Although he has been described in the local media as an “NBA superstar” Milton Palacio would be the first to disagree with the hype. In three years of professional basketball, Palacio has displayed his solid and occasionally spectacular talents at Vancouver, Boston and now Phoenix. Prior to that he led the Belize National Team to […]
That initiative cannot get underway too soon as Belizean youths continue to attack each other on a daily basis. This morning in Belize City a driveby shooting left one man injured and another detained pending charges. James Swan Junior is in police custody after he was identified by shooting victim Alfred Conorquie as the man […]
As long as there are guns, there will be shootings…and today one more firearm is in criminal circulation. According to police reports, twenty-year-old security guard David Baptist was on duty Wednesday night at Belize Water Services when four armed men put a revolver to his head and relieved him of his Taurus brand nine millimetre […]
Mayflower Street is back in the news tonight…and not because of a politician’s visit or community cleanup campaign. It’s the vicinity where police this morning apprehended one of their most wanted, Kevin Dawson. Dawson, better known as “Possum” is the prime suspect in the shooting death of nineteen-year-old Eurdene Sterling. Sterling and another man were […]
And a correction to a story we ran last night… The names of the four defendants in last year’s three thousand pound cocaine bust, the biggest drug trafficking case in Belizean history, were inaccurately reported. The correct names are Jorge Moreno, Oscar Aguirre, Victor Carrasco and Zulema Molina. All are Mexican nationals. Their trial resumes […]
They say that all good things must come to an end, but this ending was a happy one–at least for one man who this afternoon cashed in a record lotto ticket. Ann-Marie reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Lady luck smiled on Orange Walk Town when Edward McKoy, a fifty-two year old employee of B.S.I., won the […]
Their first concert here was ten years ago, and a decade later the group known a Fiddlers on the Reef is still going strong. The classical musicians from several California orchestras will be holding concerts and coaching music students from various parts of the country, including the Cayo, Stann Creek, Toledo and Belize Districts. The […]
There are days when the evening news seems like nothing more than a long litany of shootings, stabbings and horrific automobile accidents. And while most of these events end sadly at the morgue or cemetery, every once in a while a victim who is marked for death manages to cheat the grim reaper. News 5’s […]
The fun at the Festival of Arts continued last night at Belize City’s Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. Judging from the stylish moves on stage, the local entertainment industry is poised for a major expansion. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting It was another night when a number of young Belizean stars took centre stage at the Children’s Festival […]
