Belize City police have arrested and charged three people in connection with the discovery of a large amount of ammunition, including explosives. It’s not the biggest cache to be taken in by police, but the amount of bullets and expended shells which turned up in a raid of a house in Belize City this morning […]
Police are still trying to identify and locate the suspect in last Friday’s brutal slaying of a young mother and her unborn child in the village of La Democracia. The only information police have to go on so far is that the man goes by the name of “Dawood”. They also believe that he has […]
There’s one less person on death row tonight. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council today upheld the appeal of Pascual Bull against his 1994 murder conviction and subsequent mandatory sentence of death by hanging. According to the oral judgement, the murder conviction and sentence was overturned and replaced with a charge of manslaughter. Simeon […]
An early afternoon fire in Belize City has left a number of people homeless. Sherlyn Young had just left her house to go and buy at a nearby shop when she looked back and saw smoke and fire coming from inside the house. Sherlyn Young, Fire Victim “I gone buy and when I look the […]
In a follow up to the story we ran in yesterday’s newscast about a baby manatee stranded near the Deep Water Pier in Belize City, researchers say their efforts at saving the mammal were unsuccessful. According to Nicole Auil of the Coastal Zone Management Project, the calf died around three thirty this morning. When it […]
While efforts to save the life of the stranded manatee calf may have come too late to make a difference, the Ministry of Works is hoping the same will not be the case with the old Belize City Swing Bridge. According to a government press release, work on rehabilitating the aging structure will begin shortly […]
It sounded just like a scene from one of those movies you see on TV, two young men dumped in the trunk of a car and taken on a ride of a lifetime. Only this was no movie. But according to Belize City resident, Darrington Lauriano, that’s exactly what happened to him and a friend […]
It is often said that “haad aze pikni go da maakit two times.” But some grown-up women who find themselves on the wrong side of that Creole proverb are using their experiences to, hopefully prevent others from following in their footsteps. The story, “Haad Work No Kill Nobody”, is about a single mother, Miss Irma […]
