Another high profile police prosecution has ended with the case being dropped for lack of evidence. Brothers Salvador and David Lazaro were charged with the hit and run murder of police constable Levi Spain as he rode his bicycle down East Collet Canal in the wee hours of December fourteenth. Although police claimed that forensic […]
He was flown in from Honduras in handcuffs on Tuesday and today he was formally arraigned in Magistrate’s Court. Norman “Butch” Martin was charged with murder, theft and nine counts of robbery in connection with the killing of tourist Raymond Kirk at Singing Sands Resort on July fifth. He will reappear for the preliminary inquiry […]
A Belizean tour guide and farmer are dead after a car and a horse driven cart collided in the Corozal District. The accident happened on a dirt road, a half-mile off the Northern Highway in Santa Clara Village. While reports at this time are still sketchy, police say sometime between five thirty and six thirty […]
Three days after the gruesome discovery of the body of Isias Franco, a farm hand at Polak’s Farm at mile fifty on the Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan police are still trying to find out who chopped the man to death. According to reports, about eighty thirty Monday morning, sixty five year old Elisandro Guzman, the farm’s […]
Belize City police are on the look out for two men whom they believe will be able to assist them in solving a case of forgery that took place between the first and eighteenth of August. According to C.I.B. officials, sometime during that time, one Max Tillett and Ervin Reneau walked into the Scotia Bank, […]
The ongoing saga of Vernon Harrison Courtenay versus the Social Security Board has hit another bump in its long and winding road. On Wednesday, an application by the Courtenay defense team to stay the execution of the judgement handed down on July thirty first was denied by resident Appeals Court judge Horace Young. Young said […]
No new accusations are coming from Attorney General Dean Barrow today with regard to his attempts to implicate P.U.P. representative Ralph Fonseca in illegal activities in Panama. A number of local news organizations attempted to get confirmation from Panamanian authorities concerning Barrow’s charges that Fonseca’s name had surfaced in connection with an investigation of money […]
If you’ve been to bank lately in search of U.S. dollars, British pounds or any other foreign exchange chances are you’ve been told to come back later. Word on the street is also saying that hard currency is even harder to find. We checked with Central Bank governor Keith Arnold and he confirmed that the […]
It was a tragic story when it first aired last week and while tonight’s follow up offers some hope, the news is still touch and go. One week after five year old Danya Chavarria was severely burned at a Sunday barbecue outing on August ninth, the young girl is fighting for her life at the […]
Until a few months ago the race in Queen’s Square was considered a walkover, with perennial incumbent Dean Barrow having a lifetime lease on the solidly U.D.P. seat. But when lawyer and well known talk show host Dickie Bradley declared for the P.U.P. in the division, suddenly what was considered a non-event began to attract […]
Politics usually produces more heat than light, but once in a while the last minute activities of candidates and their supporters actually benefit the people they seek to represent. Arreini Palacio discovered one such positive development on southside Belize City. There are many smiles, and it is not because school re-opens in a couple weeks. […]
Earlier in the day Arreini dropped in on a short ceremony marking the donation of funds for another youthful project, this one set to debut in a few weeks. Swing your engine, torro-torro, lift your leg and wine. Carnival time is right around the corner and although the election frenzy may be at a fever […]
