It was fun while it lasted–that is, almost a full week without a single murder, traffic fatality or even an accidental death. That short-lived period of relative peace ended over the weekend, with the latest brutal murder taking place this morning in Belize City at the height of the rush hour. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods […]
Police are having no better luck in finding a suspect in connection with the shooting death of a man in Belize City Friday night. Sometime after 7:00, twenty-two year old Jose Chavarria was riding his bike on West Canal between Prince and King streets, when he was gunned down. According to authorities, their investigation reveals […]
Another weekend shooting victim was luckier than Chavarria and Gongora. Twenty-four year old Kernel Gibson was shot in the neck, shoulder and leg, but lived to tell the tale. Gibson told police he was riding his bike down Vernon Street at 5:00 Sunday morning when a grey four door Oldsmobile Cutlass pulled up next to […]
We don’t usually report gun seizures, but police were unusually busy and successful over the weekend. On Friday evening they searched a Belize City hotel room and found three nine millimetre pistols, two Colts and one Smith and Wesson along with fifteen rounds of ammo. The residents of the room, described only as foreigners, have […]
In other weekend crime, the Ministry of Agriculture in Belmopan has become the latest victim of burglary. The thief or thieves broke into the West Block building and ransacked the offices of Minister Dan Silva and C.E.O. Sergio Garcia. A full inventory of missing items has not been completed, but initial reports list several digital […]
A traffic accident on the Stann Creek Valley Road has left a B.D.F. soldier dead and three others injured. Thirty-nine year old Donald Flowers died after the Ford pickup he was riding in crashed into another vehicle and overturned Saturday near mile three and a half. Fellow occupants Arthur Hill, Melvin Smith and Charles Serrano […]
A Guatemalan resident of Roaring Creek drowned Sunday in the Belize River. Twenty-eight year old Marcelino Mejia went swimming around 1:00 in the afternoon in the company of a nine year old boy. According to the boy, Mejia went under the water and did not come back up. The body was retrieved and Mejia was […]
One week from today Belize will host a top-level delegation from the Republic of China on Taiwan. Leading the thirty-eight-member group, which includes four Cabinet ministers, is Premier Yu Shyi-kun. The visit, which will take place on August twelfth and thirteenth, is the last stop on Yu’s official tour of Central America. The fifty-four year […]
The United Democratic Party today followed the lead of several independent media houses in calling for the resignation of Minister of Home Affair Maxwell Samuels. In a release today the opposition party stated that whether Samuels was involved in the illegal sale of Belizean nationality or simply incompetent in allowing it to happen, he deserved […]
According to the latest figures, the most dangerous job in Belize is to work on a construction site, with employment in the sugar industry a close second. Occupational hazards are not unique to Belize and in an initiative spearheaded by the United States Department of Labour, this week, labour ministers from Central America, the Dominican […]
Goff’s Caye is one of the most beautiful of Belize’s barrier reef islands, but because it’s so close to Belize City it takes a beating from the large number of visitors. That impact should be minimised by a recent gift. The Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute has received a grant of twenty-five thousand U.S. […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this super dish of Sports Monday. The Capital Life five-game basketball championship series kicked off at the City Centre Friday night, bringing with it an attendance of hope, a large amount of ambition and of course a whole lot of predictions. Let’s start with […]
