BDF soldier beaten up and robbed
By BBN Staff: A Belize Defense Force (BDF) soldier, Oscar Barahona, 19, reported to police that on Wednesday around midday while walking with a friend on Mayflower Street in Belize City he was attacked and robbed by a group of boys. Barahona told police he was approached by four “dark-skin” young men who were standing […]
Belizean to be charged for Immigration offense; Guatemalans issued with order to leave
By BBN Staff: On Friday, June 12, 2020, a team of police officers intercepted a vehicle with four persons, three of whom were Guatemalan nationals and the other a Belizean, at a routine checkpoint on the George Price Highway near Unitedville Village. The men were taken to the San Ignacio Community Hospital to be swabbed […]
Mother seeks help in locating mentally challenged son
By BBN Staff: A mother from Belize City is seeking the public’s assistance in locating her mentally challenged son. The woman, who has not yet made a formal police report, turned to social media this afternoon to say that her son Michael McKenzie, 19, went missing this afternoon. McKenzie was to have boarded a bus […]
National Gas Company puts butane prices ‘in perspective’
By Aaron Humes: The National Gas Company Limited ( NGC) points to an ‘apples to apples’ comparison with regard to the ongoing situation with increased prices for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), arguing that prices now are actually lower than they were at the same point last year. The NGC in a press release listed indexed […]
Cayo teen reported missing
By BBN Staff: Police are asking the public’s assistance in locating 13-year-old Brenda Anaya from Fran’s Eddy Village in the Cayo District. Anaya was last seen on Tuesday, June 16 around 10:00 a.m. wearing a blue blouse, a black skirt, and black tennis shoes. She is described as being Hispanic, with long black hair, of […]
US actor/activist starts petition to nominate Cuban Medical Brigade for Nobel Peace Prize
By BBN Staff: American actor and activist, Danny Glover, has started a petition in the United States to nominate Cuban doctors of the Henry Reeve Brigade for a Nobel Peace Prize, in honor of their humanitarian work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Glover launched the petition yesterday during a webinar with Cuban Ambassador Jose Cabañas about […]
Belize City gas depot robbed, shots fired in police pursuit
By BBN Staff: Reports are reaching our newsroom that officers of the Belize Police department fired their weapons at alleged robbers while pursuing two men following a robbery at the Gas Tomza Butane Depot on the George Price Highway. The incident is said to have happened moments ago, and the officers reportedly chased the robbers […]
National Hydrological Service says flood levels at Rio Hondo continue to fall slowly
By BBN Staff: The National Hydrological Service of Belize issued a report today informing that flood levels on the Blue Creek Sub catchment of the Rio Hondo at Blue Creek, Santa Cruz, San Antonio, San Roman, and Douglas continues to fall slowly. The New River at Tower Hill and Caledonia is above normal and steady. […]