One man was injured following a shooting in Roaring Creek Village, Cayo, last night. The victim has been identified as twenty-three-year-old Daniel Lopez. Witnesses say that the shooters fired at a crowd, injuring Lopez in the leg. Lopez was at a social gathering when two men
Thirty-year-old Nigel Williams was shot and killed last night in Belize City. It happened near Dunn and St. Thomas streets at around eleven o'clock. Williams was in his Toyota 4Runner when a gunman approached him and fired several shots. Williams subsequently lost control of the
Belize City police are on high alert tonight following the fatal shooting of gang figure forty-four-year-old Elwin Lewis. The notorious street figure is considered an elder in the underground world in Southside Belize City. He is considered one of the leaders of the George Street
Leader of the Opposition, Moses “Shyne” Barrow, confirmed today that the U.D.P.’s secretariat has terminated Brian “Yellowman” Audinett from the party. Audinett ran as a U.D.P. councillor candidate on March sixth in Belize City. Only two weeks later, news of his termination surfaced. Now, Barrow
And, while the leader of the opposition chose to leave Audinette's termination for his internal party mechanism to handle, Henry Charles Usher, the Area Representative for Fort George, heavily criticized Barrow over it. Now, the termination of a political party’s ground soldier has nothing to
The United Democratic Party has scheduled a National Party Council meeting for Saturday. According to the Leader of the Opposition, Moses “Shyne” Barrow, the meeting’s agenda primarily focuses on the party’s performance in the March sixth municipal elections. When asked if his leadership would be
The man who was on the run since Saturday, when thirty-year-old Damion Baptist was murdered between miles eight and nine in Ladyville, has been captured. Thirty-five-year-old Jamie Young was arrested and charged on Thursday with Baptist’s murder. The construction worker was charged with aggravated assault
Tonight, three Belize City men were provided full disclosure for a 2023 murder. Today, two of the three men told the court that they had been sexually harassed while in prison. To make matters worse, they say they have not been afforded legal representation. The
Patrick Faber, the U.D.P.’s Area Representative for Collet, chided the prime minister for relying heavily on the I.M.F.’s recent report on Belize’s economic performance. During his budget presentation, Prime Minister John Briceño spent a great deal of time praising his administration’s economic performance based on
Faber went on to address matters concerning unemployment, the debt-to-G.D.P. ratio, and inflation. He contended that the government’s statistics are disconcerted from the reality on the ground, as far as the price of goods and services is concerned. Faber also argued that the unemployment rate
