After a four-month break, the Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Tower Hill Riot had to be adjourned this morning. The reason was that the three witnesses: Glenford Arthurs, George Sanchez and Police Superintendent Paul Wade were never served with the notice for their appearance. Arthurs however showed up anyway because […]
Doris “Munchie” Martinez, the woman being sought by police for throwing acid in the face of a group of Belize City domino players, has turned herself in to authorities. According to her common law husband, Frank Armstrong, Martinez called him this morning and he advised her to turn herself in. She agreed and he picked […]
A man accused of beating his pregnant wife unconscious is tonight still in custody waiting to be charged. According to police, thirty-eight year old Clifton Davis will be charged tomorrow with aggravated assault for the weekend incident in which Alice Corpius, his eight-month pregnant common-law wife, was viciously beaten and left for dead in Democracia […]
In an update on another story, Toledo East Representative Mike Espat is in a Fort Lauderdale hospital tonight recovering from injuries suffered in an automobile accident on Sunday. Espat was flown to Florida on Monday afternoon by air ambulance and is receiving treatment for his injuries, the most serious of which are said to be […]
A security guard has been found dead on the Southern Highway. According to police reports, seventy-seven year old Harwin White, a security guard for K and W sawmill, located near Georgetown, was last seen at his post on Sunday night at 8:00, but around 7:30 on Monday morning the relief officer found him dead on […]
In a story we ran last week on the appointment of Assad Shoman as Foreign Minister, we mentioned an incident in which an intoxicated Belizean diplomat based in London became embroiled in a playful fight with a fellow party guest and bit off a piece of the Englishman’s ear. While that diplomat, Luis Salazar, was […]
In terms of strong winds and high water, the part of Belize hit hardest by Hurricane Iris was not the Placencia Peninsula, Monkey River, Independence or the villages of inland Toledo. It was the dozens of cayes stretching from the outer atoll at Glovers across the Barrier Reef all the way to the inner channel. […]
The most common complaint by Belizean drivers about fuel for their vehicles is invariably the price. But with gas prices comfortably down from their 2001 highs, the latest problem is one of supply. Rumours of an impending fuel shortage fluttered around the city today and News 5’s Janelle Chanona got behind the wheel to check […]
With the media reciting a seemingly endless litany of crime and violence in their daily headlines, it’s always nice to find a story that bucks the trend. In this case our report begins well back in the last century…in the village of Bermudian Landing. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Ninety-nine year old Gertrude Phillips still manages to […]
