Earlier this week, a Gulfstream jet was found damaged and abandoned near the Blue Creek community at a feeder road. It had all the seats inside so the thinking was that it transported a drug king pin but not the drugs. Well today, Mexican newspapers are reporting the find of a significant amount of parcels […]
There is a development in the case of a U.S. national captured at a Ladyville apartment on September nineteenth. The police apprehended sixty-year-old Ladd Duane Ottofy who was residing at the apartment complex owned by former U.D.P. senator Juliet Thimbriel. The Kentucky man was indicted in March on four counts of first-degree sexual abuse, one […]
Thirty-six-year-old Tomas Alexander Paises has been deported to his country of origin. Paises was arrested for being a member of the MS-thirteen gang and deported to El Salvador. He was arrested by the Anti-Gang Task Force and Interpol officers in Belize last month but was handed over to Salvadoran and Guatemalan Interpol representatives at the […]
The case against William “Danny” Mason and four accused men continues to languish in the Belmopan Supreme Court. A statement from a witness, a U.S. Embassy employee, for Mason has not yet been secured because Tim Reid is no longer in Belize and arranging his testimony has met hurdles. Mason and accomplices are accused with […]
A decision will be handed down this Friday afternoon in a claim brought by former city administrator Candace Miller against the Belize City Council for unlawful termination. Attorneys Magali Perdomo for Miller and Anthony Sylvester for the Council made their final submissions before Justice Courtney Abel. The council terminated Miller’s contract back in 2018 on […]
Reynaldo Verde remains locked up in the U.S. on charges of extortion and attempted extortion having been denied bail on Wednesday. His attorney, Tyler Trumbach, says that his client denies all accusations. The F.B.I., however, has amassed damning evidence against Verde who reportedly attempted to use his position as Deputy Director of Belize Tax Services […]
On Wednesday, representatives from three butane companies namely Belize Western Energy Limited, Gas Tomza, and Southern Choice Butane (Zeta Gas) met with Prime Minister Dean Barrow. On the table for discussion was the newly formed National Gas Company which will oversee the LPG industry in Belize. According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, the National Gas […]
On Wednesday morning, the body of Salvadoran national Raul Rivelo was retrieved from the Manatee Lookout area in the Belize River. Rivelo’s friend, Walter Gomez, reported to police that Rivelo was trying to swim across the river when he suddenly went underwater and didn’t resurface. The authorities searched the area didn’t find the body until […]
Forty-two-year-old Belize City resident Eugene Tillett was shot on Wednesday night on Ebony Street. Tillett was reportedly making his way to Central American Boulevard when the gunman appeared and fired a single shot which hit him. Tillett is now in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero tells us more. Sr. […]
There was another shooting on Ebony Street in Belize City. This one happened on Tuesday night where twenty-eight-year-old Linsford Baldwin was targetted. Sometime after eight that night, Baldwin was along with a sibling on a front steps of a house when a man approached them and opened fire. Baldwin was shot in the shoulder and […]
Police say that twenty-two-year-old Aaron Munnings robbed a ninety-year-old man of two thousand dollars. Munnings was arrested and charged with one count of robbery. This charges stems from an incident that happened on Tuesday just outside of the St. John’s Credit Union on Basra Street in Belize City. The elderly man, identified as Lewis Tillett, […]
The day did not start and end well for Arlene Gordon, a resident of Lords Bank, Ladyville. At about seven-thirty, a fire erupted inside her house and spread quickly completely destroying the wooden structure and its contents. Fortunately for Gordon, she was able to safely get out of the house. The cause of the blaze […]
Norris Meighan Senior, four of his sons and another man were found on the vessel ‘Carlita M’ in possession of three hundred and ninety-nine conchs during the closed season. They were busted by Fisheries Officer Nikkeon Gomez on September thirtieth, a day shy from the opening of the conch season. Appearing in court along […]
A pair of siblings from Ladyville and Belize City was before the court today on a single charge of possession of a homemade firearm. Erwin Anthony Lanza and his older brother, Canrun Lanza, appeared before Senior Magistrate, Aretha Ford. Police claim that on Wednesday morning, they executed a search at a house in Lords Bank […]
Agricultural health and food safety in the Caribbean were the focus of discussions today at the series of CARICOM meetings taking place at the Biltmore in Belize City. Today’s session was the thirteenth meeting of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency, CAHFSA. The work of that agency entails […]
The spread of Sargassum has affected numerous countries in the region where tourism is a primary industry. In the margins of the ongoing CARICOM meetings, we got an update on how the beaches of the Caribbean are being impacted by the seaweed that is washing up on the beaches. C.R.F.M’s Executive Director, Milton Haughton, told […]
A surge of migrants from Central America specifically El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, is pushing governments in the region and beyond to re-examine relevant policies. Migrants, including a growing number of women and children, are fleeing the troubled region in record numbers. On average, about two hundred and sixty-five people have left annually in recent […]
U.S.A.-based Hobbs Brewing Company started distribution of twelve ounce cans and kegs from out of Placencia earlier this year. Hobbs’ production in Belize features two super-premium beers called the Wildcat I.P.A. and Hummingbird Belizean Golden Ale. Over the weekend, Hobbs Brewing Company launched its own calendar for 2020, which features twelve Belizean women. According to […]
Recently, the more common news reports about the elderly population in Belize have been about crimes where older persons are victims. It is just one of the vulnerabilities that this population faces. After commemorating the International Day of Older Persons on Tuesday, October first, and the launch of the “Front ah the Line” campaign; we […]
