Four persons were killed in the mayhem of a very violent Tuesday evening. In a span of five hours, two were killed and died on the spot, while two others succumbed hours after they were injured and there is nothing to indicate any connection in the violent spree. The violence started in the crowded downtown […]
Allyson Major was a very close friend of Caribbean Shores Area Representative Kareem Musa and a lifelong friend of former COLA President Giovanni Brackett. Like Major’s immediate family, both men are also reeling from his senseless death. This afternoon, they shared fond memories of the teacher, from personal accounts of having spent time with him. […]
A Belize City vendor was shot and killed on Tuesday evening shortly after the shooting of Allyson Major Junior. Naturalized Belizean Jose Diaz, a clothing vendor, was inside his small shop on Cemetery Road when he was murdered. At this time, police are looking for two persons of interest in connection with this homicide. Police […]
The following story is heart-wrenching. A six-month-old beautiful baby of Belizean parents was left abandoned at a hospital in San Benito Poite, in Guatemala. The parents, from what we gather, are Belizeans Victor Manuel Avilez and Tameka Vargas. Now, the infant was admitted at the hospital as Kyle Manuel Avilez Junior and authorities are looking […]
One of the murders in Tuesday night’s madness that is baffling police involves Ghanaian Emmanuel Ampomah. The fifty-two-year-old cabbie was fatally stabbed inside his taxi by his fare after eight o’clock. He lost consciousness and crashed on Seashore Drive dying instantly. Ampomah has no family in Belize; he is well known in this area of […]
A feud between rival groups in the area of Antelope Street Extension has resulted in the stabbing death of nineteen-year-old Nixon Pinto. Sometime around six o’clock on Tuesday evening, Pinto and another man, identified as nineteen-year-old Jovi Hernandez, got into an altercation at the Lord Ridge Cemetery in the vicinity of Western Avenue. Hernandez, a […]
The Mayor of San Ignacio Earl Trapp and his wife were victims on Tuesday night of the violence that is sweeping across the country and spares no one. The Trapp’s were inside their house when armed thieves, who were posing as police officers, targeted them. The mayor’s wife was held at gunpoint when the fake […]
A house was completely destroyed by fire in Roaring Creek today. Shortly after four this evening, a fire broke out inside the house of forty-four-year-old Denise Arnold in the ‘Another World’ area in the village. No one was at home at the time of the blaze and nothing was saved. We’ll have more in Thursday’s […]
Charges of extortion have been dropped against a Special Constable and a police officer attached to the San Pedro Police Formation. An American visitor accused them of shaking him down for three hundred U.S. dollars. Timothy Braun was on the island when he was busted by the officers on the night of June fifteenth, 2017. […]
Police have formally arrested and charged Lynroy Longsworth and Kenosha Beaton for the crime of possession of control drugs with the intent to supply. The duo was busted with many parcels of high-grade weed and more than ten thousand Belize dollars. The anti-drug operation took place on Tuesday morning at a residence around mile-four on […]
Police are moving quickly to defuse a feud between two rival groups in Sandhill Village, Belize District. That feud led to the shooting of Ivan Hyde who was injured while at his home in the village on Tuesday morning. Hyde was shot multiple times and luckily for the victim, the injuries were not life-threatening. He […]
On Saturday morning, thirty-six-year-old Fidel Edilberto Bardalez was found brutally murdered in Alta Vista Village in the Stann Creek District. He had been beaten and chopped to death by a seventeen-year-old minor with whom he was socializing before his demise. Investigators say that the two got into a fight, which resulted in the minor producing […]
Belize City residents are at the mercy of criminals. Following the string of major crimes that occurred on Tuesday evening and the recent murders over the past weeks, the Belize Police Department is revamping its strategy to address the sudden spike in crime. Commander of Operations, ACP Marco Vidal told the media today that the […]
The Y.W.C.A. on Saint Thomas Street, Belize City is a popular place to be at this time of the year. Persons of all ages flock to the venue for the annual summer camps. There are academic programmes, cooking, cosmetology and many more activities. One of the most sought off activity is swimming, in which hundreds […]
“From Maya Grandeur to Modern Glory, Together Let’s Shape the Belizean Story.” Get used to hearing and seeing that line because it is the brand new theme for this year’s September Celebrations. The winning theme was selected from a pool of more than two hundred submissions. In the end, it was Eloy Escalante Senior’s theme […]
The Belize Center for Employment Training is hosting its summer training programme for nail technicians and event planners. A component of the summer programme is a session on labour and employment. Today, we stopped by the session which is being facilitated by a representative of the Ministry of Labour. There, over thirty participants were learning […]
