It was a death that the police would describe as typical: an “old beef” finally settled in the early hours of Saturday morning by the business end of a handgun. But for the family of a victim, no death could ever be considered typical. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Anthony Ferguson, Father of the Deceased […]
If the weekend shooting death in Belize City fit a familiar pattern, so too did a fatal shooting today in the Toledo District. According to police reports, a mental patient, Frederick Espinosa, is dead after being shot by a police officer in Punta Negra. It is alleged that Espinosa had attacked the Chairman of the […]
In Corozal, another citizen with alleged mental problems also met an untimely death following a brush with the law…although in this instance the fatality was attributed to natural causes. Martha Lorenzo was arrested on Sunday and charged with wounding after she is said to have bitten a policeman during an altercation. When she was on […]
Two deaths in different parts of the country have been classified as tragic accidents. On Friday eighteen year old Manolo Guardado of San Felipe Village in the Orange Walk District lost his life when he suffocated after climbing into a well on a farm outside the village. And on Saturday afternoon twenty-three year old Dwayne […]
It’s official: Wednesday, October twenty-ninth is the date set for the by-election in Cayo South. Today, Governor General Sir Colville young signed the paperwork naming October fourteenth as Nomination Day and the twenty-ninth as election day. Joaquin Cawich will be running for the People’s United Party, while John Saldivar received the nod as the United […]
As a parent, it’s always a proud day when you attend a graduation…whether it’s primary, secondary, junior college or even law school. For Prime Minister Said Musa, it must have been a double pleasure as he was asked to be the guest speaker at the graduation exercises of the class of 2003 at the Norman […]
We reported last week that Belizean shrimp exports have been given the green light to enter the European Union…and it may be just in time. Reports from the U.S.A. are that shrimp producers from eight southern states have banded together to fight what they claim are unfair trade practices by ten shrimp exporting countries. The […]
It’s Senior Citizens Week and since all of us, barring disaster, will one day reach that magic sixtieth birthday, it would be foolish–not to mention ungrateful-not to big up our favourite folks. Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting Their footsteps may be a little slower, but the spirit of these seenagers is as electrically […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re hooked into this latest delivery of Sports Monday. The Belize City football fans finally got a close up look at the newcomer upstart Jacintoville United of P.G. as Regent’s Cup play brought them to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday against Kulture Yabra. With only two rounds remaining on the […]
