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Turmoil at prison in wake of police search

It has not been a good week for Hattieville Prison. On Tuesday morning a twenty-four year old inmate, Gerald Tasher, was stabbed to death by a fellow prisoner… and by nightfall the reaction of the incarcerated population to a subsequent weapons search bordered on a riot. Shortly after nine cameraman Brent Toombs and I reached […]

Unidentified body found in Belize River

Police suspect foul play in connection with the discovery of a body found floating in the Belize River today. Around nine forty-five this morning, police received an anonymous tip reporting that the body of a man was floating in the Belize River near mile five and a half on the Northern Highway. When members of […]

Eighty-two year old woman raped in Corozal

It appears tonight that nobody, absolutely nobody is safe from the criminal depravity which currently afflicts the nation… as police report that an eighty-two year old woman has become the latest victim of rape. The elderly woman from Corozal told police that on Tuesday around four in the afternoon, she was inside her home when […]

Man charged in Cayo murder

In an update to a story aired yesterday, twenty-five year old Miguel Angel Ayala has been arrested and charged for rape and murder after a woman’s body was found floating in the Macal River on Monday. Alexi Aldana was found face down in the river near the temporary bridge that connects Santa Elena and San […]

Opposition senator guilty of assault

In crimes of a less serious nature Opposition Senator Audrey Matura Tillett was today found guilty of assault in the court of Magistrate Harrison Hewlett. The charges arose out of an incident on April thirteenth when Matura was involved in a dispute with another woman at the Belize Electricity Limited compound on Magazine Road. She […]

Cave with Maya artifacts discovered in Cayo

One of the defining characteristics of our young nation is that it will always be considered a work in progress… with new frontiers, new challenges and new discoveries lurking around every bend of the river or fork in the trail. Tonight we invite you to join us on a hike down one of those forest […]