A serious security warning is in effect; Belizean authorities are on high alert after news broke that twenty high-profile gang members escaped from a maximum-security prison in Guatemala. These men are linked to the notorious Eighteenth Street gang, and with our borders so close, police
There’s a major development in that deadly crash near Hattieville. Police have now charged forty-year-old Osman Pineda, a construction worker from Belize City, in connection with the accident that claimed two lives last Thursday night. Investigators say Pineda faces multiple charges, including manslaughter by negligence
A tragic accident has shaken the quiet community of Shipyard Village. Just yesterday morning, fourteen-year-old Enrique Braun lost his life in what police are calling a freak workplace incident. Authorities say Enrique was helping clean doors at a local business when disaster struck. We have
This morning, the Court of Appeal heard arguments in the high-profile case of Oscar Selgado, the fifty-six-year-old attorney convicted last year of abetment to murder. Selgado was found guilty of allegedly putting a hit on Marilyn Barnes, a Belizean woman. The hit never happened, but
A heartbreaking tragedy unfolded in Belize City over the weekend. A nine-year-old girl, Evadne Martinez, collapsed at a home near Linda Vista and Police Street late Saturday night. Despite frantic efforts to save her at the K.H.M.H., doctors couldn’t revive the child. Police have launched
We have an update tonight on that mysterious death investigation from Sunday. Police have now confirmed the identity of the man found lifeless, he’s thirty-year-old Adrian Victor Bood, a Belizean national with no fixed address. His body was discovered floating in the sea near Southern
It’s been a week since forty-eight-year-old Kenneth ‘Big Tom’ Flowers was gunned down in what police believe was a crime of passion. His accused killer, fifty-year-old Sidney Peyrefitte Jr., is behind bars on remand for murder. Tonight, Flowers’ family is hosting a concert-style wake at
Belize is getting a big boost to upgrade one of its busiest highways. While attending the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings, the Government of Belize signed a major loan agreement with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. The deal is for twelve-point-five million
The Venezuelan Embassy in Belize is pushing back against what it calls recent provocations. At a press conference today, Ambassador Gerardo Argote argued these actions aren’t about stopping drug trafficking, they’re about controlling Venezuela’s vast natural resources. The country holds the world’s largest oil reserves,
There’s devastation in Mexico tonight where more than three hundred communities are still cut off after deadly landslides and flooding. At least sixty-four lives have been lost, and dozens remain missing. Thousands of soldiers and rescue crews are racing to reopen roads and deliver food
