It is the Monday after a holiday weekend, a time when viewers like to catch up on three days worth of news, including reports on which of their friends and neighbors may have been robbed, raped, beaten, killed or caught in a traffic accident. The task of providing that kind of information has now been […]
A Sunday outing at the makeshift beach near the Municipal Airstrip has ended in tragedy. According to police, seventeen year old Gilroy Hilton of a Neal Pen Road address, had just arrived at the popular swimming area with three of his friends. Ten minutes later, around three thirty, the young man apparently dove into the […]
A well-known journalist has been held up at gunpoint and robbed of her jewelry. Dawn Sampson, a television reporter for Channel Seven, was walking with her sister-in-law and brother down Central American Boulevard on Boxing Day evening when they were approached by twenty year old Steven Terry and a man known only to police as […]
All was not quiet on Christmas Day in Sandhill as a long running dispute between family members has left one hospitalized and another arrested. According to police, one Charles Canton and his brother-in-law, Doug Stoyfhich were having a misunderstanding in Canton’s yard when it is alleged Canton shot Stoyfhich in his buttocks. According to police […]
On Tuesday, December fifteenth, twenty-six year old Mark Henry was injured during an alleged shoot-out he had with police as he hid from them underneath his house on North Creek Road in Belize City. Henry, who received shots to his right upper leg, left lower leg, left side of his buttocks and right upper arm, […]
And a late report from Punta Gorda indicates that a prisoner in the town’s jail has committed suicide. Twenty-three year old Jerry Ash, who had been arrested in Punta Gorda on Christmas for a robbery committed in Dangriga, was found yesterday in his cell hanging from the neck. It is believed that a lacing from […]
The cash registers have fallen all but silent in downtown Belize City but as the merchants of Albert and Queen Streets count up their Christmas sales the consensus is that the traffic in the shops just about equaled that on the streets: that is to say, jammed. Hyacinth Latchman sampled some sellers. Sunil Sadarangani, Owner, […]
One enterprise that is looking forward to a better year in 1999 is the Belize Social Security Board. As the only local shareholder in the Fiesta Inn the Board saw its three point two million dollar investment seriously jeopardized by the Fiesta’s recent fall into receivership. A check of the Board’s other investments shows that […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for a fresh serving of Sports Monday. For Acros football team of Belize City, a winless second half in the current B.F.L. Competition seems to be quickly approaching a painful reality. Yesterday the struggling Acros team looked to change its circumstances against another struggling ball […]
