Punta Gorda is on edge tonight after a brutal weekend shooting claimed the lives of two men. Twenty‑four‑year‑old Luis Barillas and forty‑three‑year‑old Derrick Arnold were ambushed and killed just outside Barillas’ home on Queen Street late Saturday night. The attack has left residents shaken and
Tonight, as investigators in Punta Gorda continue piecing together Saturday’s deadly ambush that left two men dead on Queen Street, another community in the south is grappling with its own tragedy. In Dangriga, the family of well‑known resident Bernaldo “Sparrow” Gorosica is mourning his murder
Tonight, police say they’ve made a major breakthrough in the January twenty-fifth murder of Ladyville resident Elroy Edward Bainton. Just two weeks after the deadly shooting, investigators have formally arrested and charged twenty-one‑year‑old Caryl Paul Rodas, a construction worker from Burrell Boom, for murder. Bainton
The long‑running triple‑murder trial of Elmer Nah hit another delay today, right at the start of a five‑week break. The court granted an adjournment after Nah’s attorney, Dr. Lynden Jones, formally submitted a written no‑case submission following the close of the Crown’s months‑long trial. That
Police in Punta Gorda say their investigation into the disappearance of Canadian national Alfred Pleil is heating up, with several major developments now on the table. Investigators have found personal items belonging to Pleil and have detained multiple people as they work to piece together
Belize Telemedia Limited says it has now complied with the Caribbean Court of Justice ruling on severance payments, but the fight may not be over for everyone. In a statement issued over the weekend, BTL confirmed that nearly all eligible former employees have received their
In some of Belize’s most remote villages, nightfall usually comes with a full stop, dim classrooms, limited farming hours, and stalled opportunities. But that’s finally changing in Indian Church and San Carlos, where the lights are officially on. A major rural electrification project, driven by
Just days after rural Orange Walk villages finally got reliable electricity, another essential service is getting a major upgrade, this time, it’s water. In San Estevan, the Ministry of Rural Transformation rolled in with new water‑system expansion materials and backup power equipment designed to keep
There’s new hope rising along the shoreline in Monkey River Village. Last week, long‑awaited work officially began to protect the northernmost community in Toledo, where the river meets the sea and climate change has taken a devastating toll. Years of erosion have swallowed land, claimed
Police tonight have served a Notice of Intended Prosecution to forty-four‑year‑old Juan Lionardo of Duck Run Village, after the truck he was driving allegedly ran over an elderly man on the Thomas Vincent Ramos Highway. The victim, sixty-eight‑year‑old Houston Reynolds, was walking toward Kendall Village
