The hard curves and hurried driving on the Northern Highway between the airport and Haulover Bridge have claimed yet another victim. He is forty-two year old Alfonso Singh of Ladyville. Around 3:30 p.m., Singh, a resident of Vista del Mar, was on his way home when he lost control of his Ford Ranger pickup truck. […]
Meanwhile, another man who also tried to rob a Belize City business but paid dearly for his efforts has been formally charged. Twenty-one year old Ursillo Mendoza, of Morning Glory Street faces years behind bars if convicted of the crimes of attempted robbery, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of keeping an unlicensed […]
Two brothers operating separate businesses on Freetown Road were both robbed over the weekend by the same man. According to police, around 7:30 on Sunday night, a patron walked into Yin Kee restaurant on Freetown Road and ordered a beer. But when it was time to pay, the man pulled out a handgun and ordered […]
Corozal police have come up cold in their investigation into last week’s shooting death of Susanna Petkau and rape of a young woman from Orange Walk. Police say that they have yet to detain any of the four men involved in the crimes although they believe they know several likely suspects. Photos of these men […]
The Belize Supreme Court is hearing an unprecedented case, that of Patrick Reyes, a man spared from death row by the Privy Council. Reyes shot and killed husband and wife Wayne and Evelyn Garbutt on April sixteenth, 1997, over a land dispute in Teakettle Village. He was convicted on two counts of murder and sentenced […]
And in a case of much swifter justice, twenty-three year old Wilhelm Kelly, the man accused of robbing the offices of Cayo’s Big H juice company on Thursday, has been sentenced to seven years in prison. While the Magistrate was at it, he also sentenced Kelly to an additional five years on a previous charge […]
It’s very much a part of the new youth initiative and in the not-too-distant future Belize’s YMCA will have more room to expand its activities. We caught up with the organisation’s director at the work site on Faber’s Road. Carolyn Gentle Genitty, Executive Director, YMCA “If people are aware of where we are at number […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley with your latest version of Sports Monday. League leading B.T.L. Nets took its undefeated record in the Capital Life Tournament Friday night at the City Centre against Orange Walk’s Music Centre, a team that had lost three straight going in. Maybe this is probably why the visitors had travelled to […]
