The streets of Belize City are often described as dangerous…but the warning usually refers to muggers, druggers and gangsters…not drivers. Early this morning, however, one well known Belize City resident died behind the wheel. For the past fifteen years, forty-nine-year-old Lennox Munnings covered many miles on his bicycle cart as he rode around the city […]
On Saturday a coalition of Church leaders led a rally and march against the impending arrival of the M.S. Leeward, and its estimated 900 homosexual passengers. Attendance was small and the demonstration went off without incident. It may or may not be a coincidence but this afternoon in Belize City police arrested two local men […]
For the Montes family of La Democracia village in the Belize District, the last year and a half has been a trying time. In October of 1996, a dispute in the village ended with one Montes brother, Roosevelt, shooting another, Victor, to death. Over the weekend, tragedy struck again. This time the victim was yet […]
While a bench may have been the weapon in the death of John Montes in La Democracia, in Stann Creek’s Silver Creek village it was gun play that resulted in the killing of a fourteen year old boy. According to police reports, on Friday night, the teenager, identified as Juan Carlos Orellano, was out hunting […]
In Belize City two young men have ended up in the hospital, victims of what appears to have been a ride by shooting. Phillip McKay told police that around 10:20 Friday night he was standing in front of Sarita’s Bar at the Corner of Mosul and Vernon Streets when he heard gunshots ring out. McKay […]
Belize’s most wanted man, Winsworth Mangar is back in the news tonight … and no he hasn’t been captured. But the fugitive seems to be living up to his prophesy of kicking up dust in 1998. A LOVE F.M. radio news report says that Mangar had been sighted near Mile 31 on the Hummingbird Highway. […]
In political news things have calmed down considerably since Friday’s confrontation in Belmopan, but further west in the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena there is some minor indigestion within the ranks of the PUP. Former Mayor Marconi Matus, who last year stepped down from the post amidst internal squabbles among the slim […]
Good evening?I?m James Adderley and welcome to this portion of Sports Monday. The BFL playoffs brought a pivotal showdown to La Isla Bonita on Sunday as the mighty San Pedro Dolphins played host to undefeated Acros of Belize City in an effort to keep its waning title hopes alive. It?s only three minutes into the […]
