While the Christmas weekend was a time of joy for most people, today the Chinese community is in mourning. Five men, all immigrants from the People’s Republic of China, were killed in a traffic accident on the Western Highway on Christmas night. According to police reports, around eleven p.m. on the twenty-fifth, twenty-five year old […]
There is an expression in the English language which talks about “adding insult to injury.” On Christmas Eve a pair of motorists combined to give new meaning to the phrase and in the process an Orange Walk man has lost his life. Twenty-five year old Arturo Foster of Chan Pine Ridge was apparently killed by […]
A fight during recreation time at Hattieville Prison has left one inmate dead. According to Wayne Moody, Director of Programs for the Department of Corrections, just after midday today, prisoners watched as a fellow inmate was stabbed and then chased around the prison yard until officers and other prisoners intervened. The prisoner was immediately rushed […]
The discovery of a body in the Mopan River was initially called a drowning but as of this evening police suspect murder. Around four p.m. December twenty-seventh, San Ignacio Police went to the temporary bridge that connects the Santa Elena and San Ignacio sides of the town. There they saw the body of a woman […]
It appears that jealously may be the motive behind a weekend stabbing in Belize City. Twenty year old Emerson Arnold says that around seven p.m. on December twenty-sixth, he and a lady friend were hanging out in an apartment near the Bel-China Bridge when he heard a warning from outside that someone named Denver was […]
A Punta Gorda man has been arrested and charged with rape. According to a police release, twenty-three year old farmer Edzel Lopez visited the home of a twenty-eight year old Guatemalan woman at around five on Boxing Day morning and asked to borrow a hammer and a blanket. She reported to police that when she […]
And while most Belizeans were huddled under the covers early Sunday morning trying to sleep off their overindulgences the night before, Corozal police were busy taking down some Christmas trees. These green seedlings, however, were not traditional pines; they were part of a plantation of some one thousand marijuana plants. The field was discovered between […]
If you were watching television news over the weekend you may have noticed a celebrity crime story featuring rap music giant Sean “Puffy” Combs and his girlfriend, hotter than hot actress/singer Jennifer Lopez. It seems the two celebrities were arrested in the wee hours of Monday morning as they sped away from the scene of […]
Last week at this time the traffic in downtown Belize City looked like Los Angeles at rush hour… while shoppers on foot crowded into each and every shop in search of a Christmas bargain. Today, however, downtown looked more like a ghosttown. Those brave souls who did venture out to Albert Street were a mixed […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into another serving of Sports Monday. Week fourteen of the Belize Football League Regent Cup found Grigamandala mounting an invasion against Builder’s Hardware Bandits at Belmopan in a bid for a share of the lead in the standings. We open with a press by the host team […]
