The growing problem of criminals with guns is one which Belizean society has faced for a good while…and it now seems that not even the closed world of the prison system is immune. This morning during a routine search of cells at Hattieville, an inmate apparently used a homemade gun to fire a shot at […]
Police have not made any arrests in last week’s brutal murder at the Cahal Pech Maya site, but at least they have a motive and a prime suspect. Sources in the police department indicate that the killing of twenty-year old caretaker Geoffrey Mas was not a robbery gone bad, but was in fact an execution. […]
While San Ignacio police have not made any arrest in the Geoffrey Mas murder, Belize City police have been making progress in another killing that took place the same day. On Friday, police arrested eighteen-year old Gilroy Wade Junior, of number six South Creek and charged him with the murder of Azrin White. White was […]
Police have arrested and charged a Guatemalan man for a murder last week in Belmopan. Normando Garcia, of San Martin Village, was formally charged for the killing of nineteen-year old Julio Guzman on July twenty-third. Guzman was found bleeding profusely from machete wounds in a drain between the villages of Maya Mopan and Salvapan and […]
A weekend shooting incident in Belize City, has left two men wounded, one seriously. Twenty-three year old Jerry Bush, and eighteen year old George Mathews were walking on Bocotora Street when a man rode up next to them on a bicycle and fired several gunshots at them. Bush was struck by bullets in the left […]
An apparent hit and run on the Northern Highway has left a Corozal man dead. On Friday night around eleven, the body of Gregorio Jimenez, a mason of Alta Mira area, Corozal Town, was found on the highway between miles eighty-five and eighty-six. He was lying face down with multiple injuries to his head. The […]
Police conducted two successful anti-drug operations over the weekend that resulted in the destruction of nearly five thousand marijuana plants. On Saturday , the police ventured seven miles northwest of San Pedro Columbia Village, in the Toledo District. The mission started at 8:00 a.m. and by 3:30 p.m. they found and destroyed a marijuana plantation […]
“Show me the money” was a line made famous by Tom Cruise in his film portrayal of sports agent Jerry Maguire. Prime Minister Said Musa may not be as wealthy as the Hollywood star, but that did not stop him from being shown some big money today in Belmopan. Taiwanese Ambassador Charles Tsai, on behalf […]
This afternoon, Donna Pech walked into the offices of St. James National Building Society and received the keys to her brand new house. Pech won the house on Saturday in the financial institution’s first anniversary grand raffle. A single mother of four children, Pech said the house could not have come at a better time. […]
They dropped the remote, disconnected the Nintendo, and made their way to the Southern Foreshore to create their own artistic realities. Today’s show on the grounds of Belize City’s House of Culture is the result of a program to motivate students during their summer holiday. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Their interests and talents were varied. The […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re strapped in for another ride on Sports Monday. The bodybuilding community presented the annual Mr. Belize bodybuilding contest Saturday night at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. And as you can see folks, the sport has brought back the many fans. In the novice class Edwin Ramirez of San […]
