Yesterday she turned herself in and today she has been charged with a number of crimes. Doris “Munchie” Martinez, the Belize City woman who threw acid into a crowd of domino players was today hit with four counts of common assault and one each of maim, harm, grievous harm, wounding and damage to property. Along […]
In justice that was much longer in coming, P.C. Jacinto Roaches has been charged with manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct–for a traffic mishap that occurred over two years ago. Roaches was driving Supreme Court Justice John Rivero from Belize City to Belmopan on the evening of August twenty-third, 1999, when he […]
In other crime news, police have arrested two Belize City men suspected of breaking into Delta Store on Albert Street. Twenty-one year old Edward Neal of Mohammed Ali Street and twenty-three year old Brent Gonzalez, a resident of Berkley Street, have been charged with the burglary of the store, which occurred in the wee hours […]
With thousands of Belizeans awaiting their December telephone bills with a mixture of defiance and trepidation, rumours swirled today that B.T.L. was having second thoughts about the implementation of their new rate structure, which was supposed to come into effect December first. Numerous calls to the company’s P.R. Department were met with the reply that […]
Motorists travelling on Central American Boulevard are asked to approach with caution when driving from Racoon Street to Neal Penn Road. The east side of that section of the Boulevard has been closed and the west side has been divided into two lanes. The closure is the result of drainage works currently being carried out […]
In the last several years new school buildings have been sprouting like weeds at the start of rainy season. Today, the earth was turned once more, this time in Belize City. Ann-Marie reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting It was a small, but impressive ceremony this morning as students of Wesley Lower School on Albert Street in […]
In other education news, UNICEF has responded quickly to help rebuild schools in the south destroyed by Hurricane Iris. Twenty temporary classroom structures have been constructed in nine hard hit communities and additional funds have been earmarked for textbooks and educational supplies. Primary donor to the UNICEF assistance has been the Government of Italy. On […]
The problem of child abuse in Belize is no longer swept under the rug, as in years past, but despite the efforts of NGOs like NOPCA and increased sensitisation of the Human Services Department, police and judiciary, Belizean children still resemble an endangered species. This morning a major three-day conference opened in Belize City that […]
After a four-month break, the Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Tower Hill Riot had to be adjourned this morning. The reason was that the three witnesses: Glenford Arthurs, George Sanchez and Police Superintendent Paul Wade were never served with the notice for their appearance. Arthurs however showed up anyway because […]
Doris “Munchie” Martinez, the woman being sought by police for throwing acid in the face of a group of Belize City domino players, has turned herself in to authorities. According to her common law husband, Frank Armstrong, Martinez called him this morning and he advised her to turn herself in. She agreed and he picked […]
A man accused of beating his pregnant wife unconscious is tonight still in custody waiting to be charged. According to police, thirty-eight year old Clifton Davis will be charged tomorrow with aggravated assault for the weekend incident in which Alice Corpius, his eight-month pregnant common-law wife, was viciously beaten and left for dead in Democracia […]
In an update on another story, Toledo East Representative Mike Espat is in a Fort Lauderdale hospital tonight recovering from injuries suffered in an automobile accident on Sunday. Espat was flown to Florida on Monday afternoon by air ambulance and is receiving treatment for his injuries, the most serious of which are said to be […]
A security guard has been found dead on the Southern Highway. According to police reports, seventy-seven year old Harwin White, a security guard for K and W sawmill, located near Georgetown, was last seen at his post on Sunday night at 8:00, but around 7:30 on Monday morning the relief officer found him dead on […]
In a story we ran last week on the appointment of Assad Shoman as Foreign Minister, we mentioned an incident in which an intoxicated Belizean diplomat based in London became embroiled in a playful fight with a fellow party guest and bit off a piece of the Englishman’s ear. While that diplomat, Luis Salazar, was […]
In terms of strong winds and high water, the part of Belize hit hardest by Hurricane Iris was not the Placencia Peninsula, Monkey River, Independence or the villages of inland Toledo. It was the dozens of cayes stretching from the outer atoll at Glovers across the Barrier Reef all the way to the inner channel. […]
The most common complaint by Belizean drivers about fuel for their vehicles is invariably the price. But with gas prices comfortably down from their 2001 highs, the latest problem is one of supply. Rumours of an impending fuel shortage fluttered around the city today and News 5’s Janelle Chanona got behind the wheel to check […]
With the media reciting a seemingly endless litany of crime and violence in their daily headlines, it’s always nice to find a story that bucks the trend. In this case our report begins well back in the last century…in the village of Bermudian Landing. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Ninety-nine year old Gertrude Phillips still manages to […]
Police are tonight on the lookout for a teenager who witnessed a grisly crime in which a pregnant woman was beaten senseless and left for dead near La Democracia over the weekend. According to police, on Saturday night thirty year old Alice Copus, mother of three and eight months pregnant, was travelling with her common-law […]
Toledo East Representative Mike Espat Sr. is tonight in serious condition after he sustained head and body injuries in a traffic accident on the Western Highway over the weekend. Espat has been admitted to the Belize Medical Associates in Belize City and we understand underwent surgery earlier today. According to police, Espat was travelling with […]
An acid toting bembe intent on executing a little country justice in a Belize City nightspot has left eight people suffering from multiple burns. According to police reports, Dorris Martinez, also known as Munchie, entered the Zone nightclub on Slaughterhouse Road around 5 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, armed with a bottle of acid and on […]
A man intent on saving his beloved pet from harm is tonight dead as a result of his efforts. Police reports are that around 7:30 on Friday night, thirty-four year old Godfrey Staine of mile nineteen on the Northern Highway was trying to catch his dog and chased him onto the highway. Unfortunately for Staine, […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a Chinese businessman from Belize City. Police say at around 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, Shao Lui Deng, a businessman of Mahogany Street, was driving his blue minivan towards Corozal, but upon reaching the area between miles forty-three and forty-four lost control and overturned. […]
An orphanage for abused and neglected children was today the recipient of monetary donation from a Belize City business house. Marla’s House of Hope, located in Belmopan, was today awarded a lump sum of money from Travellers Limited and a pledge of a further donation every month for the rest of this year. According to […]
Today, to the delight of more than a few parents, most school children were back in the classroom. But for one community pre-school, which has been robbed twice in the past three weeks, this morning was looking pretty bleak in more ways than one. But a couple hours into the day Area Representative and Minister […]
Arriving in Belize today was CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington. He is here to brief Prime Minister Said Musa, who as of the new year took on the chairmanship of the Caribbean Community for the next six months. At a joint press conference late this afternoon in Belmopan, Carrington explained why in the era of […]
