Police and B.D.F. continue with a manhunt in search of more than twenty prisoners, who escaped from the Hattieville prison on Monday evening after holding a prison guard for more than five hours in a cell. We’ll have more on the success of the search so far, but tonight we have an explosive confession by […]
Tonight twenty-two prison escapees remain on the run. Five are in police custody and one is dead. The prisoners who have been recaptured are Mark Pelayo who was caught on the Boom Road; Christopher Bradley and George Bednrick who were recaptured on Tuesday on the Coastal Road; Guatemalan national Juan Valentin Garcia who was recaptured […]
On Tuesday, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also warned those who may be harbouring the inmates – pointing out that it is a crime to be assisting them. He also cautioned motorists. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I would like to say that the criminal code makes provision for anyone who aids any prisoner […]
In the hunt for the escaped prisoners, Akeem Tillett was shot and killed on the Coastal Road. The news of his death was confirmed by his sister Shandy Pech. Tillett had been in and out of prison and was serving time for robbery. In a Facebook Live video statement posted on Tuesday, Pech reacts to […]
Shandy Pech also shared with her online viewers that she was disappointed that her brother was a repeat robbery offender. In her live video, she reflected meeting her brother in jail after not seeing each other for many years. And as to circumstances under which he was killed on the Coastal Road, Pech says she […]
Tonight, the family of Marisela Gonzales is speaking out. The twenty-eight-year-old mother of one was killed and her body was found semi-nude at a dumpsite in San Pedro over the weekend. Today, we spoke with Gonzales’ father via phone and he is demanding justice for his daughter. He says he is concerned that her husband […]
And another one of Marisela Gonzales’ family members also took her concerns publicly today. Vigida Plietes was on a live facebook video appealing for help to get her niece’s body and commenting that her case appears to be put on the back burner. Plietes told online viewers that Gonzales’ body appears to be in the […]
And after all that is said and done – police have formally arrested and charged David Gonzales for the crime of murder. Gonzales is accused of shooting his wife and discarding of her body at a dumpsite. Since the murder, multiple reports of domestic violence between the couple have surfaced. The murder is being widely […]
On the campaign trail today we head to Port Loyola; a sprawling constituency of more than four thousand six hundred voters as of August which looks pretty much like the previous number of voters in the last elections. The campaign there is in full swing as three candidates: Gilroy Usher Senior of the P.U.P., Philip […]
Both major political parties and the two smaller parties are fully engaged in campaign activities to get the voters to the polls. Nomination Day is exactly one week from today on October twenty-first, and on November eleventh, voters will decide who will occupy the seat of government. It is a well-established practice that supporters gather […]
Nomination Day leads to Election Day when the usual election processes have been changed to comply with social distancing and the limit of persons who can gather at the same place. According to the new rules regarding Protocols for Polling Stations on Election Day, the voter will enter polling station, show ID and announce his […]
The consumption of alcoholic beverages is strictly prohibited on Election Day and the police department is not taking any chances with public drinking. As you know, on Election Day, businesses are not allowed to sell any type of liquor until polling stations are closed. Earlier this year, the prime minister presented in the House an […]
Here is an update on the COVID-19 situation. The total number of positive cases is at a staggering two thousand five hundred and eighty-five cases, according to the infographic from the Ministry of Health. The last batch of one hundred and sixty samples turned up sixteen positive cases in southern Belize; one in the Stann […]
The quarantine facility at Camp D’Silva in Mountain Pine Ridge houses border jumpers, as well as persons who are returned to the country via deportation. Over the weekend, concerns were being raised about the status of these isolated individuals who claim that they were being held at the location but were not being swabbed and […]
Since the reopening of the Philip Goldson International Airport on October first, visitors arriving in Belize are expected to present a negative SARS COVID-2 test result. Those who did not get tested prior to departure are swabbed and tested upon landing at the P.G.I.A. The number of cases of COVID cases from visitors remains on […]
From COVID to the story of a former inmate, who was convicted in 1996 for manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years behind bars. Before completing his sentence, in 2007, Dangriga resident Trevor Clifton Pascascio Marin, then thirty years old, escaped from prison, but was recaptured and returned behind prison walls to serve the remaining years […]
The memory of his life behind bars is triggered by the recent calculated escape of twenty-eight prisoners from the central prison in Hattieville through a dreaded area of the prison compound known as AdSeg. Pascascio says that in his days, the area was referred to as “Somalia.” While he believes what has happened is wrong, […]
Pascascio says that he took it upon himself to rehabilitate while in prison. He also sends a message to at-risk-youths being recruited by gangs or being caught up in the criminal justice system, to stay away from trouble. Trevor Clifton Pascascio Marin, Ex-Convict “Crime noh pay; crime noh pay. El Chapo is a great […]
Much like Port Loyola across town, the Pickstock constituency is also seeing a three-way race between Patrick Rogers, Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez and Anthony Mahler, for the Belize Progressive Party, the United Democratic Party and the People’s United Party, respectively. While the candidates for the two mass parties have been furnished with a revised voters list […]
According to Rogers, had they not written a strong letter to the Chief Elections Officer demanding the release of the updated voters list for Pickstock, they would still be in the dark regarding those names. The B.P.P. complains that when the Elections and Boundaries Department finally handed over the list, it is the list for […]
The issue of domestic violence is rearing its ugly head again following the murder of the San Pedro mother of one. Marisela Gonzalez was cold-bloodedly shot to head and her body discarded at a garbage site on the island of San Pedro. Her husband is in custody and is being charged for this wife’s murder. […]
In the wake of the murder of Gonzalez over the weekend, the Belize Progressive Party has also issued a release condemning the act of domestic violence, in this case, against women. Patrick Rogers, Party Leader, B.P.P. “The truth is that we just, the respect of our sistren has reached a low. The crimes have […]
