One week ago city residents watched in disbelief as flames destroyed the top floor of the Paslow building at the corner of Queen and North Front streets. Within hours, the fire department managed to contain the blaze and since then, have been sifting through the charred, waterlogged debris for clues as to what started it […]
Tonight, Corozal police are investigating an early morning shooting that has left one man dead. According to the authorities, just after 1:00 this morning, residents living in the South End area of Corozal town heard the blast of gunshots and called the cops. When the police patrolled the vicinity they found a man lying on […]
A Belize City man is lucky to be alive tonight after he was shot point-blank in the face. Reports are that on Saturday night, twenty-two year old Renicle Hemmans was at the corner of Raccoon and Sea Gull Streets when a man on a beach cruiser bicycle rode up to him, pulled out a small […]
Meanwhile in the west, a woman who caught a thief in the act remains in serious condition after the man shot her. Police say that on Saturday morning, forty-nine year old Lynn Routhe arrived at her house in the Pilgrim Valley Community of the Cayo District only to find someone she knew trying to break […]
Another team from the Organization of American States arrived in Belize today to further investigate the group of people that have taken up lodging just outside the Belizean town of Benque Viejo del Carmen. According to Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, David Gibson, O.A.S. official Sergio Caramagna and Chris Hernandez Roy, […]
At the time, it was a cocaine bust that shocked the nation and ranked third on the list of major drug seizures: two thousand, five hundred and fifty-four pounds of the white lady. More than a year later, two brothers charged with drug trafficking for the possession of more than twelve hundred pounds of the […]
The exposure of the passport sandal may have put a dent in the illicit trade in Belizean nationality, but it appears that some people just don’t seem to get the message. An advertisement in the September twenty-eighth issue of the Economist magazine seems to tell readers that they can obtain a Belize passport, but the […]
Belize’s heavily burdened police investigators will get a little help this week in the form of training, courtesy of the U.S. embassy. Thirty-five officers will participate all this week in a course on crime scene management and evidence handling, to be held in Belize City. Taught by instructors from the F.B.I., the classes will deal […]
It is an organization among the first to respond in times of disaster, but this year, the Belize Red Cross Society is taking on a different kind of adversity: money troubles. This morning, the society got some relief as the Chinese community in Belize handed over a cheque for five thousand dollars, the result of […]
What do you get when you add zero plus zero plus zero? According to art guru Yasser Musa, the biggest zero yet. That’s right, the Belizean art show known as “Zero” is nearing the end of its world tour. After being hosted in museums from Havana to Barcelona, this month the exhibit makes its final […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The heavy rains over the weekend forced the postponement of yesterday’s match between defending semi-pro champion Kulture Yabra of Belize City, and former champion, Juventus of Orange Walk at the M.C.C. Grounds, which obviously left us bereft of footage. Nevertheless, we can tell you San […]
