On Monday night, Michael Usher was shot dead on Flamboyant Street in Belize City. It was a murder that had all the makings of a gang-related incident. Today, Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams told the media that Usher, who lived in Pinks Alley, had accompanied
The state of emergency that came into effect three weeks ago, has resulted in the rounding up of quite a few Belize City residents who police say are active gang members involved in criminality. But since the S.O.E. was implemented, there have been several murders
A police constable is spending his first night behind bars after he was denied bail on a charge of unnatural crime. The police officer has also been interdicted from active duty and will face disciplinary charges. Twenty-nine-year-old Marcus Che was arraigned today at the Punta
Belmopan resident, Ronald Gibson died today after he was shot by a businesswoman who claims that he tried to rob her. Gilda Abadi told police that Gibson tried to attack her and her daughter in Belmopan. Abadi pulled out her licensed firearm and shot Gibson
There is discontent within the Belize City Council in the wake of a recent decision taken by Mayor Bernard Wagner to appoint former councilor Albert Vaughn as the new city administrator. As many as six councilors, including Deputy Mayor Alan Pollard Jr., have written to
Mayor Wagner says that the friction at City Hall over the appointment of Albert Vaughn will eventually fade away as the council prepares itself to get on with the business of serving the residents of Belize City. Bernard Wagner, Belize City Mayor “We are all elected officials
So where does Freetown Area Representative Francis Fonseca, an avid supporter of Vaughn, stand in all of this? This morning, Fonseca told News Five that while he stands behind Vaughn’s appointment, he had nothing to do with the process of selecting the city administrator. Francis Fonseca,
The Belize City Council, under the leadership of Mayor Bernard Wagner, has commenced a third consecutive term and, despite the quarrel over a city administrator, has hit the ground running. It’s been a little over five weeks since the People’s United Party municipal government took
Today, a sixty-three-year-old woman was sentenced to five years imprisonment for child cruelty. Reports are that between January and July of 2017, Anke Doehm, the adoptive mother of thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon, willfully neglected the minor and subjected her to injury to her health. Doehm
It is not over for former Port Loyola Area Representative Anthony “Boot’s Martinez and his petition to recall current Area Representative Gilroy Usher. On Monday, we told you that his petition attempt was unsuccessful. In a letter to Martinez from the Office of the Governor
