Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood is a former press officer of the police department. He is a well-known for being outspoken and at times for going against the grain of the department. Over the weekend, news spread like wildfire that there was an attempt on his life. But who shot at him? The inspector says he came […]
There was a confrontation between residents of the Mayflower Street area and the Gang Suppression Unit, which raised the temperature in the area. On Sunday night, a truck full of officers descended in the neighbourhood. Sixty-four-year-old Sandra Uter, the grandmother of the slain Ghost Town boss, Kendis Flowers was pepper sprayed, which caused old wounds […]
There was further loss of life, but on the highways. A traffic accident in the north claimed the life of a young woman in the early hours of this morning. Police responded to an accident in Ranchito Village where they saw a car overturned. The driver, twenty-five-year-old Ashanti Rowland, lost control of her vehicle, which […]
Another fatal traffic accident claimed the life of sixty-two-year-old Seine Bight resident, Japhet Marin. On Saturday, sometime around nine-thirty in the morning, police were called out to an area between miles twenty-three and twenty-four in Middlesex Village in southern Belize. Marin was one of two persons traveling in the vehicle, which was found off the […]
A freak accident on Sunday ended in the death of Orange Walk Town resident Evelina Suliema Celiz. The thirty-six-year-old NEMO Coordinator was at a horse race event at San Felipe Village when about five-thirty, a horse trampled her. The narrative is that Celiz was attempting to cross the race track while the race was ongoing […]
Three persons were injured in separate shootings over the weekend. Twenty-seven-year-old Akeem Lopez is not known to police for any gang or criminal activity, but on Sunday afternoon he was marked for death by a lone gunman. The motive for the near-fatal attack is still unclear. Around one-thirty p.m., police were called out to the […]
A shooting in Ladyville, also on Sunday, has left two persons hospitalized in a serious, but stable condition. Police say they have no idea what motivated the shooting that targeted nineteen-year-old Patrick Canelo and his friend forty-five-year-old Emmerito Reyes sometime around nine p.m. The two men were socializing on Flamboyant Street in Ladyville when the […]
Sixty-one-year-old James Bradley had a terrifying experience early on Saturday morning. Bradley was sleeping inside his house at mile twelve of the George Price Highway when he was awoken by suspicious noises between two and four o’clock that morning. When he opened his eyes, he saw a masked man trying to break into his bedroom. […]
No one or organization is spared from the hands of criminals. Sometime over the weekend, the Belmopan Clinic of the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired was burglarized. When staff arrived this morning, they noted that the entire office had been cleaned by thieves. The B.C.V.I.’s Optometrist and Ophthalmic Assistant was first to report to […]
There is a new national Queen of the Bay to be crowed on the morning of September tenth. The title was clinched by Miss Belmopan, Jenny Lee Cruz, after her second go at the pageant. The nineteen-year-old was also picked as Miss Eloquence from among the other delegates from the districts. The first runner up […]
Even as the city recorded a bloody weekend, over on the north side, there were several festive events taking place; the Belikin Bash at the B.T.L. Park and the Carnival King and Queen Competition at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. As early as five p.m. on Saturday, prejudging commenced before the revelers from ten bands, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in sports…]
