Just before six o’clock on Tuesday evening, a Salvadoran caretaker who has been living in Belize for some twenty years was hit and killed in Belmopan. A Belize Bus Owners Cooperative bus transporting passengers to the City was involved in the terrible traffic accident. As a matter of routine, Candelario Lopez, rode the same route […]
The rape of forests in Belize for Rosewood continues unabated. One strong environmentalist and proponent for the end of the trade is People’s National Party’s Wil Maheia. Maheia has been personally documenting illegal shipments in the south. He lives in Punta Gorda and recently travelled to Barranco Village in the Toledo District. Maheia found that […]
Turning to the courts, twenty-two year old Sheldon Coleman of Independence Village was arraigned on a single charge of Grievous Harm upon Leroy Harrison Banner, for a stabbing which took place on Monday in Lemonal Village. Police have also charged Orlando Banner with abetment to commit grievous harm in connection with the same incident. Banner […]
Twenty-eight year old Elvis Haylock has been sentenced to attend a Batterers Intervention Program at the Women’s Department after his wife, Shawn Haylock, accused him of domestic abuse. Today, Haylock was arraigned on a single charge of harm, after it was reported that on Monday, he intentionally and unlawfully caused harm to his wife. Haylock […]
A sixteen year old minor is tonight recovering from a stab wound to the abdomen. But he is no victim; the teen attempted to rob Arcade World on Freetown Road at around twenty minutes past ten o’clock on Tuesday night. The manager, Francisco Rodriguez reported that he was at the arcade along with a co-worker […]
Senator Lisa Shoman has recently completed her duty as head of an OAs observer mission that oversaw the Jamaica elections. Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica’s first female prime minister led her party to a landslide victory against the ruling party. By all accounts it was an early election called and lost by former Prime Minister Robert […]
Youths between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, who dropped out of school, can look forward to skill training in four different disciplines. Earlier today, the Magazine Road Skills Training Center programme was introduced today by the Ministry of Education and Youth. The center also aims to empower the students by providing them with employable […]
The last murder in 2011 took place on New Year’s Eve; the count stands at one hundred and twenty-five, five less than in the previous year. But there is little comfort in the Old Capital where a nine year old did not live to see 2012; he was hit when a hail of bullets penetrated […]
While he was arrested at Palm Island soon after the shooting, Renan Briceño Junior was formally arraigned this morning. The thirty-two year old Orange Walk resident appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and was charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm upon Dale Tillett. In court, Briceno Jr. […]
A U.D.P. town councilor from Corozal is in deep trouble tonight following serious allegations made by the father of a sixteen year old high school student. Corozal police told News Five today that they could not provide details of the case since the investigation is at an early stage. The claim is against Councilor Willie […]
The Prime Minister’s New Year’s message offered a gift to persons who owe thousands of dollars to the Belize Social Security Board (S.S.B.). The government says it will purchase from S.S.B., all mortgages at or below fifty thousand dollars. The mortgages were originally with the Ministry of Housing before they were transferred to the S.S.B. […]
Earlier we told you about the rash of violence in the city. Also on New Year’s Eve, at around seven a.m., thirty-eight year old Troy Flowers was riding his bike on the Mullins River Road heading toward the junction when he was ambushed. Flowers reported that a man dressed in a camouflage jacket, long green […]
And as they were ringing in the New Year at church, two teenagers were stabbed multiple times in San Antonio, Toledo. At around eight p.m. on Saturday, eighteen year old Solomon Sho and Elmer Cowo were at church when they got into a quarrel with Hermelindo Ogaldez and Aron Bol, both of San Antonio. Sho […]
A preliminary inquiry has concluded in the case against Belize City resident Nelson Henry, who is accused of the murder of notorious street figure, Edward Lord Junior. The twenty-three year old was shot at least seven times on June twenty-ninth, 2011 as he stood on Mahogany Street. Today, Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer found that there […]
But back in the city, just one hour into 2012, the first baby of the year was born at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. At one o’clock a.m. on January first, a minor gave birth to the New Year’s baby, a healthy seven pound thirteen ounce little girl. Due to the age of the mother, […]
Ras Indio is the son of Bredda David and he is a seasoned musician much like his father. He has taken his brand of music at reggae festivals in Europe, Canada and the United States. Indio has recently returned from one such musical mission and he has brought with him another artist with whom he […]
Thirty-four year old Luis Polanco, the driver of a Toyota HiAce, who was transporting a team of employees to Windy Hills Resort for an early morning shift on December twenty-sixth, has succumbed to extensive head trauma he received during the road traffic accident. Polanco remained comatose at the Belize Healthcare Partners for a week following […]
The weekend murder of nine year-old Aaron Pope, a student of Grace Primary, is particularly tough for the Pope family. In 2010, the family suffered the loss of Elbert Pope; they are still grieving his death and are now preparing to bury his son. Elbert, a well-known cyclist and father of Aaron, was also murdered […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this our 1st issue of Sports Monday for the year 2012. The New Years Day Cycle Classic as presented by the Belize Cycling Association in collaboration with KREM was the rage this Sunday featuring some 80 riders overall in the various categories. We’re at the start of […]
