The faces may change from year to year with justices retiring or leaving and their replacements arriving from abroad or stepping up from the local ranks. New attorneys come to the Bar every few months, but the ceremony which opens the first session of the Supreme Court every year remains bound by tradition. This year, […]
He was serving time at the Hattieville Prison for the shooting death of a security guard at the Gourmet Restaurant in 1995. Most recently Raymond Flowers was in the news when his presence at a football game in Belize City prompted the so-called “weekend pass” scandal at the Hattieville Prison. But now, Flowers is dead, […]
It was not his first official visit to Guatemala, that distinction having come last year for the Central American Summit with US President Clinton, but it was clearly an important event. A new Guatemalan President was being inaugurated… and with the new man came a new chance to improve a relationship that lately has been […]
In crime news, a fifteen-year-old Dangriga student has died after being stabbed in the abdomen during a fight on Friday. Police say Godwin Dawson of Yampa Street died this morning after he got into an altercation on Canal Street around eleven thirty Friday night. He was first taken to the Southern Regional Hospital and then […]
One person has been detained in connection with a stabbing at the Miami Nights Club in Belize City early Sunday morning. Around three a.m. twenty-year-old Jason Adolphus was stabbed in the abdomen during a fight at the club on Central American Boulevard. So far no charges have been filed against the person detained.
In another incident in Belize City, a maintenance worker from Belama Phase One has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly fired three shots at a man walking on Raccoon Street extension early Saturday morning. Egbert Flowers told police around five thirty a.m. a man on a bike road by and shot him in […]
A man from El Salvador has been arrested and charged with rape and unlawful carnal knowledge after two runaway girls returned home. On Wednesday January twelfth, we reported two girls age fifteen and fourteen had gone missing and had told their families they were on their way to Canada. Two days later, however, on the […]
The Fisheries Department would like to remind restaurant owners, shopkeepers and consumers that even though conch season is open, they are checking for undersized conch and making arrests. Last week the department conducted operations in the Belize Harbor, Belize River, Market Square, Stann Creek, Caye Caulker and San Pedro, Ambergris Caye and searched several restaurants. […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for a fresh slice of Sports Monday. Builders Hardware Bandits of Belmopan had the homefield advantage in their bid for a B.F.L. playoff birth when they hosted league leading San Pedro Dolphins yesterday. A win for the Bandits would make their playoff appearance much closer […]
