It was your average weekend on the Belizean crime beat: armed robberies at a Belize City gas station and Chinese grocery, a shooting in Crooked Tree, weed bust in Cayo, and fatal hit and run in Orange Walk…all capped by a bank robbery this morning in Belmopan. But we’ll lead tonight’s news, not with our […]
In crime news, a Belize City man was wounded Friday night after he was shot by an angry landlord. Forty-year-old Thomas Bowman accompanied his daughter to recover a rent deposit from her former landlord, Manuel Pacheco. An argument ensued during which Pacheco shot Bowman with a thirty-eight pistol. Pacheco has been arrested and charged with […]
Another Chinese owned shop has been robbed, despite the presence of a security guard. According to police reports, two Hispanic men entered the establishment of forty-six year old Yun Lan Tang on Vasquez Avenue on Saturday night. One of the men pulled out a knife and somehow managed to relieve the guard of his pump […]
A daring break-in at a Belmopan bank early this morning has netted one thief only chump change. According to police, at approximately 4:00 a.m. a man threw something against one of the windows of the Belize Bank branch, breaking the glass. The man entered the building and walked right into the eye of the bank’s […]
A man from Willows Bank has been arrested in connection with a hit and run fatality on the Northern Highway. On Friday night police discovered the severely injured body of thirty-five year old Thomas Rhaburn off the side of the road near mile fifty, along with his crashed motorcycle. About a mile and a half […]
The Commission of Inquiry charged to investigate the shooting deaths of three Guatemalans took a break this afternoon, but not before a key witness gave testimony that directly contradicted a statement made by another witness last week. The lone police officer who made up the nine-member patrol listened carefully as Commission Chairman Herbert Lord read […]
Doctors agree that when it comes to our health, prevention is the best medicine. That’s one reason why students at a city high school are trying to stop drug abuse before it takes hold of their lives. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This morning, the students of Excelsior High School took to the streets, eagerly celebrating the […]
It was a murder suicide that shattered a peaceful village and shocked a nation. But the damage which remains in the wake of last week’s bloodbath on the Western Highway, goes beyond a family’s grief. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today, fourteen-year-old Daisy Figueroa is recuperating at Belize Medical Associates in Belize […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into another serving of Sports Monday. Week 2 of the Regent’s Cup playoffs found the defending semi-pro football champion in action against football champion as Kulture Yabra hosted Builder’s Hardware Bandits. Only one would leave the Barracks undefeated. In a stadium filled with playoff tension, Raul Celiz […]
