The evidence points to murder, and cops are on the lookout tonight for the man they think did it. The body of nineteen year old Guatemalan, Hector Medrano, was found Monday morning at a house on Police Street in Belize City. A post-mortem exam has now concluded that Medrano had been strangled to death. The […]
A Belize City man is admitted to ward at the K.H.M.H. tonight, the victim of a late night shooting. According to police, around 10:30 on Monday night, twenty-seven year old Russell Hope claims he was walking near the intersection of Kraal Road and Kut Avenue when he was ambushed by a man with a gun. […]
In other police news, a bus driver has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal traffic accident last Friday. Fifty-seven year old Randolph Coleman will face charges of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention. Coleman was driving a bus on the Stann Creek Valley […]
Seven Cuban men, who illegally landed on the Belizean coast near San Pedro earlier this month, today did their best to avoid repatriation. The men: Jaime Sanchez, Enrique Camacho, Ramon Rivero, Alejandro Maury, Roberto Miranda, Armando Quintana, and Luis Maquedo, appeared before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. They all pleaded not guilty to the charge of failure […]
It’s parked properly; the problem is that there just isn’t much left of what was once presumably a car. Police tell News 5 that the vehicle burned to the ground over the weekend. While the cops and firemen arrived on the scene to put out the blaze, the owner, who was seen in the area, […]
Belize’s cable operators won a victory today in their efforts to keep the copyright dogs at bay; ironically the challenge came from one of their own. Ramon Reyes of Star Limited, a Caye Caulker cable company, claimed he owned Belizean rights to networks like MTV, Discovery Channel, ESPN, and Nickelodeon, and when his fellow operators […]
Their interests are the reef systems — how they function and react to disasters, both natural and manmade. Led by Monitoring Specialist, Doctor Patricia Almada, twenty-seven trainee biologists of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef Project’s Monitoring Programme visited the Belize barrier reef today for an inspection tour. With participants from Belize, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, Doctor […]
In related news, the Fisheries Department reminds members of the public that fishing for the Nassau Grouper is now closed on all traditional fishing banks except two: Maugre Caye at Turneffe and Northern Two Cayes at Lighthouse Reef. Those fishermen who want to work the two sites must first procure a special license from the […]
The stretch of seashore along the Newtown Barracks area of Belize City is getting a facelift, thanks to the new owner of some of the old capital’s most prime property. Bowen and Bowen Limited has purchased the two adjoining waterfront parcels of land lying between Marina Towers and the Fisheries Department, and the company is […]
Another two instalments on that commitment to give schools five thousand internet ready computers were made today in Belize City. But despite the programme’s progress, I found that there’s still a long way to go. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today, Intelco engineers and programmers were hard at work in the city, putting the finishing touches on […]
