A rash of murders has the community on edge in Belmopan. We start with a double murder in the San Martin area of Belmopan on Saturday morning. Two cousins, both minors, were shot following a squabble with two other minors, one of them merely thirteen-years-old. The shooters lived in the same neighbourhood as their victims […]
The Choc family also of San Martin area in Belmopan, though hoping for the best, had their worst fears confirmed on Saturday. The body of nineteen-year-old Adamir Choc was found off the road of Never Delay. While there is closure, there are still lingering questions as to how the young woman was killed. Her body […]
There are two more arrests in connection with a drug bust that yielded police over one thousand three hundred kilos of cocaine. Thirty-six-year-old Terencio Mejia Cruz and fifty-three-year-old Jacobo Yovany Mejia Garcia were charged today with conspiracy to abet to import a controlled drug. It is suspected that both Honduran nationals are tied to the […]
Armed robbers were on a rampage targeting business establishments in Trinidad Village, Orange Walk on Friday night. The group of at least five men first hit Primavera Bar, holding patrons and employees at gunpoint. In a short time, they carried out their crime and moved on to a second bar, Sports Bar Los Amigos. But […]
Today, police say there is still no solid lead that explains why thirteen-year-old Christopher Chi was killed, but investigators have reason to believe it may be drug related. So far, they have charged a sixteen-year- old minor for the crime. Chi, a resident of Yo Creek Village in the Orange Walk District, had vanished on […]
The National Trade Union Congress has weighed in on the loss of life at the Civic Center. Two workers plunged to their death from a scaffold inside the facility where they were working on the installation of insulation. The two, Orlington Stuart and Roque Jimenez, were not wearing any harness on Friday. Four others were […]
The N.T.U.C.B. calls for a full unbiased investigation by the Police Department and that a further inquiry be coordinated by the Belize Infrastructure Limited. President Marvin Mora says that the union is not casting any aspersions at this time, but says that the N.T.U.C.B. has been pushing for passage of the Occupational Safety and Health […]
The People’s United Party says that the fatal tragedy at the Civic Center on Friday was unnecessary. Like the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, the P.U.P. believes that this latest tragedy brings to the fore the critical need for the Occupational Safety and Health Bill. The bill was first tabled in 2014, but has […]
The double murder of the teenage cousins in Belmopan, the gruesome discovery of the body of a young woman in Cotton Tree Village and the brutal killing of a male teenager in Orange Walk sent shockwaves throughout the country. Concerns and calls for a more efficient crime-fighting strategy is growing. Leader of the Opposition, John […]
According to Briceño, the approach to effectively fight crime and prosecute criminals is multi-faceted. Not only does the prosecution needs a solid case but also strong evidence. In the case of murders, evidence such as fingerprints would be lifted or DNA samples collected to link the crime to the main suspect. A DNA forensic lab […]
Deputy Director of the Belize Tax Service Department forty-six-year-old Reynaldo Verde remains locked up in the U.S.A. after he was nabbed by the feds for allegations of extortion and attempted extortion. Verde was detained by U.S. authorities on Saturday, September seventh while he was making his way through the States to Belize, after attending a […]
The government approved an eleven-million-dollar municipal paper for the Belize City Council in August, today, CitCo and Heritage Bank Limited officially signed an agreement for the floating of the bond. With the bank as the fiscal agent, it gives investors, mainly corporate citizens, additional security on their investment in municipal bonds. The monies invested will […]
Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner says that the bond will be officially launched with its prospectus by the end of September. But will the bond reflect increased pressures on the city’s taxpayers? Steve Duncan of Heritage Bank says that there is a mechanism in place to keep the council compliant. In addition to that, Mayor […]
With assistance from Hand in Hand Ministries, the Eglah’s Training Center for Women and Families, has added new space to accommodate more persons and expand its range of services. The Centre is located on Raccoon Street, Belize City. It provides programmes in literacy to persons from all walks of life no matter their gender or […]
A thirty-year-old man is free tonight after a serious charge of unlawful sexual intercourse was dismissed against him in the Supreme Court this morning. Daniel Rios was accused by a child, only nine years at the time. He appeared in the courtroom of Justice Colin Williams where the crown counsel of the D.P.P. office, entered […]
The Department of Environment was in Orange Walk today monitoring the situation at the New River. The installation of aerators and the brief rains over the weekend have caused an improvement of the river. The students at La Inmaculada School are back in their classrooms and the stench is dissipating. But while that is good […]
The body of twenty-year-old Denis Enrique Lux Matus was fished out of the river in western Belize this morning. Lux Matus is from the border town of Melchor de Mencos. He went missing on Saturday and on Sunday his family posted on social media, that they were concerned and looking for him. According to the […]
More than one hundred and fifty businesses participated in the two-day Expo Marketplace hosted by the Belize Chamber of Commerce at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. The event is the largest business expo, where merchants and local entrepreneurs showcase their goods and services. For many upcoming entrepreneurs, it was the ideal platform to effectively measure […]
Representatives from Carnival Cruise Lines arrived in Belize today for a two-day recruitment exercise beginning on Tuesday at nine a.m. at the Radisson Fort George in Belize City. Manager of Live Music Direction for the cruise company, Brett Hedrick says that they have had a number of Belizeans who have worked with the company as […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in sports….]
