Belize’s tourism industry under serious pressure
Posted: Monday, January 18th, 2016. 3:23 p.m. CST By BMG Staff: Belize’s tourism industry, which accounts for almost 25 percent of the country’s GDP, is under significant threat as news of the latest...
View ArticleFood vendor charged with robbery
Posted: Monday, January 18th, 2016. 3:49 p.m. CST By Aaron Humes: 18 year old Jayear Flores, a food vendor of Curassow Street, Belize City has been charged and remanded for armed robbery and aggravated...
View Article“Belize Protectors” to be named for Baker to Vegas race
Posted: Monday, January 18th, 2016. 4:03 p.m. CST By Aaron Humes: This past Saturday, members of Belize’s uniformed services took to the George Price Highway, running from Mile 30 to 38 in a time trial...
View ArticlePolice: Bradley Paumen not a threat
Posted: January 18, 2016. 6:43 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: American businessman Bradley Paumen, 58, was let out on bail, as is his right, following charges of conspiracy and abetment to commit murder –...
View ArticleTitan Securities win judgment for excesses by police in 2014 raid
Posted: January 18, 2016. 6:53 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Bahamian businessmen Rohn Knowles and Kelvin Leach are among six persons indicted by the U.S. Treasury Department for securities fraud in the...
View ArticleDeputy Police Commissioner Miguel Segura’s fate “in hands of courts”
Posted: January 18, 2016. 7:00 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Deputy Police Commissioner Miguel Segura is in limbo, interdicted, stripped of his police powers and facing criminal charges and at least one...
View ArticleTwo Belize City teens arrested for illegal gun
Posted: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016. 12:34 p.m. CST By Chrisbert Garcia: Two teenagers were arrested and charged for keeping a firearm and ammunition without a gun license last night after fleeing from...
View ArticleOne of three pleads guilty in handling stolen goods from sea pirating case
Posted: January 19, 2016. 1:40 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: We reported yesterday of the attack on a group of visitors to Belize who were staying aboard a vessel anchored at Middle Long Caye. The group...
View ArticleAs BTB issues statement on Anne Swaney murder US State Department warns about...
Posted: January 19, 2016. 4:45 p.m. CST. By BMG Staff: The Belize Tourism Board (BTB) issued a statement yesterday regarding the death of murdered tourist Anne Swaney, offering condolences and trying...
View ArticleTwo charged for Belize City burglary
Posted: January 19, 2016. 6:45 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: One of the three persons charged on Monday with handling stolen goods in the Middle Long Caye case has been implicated along with another person...
View ArticlePrison population still high due to remandees
Posted: January 19, 2016. 6:55 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Some 1,443 persons are in Belize’s only prison, the Kolbe Foundation Central Prison at Hattieville, as of the end of 2015. Of these, nearly 400...
View ArticlePUP FAMILY Feud: Bernard targets Andrews
Posted: January 19, 2016. 7:05 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: After and since the People’s United Party’s National Party Council meeting ten days ago in Belize City, where the party committed to curbing...
View ArticleLadyville Police find gun stolen in Abou-Nehra case
Posted: January 19, 2016. 7:15 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Ladyville Police have made 19 arrests in the case of the home invasion of Lebanese Honorary Consul Sarkis Abou Nehra which occurred at his...
View ArticleTeenagers charged over gun
Posted: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016. 7:25 p.m. CST By Aaron Humes: Two students of Wesley Junior College, 19 year old Stradi Cassasola and 19 year old Demrey Lewis, were charged with kept firearm...
View ArticleCalvin Cumberbatch on bail after traffic charges
Posted: January 19, 2016. 7:25 p.m. CST. By Aaron Humes: Tonight, Calvin Cumberbatch, the husband of Pamela Bennett, a money lender who tragically lost her life two days into the New Year in a traffic...
View ArticleRoger Anthony in trouble again
Posted: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016. 7:35 p.m. CST By Aaron Humes: Former Ghost Town Crips leader Roger Anthony, facing a murder charge, was charged with 7 offences when he appeared today before...
View ArticleFBI joins murder investigation of Anne Swaney
Posted: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016. 11:55 a.m. CST By Chrisbert Garcia: Latest reports in the murder case of 39-year-old American national and ABC 7 Chicago news producer, Anne Swaney, are that...
View ArticleUS Embassy clarifies reports of travel advisory
Posted: January 20, 2016. 1:51 p.m. CST. By BMG Staff: The US Embassy, this morning, made a clarification regarding reports of a travel advisory issued by the US State Department on traveling to Belize...
View ArticleMan charged for raping step-daughter with knife to neck
Posted: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016. 2:19 p.m. CST. By Chrisbert Garcia: The stepfather of a 12-year-old female in Stann Creek District has been detained and is pending three separate charges of...
View ArticleTwo Mexicans in jail for drug possession and cultivation in Belize
Posted: January 20, 2016. 3:35 p.m. CST. By Dalila Ical: Two Mexicans were found with drugs and ammunition along the Belize-Mexico border. Orange Walk Police report that they came across the men at...
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