It was supposed to have been a night out on the town for a group of young people… but a combination of too much partying and perhaps a driver’s error ended in tragedy for the Bonilla family over the weekend. Around eight-thirty on Friday night, nineteen-year old Carlos Bonilla, accompanied by five other people, was […]
Another fatal accident, this time on the Western Highway, has claimed the life of a teenage girl. As we reported on Friday’s newscast, two children were knocked down as they rode on a single bicycle in the village of Camalote around four thirty Friday evening. Fifteen year old Nadine Casey was pronounced dead on arrival […]
And while we’re on the subject of follow-ups, Orange Walk police have reported the arrest of another suspect in the chopping death of Marco Cruz last week. Forty-two year old Mexican national Arturo De La Cruz Hernandez now joins thirty-two year old Guatemalan Rene Trochez charged with the crimes of murder and conspiracy. These charges […]
In Corozal, police have ruled the death of a twenty-four year old man a suicide. Anselmo Pook was hospitalized around seven o’clock on Friday evening after he drank an unknown quantity of the poisonous herbicide gramaxone. According to the officer in charge of the Corozal police station, Crispin Jeffries, Pook died on Saturday morning and […]
The quick thinking of a security guard in the Corozal Free Zone Compound has foiled what appears to have been an attempted robbery. According to police, the security guard observed three men trying to enter a warehouse on the compound, after they had cut through the wire fence. The incident happened sometime between eight and […]
The whole of Belize City was without water today and even as I speak there are many households which still have nothing but humid air flowing through the pipes. The cause of the problem was a break in the high-pressure water pipe which runs down the Northern Highway from the water treatment plant near Sandhill. […]
It was fortunate that there were no major fires in Belize City today as the water shortage could have led to disaster. But a day earlier not even an tidal wave could have averted the tragedy which unfolded at the corner of Jaguar and Tapir Street in the new Faber’s Road area. The Chavarria family […]
While voters may or may not stop to study the respective political manifestos, many candidates are relying on good old-fashioned house to house campaigning to win the hearts, minds and votes of the electorate. Nowhere is that more true than in the constituency of Cayo North where the two major candidates are both hard at […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley so pull up for another dishing of Sports Monday. Camalote Durley’s Crystal, after a perfect 10 and 0 regular season in the Cayo Softball competition, went into the Roaring Creek Stadium yesterday with a 1-2 up lead in the 3 game championship series against host team Roaring Creek, who made […]
