It’s a big night of news from murders in the city and the south to a courtroom in Utah, U.S.A. for a high profile case of fraud which extends to Belize. We begin with the bloodiest weekend since the start of the year. A total of four persons were murdered in the past seventy-two hours, […]
The second murder victim in the city is well-known businessman, Ernesto Williams. Williams was executed early on Friday night as he headed to his vehicle which was parked on Orange Street. But was the owner of Sky Deck a marked man? He had been advised to take security measures because of a double murder that […]
There is another shooting under investigation by the police. The victim of that incident was Brian Harris who was shot multiple times in mid-December in the Farmers Site area of Hattieville. He was found haemorrhaging by a resident in the village and taken to the hospital. For weeks, he was in and out of the […]
The airspaces above parts of southern Belize, Guatemala and Mexico were busy with illegal flight activity over the weekend where suspected drug planes are said to have landed. In the area of Payne’s Creek, a remote location in the Toledo District, the burnt vestiges of a twin-engine aircraft were discovered near a crude runway that […]
There are other reports of drug plane landings close to the northern and western borders. A soldier was killed and three persons injured in a shoot-out involving Mexican law enforcement and the drug traffickers when a suspected drug landed on the stretch of highway on Los Divorciados Chunhubub near Bacalar early this morning. After the […]
Accused fraudster Lev Dermen who owned a chain of gas stations under the name Noil Energy in Los Angeles, is headed to trial. “Noil” is “lion” spelled backward and it is one of several examples of Dermen’s affinity for the big cat. Other businesses of his have had the word “lion” in them as well. […]
There were two murders in southern Belize. A Punta Gorda resident was to appear in court in Dangriga today, but his life was cut short on Sunday night. Twenty-three year old Denroy Nicholas exited his mother’s house to go to his room in the same yard, when he was shot to the chest and died […]
The usually popular Hide & Seek in the Bushes Bar and Chill Spot is a recreational establishment but three nights ago it became the scene of a murder. Businessman, father of two, and well-known Dangriga resident Darrel Bermudez Laurie was gunned down inside his business on Friday evening. Bermudez-Laurie once lived in the U.S.A., but […]
There was another incident of gun violence in the city on Friday night and fortunately the victim survived the attempt made on his life. Shaquille Perrera, a resident of Ramsey Street, was targeted in a drive-by shooting. As the twenty-four-year-old was walking home, he was shot at by a person from inside a vehicle that […]
Twenty-five-year-old Omar Ibanez was busted on Saturday night with a cache of weapons and ammunition. San Ignacio police at a checkpoint near Red Creek they stopped Ibanez who was driving n a green Toyota Corolla car. The Cotton Tree Village resident was told to exit the vehicle as investigators began searching every inch of it. […]
Located on mile two and a half on the Philip Goldson Highway, E.R. Construction was targeted by a pair of armed thieves on Friday morning. Investigators are reviewing surveillance which reportedly shows the culprits escaping with an undisclosed amount of money. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero says the culprits, who escaped in a vehicle, are also […]
Investigators believe that Shane Bennett is the man who attempted to murder thirty-seven-year-old Anthony Parks on the morning of January twenty-second. Parks, who remains in a critical but stable condition, was shot multiple times while in Independence, Stann Creek. He was with his common-law wife, sitting on his verandah when he heard someone call out […]
Police in Orange Walk Town are investigating the mysterious death of a two-month-old baby boy. Adriel Augustine died on Saturday afternoon, less than a day after being vaccinated at the Northern Regional Hospital. The mother, Melissa Castillo of San Estevan Village, told police that the baby was vaccinated on Friday. Soon after, baby Adriel developed […]
Health officials in Mexico and Colombia are investigating their first cases of the deadly coronavirus spreading from China. Here in Belize, authorities are closely monitoring and the Ministry of Health has activated the National Surveillance Team to keep an eye on the new strain of coronavirus. Last week, the team, headed by the Director of […]
A house was destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon. The fire broke out at around two o’clock at a house located on the Cerro Road in Punta Gorda and owned by Angel Meras. The wooden structure was completely engulfed and destroyed in a matter of minutes. While two persons were inside the house at the […]
The infamous Joseph Budna is back in the news. He escaped into Belize from Guatemala where he was serving a twenty-five-year sentence for kidnapping and extortion. He managed to successfully escape in 2019, but according to Budna, not even the Guatemalans harassed him as much as he is alleging that officers of the Belize Police Department […]
Budna says that he is attempting to make a formal complaint with the Professional Standards Branch to have the matter addressed. Joseph Budna, Claims Police Harassment “If you are going to apply this law, apply it across the board to everybody; stop targeting me. But this wasn’t the main thing. The main thing is […]
The Government of Belize signed a ten-million dollar agreement with the I.D.B. this morning. At the signing, the I.D.B. Country Representative and PM Dean Barrow spoke about the educational quality improvement programme two which, aside from quality improvement, will encompass a new component on innovation on science and technology, arts, engineering and other mathematics. It’s […]
Lakers and basketball superstar Kobe Bryant is dead. The NBA MVP, his thirteen-year-old daughter, six friends and the pilot were all killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. The helicopter carrying the nine persons is reported to have encountered heavy fog when it crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas in California, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
