BREAKING: PM maintains Belize, Guatemala on way “to normalcy”
Posted: Monday, April 25, 2016. 11:10 a.m. CST By Aaron Humes: Prime Minister, Right Honorable Dean Barrow, is presently addressing a press briefing in Belize City on efforts to de-escalate tensions...
View ArticleGuatemala will not remove troops from borders
Posted: Monday, April 25, 2016. 11:26 a.m. CST By Dalila Ical: Minister of Defence in Guatemala, Williams Masilla told the Guatemalan press that they will maintain their military presence at the...
View ArticleNew Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival spotlights Belize
Posted: April 25, 2016. 11:35 a.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Belize’s music is being featured in the ongoing New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Featured on opening day Saturday at the Belize Pavilion...
View ArticleCity men shot over the weekend
Posted: Monday, April 25, 2016. 11:52 a.m. CST By BBN Staff: On Saturday evening around 5:50, Belize City Police visited the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) after responding to a shooting...
View ArticleKilled Guatemalan boy had been to Belize before; BDF maintains incident was...
Posted: April 25, 2016. 11:45 a.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: While responding to a media question about why Belize seemed slow off the block to get its version of events last Wednesday in the Chiquibul,...
View ArticleGOB may find place for Assad
Posted: April 25, 2016. 12:25 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Former Minister, Senator and Ambassador Assad Shoman may be in a position to assist the current Government with the Guatemala dispute, Prime...
View ArticleMan charged for drug trafficking
Posted: Monday, April 25, 2016. 12:52 p.m. CST By BBN Staff: A search conducted at the Belize City residence of 35-year-old Marvin Ottley on Friday night around 8:30, resulted in the discovery of...
View ArticlePolice find weed and gun during weekend operations
Posted: Monday, April 25, 2016. 1:30 p.m. CST By BBN Staff: Police operations in Belize City and Orange Walk Town over the weekend yielded a total of 19.1 pounds of cannabis and a 9 millimeter pistol...
View ArticleMan shot dead in Corozal, apparently over a stolen bike
Posted: April 25, 2016. 4:38 p.m. CST. By Dalila Ical: Another shooting incident in the Corozal District has left one man dead and police looking for another. Reports are that around 10:00 this morning...
View ArticleKim Brannon takes manslaughter plea; claims murder victim abused her
Posted: April 25, 2016. 6:15 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: She allegedly chopped her common law husband to death but blamed others for it when charged with murder. She was found guilty, and a re-trial was...
View ArticleHumpback whale dies in Southern Belize
Posted: April 25, 2016. 6:33 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: A humpback whale was reported apparently sick or injured off the coast of the Toledo District by OCEANA in Belize, which dispatched a team to...
View ArticleJoseph Budna allegedly beaten in Guatemalan prison
Posted: April 26, 2016. 9:06 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Joseph Budna, who is currently serving jail time in Guatemala on charges of kidnapping and abduction, was allegedly beaten by Guatemalan inmates as...
View ArticleGuatemalan national dismembered and crushed in accident at Santander Sugar Mill
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2016. 10:11 a.m. CST By BBN Staff: The dismembered and crushed body of a 20-year-old Guatemalan National, Francisco Andres Antonio Sebastian, currently awaits a post mortem...
View ArticleMan first caught by BDF in Chiquibul pleads guilty, is deported
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2016. 1:54 p.m. CST By Aaron Humes: Jose Maria Antonio Reyes, the first man detained in Belizean territory last Wednesday before the shooting death of Julio Alvarado Ruano,...
View ArticleTiger Sharks and Hurricanes set to face off in NEBL finals
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2016. 2:21 p.m. CST By Beverly Vernon: In National Elite Basketball League (NEBL) action, two teams have emerged from the playoffs to face off in the finals: the #1 seed...
View ArticleOsmer Sabido will return to prison for life
Posted: April 26, 2016. 3:45 p.m. CST. By Dalila Ical: Osmer Sabido, 30, has been found guilty of murdering his then 21-year-old girlfriend and common-law wife Christie Carrasco on Febraury 28, 2011....
View ArticleMarie Sharp inducted to the New York City Hot Sauce Hall of Fame
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2016. 5:34 p.m. CST By Dalila Ical: Marie Sharp is officially part of the New York City Hot Sauce Hall of Fame! She was presented with an award over the weekend at the New...
View ArticlePolice charge “Shiney” Tillet’s accused killer
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2016. 5:44 p.m. CST By Aaron Humes: Nicholas Swazo, accused of shooting 36 year old Gerald “Shiney” Tillett to death at the Wadani Shed on Saturday night, April 16, has been...
View ArticleCity courts shut down after transformer misfires
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2016. 5:56 p.m. CST By Aaron Humes: A transformer belonging to Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) caught fire this morning at around 9:30, causing the Belize City Magistrate’s...
View ArticleTwo detained in connection with shooting death of Gilberto Najarro in Corozal
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2016. 7:24 p.m. CST By Dalila Ical: Corozal police are closing in on the gunman who shot and killed 43-year-old Gilberto Sarcenio Najarro in Paraiso Village on Monday...
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