All posts by Senior National Correspondent

  • Education officers meet in Dangriga town

    The Delille Spiritual Life Center in Dangriga town was the venue for a gathering of education managers. The purpose of the meeting held last week was to bring everybody up to speed with projects and programs within...

    • Posted March 31, 2015
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  • Preventing forest fires event this weekend in Toledo

    The annual Race Against Fire bicycle race is set for this Holy Saturday, April 4 in the Toledo district. The race is part of the annual activities by the Ya’axche Conservation Trust designed to bring awareness of...

    • Posted March 31, 2015
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  • Belize City man shot and killed

    26 year old Jaime Chavarria was killed in a shooting incident last night on Berkley Street in Belize City.  Police say they got to the crime scene around 7:10 pm on Monday and found Chavarria lying face...

    • Posted March 31, 2015
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  • Businessman murdered in Orange Walk

    Orange Walk businessman Ricky Aldo Triminio was murdered overnight inside his shop on Progress Street. Triminio’s body was found inside of the shop, “Munchies” around 9 o’clock this morning by residents of the area. Police say Triminio’s...

    • Posted March 31, 2015
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  • Crime Beat: policemen arrested, elderly man attacked & more

    On Thursday evening of last week, a 34-year-old mother of Bella Vista Village in the Stann Creek district accompanied 13-year-old daughter to the police station to report that her daughter informed her that she was at the...

    • Posted March 30, 2015
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  • Belize Jaguars team advances in World Cup qualifying tournament

    In other news from the world of sport, the Belize Jaguars team has advanced to the next round of the 2018 World Cup qualifying tournament. This follows a 1 to 1 draw last night in the second...

    • Posted March 30, 2015
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  • High school student wins Junior Cross Country Cycle Race

    Sixteen year old high school student Ernest Bradley, is standing tall tonight having won the sixteenth annual Junior Cross Country Cycle Race. The race was held on Sunday. Thirty three junior and youth riders pushed off from...

    • Posted March 30, 2015
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  • Border marker at Gracias a Dios vandalized

    The story dominated the news earlier this month when the Guatemala military detained a group of Belizeans that had gone to the border marker at Gracias a Dios. The group comprising members of the Northern Territorial Volunteers...

    • Posted March 27, 2015
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  • Man charged for drug trafficking

    On Wednesday, March 25th., 2015, at about 4:45 am on the strength of a search warrant, Placencia police conducted a search at the residence of Francis Baltazar located near the lagoon in Seine Bight village, where Police...

    • Posted March 27, 2015
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  • Placencia woman charged with drug trafficking

    Police in Placencia are again reporting their successful drug operations as they prepare for Easter Activities on the peninsula. With Easter being exactly one week away, Placencia Police continue to injure the drug activity on the peninsula...

    • Posted March 27, 2015
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