The White House is preparing to sign off on an executive order that would shut down asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border once the average number of daily encounters hits 2,500 between ports of entry. The border reopens only once that number declines to 1,500, with
Businessman, thirty-three-year-old Cruz Magaña, was fatally shot last night in Fresh Pond in Burrell Boom Village. It happened at around eight o'clock during a home invasion at Magaña's residence. Police say that two masked men barged into the residence and held family members at gunpoint. The
Thirty-three-year-old Devain Flores pleaded guilty to two counts of child cruelty when he appeared before the lower courts two weeks ago, after a brief video showing him physically abusing a three-year-old child went viral. Flores was back at the magistrate’s court today, where a mitigation
Two men are recovering from gunshot injuries after they were pursued and fired upon in retaliation after engaging in a fight on Saturday. Reports are that forty-year-old George Dominguez and thirty-five-year-old Dwayne Tillett were in a fight with another individual and while socializing in a
Tonight, a man is recovering in the hospital after he was shot on Sunday in Santa Elena, Cayo. He is forty-year-old David Galindo, who was purchasing food when a vehicle approached him and up to fifteen shots were fired in his direction. Galindo was previously
In another case of gun violence this weekend, a young woman is recovering from gunshot wounds after she was approached by three persons and fired upon in San Pedro. On Saturday night, around eight-thirty p.m., twenty-two-year-old Zulmy Camara, her common-law husband, and three other men
The violent nature of the weekend extended to southern Belize where a man was chopped in Toledo District. He is Benancio Pop, the victim of an armed assault in San Marcos village after he had engaged in an altercation with another individual earlier that evening.
Giovanni Ramirez, the whistleblower in the case against convicted attorney Oscar Selgado, finds himself in more trouble with the law and was back before the courts today after receiving bail earlier for being a member of a gang. That’s because over the weekend, Ramirez was
As of today, the controlled price of a sixteen-ounce loaf of bread is up by thirty-five cents. The wholesale cost now stands at one dollar and eighty-five cents, while the retail cost now stands at two dollars and ten cents. But it is not the
Since its formulation in March, the Sugar Industry Commission of Inquiry held its first meeting on May twenty-ninth. The session was held virtually, led by Coordinator, Hugh O’Brien and Chairman, Wayne Piper. O’Brien said the first meeting was a good one and the commissioners all
