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Taco vendor shot by frustrated jacker

It’s about as senseless as crime gets. This morning around eleven a woman selling tacos near the western entrance to Belize City was shot at point blank range, apparently because she did not have enough money to satisfy her attackers. News 5’s Patrick Jones has the disturbing details. Patrick Jones, Reporting The blood stains on […]

Fight ends in death of Honduran

A game of cards ended in deadly violence on Saturday night in the Belize City riverside neighbourhood of Lindo’s Alley. Police say they were called to the area following an altercation and upon arrival, found twenty-year-old Honduran Saul Montejo fatally wounded in the kitchen of the house he occupied with four other people. Police Press […]

O.W. watchman charged with manslaughter

An Orange Walk teenager is dead, shot by a watchman in the wee hours of Saturday morning. According to police, seventeen year old Javier Blanco, an employee of New River Enterprise in Orange Walk Town, entered the yard of his worksite around two a.m. He was challenged by the night watchman, fifty-seven year old Rosalio […]

3 Gurkhas face court martial in 2001 killing

It took over two years, but word from the U.K. is that three British Army soldiers will face a military court martial in connection with the death of fourteen year old David Zabaneh. Zabaneh was killed by the Gurkhas as the result of a brawl that occurred on the night of May tenth, 2001 at […]

Belize, Caribbean Anglicans oppose gay Bishop

Homosexuals in the church… it’s not a topic that is featured in Sunday sermons, but the proposed ordination of an openly gay priest as Bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States is threatening to split the Anglicans in two. And the fallout could have repercussions all the way to Belize. According to Anglican […]

Lions Club raises funds for hostel

Having a relative facing surgery is hard enough, but for many hospital patients and families who live outside Belize City there is the added burden of finding a place to stay. Enter the Lions. Patrick Jones, Reporting Thirty years after they first started serving the community, the Belize City Lions Club is adding one more […]

Yabra, Raiders victorious in weekend sports

Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve just stepped up to a fresh dish of Sports Monday. Week four of the Regent Insurance Cup Tournament found the pride and joy of Belize City, Kulture Yabra, still looking for its first season win. Yesterday’s match at the M.C.C. Grounds brought them face to face with the […]