Late this morning News Five received a report that there was a riot at the Hattieville prison and that both the police and BDF had been dispatched to the institution. We also received reports that a number of inmates had been rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. When News Five got to the prison […]
While the staff at the prison tried today to get the situation under control, on Thursday the police were able to capture two escaped prisoners. Andrew Kelly, 24 and Terry Reyes, 19, were captured in a police raid that afternoon. Kelly was found near his home on Pelican Street Extension, while Reyes was found around […]
News of the riot, or protest, at the Hattieville Prison, stole some of the thunder today from the afternoon session of the budget debate in the House of Representatives. But radio news flashes and even comments in the House by the Representative from Mesopotamia Michael Finnegan didn’t interrupt the proceedings. At newstime, the presentations were […]
A Belize City man has been charged in the shooting death of his wife. 39 year old Ellis Tillett has been charged with causing death by careless conduct. Tillett told police that around 3:30 yesterday afternoon, he, his common law wife, 32 year old Marie Fuller, and a friend were going fishing in the Salt […]
A man from Bladden, Toledo has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a co-worker. 26 year old Roberto Bol Contreras has been arrested and charged with the murder of Julian Zelaya Lopez. Lopez’s body was discovered in a shallow grave covered with cohune leaves on March 13th in the banana fields […]
With parents all over Belize living in fear that their girls could at anytime be abducted, assaulted or worse, it is shocking to discover that once again a teenaged girl has runaway and then claimed she was kidnapped. The runaway, who was found today, first lied to her family and then the entire community when […]
There are open days and there are open days. Today was the day Saint John’s College’s students did their best to impress their teachers, parents and potential future students. Presentation subjects ranged from biology to business to a bike that rides on water. The students say being teachers for a day made them a little […]
