Dark clouds and cool breezes threatened rain all day today and according to the experts, there’s plenty more where that came from. But tonight Belizeans are keeping an eye on what is now Tropical Depression fifteen. The system might currently have a poorly defined centre, but the showers and rains associated with it continues to […]
As the rains continue to hamper the physical relief efforts in the south, the lobbying for international support for victims of Hurricane Iris is also unrelenting. The United Kingdom has pledged to donate one million pounds sterling, approximately three million Belize dollars to aid those affected by Iris. A government press release says the money […]
It was a crime that seemed too senseless to be true: a man murdered because he told young boys to stop stealing mangoes. Today, the teenage gunman, later identified as eighteen year old David Jones, was found guilty of the murder of Lincoln Weston. The jury of four women and eight men deliberated for a […]
A “ride-by” shooting on Sunday has sent a Belize City man to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Police reports are that twenty-six year old Fermin Mendez, a resident of Fuller’s Alley, was enjoying the company of friends on his veranda just after 1:00 on Sunday afternoon. It is then alleged that a dark complexioned young […]
Jealousy was apparently the cause of another shooting over the weekend, this time in the Orange Walk District. Fifty-seven year old Manuel Salazar, a Guatemalan farmer, told police that he was walking on the Northern Highway on Saturday when he met a woman, Ruth Ramirez, and began a conversation with her. Salazar says just as […]
Separate robberies in Cayo and Belize City have netted the bad guys an estimated ninety-three thousand Belize dollars. Chinese businessman Su Guo Qiang of Santa Elena, proprietor of Fuhua Restaurant, reported to police that masked men made off with fifty-eight thousand Belize dollars in cash in the early hours of Monday. The businessman claims that […]
An eleven-year-old girl and her cousin died in a traffic accident on the Western Highway over the weekend. Thirty-five year old Dionicio Canto and his cousin, eleven-year-old Keyla Canto, were thrown from the vehicle they were travelling in and died on the highway. Police reports are that the Cantos had been travelling to Belize City […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into another version of Sports Monday. The wait was simply intolerable for football fans across the nation, but semi-pro football finally presented its annual season yesterday. Matches at Dangriga and Belmopan were hastily cancelled due to inclement weather, which left only three outings on the weekend schedule. […]
