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Attempted murder charge for stabbing
Posted: Monday July 25, 2016. 5:39 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Alfonso Castillo was stabbed twice last week on July 21, 2016 through Rhaburn’s Alley near Victoria Street, Belize City. Police have...
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Father jailed for attack on stepson
Posted: Monday July 25, 2016. 5:43 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: 23 year old Richard Smith will serve time of 2 of 4 criminal charges after his teenage stepson intervened to defend his common-law wife from...
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Belize celebrates Philip Goldson’s 93rd birthday
Posted Monday July 25th, 2016 at 6:49 p.m. CST By BBN Staff: Today, July 25th is the 93rd birthday of national hero Philip Stanley Wilberforce Goldson and the National Institute of Culture and History...
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Belize has reached a new low?
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2016. 10:06 a.m. CST. By Richard Harrison: Belize’s socio-economy has been on a steady downward path since Independence in 1981…..but it has reached a new low, with the...
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BCCI calls on government to address corruption
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2016. 10:36 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: The decapitation of Pastor Llewelyn Lucas and the revelation that his accused killer William Mason was very well connected to political...
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Belize junior volleyballers taken to brink in opening match of C.A. championship
Posted: Tuesday July 26, 2016. 1:00 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: The Belize U-23 male junior volleyball team needed 5 of the last 6 points available to defeat Honduras in the opening match of the Central...
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Belize City Police investigating $96,000 mid-afternoon robbery
Posted: Tuesday July 26, 2016. 3:35 p.m. CST. By BBN: On Monday July 25, 75-year old Maria Sylvestre reported to police that sometime after 2:30 p.m., while at home located on‘A’ Street and Princess...
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San Pedro police seize four pounds of weed
Posted: Tuesday July 26, 2016. 3:45 p.m. CST. By BBN: At around midday today, officials attached to the Special Branch and CIB San Pedro police department, acting on special intelligence, raided the...
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Cayo police investigating series of burglaries
Posted: Tuesday July 26, 2016. 3:45 p.m. CST. By BBN: Errie Anthony Manzanero, 33, from a Bullet Tree Falls address reported to police that on Sunday between midnight and 5:00 a.m. someone broke into...
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Accused GSU boss hits back
Posted July 26th 2016, 7:01 p.m CST By Aaron Humes: Mark Flowers, former head of the GSU, was charged with 2 counts of unlawful sexual intercourse when he appeared today before the Chief Magistrate,...
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BSI: molasses loss is a joint industry loss; farmers say “NO!”
Posted: Tuesday July 26, 2016. 6:45 p.m. CST. By Dalila Ical: Sugar Cane farmers refuse to share the loss of costs after BSI lost close to 4,000 tons of molasses earlier this month. A handful of cane...
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Bradley Paumen and company to be tried for businessman hit
Posted Tuesday July 26th 2016 at 7:06 p.m. CST By Aaron Humes: Chief Magistrate Ann-Marie Smith today said she had sufficient evidence before her to order businessman Bradley Paumen and fellow accused...
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Shawn Cook, 25, is charged for stabbing incident at Ruba’s Bar in Lord’s Bank
Posted Tuesday July 26th, 2016 at 7:13 p.m. CST By Aaron Humes: Ruba’s bar, a popular bar and hang out spot in Lord’s Bank area, Ladyville is no stranger to violent crimes and on July 8, 2016, there...
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Caleb Orozco decision adjourned for August
Posted: Wednesday July 27, 2016. 9:30 a.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: The decision on the constitutionality of Section 53 of the Criminal Code has been put off to August 10th, as confirmed by the Supreme...
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San Pedro police find weed in cargo section
Posted: Wednesday July 27, 2016. 11:30 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: At 9:15 this morning members of the Special Branch and CIB police department in San Pedro Town, intercepted a parcel of suspected cannabis...
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Teen arrested for murder of Las Flores mother
Posted: Wednesday July 27, 2016. 11:30 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: Wanted fugitive, Josue Ortiz, 19, was arraigned this morning in Belmopan’s Magistrate court where he was slapped with one count of murder...
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High-risk prisoners are isolated from general prison population
Posted: Wednesday July 27, 2016. 6:52 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Though by agreement with authorities they will not be mentioned by name in this story, a senior police officer accused of unlawful sexual...
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Women prisoners get multi-purpose building; can society change attitudes to...
Posted: Wednesday July 27, 2016. 7:00 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: The Belize Central Prison at Hattieville, managed by Kolbe Foundation, has 37 female inmates at present. Today, next door to their...
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Murder victims see charges dismissed
Posted: Wednesday July 27, 2016. 7:09 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: 26 year old Rene “Fat Cat” Chavarria of Ladyville and 21 year old Kieran Morrison of Belize City were murdered earlier this year in...
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Predators pounce on Belize’s flawed and corrupted system
Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2016. 11:25 a.m. CST. By BBN Staff: This entire saga involving William Mason and the murder/beheading of Pastor Llewelyn Lucas has left Belize with far more questions than...
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