A fireman was executed while on duty in Punta Gorda on Friday evening. Rudolph Matura had not too long reported to work and was seated inside the fire station when he was fatally shot through a window. The incident happened sometime after six p.m. while Matura and a colleague were both at work. Police say […]
Gunfire erupted in Lake Independence once again on Sunday morning and when the smoke cleared, a twenty-six-year-old resident of Tibruce Street was fighting for his life after being shot multiple times. Ryan Cole remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. in critical condition tonight and is preparing for an emergency surgery on Wednesday, as his liver has […]
Since the rash of gang-related shootings began on November twenty-third, the Belize Police Department has staged several interventions with feuding groups in the Lake Independence area. Despite their efforts to quell the violence in that community, another shooting was reported on Sunday that is believed to be an internal row within one gang. According to […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams is calling out the media for the inaccuracy of a story that was uploaded to social media on Sunday morning in which it was reported that Ryan Cole had been murdered inside his home during the shooting incident. Cole is critically injured and remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. His family […]
A family of four from San Ignacio is tonight without a roof over their heads because on Sunday morning a dump truck ran off the street and ploughed through their elevated wooden house. The truck was driven at the time by Ervin Torres of Bahadur Trucking and Backhoe Services, who claims that he lost control […]
Last Thursday, we reported on a fire in Pomona Village that claimed the life of Vernon Williams. The forty-five-year-old was inside his house when a fire broke around nine o’clock on the night of December second. It is believed that the fire may have been intentionally set by Williams, but that is still under investigation. […]
Corozal Bay area representative David “Dido” Vega remains hospitalized at Belize Healthcare Partners Limited, suffering from complications caused by the novel coronavirus. The forty-seven-year-old politician was rushed to Belize City over the weekend after he began experiencing breathing complications last week. He was first hospitalized at a clinic in Corozal, but after his condition worsened, […]
The People’s United Party has several area representatives that have contracted COVID-19. Toledo East Area Representative Mike Espat is said to have recovered from the virus and so has Cayo West Area Representative Jorge “Milin” Espat. Dolores Balderamos Garcia, the Area Representative for Belize Rural Central, is in self-isolation. The Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff […]
Prime Minister John Briceño has made a full recovery after contracting COVID-19 fourteen days ago, on November twenty-third. The prime minister went into self-isolation in his room in his home in Orange Walk for two weeks after which he was swabbed. He showed no signs and symptoms, unlike his Chief of Staff and Cabinet Secretary […]
An additional three hundred and eighty-six cases of COVID-19 were confirmed over the weekend. This puts the total number of COVID-19 cases to seven thousand, seven hundred and sixty-nine. There are three thousand, seven hundred and forty-seven active cases and a total of one hundred and seventy three deaths, including the three additional deaths reported […]
Last week, we reported on the COVID-related death of a second police officer. Corporal David Jimenez, who was awaiting his results, began exhibiting symptoms of the virus. Days later, his condition worsened and on December second, he was rushed to the K.H.M.H. Jimenez died three hours later inside an ambulance in the parking lot of […]
ComPol Williams says that the department has been stretched thin and with officers out, they have had to make some changes with duty scheduled to accommodate the shortage in officers, while still carrying out the mandate of the department to fight crime. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “We are working understaffed due to the […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams took to social media over the weekend and expressed concerns over what can only be deemed as irresponsibility on the part of employers who, despite having COVID-positive persons among their staff, have refused to send them home to isolate and, in some cases, to quarantine. Now by law, any of […]
A man who claims he suffers from herniated discs and is claustrophobic was fined five thousand dollars when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser today and pleaded guilty to Possession of a Controlled Drug with Intent to Supply Another. Sherman Mendoza was nabbed with just over two pounds of marijuana on a Morales Bus by Police […]
How much do you know about the king vulture – or what we’d call the King John Crow? These birds play important roles that we often overlook and they have some special features that help them to carry out these functions. Like many other animals, their adaptations are unique and help them to survive and […]
Belize is the latest country to form its own national chapter of the Caribbean Women in Leadership, known as CIWiL for short. Since 1998, CIWiL, a non-partisan and N.G.O., has been working to increase women’s participation in political and public life across the Caribbean. An election was held last month where the executive was selected. […]
Valerie Woods says that CIWiL has been instrumental in advocacy and policy work across the region and so the plan is for the Belize Chapter to bring that same energy and commitment to champion women’s participation and advancement in Belize. She tells us more about the N.G.O. Valerie Woods, Chairperson, CIWiL Belize “What it […]
