Just before news time, a blaze has left a single woman homeless. The small wooden structure at number twenty-four Baracat Street caught fire after the woman, Joyce McClaren, left home for work. Fire fighters on the scene told News Five that they got the call just after five-thirty this evening. Nothing was salvaged in the […]
In the next few days it will be two years since the U.D.P. government took office and it is becoming patently clear that Prime Minister Dean Barrow is heading to a Cabinet reshuffle. Today’s issue of the government newspaper, quoted the Prime Minister as saying that “as it relates to the Minister of National Security, […]
An extensive search is underway for a government owned 2000 12-H grader that was stolen from the Ministry of Works just after midday on Wednesday. The operator, Dwayne Arthurs, was grading the Young Gial Road in Teakettle Village in the Cayo District when he was held up by three armed men believed to be Guatemalans. […]
The rapport between the nation’s local electricity supplier and the regulatory body has been less than amicable and it got really ugly about a year ago when the two ended up in court. The Belize Electricity Limited went to court because it disagreed with the PUC’s position that it owed customers over thirty million dollars […]
Shian White, the mother who was found guilty of beating her two year old to death, was brought before Justice Adolph Lucas. But she is back in prison tonight and still does not know how much longer she will be there because sentencing was deferred to next week Friday. Twenty-three year old White admitted to […]
There was an all out brawl at St. Martin De Porres Primary school on Tuesday after a teacher disciplined a student and his infuriated parents showed up to return the favour. When the dust settled that day, a teacher, the vice principal as well as several students had been injured and there were more angry […]
There is a reprieve from gun violence in the streets since Monday night’s terror, but still a third victim succumbed to a bullet wound he suffered around six-thirty on Monday evening on Central American Boulevard. Nineteen year old Darrel Williams was already declared clinically dead since Monday night but his family was contemplating whether they […]
Another victim whose condition is guarded is seven year old Janay Moguel, the little girl who was wounded during the fatal shooting of nineteen year old Darrel Williams on Monday evening. The standard one student has undergone surgery but her Neurosurgeon, Dr. Joel Cervantes says that they won’t know her long term prospects for another […]
Cervantes says that while little Janay can’t move her leg or her left arm, she is responding well to the treatment. She is expected to remain in the Intensive Care Unit at the Belize Healthcare Partners for another two days but she will need your prayers and financial help. Although she’s only seven, she has […]
There is more bad news to report tonight, this time from the north. On January nineteenth fifty-seven year old Edward Robinson suffered severe scalds to ninety percent of his body when a fault at a transformer at the Belize Sugar Industries compound caused a boiler to rupture. Robinson, who was the evaporator attendant, was standing […]
Moses Leviy, the rapper also known as Shyne, has maintained a low profile on the local scene but big names in the music industry have been trekking to Belize in connection with a new album in the pipeline. The recording would be his first since his release from prison. But the news tonight is that […]
You can run but you can’t hide, that’s what happened to convicted child molester, Robert, Synder, who is awaiting sentencing in the state of Colorado. Snyder was caught in Belize following a tip from a schoolgirl, who identified him as she watched the US television show, America’s Most Wanted. His capture prompted the visit of […]
The spate of murders that started over the weekend continued Monday night and as many prepared to start the work day, the gun violence had taken the lives of two Belize City men – all in a matter of twelve hours. Another clings to life at the K.H.M.H. It all happened in the same neighborhood, […]
On Monday night’s newscast, we reported on a shooting on Central American Boulevard. The victim clings to life by a thin thread at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he has been pronounced brain dead. But early this morning, at about six-thirty, Glenstine Martinez was killed by one bullet to his head just outside his […]
A search has intensified in the southern waters for a missing fisherman who set out to sea last Thursday. Devon Portillo along with Kareem Eiley left in their skiff from Independence Village to go fishing near the Ranguana Cayes. But they soon encountered bad weather. When their small craft overturned, Eiley lived to tell the […]
The wealth from fuel production in the Cayo District has not had any real signs of trickling down to the residents of the area, and now the discovery of another commercial well has set off a firestorm of complaints. That’s because the revenues collected by government are not adding up while the investors are raking […]
Cho also dropped a bombshell. And like the national anthem says, nature HAS blessed us with wealth untold because according to Cho, there are now revenues being earned from the exploration of gold. But don’t start rejoicing yet, because that gold is being mined in the Chiquibul National Reserve, an area that is prone to […]
Two persons were murdered over the weekend as a crime wave washed across the city spreading west to Roaring Creek. First we turn to Belize City, where the life of Neville Thomas Jr. was cut short early on Friday evening. He died instantly from the three shots fired by a lone gunman. Thomas, who is […]
The weekend’s second murder took place fifty miles away in Roaring Creek, also on Friday night. Twenty-nine year old Keith Sambula is believed to have been killed and dumped near the Belize River that runs through the village. The Punta Gorda resident was staying at a Roaring Creek house where party was in full swing […]
But while the motive of Sambula’s death will be challenging to determine, the cause of another man’s demise also in Roaring Creek will be known once the post mortem is concluded. Laurencio Ho’s body was discovered on Saturday afternoon on the floor of his house. He had a history of alcohol abuse, but his family […]
And in a shooting spree in the city, two persons are recovering from bullet wounds after they were injured while playing basketball at the newly upgraded Euphrates Basketball Court. Sometime around eight Sunday morning, several persons including twenty-seven year old Gavin Zuniga and twenty-four year old Bernard Felix were on the court when at least […]
Less than twenty-four hours after the Euphrates shooting, about a block away on Glenn Street, Isaiah Milton, a fourteen year old student from Salvation Army Primary School, was shot. Sometime around five this morning, Milton and two of his brothers were at their home when several knocks were heard at the door. Out of caution, […]
The result of an audit at City Hall was released some months ago, but few have seen a complete copy. That is because it contains highly damaging information about city hall’s finances. We have already reported on tradeoffs and write offs on trade licenses and last night, we touched on the excessive amount of monies […]
And in a development on the year’s first murder on January eighteenth: it has been two weeks since twenty-seven year old Salvador Martinez was fatally stabbed while trying to stop a fight between his friends and three other men. The murder took place during a football game between Nazarene and Ladyville Technical high schools at […]
The widely circulated Guatemalan newspaper, Prensa Libre, carried a provocative article this past Wednesday, claiming that members of the Belize Defence Force have been entering and raiding two villages on the Guatemalan side. It is all ironic because the reverse takes place frequently, and it is well documented that Guatemalans too often encroach on Belizean […]
