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Belizean authorities are investigating the remnants of a burnt aircraft discovered off the Coastal Road. The airplane was found in a remote area near an illegal landing strip. Police say that they are unable to say if the aircraft was being used to carry illicit cargo such as drugs. On Sunday, December thirty-first, sometime around […]
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Two Corozal men are hospitalized following an attack in a village in the north. According to Police, a man reported that a group of men attacked him with a machete on New Year’s Day. The man told police that he stabbed one of his attackers in self-defense. Today both men are in the hospital with […]
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Several arrests have been made in a string of crimes that have been committed across the country over the past three weeks. In the case of the theft of copper wire in the Corozal District, police have arrested and charged Brian Hyde in connection with that incident in San Joaquin Village. He is also the […]
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Thirteen babies were born on New Year’s Day. According to the Belize Health Information System, the Ministry of Health says that four babies were born in Belize City; three in Dangriga; three in Belmopan; two in Orange Walk Town and one in Punta Gorda. No births were recorded for San Ignacio and Corozal. This morning, […]
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Teacher Desmond Lewis was brutally killed in the early hours of the morning of December twenty-eight sent shockwaves among his colleagues and the Dangriga Community. The teacher’s throat was slashed and he was stabbed to the upper chest. It happened inside his friend’s home in Belize City but Lewis was last seen with a male […]
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Twenty-nine-year-old Charles Fortune is recovering from a gunshot wound to the right knee after being injured on Monday night by an unidentified assailant who opened fire on him on Ebony Street. He told Belize City police that he was seated inside a vehicle when he heard shots being fired. Fortune realized shortly afterwards that he […]
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The holiday weekend wasn’t without its share of arsons. In the north and south there were two cases reported of the criminal burning of properties. On Saturday night, at around seven-thirty, Dangriga police were called out to an area along the Southern Highway where they saw a twenty-by-twenty feet wooden and thatched house engulfed in […]
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Forty manatees were killed in 2017. It proved to be a dangerous and deadly year for the gentle mammals. Belize has one of the healthiest populations of the West Indian Manatee, but the specie continues to be under threat, particularly from boaters. And just two days into the New Year, one manatee has already been […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
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