The Orange Walk community is reeling from the murder of twenty-year-old Dwayne Avila-Cummings. The young UB student and promising basketball player was executed in the wee hours of Sunday. He had just left the Orange Walk Multipurpose Complex en route to his home at San Lorenzo Housing Site when he was gunned down. His body […]
Dwayne Cummings is the second UB student to be murdered in less than five days. He was a business student at the University of Belize. A statement from UB’s President Professor Clement Sankat reads, quote, Dwayne was a well-loved, out-going and an exceptional student-athlete at the University of Belize. He played basketball for the UB […]
Area Representative for Orange Walk East and Minister of State Responsible for National Security, Elodio Aragon Jr., says that he was angered to see a positive and promising star murdered for no apparent reason. According to Minister Aragon, the Belize Police Department is doing everything possible to identify and bring those responsible to justice. […]
According to reports, residents of the area where Cummings’ body was found say that they saw a suspicious vehicle in the area after gunshots were heard. Minister Aragon is appealing to persons with information to come forward and assist police with their investigation. Elodio Aragon Jr., Minister of State Responsible for National Security “A […]
The Belize Police Department is leaving no stones unturned in an effort to solve the murder of nineteen-year-old Masaki Yanai. The UB architecture student and his father, restaurateur Takayuki Yanai were both gunned down on Thursday night outside of the family home on Park Avenue in Buttonwood Bay. It is believed that three men traveling […]
A fatal road traffic accident claimed the life of a man who was ran over on the Southern Highway in the early hours of Sunday morning. Alvin Abad Paz was reportedly sitting on the edge of the road just outside of San Juan Village when a motorist knocked him down. Bad enough that Paz would […]
Victor Martinez, a resident of West Canal, is lucky to have escaped serious injury over the weekend when he was attacked by a lone gunman as he was entering his yard. The twenty-four-year-old was shot once in the palm of the right hand during an altercation with someone who wanted him dead. Police have ruled […]
There was an exchange of gunfire between officers responding to the scene of a burglary and thieves fleeing from the Mayflower Street area on Sunday night. Residents report hearing a barrage of gunshots shortly after ten o’clock and when they peered out of their windows they saw a team of policemen giving chase to a […]
Twenty-six-year-old Darren Pugh was busted over the weekend in his hometown of Orange Walk with a serious stash of marijuana hidden at his residence. According to police, a joint intelligence operation led them to Pugh’s home where a raid was conducted. During the search officers unearthed two thousand, six hundred and thirty-seven grams of suspected […]
What are two high-powered assault rifles and a cache of ammunition doing on the Benque side of the Belize/Guatemala border? A pair of Belizeans and a Guatemalan national were found in possession of those weapons on Sunday morning as they partied hard and acted disorderly outside of a nightclub in the border town. When police […]
There were two other firearms taken off the streets of Benque Viejo on Sunday morning when police carried out a search near the bank of the Mopan River. A comb of the area yielded a nine millimeter Bersa pistol, three nine millimeter magazines and four live nine millimeter Luger Brand rounds. They also discovered a […]
There is a new tourism development project on Ambergris Caye to be constructed within a marine reserve. Last week, Margaritaville Holdings, a global lifestyle brand announced its mega multimillion-dollar project on the north end of the island. While the opening is scheduled for 2020, Margaritaville Resort Belize is described as a condo resort located on the unspoiled northern […]
Today, a cheque of sixty thousand dollars was handed over to the government of Belize from the Republic of China (Taiwan) to facilitate one of two exchange investment missions between both countries to be launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Investment Trade and Commerce. The objectives are to increase foreign direct investment in priority […]
Today marks exactly three months since Ambassador Remus Li-Kuo Chen officially took up mission in Belize. He says that the initiative is linking potential Taiwanese investors with Belizean businesses. And it is the hope that by the end of the second mission later this year, solid business relationships would have been formed between investment opportunities […]
Back to back and in recent times, shocking Ponzi schemes and investment scandals were exposed in multimillion dollar projects in Belize. From a cursory view, the projects seemed legit, but would later turn out to be strategy used by scammers to rob investors of millions of dollars. So we asked Minister Panton what mechanisms have […]
The Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL) which is based in Washington D.C. is in Belize for a week of peace building activities to commemorate Peace Education Week. Among the projects they are undertaking is the peace education pilot programme at the Ephesus SDA Primary School in Belize City. The programme is a […]
A four-day national training in coastal zone and sea level rise opened today in Belize City. The workshop aims to improve Belize’s technical capacity and preparedness in climate change. The sessions are being facilitated by a technical expert from Cuba and are being implemented through a project of the National Climate Change Office. Twenty technical […]
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