Fifty-year-old Melvin Locke left his family and home on Sunday night for a routine game of dice in the Backatown area of Dangriga which he is known to frequent. The handyman, who is also called “Pack Bread,’’ didn’t return home alive. Just after midnight, he was executed as he and others were engrossed in a […]
There have been developments in the murder investigation of seventeen-year-old Warren Rudon who was shot and killed in Belize City on Thursday night. The teenager was fatally injured in an armed assault during which he was shot once in the head as he walked along Lovely Lane around seven-thirty p.m. Earlier today, the police department […]
Three Guatemalans escaped from the Belize Central Prison in the early hours of Sunday morning. The men, all charged with illegal entry into the Chiquibul National Park and firearm offences, were on remand when they broke out between one and three-thirty on Sunday morning. Police say they have set up checkup points to try and […]
We’ve been reporting on the growing number of robberies at businesses and residences on the north side of Belize City. Over the weekend, a well-known couple was targeted on Saturday night in a home invasion at the residence of seventy-two-year-old Solangel Arguelles on Baymen Avenue in Belize City. Miss Soli of Florasol and her husband […]
The last re-registration of electors took place in 1997. Another should have followed ten years later, but the law was amended for it to occur fifteen years later, which should have been in 2012. The process has been postponed twice since then, but this morning it got underway countrywide in anticipation of next year’s ICJ […]
A Special Sitting of the Senate is schedule to take place on Thursday. Four resolutions will be tabled including the appointment of members to the Election and Boundaries Commission. Those persons are Phillipa Griffith Bailey, Naima Barrow, Orlando Espat and Magali Marin. They will serve for a period of five years retroactive to May first, […]
There were two unrelated stabbing incidents in the west over the weekend that occurred within minutes of each other and in separate villages along with George Price Highway. Both victims are currently hospitalized in stable condition at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan and police have since detained one of the suspects and are looking […]
Even before the incident in Georgeville, further east in the village of Roaring Creek, a family dispute ended with the multiple stabbing of a forty-five-year-old resident. Just after midnight on Friday, two men assaulted Nelson Twist at his residence in the village; he was badly beaten before the men stabbed him as many as seven […]
Police say a man was grazed to the head by a bullet whilst he was riding his bicycle in Punta Gorda. On Friday night around ten-thirty, Police were called out to Jose Maria Nunez Street where they saw an injured Brighton Jacobs. Jacobs has since refused to cooperate with police, but cops say they want […]
Thirty-two-year-old Sandra Garcia succumbed to injuries sustained in fatal traffic accident that happened on June seventeenth. The driver of the vehicle Neidy Cifuentes died shortly after the accident, while her two passengers, Garcia and her nine-year-old daughter Ziyanda Tzib, were hospitalized. Garcia remained in a critical condition ever since and passed last week Thursday which […]
There was a fire at the Dorothy Menzies Childcare Center on Sunday evening. The blaze gutted the kitchen when forty-one-year-old Leonie Williams, a cook’s assistant working at the facility, reportedly forgot to turn off the stove after preparing supper for the kids. Police responded to the location on Saint Thomas Street shortly after five p.m. […]
Police say there is not much to report on the investigation into missing San Narciso businessman Omero Campos. Campos was kidnapped on June sixteenth in San Victor Village where the family owns a farm. Police say that while the family has not made any ransom payment, it is not known if Campos has been harmed. […]
Police have arrested and charged Bruce Henry in connection with a wild shooting that injured four persons, including a pregnant woman, in Trial Farm, Orange Walk last week Tuesday. Diana Ack was shot several times as she was with her common-law husband Nazario Herrera and friends at their house on San Narciso Street in the […]
The United Democratic Party has released the names of sixty-six candidates who are seeking to become their party’s standard bearers for the thirty-one constituencies in the next general elections. We note that three sitting area representatives will be challenged and in other areas, there are as many as five aspirants. In the city, Prime Minister […]
In the blue corner, Cayo South Area Representative, Julius Espat is no longer a Deputy Party Leader for the People’s United Party. Even though his resignation had been leaked before today, Espat met with Party Leader John Briceño this morning in Belize City where he officially handed in his resignation and it was accepted. Espat, […]
The Solid Waste Management Authority Office in Belmopan is in trouble tonight or more precisely it is closed today. It all started on Thursday when court marshals crow-footed the authority’s property. Their office furniture and three vehicles have been seized because the authority has failed to settle a half-a million dollar lawsuit brought by Vision […]
The Kolbe Foundation started a rehabilitation programme at the Belize Central Prison back in 2006 at the Ashcroft Rehabilitation Centre. To date, some two-thousand plus inmates have completed the course which aims to help convicted prisoners curb drug, alcohol, behavioral and other problems. The inmates also learn about life-skills, conflict resolution, anger management and other […]
At a press conference today, Robert ‘Bobby’ Lopez announced that he intends to file a claim in the courts of Belize to challenge the constitutionality of the Special Agreement signed by Belize and Guatemala. Lopez is heading what he calls the Peace Movement along with familiar faces such at Wil Maheia of the Belize Territorial […]
Much has been said about the re-registering of Guatemalans who have acquired Belizean nationality. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry was the first to address the issue in a letter sent to the Prime Minister. The Chamber objected to the fact that granting nationality to Guatemalans is against the constitution. Since the concern was […]
The Belize City Council has named a new city administrator, following the suspension and subsequent dismissal of Candice Miller on May eighth. Earlier this evening, City Hall confirmed Stephanie Lindo-Garbutt as Miller’s successor. Lindo-Garbutt comes with experience having worked in both the private and public sectors in the area of sustainable project management. In other […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow left the country for Jamaica over the weekend where he is scheduled to attend the Thirty-ninth CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Montego Bay. The conference which begins on July fourth will be hosted by Prime Minister Andrew Holness and will focus primarily on issues relating to the CARICOM Single Market […]
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