The most recent suspected drug plane landing was in southern Belize. Previous landings were occurring frequently up north where the narco-traffickers were generally outsmarting police in their modus operandi. The plane that landed overnight is a Centurion single engine, similar to one that was found in Tres Leguas community in Orange Walk with one thousand […]
There have been two more murder victims this week, which brings the murder count so far in 2018 to one hundred and forty-two. That is dead even with the total number for the entire 2017 and there is still ten more days to go. This morning, sanitation workers made a gruesome discovery. In a drain […]
Eleven persons who occupied a two storey building on Cleghorn Street, Belize City, are left to pick up the pieces just before the Christmas. This morning one of the tenants on the upper flat set a mattress on fire in an attempt to take his life. Though he barricaded himself inside the apartment as the […]
Station Manager Orin Smith provided details of the firefighting effort to extinguish the blaze, however, he was not able to confirm the suggestion that the tenant who started the fire was attempting to take his own life in the process. Orin Smith, Station Officer, National Fire Service “Earlier today, Friday, December 21st, 2018, at […]
Police Constable Modesto Cucul lost his life on Thursday morning when he was ambushed by a pair of gunmen who opened fire on him and his common-law while they were en route to Crique Jute. He’s the second murder victim for this week. The thirty-five-year-old officer, who was stationed in Belmopan, was returning to his […]
Its four days until Christmas and people are busy with their preparations for their own version of a Christmas dinner. Downtown Belize City was extra busy today with shoppers from across the country, taking advantage of the deals at the popular stores. Christmas is a time for family reunions, bonding, renewing friendships, exchanging gifts and […]
Golden Tree, the newly renovated hotel here on Coney Drive, is back in business. Earlier this week, the Belize Tourism Board closed it down for infractions to hotel regulations contained in the Hotel and Tourists Accommodation Act. Golden Tree reportedly had not been making the mandatory hotel tax payments to the B.T.B. and after several […]
The Belize National Teachers Union is calling some school managements the “Grinch who stole Christmas.” The powerful union fired off a press statement this evening in which it expresses its utter discontent with the decision by certain school managements to dock the salaries of the teachers who participated in a demonstration on November seventh. In […]
There is good news for motorists tonight. The price per gallon of regular fuel is expected to decrease at midnight tonight. The price will go down by thirty-five cents, from nine dollars and seventy-six cents to nine dollars and thirty-one cents. Kerosene will also see a reduction, falling by eighty-one cents per one hundred pound […]
The family of missing man Iverson Neal says that, contrary to police reports, they fear he is dead. Today family members told the media that they don’t believe the twenty-three-year-old is in hiding over a conflict because there is no feud within the family. The family alleges that the girlfriend knows more than she is […]
As Christmas Day approaches, the family of Anisha Young grows more resolute in locating her. The young woman has been missing for almost two weeks now and there has been no contact or information from her. Young left a night club in a taxi with her boyfriend and disappeared in thin air. While it is […]
The Christmas holiday in Belize is synonymous with family get-togethers. And at the heart of the celebrations are the delicacies like the ham, Christmas cakes and the rum popo. To lead up to the holidays we want to share with you one of the Belizean traditions during this season. Rum Popo is known to many […]
On Tuesday, Guatemala announced that they have withdrawn diplomatic immunity from eleven officials who have investigated alleged corruption, including cases involving the son and brother of President Jimmy Morales. Morales ordered his Foreign Affairs Ministry not to renew the visas and diplomatic clearances of the eleven investigators assigned to the International Commission Against Impunity in […]
President Morales is accusing the CICIG of violating the presumption of innocence of those it has investigated. By refusing to renew its mandate earlier this year, the president effectively gave CICIG until the end of its current term in September 2019 to wind down operations and leave the country. His government later declared Commission Chief […]
The Christmas season for the family of Marjorie Carter just got a lot better. This morning, the Belize City resident cheerfully picked up ten thousand dollars worth of prizes from the Courts store where she has been shopping for some time. Carter says she will assist her family with some of the goodies won at […]
This morning, Welcome Resource Center held its annual Christmas party for its many guests. The partygoers included the homeless, the mentally ill, as well as the elderly. This year, the center is going an extra mile and will be treating its clients to a full meal on Christmas Day, including the traditional turkey dinner. Today, […]
Kendis Gibson is one of the Belizeans who have moved up the ranks in U.S. networks. This morning, the forty-year-old announced to his viewers that he is leaving ABC World News Now as its anchor. Gibson’s final show, after three long years of sleepless nights, included a segment filmed at Naia in Placencia. Gibson also […]
