Police have cracked the murder of Dangriga resident, Andrew Flores who was killed on the night of September tenth. Flores’ brother-in-law, Whitfield Fisher Junior was captured over the weekend and this afternoon, he was arraigned in the Magistrate Court for the charge of murder. Fisher Junior lived in the same apartment on Kelly Street as […]
A Belize City resident was killed on impact this afternoon in the heavily trafficked area of mile two on the Philip Goldson Highway. Oliver Peters had just left a gas station and was cycling away when he was run over by a passenger bus. Peters was flung off the cycle and landed on the pavement. […]
Twenty-four-year-old Raheem Gordon has narrowly escaped a second attempt on his life. The Belize City resident was inside a vehicle on Causarina Street when he came under attack. Two gunmen opened fire and while Gordon ran for his life, he was hit on the head and arm. In 2018, he was at home when he […]
Is the curve flattening in the COVID-19 cases? On Friday, the number of coronavirus patients in Belize went up by thirty-six, with a majority of those cases, twenty-three to be exact, confirmed in the Belize District. Over the weekend, the number of cases increased by forty-five over the two days, twenty-three on Saturday and twenty-two […]
A total of four hundred and ninety-two persons have also recovered from COVID-19. The recent statistics show that between Saturday and Sunday, fifty-four and thirty-four patients have recovered from the virus respectively. DHS Manzanero says that the increasing numbers in this area were anticipated and that the definition of a recovered case has also changed. […]
So while Doctor Manzanero says the positive cases are declining, government is looking at options. There are reports of several vaccines for the novel coronavirus in circulation, and today the Director of Health Services confirmed with News Five that the Government has signed off on a letter of intent that was sent by the Ministry […]
For days, there have been reports that the B.T.L.’s credit card has been misused by B.T.L. Chairman Nestor Vasquez who has been at the company since it was taken over by the government. A figure of four hundred thousand dollars has been thrown around. Vasquez says it is merely an allegation at election time. News […]
On the morning of September fourth, more than thirty vendors from Belmopan and surrounding communities were up in arms because they were removed from the proposed site of the Belmopan Market Plaza, which sits on the south ring road and the Bliss Parade in the capital. The vendors complained bitterly that current market arrangements are […]
Ten days ago we reported on a road traffic accident in the north that left Police Corporal Anibal Mena critical in the hospital. Mena suffered massive head injuries when his motorcycle met in an accident with a pickup truck. Tonight we report that Mena passed away on Saturday while receiving treatment in the hospital. ACP […]
A Belize City shop owner was stabbed in the wee hours of this morning while he was socializing with four others. Police say that sixty-year-old Alfonso Ayuso was hanging out and drinking with persons he knew when two of the men suddenly turned on him to rob him. While they didn’t manage to rob the […]
Domestic abuse is well-known to occur rampantly, though not often these cases are captured on video. But over the weekend, a disturbing video surfaced on social media of a woman being beaten by a man. The brutality occurred near the Pound Yard Bridge in Belize City as passersby watched but did nothing to assist the […]
It is expected that the General Elections will be held in the first week in November. In fact, the Prime Minister’s son, Shyne Barrow who is running in the Mesopotamia divisions claims it will be on Wednesday, November fourth. If so, this would mean that the last day to get on the voter’s list to […]
Forming part of that list of newly registered applicants are the dozens of Indian students who registered last week at the Elections and Boundaries office for Belize Rural in Ladyville. They were taken to register by U.D.P. operatives. One U.D.P. operative was holding their passports as they waited in line. The opposition’s candidate, Dolores Balderamos […]
Still on the matter of impending elections, P.U.P. Leader John Briceño says that this year’s General Election is probably the most important election since 1979. In November, the U.D.P. will either win a historic fourth consecutive term or the P.U.P. will form the government under Briceño. But with the COVID-19 pandemic still lingering and the […]
Close to one thousand five hundred positive COVID-19 cases have been recorded. The Orange Walk District has the highest number with five hundred and eleven cases. Orange Walk is the hometown of Opposition Leader John Briceño and he was also asked if he believes that the Orange Walk District should be locked off from the […]
Are COVID-19 positive patients in rural communities in Orange Walk breaking their quarantine? That’s what officials are saying tonight. Chairman of San Pablo Javier Sabido says that they have received numerous reports that the patients are leaving their homes to go in public and even travel on public transportation, But, according to Sabido – the […]
The COVID 19 pandemic has left thousands jobless, without income and in desperate need of assistance. Latest figures show that sixty-two thousand three hundred and sixty-three persons applied to benefit from phase two of the COVID-19 Unemployment Relief Programme. The programme is for persons who have lost their jobs and have no money coming in […]
Former Prime Minister Said Musa had decided to step aside and resign from electoral politics. He has been recovering from a mild stroke. Musa made his announcement last week. P.U.P.’s Chairman Henry Charles Usher will take up the mantle for the P.U.P. in the Fort George Division which has been a stronghold for the party […]
Police say that Humana People to People store in Independence Village in the south was robbed on Saturday. The manager reported to police that around one-thirty that afternoon, two men entered the store and held them up at gunpoint. Here’s more from ACP Joseph Myvett. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Police […]
Two persons were arrested over stolen computers in Orange Walk Town. Police say that a twenty-two-year-old and a sixteen-year-old were arrested and charged in connection with the computers that were stolen from a primary school. The principal went to the school on the morning of September ninth and around nine-thirty, he discovered that the school […]
Where is fifty-six-year-old Florita Harris? On Saturday, Emmett Usher reported to police that Harris was last seen on September ninth at the upper flat of this building on Levi Slusher Street in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. According to Usher, he left for work around seven o’clock that morning and when he […]
