You’d have thought that the police department would be crowing like a rooster who just stepped out the henhouse. But apart from a terse and enigmatic press release there has been not a single official word from any officer, from the commissioner on down, about Sunday morning’s killing of Belize’s most wanted fugitive, Wensworth Mangar. […]
While Patrick Jones was questioning the dead man’s relatives in Cayo, I spoke to other family members in Belize City, where they had come to identify the body at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital morgue. Not surprisingly, their disdain for the authorities had not been diminished by Sunday’s events. A grieving Sarita Bennett, the mother […]
In other crime news, this time of a less unusual variety, a Chinese restaurant in Belmopan was robbed Friday night. Twenty-seven year old Jim Saan told police that around 9:20 a barefoot masked man entered his restaurant and bar on Constitution Drive. The intruder brandished a pistol, demanded money and then helped himself to four […]
A desire to get high has landed an American resident of Ladyville in double trouble. Police report that forty-eight year old Walter David Soehnge of Marage Road went to purchase three sticks of weed from a neighborhood vendor and paid for the purchase with a twenty dollar bill. The salesman didn’t have change however, and […]
If Marine Researcher Nicole Auil is getting to be as well known as C.I.B.’s Simeon Alvarez, it’s no coincidence. Both often deal in death… and while the police have to cope with their share of homicides so does Nicole… although her victims are marine mammals and not human beings. Today she investigated her third manatee […]
The area of Belize City known as Port Loyola has earned a reputation for controversy over the subject of housing. Last year, for instance, there was the infamous house built in the middle of Matura Street. Then earlier this month it was a disaster on Rivero Street, when a house came tumbling to earth. Today […]
Good evening. I’m James Adderley and welcome to this crucial serving of Sports Monday. The Belizean football sub-champion Real Verdes face its second CONCACAF opposition a of the ’98 campaign. Yesterday in a role as host to Aurora of Guatemala. It’s rainy day this Sunday but the Guats still get off to a great start. […]
