A fourteen-year-old boy is dead after being beaten in what appears to be a brawl on Thursday night. The incident occurred at Raul’s Rose Garden, a popular bar and brothel located near mile eight on the Northern Highway. Details are sketchy, but the deceased, David Zabaneh Jr. is a first form student at St. John’s […]
Police are trying to find out whether Mervin Valerio, a thirty-eight year old labourer of Georgeville Village in the Cayo District, had already died when he was run over by a Novelo’s bus on Saturday. The bus driver, Albino Moh, told police that around 3:30 a.m. he was driving to Belize City and upon reaching […]
A Mother’s Day shooting incident has left a Chinese businesswoman of Orange Walk Town in a stable condition and six men on the run. Police say around 7:30 Sunday night the men entered Taisan’s Restaurant on Queen Victoria Avenue and ordered food and drink from Yu Fa Chen, the owner. After they finished eating, the […]
Taisan’s Restaurant wasn’t the only Chinese establishment robbed over the weekend. Police say they are also looking for a dark-skinned masked gunman who entered Quan Sing Supermarket on Racecourse Street in Belize City and stole four hundred dollars. Donna Lee, the thirty-year old shop owner told police that the men held a black handgun to […]
A group of tourists in Cayo got a bit more of a Belize adventure than they bargained for this weekend. On Sunday four guests and their tour guide were held up as they drove in a van on their way to Chaa Creek Resort. Guide Philip Burns, twenty-four, of Yute Expeditions, had just picked up […]
You’d never know it from today’s newscast, but the Ministry of National Security reports that in April major crimes fell by seven point two percent from a year earlier. Incidents of rape, murder, robbery and burglary all either stayed constant of dropped, while theft increased slightly over April 2000. A total of one hundred sixteen […]
There has been a happy ending to the disappearance of former Chief Justice, Sir George Brown. Sir George, who wandered away from his wife in the vicinity of Belama on the Northern Highway on Thursday, was found Friday night near the Haulover Creek. The former Chief Justice suffers from a neurological disorder known as partial […]
In matters of diplomacy it sometimes turns out that no action is the best action to take. That’s what has apparently happened in the case of the illegal Guatemalan settlement at Edwards Central in Toledo. While both governments nitpicked over how to get rid of the settlers, who had crossed the border in search of […]
The People’s United Party has a new standard bearer for the Dangriga constituency. In the convention held on Sunday Sylvia Flores received seven hundred and sixty votes compared to two hundred and fifty-six for Ivan Ramos and fifty-two for Anthony Adderley. Flores, who currently serves as Speaker of the House and is a former mayor […]
While Belize police last week racked up a near record cocaine bust, their counterparts in the U.S. have also did some record breaking of their own–and Belize figures prominently in the action. On Sunday the U.S. Coast Guard in San Diego searched a fishing boat, the “Svesda Maru,” which the Navy had earlier seized in […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome aboard this pleasant flight on Sports Monday that’s bound to get you off. We start with the 2001 edition of the female Cross-Country Classic. Here we join the start of the seventy mile ride featuring five of the top seven female cyclists of this country we call Belize, […]
