Only a week after a police constable killed a man in Caye Caulker under questionable circumstances, another civilian is dead at the hands of law enforcement authorities. The drama unfolded in the wee hours of Saturday morning when cops arrested a suspect outside a dance at Celina’s club in Ladyville. The crowd reacted negatively and […]
Darrel McDonald was not the only weekend fatality in Ladyville. On Friday night an employee of a village shop became concerned when the store owner did not respond to her repeated calls. Upon entering the building through a window, the reason became clear. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The bloody and lifeless body of twenty-eighth year old […]
A post mortem was conducted earlier today on the body of a construction supervisor who died on Saturday at the Bliss Institute renovation site. According to co-workers, just after two on Saturday afternoon, site supervisor Crecenciano Zaraut was consulting with his boss, engineer Angel Garcia, in the centre of the building zone, when a forty-foot […]
Last week it was small resorts. This week it appears that a rural school is the latest target of arson. Patrick Jones reports. Dorla Wade, Principal, Biscayne Government School “We’ll pick up the pieces and we’ll move on.” Patrick Jones, Reporting And that’s just what teachers at Biscayne Government School were doing this morning as […]
While villagers came out to help put out the school fire on Saturday afternoon, a passer-by ended up losing his life as a result of a traffic accident in front of the burning building. Thirty-two year old Marlon Henderson was riding his motorcycle on the Northern Highway toward Belize City when he collided with a […]
There are quarrels between sisters and then there are quarrels between sisters. Last night, a set of feisty siblings from Orange Walk got into it pretty good at a local bar. But according to police, things got scary when, in the middle of the hair pulling and clawing, twenty-four year old Elvira Grant pulled out […]
While on the subject of women doing unusual things, there is a promotion worth noting in the Police Department. This afternoon, subordinate officers called News 5 to big up their boss, informing us that effective April first of this year, forty-nine year old Maureen Leslie became the first Belizean woman to be appointed as Assistant […]
The latest Courts Megabucks Draw has a winner. On Saturday morning Vernon Bevans of Fuller’s Lane in Belize City spun the big wheel and drove home with a thousand dollars in tax-free cash. The event was held at the Courts branch in Corozal.
Good evening I’m James Adderley brining to you this week’s edition of Sports Monday. And folks on Saturday Lord’s Bank in Belize Rural was transformed into the perfect replica of an English countryside, complete with picturesque scenery, excited fans, gentlemen dressed in white and a high level of cricket play. And we would be diplomatically […]
