A Western Pine resident, who had two unpaid drug trafficking bills, was escorted to court today on a third charge. He is twenty-eight-year old Andrew Smith, a resident of the mile eight community located on the George Price Highway. This morning, Smith picked up his third conviction when he appeared before Magistrate Deborah Rogers […]
The lower flat of a two-storey building was gutted by a fire early this morning in the Old Capital. The blaze started in the kitchen of the wooden house and before it could be contained, it swept through the entire floor. Tenant, Anita McKoy, left the kitchen briefly to attend to her daughter who was […]
Another wooden structure which was home to Glenford Adolphus, better known as Easy Glen, was gutted by fire on Friday night. Just before eleven o’clock that night, firefighters were called out to an area off Curl Thompson Street in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. The elevated wooden structure was completely engulfed in […]
This afternoon, within days of elections on September sixth, Guatemala’s Congress lifted President Otto Perez Molina’s immunity of office. It means that Perez Molina can now be charged for a customs corruption scandal that has rocked his administration in recent months. A hundred and thirty-two of one hundred and fifty-eight lawmakers approved the measures so […]
