Six horrific murders in five days… not a pretty record and still no clear policy to arrest crime. The two strategies announced in the past year have failed miserably and crime and violence continue to spiral out of control. With each passing day, more bodies pile up in the morgues around the country. In Corozal […]
In the city, this morning the body of another murder victim was discovered. A twenty year old man was bludgeoned also on Friday night. The place where he was had his final breath is the place where he will be laid to eternal rest, that’s the Lord Ridge Cemetery. Marion Ali reports about this graveyard […]
And from crime to politics, Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers was charged with criminal offences last Thursday, she retaliated in kind at the man she believes is behind her fall, Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Hemorrhaging from the very public rift, the United Democratic Party went in full gear. Last Saturday, the National Party Council met at […]
The focus has shifted within the U.D.P. from the allegations of unaccounted funds of two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, to the conduct of the Mayor and what she said about the Prime Minister. But not so for the People’s United Party, the opposition is calling on the Mayor to take an immediate leave […]
Remember Mark King? He was the Councillor who dropped the first bombshell when he made allegations of financial mismanagement at City Hall as way back as 2008. King was not allowed to run for the U.D.P. City Council ticket and for most part he has been quiet. That is until this morning when he turned […]
Sanitation services remain unpaid, but the Belize Water Services Limited is asking the Public Utilities Commission to approve an increase in water rates. The P.U.C. says a determination will be made after following a full tariff review. News Five Jose Sanchez reports from a P.U.C. press conference which had its own side show. Jose Sanchez, […]
And at La Isla Bonita, police were called to cool heads between two rival water taxis operating next to each other. Tensions flared over the weekend when Giovanni Marin, the owner of the Tackle Box Pier, reportedly had a misunderstanding with the San Pedro Belize Express Water Taxi, which was using Marin’s dock. Marin reportedly […]
Police had two suspects detained for questioning after fifty-one year old Lorleen Young was robbed and brutally murdered last Thursday. But when we checked today, no charges had yet been laid. And while that matter is under investigation, the Caye Caulker Neighborhood Watch Program says there are many other crimes that the cops simply ignore. […]
In the village of Progresso meanwhile, a farmer drowned when he fell off a skiff in the lagoon. On Saturday afternoon, Bernhord Schmitt was testing the water vessel, when he lost control and went under water. He screamed for help, but eyewitness could not reach him in time. Hours later, a search team found Schmitt’s […]
On the highways, however, shortly after one this afternoon, three persons were injured in a traffic accident in the vicinity of Benny’s Apartments. The accident involved a Plymouth caravan traveling towards Belize City and an Isuzu rodeo going in the opposite direction. Both vehicles were extensively damaged from the impact of the collision. The rodeo […]
In the Supreme Court, a conviction stuns the courtroom. Gary Gabourel was shot and killed in front of his wife and children on March twenty fifth of 2007. The gunman was later identified as Stewart Sutherland. Sutherland reportedly claimed that he shot Gabourel once with his sixteen gauge shot gun then fled the scene of […]
In last Tuesday’s newscast, we reported of an adult and two primary school students who were injured in a shooting spree in the Saint Martin De Porres Area. Well today, almost a week after the shooting, one man has been identified as the gunman. Twenty-two year old Ervin James was arraigned in the Belize City […]
Also in the courts, police have made yet another arrest in connection with the ongoing investigation by the Financial Intelligence Unit of money laundering in which the Coye family has been charged. The latest person to be charged happens to be a would-be witness in the case. Twenty-five year old Deitrich Kingston, a resident of […]
Another US fugitive has been caught hiding out in Belize. This time it’s a convicted sex offender from the State of Oregon, fifty-five year old William Carl Welsh. According to a report on the Fox Twelve Oregon news website, his list of convictions includes Sodomy, Sexual Abuse and Displaying Child Sexual Conduct. But when Welsh […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley with yet another delivery of Sports Monday. Week nine of the Belize Bank Super League brought the re-match between Kraal Road and Hattieville F.C. to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday as the city team looked to avenge a 2-1 loss earlier this season at seventeen miles. However, absolutely no one was […]
