Reverberations from the beating death of a fourteen-year-old boy by British soldiers are being felt even stronger tonight as a joint investigation of the incident gathers steam. Thirty soldiers remain confined to their barracks at Ladyville as a team of five military police investigators and their Belizean counterparts try to unravel exactly what took place […]
One person who will figure prominently in the investigation is the man who owns Raul’s Rose Garden and was present on the night of the incident. This afternoon Raul Magaña told Ann-Marie what he saw and how it was that four teenagers came to be patrons in his nightspot. Raul Magaña, Owner, Raul’s Rose Garden […]
Despite Magaña’s admonitions to his bouncer, it is clear that self-policing of bars and nightclubs is not going to keep out underage patrons. That job will fall to police and the body, which grants bars their licenses to sell booze. Rene Skeen is both the chairman of the Ladyville Village Council and member of the […]
The soldiers now confined at Price Barracks are members of an elite-fighting unit called the Gurkhas. Citizens of Nepal, near India, the Gurkhas first began fighting for the British in 1815 following their defeat by Great Britain in a border dispute. They helped the British fight various rebellions in India and by World War One […]
In more crime news a man has been arrested in connection with a stabbing in the Corozal District. Francisco Pineda, a labourer of San Narciso Village was charged with attempted murder after an incident in San Pedro Village on May twelfth, in which he is accused of stabbing Jose Peña of Christo Rey Village. Peña, […]
St. John’s Church on Albert Street has been in need of repair for a long time. Increasingly the one hundred and eighty-eight-year-old landmark and its parishioners have had to endure a leaky roof, not to mention rotting beams. Supporters have staged numerous fund raising activities to fix the problems and finally those efforts seem to […]
It’s not often that we see official wrongs put right, but today was one of those days that an aggrieved citizen actually received satisfaction. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Last week in the wee hours of Thursday morning, a police officer crashed one of the department’s pickup trucks into the home of Orlando Lanza […]
