A local police officer in Belize City has been charged with handling stolen goods following a theft reported on August 31 by a Los Angeles firefighter, 41-year-old Gilbert Lightburn Jr. The theft reportedly occurred around 2:15 a.m. following an altercation at Shisha’s NightClub on Newtown Barracks.
Investigators believe that 43-year-old Peter Demetrio August acted in self-defence when he chopped 61-year-old Ubaldo Guzman on Thursday night. As we reported, Guzman had been drinking at home in Santa Elena when an argument between him and his drinking companion, August, turned violent. Reports are
Three persons are dead following separate road traffic incidents that occurred over the weekend. The first occurred on Saturday morning on the George Price Highway. Melva Myeres from Blackman Eddy lost her life. Myeres was travelling to Belize City with her daughter when the vehicle overturned
Ryan Wesley Routh, a suspect in an alleged assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, has been charged with two federal gun crimes: possession of a firearm while being a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He remains in
Belize has heightened its surveillance efforts for the New World Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) following confirmed cases in Honduras. The outbreak, announced by Honduran authorities, was detected in cattle and horses illegally transported in the municipality of El Triunfo, Choluteca. The Belize Agricultural Health Authority (BAHA) is
This week, Rein Paulsen, Director of FAO’s Office of Emergencies and Resilience, along with Adoniram Sanches, FAO’s Subregional Coordinator for Mesoamerica, visited Haiti to support the incoming FAO Representative, Pierre Vauthier, in bolstering international cooperation and raising awareness on the dire humanitarian situation on the
Police are investigating the death of sixty-one-year-old Ubaldo Guzman, after he was chopped to death on Thursday night. Guzman had been drinking at home in Santa Elena when an argument between him and his drinking companion turned violent. Reports are that Guzman attacked the other
An investigation is underway into the circumstances that resulted in the mysterious death of a man who was in police custody in Belmopan. Twenty-six-year-old Daniel Cal was detained on September sixth after being found in possession of a stolen motorcycle. While in lockup, he began
Tonight, the Belize Police Department has one of its own in custody, following a shooting incident shortly after midnight on Friday. Twenty-nine-year-old Jeneah Arzu, a police officer attached to the Prosecution Branch, was at home on Trinity Street when her boyfriend, Kendale Nunez, arrived at
On Thursday afternoon, fifty-three-year-old Ana Chanim and another unnamed woman were injured when a piece of concrete fell on them at the Novelo’s Bus Terminal here in Belize City. Chanim was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after the cement fragment injured her right
