Tonight a Democracia family is mourning the loss of two family members: one to a fatal gunshot and the other to the law for having pulled the trigger. According to police, around midnight on Sunday, twenty-nine year old Terry Estrada and his nephew, twenty-nine year old Phillip Estrada, got into a fight which resulted in […]
Tonight a Placencia woman is recovering from multiple stab wounds dealt to her at the hands of an old boyfriend. According to police from the southern branch, around 7:00 on Thursday night, twenty-seven year old Jason Parchue went to the Rum Point Inn and demanded to see his ex-girlfriend, identified as twenty-four year old Marsha […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway on Friday night has left a woman dead and her daughter hospitalised. According to police, around 6:30 p.m., thirty-five year old Shu Chuan-huang and her daughter, fifteen year old Jenny Huang, were travelling by motorcycle from Orange Walk heading in the direction of Corozal. But between miles fifty-eight […]
A security guard shot for his gun more than a week ago has succumbed to his injuries. According to hospital officials, around 5:30 Sunday evening, thirty-six year old Peter Scott died from gunshot wounds. Scott, an employee of Triple A Security, was manning his post at the Bowen and Bowen compound on King Street on […]
Over the weekend, thieves hit a Belize City restaurant, making off with fifteen hundred dollars in cash and a handgun. Police reports are that around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, two men on bicycles, one armed with a point three-fifty-seven magnum, snuck up on the security guard posted outside the Chon Saan Restaurant on Euphrates Avenue. […]
It appears tonight that despite weekly cell sweeps at the Hattieville Prison, inmates still have access to weapons, and aren’t afraid to use them. Prison officials have reported that around 2:00 a.m. last Friday, thirty-two year Herbert Wiltshire was in his cell when two other prisoners walked into his room and attacked him with a […]
Not every incident involving guns this weekend ended in bloodshed, but that doesn’t mean the victims were any less traumatised. In the wee hours of Saturday, gunshots rained down on a parked car, leaving a King’s Park family with more questions than answers as to the motive. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Atilio Ulloa […]
Three thieves remain on the run, but police have charged three others believed to be involved in separate robberies in the Cayo District last week. Police say thirty-one year old Ralston Wagner, a resident of Rose Lane in Belize City, was the getaway driver and one of the two men who robbed the joint offices […]
We hope the people at the Lotto office like signing those big cheques because they’ve been doing that a lot. Today, they wrote a cheque to Dorla Foreman of Belize City for fifty-seven thousand, five hundred dollars after she picked the lucky numbers in Saturday’s Lotto Draw. This afternoon, the excited mother of eight told […]
The message of staying drug free is one that should be re-enforced daily, especially since latest statistics reveal that children as young as age six are experimenting with addictive substances. Today, the National Drug Abuse Control Council hit the streets of Belize City once again to push the idea that we don’t need drugs to […]
By all accounts, one of the most popular events of the September celebrations is the carnival parade through the streets of Belize City. But this year, the annual march looked like it might have hit a dead end. Today, the die-hards intent on keeping the carnival spirit alive burst onto the public stage with enthusiasm […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re a welcomed part of this dish of Sports Monday. Making its third appearance in this year’s Capital Life Basketball competition, the defending champion San Cas U.B. hosted Orange Walk’s Music Centre Friday night at the Belize City Centre. With both teams going in with a record of one […]
