Before noon today, the police raided the gated-house of the notorious Brian Brown off Faber’s Road Extension. It is the third such operation to be carried out at the residence. This morning, the squad of police officers arrived at the scene in four vehicles and in full gears, before calling on backup. In the mayhem […]
As you heard, relatives and friends say that Brown was shot to the abdomen, but Deputy Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, says that he was never injured by lethal or rubber bullets and was in fact taken to the hospital for treatment for scratches to his hands. Williams, however, confirms that the minor, Rene Ayuso, […]
There has been an explosion of gun violence in the Port Loyola area of late. Ongoing conflict between rival gangs has ended in shootings and two murders, including the horrible slaying of three-year-old Etana Bennett. As tensions grow and the risk to life escalates, the police have moved into the area to suppress further gang […]
The family of Jamie and Anthony Archer continue to grieve the tragic deaths of the two brothers. The siblings were heading to Punta Gorda when their car ran off the road and flipped several times causing their death. Two other persons were travelling in the vehicle; they survived and remain in the Southern Regional Hospital […]
Investigators believe that thirty-three-year-old Reainard Randey Ferguson killed Samuel Cosme. He is accused of fatally stabbing Cosme whose body was found on a dirt road off the Philip Goldson Highway near the Haulover Bridge early on Monday morning. The forty-three-year-old Belize City resident was stabbed to the chest, abdomen, back, and hand. Initially, a woman […]
Businessman Michael Modiri and tour operator Bradley Paumen have been going at it inside and outside the courts. This morning, Modiri won yet another legal round before Supreme Court Justice Shona Griffith. In 2016, the Justice ordered Paumen to pay Modiri a total of three hundred thousand dollars for damages and trespassing. The feud began […]
An application for judicial review filed by Attorney Godwin Haylock for Haylock Bus Service Limited was rejected today by Justice Shona Griffith. Haylock Bus Service claims that the Belize City Council ‘usurped the law’ after it reportedly granted another bus company road service permit to transport people from the Pound Yard Bridge to Belama in […]
A Belizean, believed to have links to the Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested on Wednesday night across the border in Mexico. Online reports say that Dioney Rolando, who goes by the alias ‘El Nene,’ was arrested after a high-speed chase with authorities ended at the Chactemal Bridge around ten o’clock. Rolando was along with four other […]
Twenty-six-year-old Eric Tillett narrowly escaped grave injury on Tuesday night when a gunman pounced on him while heading home on Gill Street. According to police, Tillett and his girlfriend were riding a motorcycle when they were ambushed by a lone gunman. A single shot was fired in their direction, hitting Tillett in the right foot. […]
A chopping incident in downtown Belize City on Tuesday afternoon has resulted in cabdriver Gerald Lewis receiving multiple injuries to the body. The incident, however, was not reported to police immediately. It was not until this afternoon that the victim visited the police station on Queen Street to file a complaint against his attacker. Police […]
The Belize Police Department, through its Community Policing Unit, is teaching south side residents how to sew. Yes, you heard it right – the police partnered up with the community to teach sewing skills to about ten participants and it is all being led by a cop himself. ACP Robert Mariano has pulled out his […]
The Ministry of Health says that it should know by the end of this week whether the Karl Huesner Memorial Hospital and La Loma Luz Hospital have accepted the new terms of negotiations for a hemo-dialysis programme. Over one point seven million dollars are used every year to help about thirty patients with renal failure. […]
Once the Ministry of Health finalizes the facilities which will offer the hemo-dialysis services, the next step is to determine who gets on the list. C.E.O. Ramon Figueroa was ask about the selection process considering that there are many persons who are in dire need of dialysis but cannot afford it. He says that they […]
A Belizean American family is working along with the Belize City council to bring relief to hundreds of children in the south side. Brenda August-Leonard, through a Florida-based organization has contributed clothes, food, school supplies to needy children from Saint Martin’s and Port Loyola. The group is also assisting women whose children have been affected […]
Earlier this week, we reported on a common drug that is being voluntarily recalled because the drug contains a chemical that may expose patients to cancer risk. The drug valsartan is used to control hypertension and to help prevent heart failure, but it’s a contaminant that was included in the manufacturing process that’s poses the […]
The Department of Youth Services has a six-week cosmetology training taking place at the Yabra Community Center. The training will see the ladies get a level one certificate which they can use to generate employment opportunities. The programme is being funded by the Youth and Community Transformation Project. Today, we spoke with PR Officer Renata […]
We’ve seen the pleas regularly online. We’ve even seen few on this station, families of ill persons begging strangers to donate blood. There is one way to prevent you and your family from being in that scenario and that’s by becoming a voluntary blood donor. Tonight in Healthy Living, we find out more about making […]
