It has all the markings of a professional hit: a puncture wound to the back of the head, the victim’s body propped up to hide the crime until daylight, and not a motive in sight. The village of Boom Burrell is still coming to terms with the fact that one of their own has been […]
Meanwhile, Three people are tonight in police custody after the decapitated body of man was recovered from the Haulover Creek. According to reports, police have detained three persons after the headless body, later identified as twenty-eight year old Enrique David Reyes, was found floating in the Haulover Creek behind Belama phase one. Reyes was last […]
A daring daylight robbery at a local construction company left four people bound and terrified while thieves made off with close to five thousand in cash, and an assortment of jewelry. According to Claudette Mejia, of Mejia Construction Supplies, she, three employees and a customer were in the company’s main building at mile three on […]
In news from the region, on Sunday night Hurricane Michelle battered the island of Cuba with winds of more than one hundred and thirty miles per hour and substantial amounts of rain. It is estimated tonight that five people died after the buildings they were using as shelters collapsed. The hardest hit parts of the […]
A new chairperson has been appointed to the National Committee for Families and Children. Sandra Hall, a former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Human Development, has replaced Myrtle Palacio as head of the N.C.F.C. since the beginning of October. Hall says her primary goal will be to ensure the implementation of the Convention on […]
For too long, Toledo has been the forgotten district, especially in terms of tourism. But for the past ten years, community leaders have tried their best to attract visitors to some of the remote areas in the Toledo District. One organisation, the Toledo Eco-Tourism Association, T.E.A., constructed a total of ten guesthouses. Unfortunately, on October […]
And the hits keep on coming. This weekend, Tropical Gaming sat down to write not one, but two cheques to the lucky winners of the Saturday night’s jackpot. Earlier today, Lorna Bainton of Mitchell Estates in Ladyville, picked up her cheque for ten thousand, six hundred and twenty-five dollars, her share of the twenty-five thousand […]
During the course of this week, there’s sure to be a number of people walking around with a red poppy, like the one I’m wearing tonight. But how many of us know the real meaning behind this little red flower and just how important it is that we give generously to the poppy appeal. News […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Belizeans might have been tuned into the Mr. Cycling Pageant at the City Centre Saturday night, but by Sunday the focus had shifted to Week II of the Regent’s Cup Tournament. We caught up with the action at M.C.C. Grounds, as Acros Bombers played host […]
