It was a horrific accident, one of the deadliest and certainly the most gruesome, according to our records. A total of six persons died on the spot. The first accident led to the next at the same location at mile twenty-seven on the Western Highway on Saturday. An entire family of five perished early in […]
Within hours, the second accident claimed the life of a Ministry of Works employee, Sherman Williams, while he was operating an excavator at the same accident scene to remove the tow head. Here again is Marion Ali. Marion Ali, Reporting Thirty nine year old Sherman Williams, a Ministry of Works employee, was one of several […]
Eight year old Marques Mahler, fought bravely for his life following a brazen daylight shooting on Friday afternoon. He was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where doctors performed emergency surgery to save him. Despite their attempts Marques passed away on Saturday afternoon, the youngest murder victim of the street violence in the south […]
The passing of eight year old Marques Mahler on Saturday after being shot multiple times a day earlier is believed to have created utter chaos in the Faber’s Road area shortly after the family received word of his death. A swarm of police and B.D.F. soldiers descended on the residences of Theodore Mahler and Brian […]
With the prospects for reconciliation with her Party looking grim for Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers, we asked last Thursday: Do you think an independent mayor can effectively run the city without the support of the U.D.P. central government? On our e-poll many of our viewers took time to cast their votes and post their comments. […]
The homecoming was nowhere close to the grand welcome they got last August following the COCABA games in Cancun. When the Belize National Basketball Team landed at the P.G.I.A. from the Dominican Republic, this morning, there was no fanfare and they were also minus the coach. Last week, Belize trounced Trinidad and Tobago and made […]
Channel Five’s Reality Wedding groom to be, twenty three-year old Julio Escalante, is showing positive signs of recovery at the K.H.M.H. where he is receiving treatment. Julio was seriously injured and trapped beneath a car last week as he headed to work at the Princess Hotel and Casino. He was injured on the hip, shoulder […]
Heading west, a mother and her three children lost all their belongings in a fire on Saturday night. The small wooden house in the Another World Area of Roaring Creek was gutted by flames that started from a candle the occupant of the house, Kendra Pech, left burning on top of the microwave. Pech and […]
In court, Clarence Hemmans was convicted on May twenty-first of the murder of Kevin Arnold, and eleven days later, he was handed a sentence of life imprisonment. Hemmans has served just over a month since conviction, and already there are signs he doesn’t intend to spend life behind bars. During a routine check at the […]
This morning, fifty-one year old Mandy Usher of Belize City appeared in court to answer charges relating to the theft of a bicycle belonging to Special Constable, Coleen Banks. The forty-two year-old Special Constable alleges that she parked her Beach cruiser bicycle at her yard before leaving to work on July sixth. She soon spotted Usher […]
Gary Seawell, one of two brothers currently incarcerated at the Hattieville Prison on drug trafficking and weapons charges appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb McKenzie this morning in respect of an extradition request by the US. Seawell is wanted by U.S. authorities in connection with the trafficking of cocaine and marijuana as well as money […]
The violence spread to Orange Walk over the weekend. Two men are hospitalized in the Northern Regional Hospital after a shooting and a chopping incident over the weekend. In the case of the shooting, a housewife claims she was threatened by two men so when they entered her yard, she turned on them with her […]
The CentroBasket Games are now behind us; we didn’t advance pass that tournament, but there are hopes for another regional sports match, this time in football. The Belize Defence Force Football Club is the national reigning champion for two consecutive years and they’re now preparing to go up against Platense, one of the top teams […]
Good Evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Belize National Basketball team made its final stand inside Centro Basket at the Dominican republic on Saturday in a must win match-up against the number one team in the tournament and the number nine team in the world Puerto Rico. Having to face a […]
Just past mid-day, a man heading back to work after purchasing lunch, was shot multiple times on Faber’s Road. He did not survive the vicious shooting and died while receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. An eight year old boy who was in the same area was also injured when the barrage of […]
Elsewhere in the city, a senior citizen was viciously attacked early Thursday morning. What’s most disturbing about the attack is that the victim was not at a crime hotspot; he was right at home, sleeping in his bed. At five fifteen a.m., sixty two year old Percival Blancaneaux, of Taylor’s Alley was in bed when […]
Channel Five’s Reality Wedding Groom to be, Julio Escalante was badly injured on Wednesday and his condition appears to be worsening. The twenty-three year old was hit from behind by a car as he rode his bicycle to work at the Princess Hotel & Casino. The incident happened not far from his family’s home on […]
There are more details available on Wednesday’s sudden death of a Cuban Embassy employee. Embassy personnel are not authorized to provide interviews but it is known that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba will be deploying an official to Belize to assist with the tragedy. On Thursday, afternoon the body of sixty-eight year old […]
The Belize National Basketball Team tossed a monkey wrench in Cuba’s plan to dominate the 2010 CentroBasket Tournament in a historic win on Thursday. But despite its current standings of two wins and one loss, Belize still has to beat Puerto Rico to be guaranteed the top spot in group B of the games in […]
Equally important to Belize’s prowess on the court is its ability to study the enemy. Belize’s mental game off court has been as crucial as its command of the ball on court and today’s workout was less physical but similarly grueling. Following Thursday night’s stellar performance, the players took a day off from shooting and […]
There are close to three hundred and fifty clinical cases of dengue fever with upwards of forty hemorrhagic cases diagnosed over the past few weeks. Most of the cases have been detected in the Belize and Cayo Districts. That’s the latest information from the Ministry of Health. The Ministry also claims it is spraying vulnerable […]
Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and the fictional Hannibal Lecter are probably the three most well known serial killers. Well another serial killer’s identity has been found out recently and it seems he may have ties to Belize. The killer who was called the Grim Sleeper, murdered ten of his victims between 1985 to 2007. Fifty […]
In the courts today, five of the six men who allegedly plotted to rob and murder businessman Jose Shoman Junior and his family in December 2008, were read their indictment. Miguel Mayorga, Eswin Rosalez, Carlos Juarez, Jose Ishmael Cordova and Cesar Julio Aldana all appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas and were read charges of Conspiracy […]
A fifty year old man was found guilty of Carnal Knowledge in the Belmopan Supreme Court. Venacio Mai was accused of sexually abusing a fifteen year old minor in April 2008 while they both visited a woman in Bullet Tree Village. He was charged four months later, in August and around that time the child […]
There are numerous summer camps taking place around the country for kids, but one coveted camp is the Belize Defence Force’s annual program that caters for just about every child’s interest. Hundreds participate each year in the wide array of activities which are sponsored by the Ministry of Defence. B.D.F. Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel […]
