The search continues for Alicia Jacome of La Gracia, Cayo. The elderly woman reportedly went missing on Friday afternoon while everyone was asleep. The chairman of Buena Vista Village said, "I sent a team from Spanish Lookout with 3 drones, and they couldn’t find any leads."
One person was killed following a road traffic accident on Tuesday night in Santa Elena Town. The victim has been identified as twenty-one-year-old Jaylen Flowers, a resident of Unitedville Village. Flowers reportedly lost control of his Meilun motorcycle near La Loma Luz Boulevard. He sustained severe head
Businessman Dake Yu was shot during a robbery at 61 Supermarket in San Ignacio Town. Shots were heard in the Santiago Juan Layout area. Witnesses say that two armed men barged into the store and held Yu and employees at gunpoint. According to reports, Yu was shot once. The robbers escaped on a
Thirty-three-year-old Devain Flores was charged with two counts of cruelty to a child. The Neals Penn Road resident is expected to return to court later today. Flores was charged after a video of him physically abusing a male child was posted on social media. He
By Hivy Ortiz Chour, Better Environment Officer. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), for Latin America and the Caribbean. Biodiversity is essential for life on our planet. Despite the technological advances of today's world, human beings will always depend on healthy ecosystems for water,
Tonight, police have another murder on their hands to solve. This time, the incident took place in San Ignacio. That’s where the victim, Jose Mejia, also known as Kocho, was stabbed overnight. The crime scene is a popular sporting facility – the Victor Galvez Stadium.
In his capacity as First Vice President of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police, Chester Williams says the proliferation of guns has been plaguing every country in the Caribbean. During last week’s A.C.C.P. conference held in Belize, ComPol Williams called out the Bureau of
There is also the issue of gangs in the Caribbean, a plague to most CARICOM nations. In an interview with the President of the A.C.C.P., Atlee Rodney, he stated that there is a direct correlation between music that promotes violence and the establishment of criminal
The Commissioner of Police as weighed in on a viral video that captures a Belize City man physically assaulting a child. The shocking footage shows the individual slapping, kicking and punching the infant multiple times on two separate occasions. The perpetrator has since been arrested
Across the region, people have been suffering from the effects of a severe heatwave. The extreme weather conditions have led to exhaustion and dehydration, as well losses in agriculture, as brush fires are made worse by the rising temperatures. Also forced to cope with these
