It is the type of crime we like to say doesn’t happen in Belize…. But on Sunday night in the usually peaceful resort community of Maya Beach it happened with a vengeance. Shortly after nine three men entered the bar at Singing Sands, a popular resort in a fast growing area of the Placencia Peninsula […]
A night out in the Orange Walk District has ended in tragedy for a twenty-three year old laborer of August Pine Ridge Village. According to police reports Omar Ku was riding his bike towards his village in the Orange Walk District shortly after one Saturday morning, when upon reaching the village entrance, a pickup truck […]
San Pedro police have arrested two Honduran nationals in connection with a stabbing incident that took place on the island last Thursday. Police say that shortly after two Thursday morning, thirty nine year old Eulogio Nuñez, was driving a taxi down Coconut Drive when he was attacked by two passengers who stabbed him several times, […]
Justice was swift today for Luis Westby, a Guatemalan from Belmopan, as he was sentenced to five years in prison. His crime: the rape and robbery of a seventeen-year-old woman. According to police the young resident of the nation’s capital was walking from work along the middle walkway shortly after nine Saturday night. When she […]
It’s technically part of Guatemala but the area just over the border in Melchor de Mencos is pretty loose as far as official formalities go. It also seems pretty loose when it comes to observance of the law, and there are three dead bodies at the morgue to prove it. Patrick Jones is just back […]
There was actually some weekend activity around Belize other than crime. The political action focussed in the Corozal District as the People’s United Party continued to campaign as if the election could be called any day. The motorcade wound its way through the villages of the north before winding up in Libertad and the convening […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. While the World congregates at France trying to determine who’s number one in football here in the “Jewel” in Central America the B.F.L. tries to answer that very same question in its Knock-Out Football Tournament. At center stage it’s Nelson Moss of Real Verdes greeting […]
