A man was murdered down in a brazen late evening shooting today in Hattieville Village, Belize District. Forty-seven-year-old Kevin Hyde was sitting at a bus shed along the highway in the village when two men pounced on him, one of which released a barrage of bullets. Hyde, a security officer at the Belize City Council, […]
The unexplained death of a nine-year-old girl was baffling police authorities, but late this evening, it was confirmed that the Danielle Hall was killed by manual strangulation. The child was found dead by her father inside their home in the village of Unitedville in the Cayo District. The child’s father was called to the house […]
A Salvadoran farm hand who worked at the Marie Sharp farms in southern Belize was hacked to death on the eve of his birthday. The forty-five year old, according to all accounts, was well-liked in the village of Hope Creek where he has been living since he made Belize his home. Kelvin Guerrero Hernandez was […]
Gunshots rang out in the vicinity of the Inspiration Center late on Sunday night and when the shooting subsided forty-four-year-old Brindel Munnings was suffering from multiple injuries to the body. According to investigators, Munnings had a previous misunderstanding with someone who may have waylaid him as he made his way through an alley that adjoins […]
Around eight o’clock, a fire broke inside an elevated wooden house in Lord’s Bank Village on Sunday night. The home was occupied by an elderly person who escaped unhurt. The blaze spread quickly through the building, which could not be saved and by the time fire-fighters arrived on the scene, the building was gutted. Police […]
At midnight on Tuesday August twentieth, the pump prices of regular gasoline and diesel will see a decrease. The prices for regular gasoline will decrease by forty three cents from ten dollars and fifty five cents to ten dollars and twelve cents. Diesel will dip a mere four cents and will sell at ten dollars and […]
Oliver Peters was acquitted of the murder of his uncle on June eleventh, after spending almost five and a half years on remand at the Belize Central Prison. Tonight, he is listed in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a stabbing incident on Saturday night. It is not clear what precipitated the […]
A retreat outing for an officer almost ended fatally when he was attacked and stabbed in the face and injured on the hand by another co-worker. There is no motive known for the latest attack for which a local boat captain is charged with wounding a law enforcement officer of the Belize Port Authority. As […]
A Scotland Half-moon resident is behind bars following his arraignment for a huge amount of marijuana. He is forty-two-year-old Joel Sutherland, a construction worker from rural Belize District. Sutherland, who was represented in court by attorney Kathleen Lewis, appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. He was read a single charge of possession of a […]
Government’s fifty million U.S.-dollar loan from Taiwan to upgrade the Sarteneja Road will be administered through a Taiwanese company in Guatemala. It’s an interesting bit of information revealed during Friday’s house meeting. Overseas Engineering and Construction Company will act as the special purpose vehicle to oversee the project, presumably in the manner in which Belize […]
The Port of Belize Limited is looking to expand its operations and its principals have put together a presentation to be made before Cabinet’s investment subcommittee in the days ahead. But that did not stop Cayo South Area Representative Julius Espat from raising the issue in the House of Representatives on Friday. In the context […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow, in responding to Espat, admits that while Waterloo has written to government informing of its intention to expand its docking facilities at the Port of Belize, he is not directly involved in any negotiations. PM Barrow says that C.E.O. Audrey Wallace responded on his behalf to inform Waterloo that Cabinet’s investment […]
The Belize City Council, led by Mayor Bernard Wagner, has gotten government’s approval for a municipal paper; a means of short-term financing that is useful in improving CitCo’s cash management system. The municipal paper will provide the cash-strapped council with an opportunity to improve its cost structure by considerably lowering its financing costs. This follows […]
Friday’s house meeting wasn’t without its share of banter and potshots. While there were a number of heated exchanges across the floor, the funniest tit-for-tat came by way of Caribbean Shores Area Rep Kareem Musa and PM Barrow. Musa mocked the prime minister about his age and PM Barrow wasted no time in responding to […]
The People’s United Party is condemning the brutal murder of an elderly woman in what should have been the safety of her own home in Sandhill last week Tuesday. Ofelia Hernandez Cruz was beaten to her head with a hammer. The P.U.P. notes that two other elderly persons have also been murdered in the Cayo […]
As the new school year approaches, representatives of the Belize National Teachers Union met with Chief Education Officer, Doctor Carol Babb, and M.O.E. Crown Counsel, Delvit Samuels, regarding the application for the renewal of full licenses. At the end of the meeting, it was agreed that all teachers should apply for the renewal of their […]
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