Devon Reynolds murdered while out on an errand; family feels that the shooting was retaliation for an earlier shooting on Friday night... A student of Tubal Trade School, Devon Reynolds, just 14, was gunned down near his home on Kraal Road on Friday night, March 25, 2011 at around 9:30. What makes his death even more painful to the family is that they suspect that his murder comes as retaliation for a murder on Berkeley Street that took place about an hour earlier.
The total spending on programs for the poor amounts to 5 cents for each man, woman and child, said Briceño. “Five cents can’t even buy a sweet. Shame!” he said. The national budget was debated inside the National Assembly on Independence Hill, Belmopan, today, Thursday, March 24, and that debate is slated to continue into tomorrow, Friday, March 25. Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Dean Barrow presented the proposed budget, with $953 million in total payouts, on Friday, March 11, 2011, and first thing this morning, Leader of Opposition People’s United Party, Johnny Briceño, area representative for Orange Walk Central, took his aim at Barrow’s third budget, calling it “an empty-pot budget.”
The villagers of Cristo Rey in the Corozal District say that their once peaceful village, with a population of about 700 people, is being taken over by an organized gang of eight members, ranging in age from 16-20, who are responsible for various criminal activities, including a maiming incident on Saturday.
Honduran national, Miguel Rivera, 59, a fruit and vegetable vendor of Boston Village, Belize District, was shot and killed on Friday night sometime after 8:00 near the Dean Street Bridge that crosses West Canal.
Andrew Moses, 27, gunned down in front of the Port Loyola Calvary Chapel... The family of Andrew Moses, 27, an employee of the Ministry of Works, is grieving his loss to gun violence tonight. Moses was gunned down in front of the Port Loyola Calvary Chapel sometime before 5 p.m. today. He leaves behind a host of family and friends who are, at this point, angry and reluctant to speak to the media.
Christie wrote this on her Facebook page: “When you least expect things to happen, that is when they do … so enjoy it now because that means you’re past overdue. Forget what they say and what they think. It is time for you to enjoy today before it is gone in the next blink.”
Naturalized U.S. Army vet from Belize wins award for wrongful detention in Tacoma... Rennison Castillo, 33, a Belizean man who acquired his US citizenship while serving in the United States Army, but who was wrongfully detained by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), when they came across him in jail, has reportedly received a settlement of US$400,000 and an apology from the DHS.
Belize Customs officials have made a major bust of 277 cases of beer and 2 cases of Johnny Walker Black Label whiskey after two suspicious vans were seized outside of Orange Walk Town yesterday at 3:50 a.m. The Customs Department believes the items are from the Corozal Free Zone.
“Yes, I am a PUP, but from today onward, we will roll up our PUP flags, our PUP banners and we will not support the PUP as long as John Briceño is the party leader.” – Leonard Chavarria, PUP aspirant for the Toledo East division
Last week Channel 7 News, in a sensational story featuring the businessman Lascelle Arnold, aired the results of their investigation into what looked like “highway robbery” by Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LGP) companies that sell butane every day to Belizean consumers. The results of Channel 7’s investigations showed that the companies, as a matter of practice, charged consumers the full price, but gave them much less butane than was warranted by law.
On this day set aside for a day celebrating love, one family is mourning the loss of their murdered son, while another family is mourning the loss of freedom for the accused. It was a case of one woman: two men.
Tower Hill factory will be down for 4 weeks; actual loss “difficult to determine”... Belize Sugar Industries (BSI) is reporting that it will be forced to temporarily close down operations at the Tower Hill processing factory for “up to four weeks” after two steam turbines generating about 25 megawatts worth of electric power to supply the sugar mill, as well as power for Belize Electricity Limited (BEL), developed serious problems in the past few days.
Two gunmen armed with two guns each emptied 30 shots at twin teenaged brothers Friday evening at dusk. One of the brothers survived but an innocent mechanic joined the other twin in death. All three men were ambushed on Tibruce Street on Friday night at around 6:00. Dead are Daniel Puerto, 17, a construction worker of Tibruce Street, and Ian Martinez, 34, a mechanic of Gill Street.
The plane said adios, and the choppers wanted to change their markings! Belize police say that they are investigating a series of strange happenings at the Philip Goldson International Airport (PGIA) involving three Mexican aircraft, the key one being a previously confiscated craft (from a suspected drug operation) which has been taken out of Belize without proper clearance after two men, who police have not named, were approved to take it on a test flight, but never returned.
