Residents of San Ignacio are once again wondering what happened to their once peaceful town. Early Sunday morning, just after midnight, two masked men, armed with a pistol and sawed-off shotgun, robbed the Texaco gas station on the Benque Road. When the crime was over, security guard Julio Perez was dead, shot to the face […]
The nationwide weekend crime wave also washed over the south. On Saturday night around 10:00, two armed masked men held up a restaurant in the resort community of Maya Beach on the Placencia peninsula. Christine Duffy, the proprietor of Mangoes, told News Five that the pair, one armed with a knife and the other wielding […]
A series of muggings on Friday night in Belize City has apparently been solved and the suspected perpetrators arrested and charged. Between the hours of eight and nine p.m. a group of four men carrying at least one gun managed to rob two tourists walking on the Newtown Barracks, a bicyclist at Lopez Mateo’s Park […]
Police put another suspected criminal behind bars this weekend, this time for attempting to export drugs. Twenty-year old Moradeke Andanike Olateju a British National residing in Nigeria, was stopped by security personnel on Saturday at the Philip Goldson International Airport as she was about to board a Continental Airlines flight for Houston. A search revealed […]
On Friday we ran a story about the need for consumers to take care when working around high voltage transmission lines; today we regret to report that for the second time in a week a man has been the victim of an electrocution accident; this time it proved fatal. The latest incident took place Saturday […]
Almost one month after fifteen-year old Delene Loria was allegedly abducted, this afternoon she presented herself to Corozal Police. Loria’s family had reported to authorities that the young girl was kidnapped by eighteen-year old Jacobo Correa as she and a relative walked to a store on Sarstoon Street in Belize City. While the girl’s family […]
Close to two hundred graduates of Zamorano, the highly acclaimed agricultural college located in Honduras, are guests of the Zamorano Alumni Association of Belize. The delegates are in the country for their convention, which takes place every two years. The meeting will feature a number of activities, including technical presentations and field trips. The convention, […]
They are fields of employment usually associated with men: carpenters, masons, mechanics. But like many things in Belize, sexual and economic roles are changing. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Under the banner, “Empowering Women For A Better Life,” a three-year programme offering non-traditional skills training for women was launched today by the Centre For Employment Training. A […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this just happens to be another serving of Sports Monday. Fresh off their success at the Central American Volleyball Championships at El Salvador the volleyball council got back to business as usual Saturday night at the City Centre. We caught up with the male division clash between Acros Scorpions […]
