Two crimes merged into one today as a Belize City youth, Allen “Jam” Quilter, has been shot dead and his best friend, Alfonso “Cat” Williams, is missing and believed murdered. According to Assistant Inspector Simeon Alvarez the drama unfolded Wednesday morning when they were called in to investigate the disappearance of Williams. Williams’ sister Laurita, […]
Eleven people, including two women, were today taken to Magistrate’s Court by C.I.B. officers to answer to a range of charges in connection with the Logwood Street shooting on Monday night. According to Assistant Inspector Simeon Alvarez, they believe the shoot-out was a result of an order given by a Belize City drug kingpin to […]
A get-rich-quick scheme was turned into a go-to-jail quick scheme for two Honduran youths, as police on Wednesday evening foiled an attempted kidnapping in San Pedro. According to the officer in charge of the town’s police station, Assistant Superintendent Michael Gutierrez, it was an elaborate plan, but one that apparently had some unanticipated glitches. Thirty […]
As criminal behavior goes, it’s not as dramatic as kidnapping, but if you’ve ever eaten a meal of rotten chicken you know that the results it produces constitute a crime against humanity… or at least the human stomach. And that’s just the way the health department feels. This afternoon health officers closed down the Yang […]
For the second time in as many weeks a major catastrophe involving a butane gas delivery truck has been narrowly averted on the Northern Highway. Last week it was a truck belonging to Belize Western Energy Limited that skidded off the road and overturned, blocking traffic for hours. Today, the highway was again the scene […]
Were it not for an occasional royal palm, their neatly laid out fields could easily pass for Canada, New England or the U.S. midwest. But the rolling hills of Spanish Lookout were not always so well covered in corn, beans and pasture. In fact when the first Mennonite settlers arrived here in 1958 the land […]
