On Tuesday, just as employees prepared to leave work for lunch, a man was shot and killed near Cinderella Plaza. The deceased, Leroy Smith, was shot by the same gun he used to hold up a businessman whom he pushed inside the Casa Churro Bakery.
Thirty-six-year-old Mark Stevens, accused of the attempted murder of Juan Carlos Rios Pineda on June eighth, appeared in court today when he was escorted from the Belize Central Prison. His appearance this morning, before a magistrate, took an interesting turn when Stevens refused to have
The lifeless body of fifty-eighty-year-old Cecil Lewis was recovered at sea by a team of coast guard officers earlier today. Lewis was on a barge heading to Caye Chapel on Sunday when he went overboard. It wasn’t until other crew members arrived at their destination
On Tuesday, a fifteen-year-old girl who was diving with her family, lost a leg after sharks attacked her. The teen, Annabelle Carlson, had reportedly completed a dive with the Belize Dive Pro company between Hot Caye and Halfmoon Caye around eleven-thirty on Tuesday. The girl
Forty-six-year-old Harish Kishanchand, a businessman of a Church Street address, appeared before the lower court today where he was arraigned on a single charge of trafficking in persons. It is alleged that sometime between January twenty-first and November thirteenth, 2022, Kishanchand took advantage of a
Police are investigating the theft of a safe from the Treasury building in Dangriga. The safe was discovered stolen on Tuesday, making this the second such theft at that office in five months. Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams told reporters that the thieves had to
“The time to end child marriage in Belize is now.” That is one of the mottos of the End Child Marriage in Belize Campaign that was launched by the Ministry of Human Development and its partners. The campaign seeks to increase the age of marital
A million dollars have reportedly gone missing from the Belize Solid Waste Management Authority and the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Climate Change is investigating an allegation of wrongdoing at B-SWAMA. On Tuesday, Minister of Sustainable Development Orlando Habet informed Cabinet of what took place
Today, the Ministry of Economic Development, through its Resilient Rural Belize Program, handed over ninety-three thousand U.S. dollars’ worth of equipment to the National Meteorological Service. The donation will enhance the work of the Agrometeorological Section, allowing them to provide real-time weather information to rural
Minister of Disaster Risk Management, Andre Perez emphasizes the importance of the National Meteorological Service which provides essential information to the public throughout the course of the day. Meteorologists are tasked with managing multiple stations, working odd hours and even holidays. This raises the question
