Belize’s streets and highways were once again the scene of death and destruction over the weekend as two were killed and several injured in road accidents. On Sunday night a collision between a motorcycle and a bicycle at the Cinderella Plaza junction claimed the life of a thirty year old woman. According to police at […]
Another motorcycle accident, this time on the Western Highway just outside Benque Viejo, has left a Cayo man hospitalized. Twenty year old Marlon Tillett was reportedly driving his motorcycle towards San Ignacio when he collided with a cow between miles seventy one and seventy two. When police arrived on the scene around one fifteen Sunday […]
Corozal police meanwhile are investigating the death of a four-year-old girl in Progresso Village on Saturday. Thirty year old Herman Villas told police he was driving through the village around four o’ clock, Saturday afternoon when he accidentally ran over Cruzita Guerra. The little girl was dead on arrival at the Corozal hospital. Villas has […]
In other crime news, eight Belize City men ranging in ages from eighteen to twenty nine, were marched to Magistrates court this afternoon to answer to a book of charges in connection with the theft of firearms and ammunition from the Brodies warehouse. Jiovanni Lauriano, Byron Gillett, Deon Burns, Jason King, Leslie Williams, Herman Flowers, […]
A Belize City man accused of bribing the police has been acquitted. Twenty one year old Lionel Castillo appeared in Magistrate’s Court this morning charged with two counts of corruption, but it wasn’t long after the session started that Magistrate Dorothy Flowers threw out the case for lack of evidence. According to police, Castillo acted […]
A new temporary Justice of the Supreme Court was sworn in this morning by Governor General Sir Colville Young, and by afternoon he was scheduled to begin hearing cases. The appointment of Justice Howard Nathan was made possible by the Australian Legal Resources International in conjunction with the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation. It is […]
On Friday night the P.U.P.’s People’s Assembly wheeled into Punta Gorda and opposition leader Said Musa used the opportunity to outline his party’s policies on land use and home ownership. For the southernmost district Musa promised the creation of a Toledo Development Corporation to implement a master development plan for the area. With regard to […]
In other news from the south a man who dedicated much of his life to the improvement of the Toledo District, not to mention the rest of Belize, has died. Charles Wright passed away on Saturday in Punta Gorda only a few days short of his eighty-third birthday. Wright first came to Belize in 1952 […]
In diplomatic news the new Guatemalan ambassador to Belize this morning presented his credentials to Governor General Sir Colville Young. He is Rafael Salazar. Salazar replaces Antonio Castellanos who has been reassigned as his nation’s top envoy to Israel. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel is heading a three-member delegation to a meeting of the Caribbean […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re inside Sports Monday. The Yabra Sporting Club of Belize City went inside M.C.C. Grounds yesterday with its back against the wall, needing a win desperately against Juventud Benquena to move on to the semi-final round of the Belize Football League Knock-Out Tournament. Last week it was Juventud with […]
