Disunity is stirring within the Benque Viejo del Carmen Town Council as Deputy Mayor Jenny Martinez publicly announced her resignation via social media on Tuesday night. Martinez, appointed to the position following the recent municipal elections, attributed her decision to a perceived preference for a
One person lost his life following a vehicular crash on Tuesday afternoon. The victim has been identified as twenty-nine-year-old Marcelino Pop, a delivery man from Belmopan. According to police, at around 12:30 p.m., officers responded to a traffic accident on St. Mathews Street in the Maya Mopan Area
We begin our newscast tonight with an escalation in deadly cartel violence just north of the Belize border with Mexico, in Chetumal, Quintana Roo. The popular Belizean destination has become a warzone for feuding drug gangs that operate in that southern Mexican state. Violent encounters
On the home front, Belizean authorities met earlier today to discuss citizen and national security in the face of mounting cartel aggression in southern Mexico. With concerns being raised among business owners in the Corozal Free Zone, as well as travelers, and residents near the
Are the Mexican cartels and their operatives establishing themselves inside the Corozal Free Zone? It’s a question that was put to the Commissioner of Police following dubious reports that individuals believed to have been members of the warring drug gangs are taking hold of the
What about Belize’s ability to match firepower with the Mexican cartels should there be an armed conflict? According to the top cop, compared to what has been put forward elsewhere on social media, the Belize Defense Force, as well as its local counterparts, is more
While elements of the Mexican cartels are embedded in parts of northern Belize, the police department says that it is working carefully to weed out these criminals. When asked if the recent murder in Consejo Village last week was the result of drug activity related
There has been a shift in Belize’s liquified petroleum gas landscape yet again. Viewers may recall that back in 2019, the Government of Belize passed the National Liquified Gas Project Act in tandem with the establishment of National Gas Company Limited. Long-established LPG dealers were
As for the ten-million-dollar compensation for damages awarded to the group of LPG companies, attorney Smith says the Court of Appeal has ordered that the High Court further assesses the sum. And though the LPG companies are free to exercise their right to import, there
Last Monday, the attorney for Michael Feinstein, Godfrey Smith, wrote to the Governor of the Central Bank of Belize requesting an investigation of Atlantic Bank Limited. The allegation was that ABL committed, “serial breaches of the Domestic Banks and Financial Institutions Act”. The letter noted
