A pageant with a different mission returns this coming weekend after a three-year hiatus. Miss African Queen will be back at the Bliss where six young ladies will be competing to show off the cultural flavour of Africa. The proceeds of the pageant will be used to assist needy women and children. Here is Duane […]
With a new date for the I.C.J. referendum set for May eighth, we revisit an old story in which former News Five reporter Janelle Chanona journeyed south to the illegal community of Santa Rosa. Her maiden visit to the southern village revealed a number of new details that weren’t common knowledge in 2002. The settlers […]
There were a number of traffic fatalities over the Easter holidays, but we start with the report of a shooting of a father and his infant son, which has shocked the community. Jose Navarette Senior and his three-year-old son received gunshot injuries at their home over the weekend. Police say that the farm manager of […]
There were three fatal accidents over the extend weekend. In Belize City, George Baptist was well-known to commuters who use the Novelo Bus terminal. But on Sunday afternoon, the handyman met an untimely death. In between tending to clients, Baptist went to a nearby restaurant where something went wrong inside. A witness says Baptist was […]
There was further loss of life. A resident of Valley of Peace perished in a hit and run accident on Saturday night. Andruse Choc lost his life in the area of La Democracia on the George Price Highway. His family says he was speaking to his wife by phone when he was knocked down by […]
There were also two accidents over the weekend in Benque Viejo in which one person perished and the other remains in a critical condition at the Western Regional Hospital. The police department has embarked on a motorcycle safety campaign, but over the weekend, Benque Viejo resident, Marco Tulio de la Rosa perished when the motorbike […]
Construction got underway earlier today to repair a tomb that was destroyed over the Easter weekend at the Lord’s Ridge Cemetery. While no one was seriously injured when a vehicle collided into the grave, the burial chamber on the edge of the George Price Highway was completely destroyed. It is not the first time that […]
A farmer in Armenia lost his life when he was struck by lightning last Friday. Thirty-nine-year-old Carlos Alvarado was tending to some crops along with his brother when a storm suddenly appeared. Carlos and his brother ran for cover under some cohune palms, but the bolt of lightning struck and killed him almost immediately. Reporter […]
The morgue at the Southern Regional Hospital has been closed down and it will remain that way for possibly another week or two. It comes on the heels of another complaint about the nonfunctional morgue. In the most recent incident, Evan Andrewin reported that his wife died last week and he wasn’t able to store […]
There was a home invasion out west in the Bradley’s Bank area of San Ignacio Town. Sixty-two-year-old retiree Dan Williams reported to police that sometime after nine p.m. on Good Friday, he was inside his house with his son when they were accosted by two men; one wielded a machete. The robbers demanded money, but […]
Turning to the courts…A former security guard is happily home tonight after he had already been remanded to prison for an incident that purportedly occurred before the Easter holidays. The resident of the Lords Bank area, Darell Gray was wrongly accused of holding up a city man and allegedly robbing him of his cell-phone, ring […]
A father of ten children was convicted today of sexually assaulting the mother of seven of his children. The court ordered forty-year-old Andy Garcia of Belize City to be on good behaviour for this year or he will have to spend six months in jail. This morning, Garcia pleaded guilty to sexual and common assault […]
Three Honduran fishermen were busted over the weekend for illegally fishing within the Spawning Aggregation Zone at the Gladden Spit and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve in southern Belize. The trio: Edwin Carcamo Banegas, Hector Rodriguez Martinez and Wilford Machado were in a boat named Angelica when they were spotted by a patrol of SEA Rangers […]
Although there were three fatal road traffic accidents recorded, police are reporting that its Safe Highway Operations over the extended weekend were successful. Commander of Operations, ACP Marco Vidal spoke about the crime-fighting strategy and the deployment of specialized units across the country in hotspots. He says that the department ensured that crime was contained […]
The weekly police press brief had a change of venue today; it was hosted at the office of the Commissioner of Police in Belmopan. ComPol Chester Williams took the opportunity to speak about the success so far for April, which over the past years proved to be packed with criminal activity due to mass gatherings […]
The Safe Highway Initiative continues into the National Agricultural and Trade Show set to begin this Friday at the national show grounds in Belmopan. According to ACP Marco Vidal, the facilities have been inspected and they are in the process of finalising the deployment of officers to hotspots across the grounds as well as within […]
Belizean rock band Ascenthium is hoping to follow in the footsteps of musical forerunner Verge of Umbra by participating in and winning a regional competition that will secure them a place on stage in Germany in the weeks ahead. The group has spent countless hours preparing for its chance to impress the judges in Panama […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday [Highlights of the weekend in sports….]
A new date of May eighth, 2019 has been set for the I.C.J. referendum to be held. It succeeds the signing into law of the Belize Territorial Dispute Referendum Act earlier this week, following the introduction and passage of that piece of legislation in the House of Representatives last Friday. A writ of referendum dated […]
A Belize City man is hospitalized after he was stabbed in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Police say that forty-one-year-old Delbert Quilter was socializing when he got into an argument with another man. It was during that misunderstanding that Quilter was stabbed in the chest. Cops say they don’t know much about what led […]
A Corozal businessman is in a critical condition after he was badly beaten inside his home. Police say that they don’t have much details about what happened but cops in Corozal responded to the scene sometime around eight this morning. It was there that they found the owner of Maya World Guest House suffering from […]
There was a shooting on Wednesday night in Belize City. Police say that sometime after ten a man was shot inside his yard – that shot, according to police, was fired by someone the victim is familiar with. Police say they are now looking for one suspect. Here’s more from Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino. Insp. […]
Police say a man was shot and robbed over a money dispute on Tuesday evening in Ladyville. Twenty-six-year-old Harry Montero was shot in the leg after he tried to repay some money that he owed to a man identified as Aaron Flowers. Montero reported that this led to a dispute during which Flowers shot him […]
Earlier this week, we told you about Oswald Warrior who succumbed to gunshot injuries a week after he was shot. Warrior was walking along Sarstoon Street in Belize City when a man shot him the face. Since that shooting, the Corozal resident had been in the hospital in a critical condition until he passed away […]
Three separate businesses in the Cayo District were robbed this week. On Monday night sometime around eight, cops responded to an armed robbery in Valley of Peace Village where three armed men held up a grocery store owner. The men assaulted the owner and got away with cash and a licensed pistol. Police say that […]
