for theft of credit cards from the Atlantic Bank. The trio is made up of thirty-one-year-old Lionel Rodriguez, twenty-six-year-old Belen Hernandez and twenty-one-year-old Joscan Jafet Hernandez. The couple appeared once again before Chief […]
The Albert Division convention took place on Sunday. Just under a thousand voters made it to the Anglican Catheral College compound to cast their vote for Paul Thompson or Valerie Woods. Both senators ran energized campaigns that sometimes turned contentious and on Sunday, the two sides went after every vote. At some point during the day, voting […]
A small plywood house was destroyed by fire over the weekend in Belize City. Five persons occupy the house but no one was inside when the fire broke. Family members were socializing in the yard on Saturday when Calbert Estrada saw smoke coming from inside his house. The Fire Department responded quickly, but the fire […]
Guatemala was hit by a tremor early this morning, two weeks after the eruption of Volcan de Fuego. The epicentre of the quake was registered near the Pacific Coast less than twelve miles from Escuintla, an area at the Fuego volcano’s base that was most affected from the eruptions of gas and ash that began […]
The police department is investigating a collision on Sunday night in Bella Vista Village involving a Wingle pickup truck which was assigned to officers in that jurisdiction. The vehicle was rear-ended by a motorist who has since been identified as Asuncion Rush. There were five officers inside the mobile at the time of the accident […]
Belmopan police are investigating a shooting incident over the weekend during which a vehicle was damaged after being struck by multiple bullets. According to thirty-four-year-old James Wagner he was hanging out in the May Garden neighborhood when he got into a misunderstanding with a group of men. They left and returned sometime later and sprayed […]
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