Opposition groups have gathered outside Belize Telemedia Limited’s doorstep on St. Thomas Street in Belize City to raise their concerns over what they’re calling transparency, valuation, competition and public consultation over the proposed acquisition of SpeedNet-SMART. Reports of BTL meeting to deliberate on the acquisition quickly
A five-year-old boy was shot while walking home with his mother, in an attack that appears to have targeted someone else entirely. According to police, officers responded to reports of gunfire on Collins Boulevard, San Ignacio Town, at around 7:40 p.m. Officers arrived to find 30-year-old
The body of missing fisherman Samuel Chi was recovered this morning roughly four miles southwest of where his fellow boater, Albert Vacarro, was rescued alive yesterday. Lieutenant Mark Choc, Operations Officer for the Belize Coast Guard, said a joint search operation resumed at 5:00 a.m. with
The driver injured in Monday's Prado rollover on the Philip Goldson Highway near the Haulover Bridge is recovering in hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, according to his father, Emilio Zabaneh. Zabaneh said his son, Emil Brian Zabaneh, suffered a deep cut to
Intruders targeted Mary Hill Roman Catholic School in Corozal District once again. The school’s ongoing campus improvement projects were left damaged, and the school ground was littered with trash. “Garbage was scattered across the grounds, and recycled covers were intentionally spilled,” the school administration said in
A young man left for work and never made it back home. Tonight, relatives say nineteen-year-old Eworth Hernandez, an employee at a Belize City print shop, was the victim of a midday murder on Vernon Street. The shooting happened in front of Swift Hall, sending
A disturbing discovery on Vernon Street has left police searching for answers tonight. The body of twenty-two-year-old Kimane Garbutt, who was pregnant, was found in a decomposed state on the second floor of a Belize City residence on Sunday. Police say a friend made the
A trip from Caye Caulker to Belize City turned into a desperate search at sea after two fishermen failed to make it home on Sunday night. Samuel Chi and Albert Vacarro had called relatives just before seven p.m. to say they were heading back to
Two families are mourning tonight after separate drowning incidents claimed the lives of two men on Sunday. In Belmopan, thirty-eight-year-old Rudy Toj was found motionless in a creek in the San Martin area. In Orange Walk, forty-four-year-old Luciano Acosta never made it back from a
A family emergency in San Jose Succotz turned violent over the weekend, leaving an elderly woman seriously injured and police searching for answers. Investigators say the woman was trying to help her twenty-three-year-old grandson, who may have been going through a mental health crisis, when
