The sun had not yet reached the blue horizon this morning when La Isla Bonita was transformed into El Cayo en Fuego. San Pedro’s largest food emporium was on fire and when News 5’s Patrick Jones reached the scene around ten, the building was still belching thick black clouds. Patrick Jones, Reporting Smoke still poured […]
Police are still looking for their third suspect in the case of alleged large-scale abuse of children in Punta Gorda. U.S. citizen Harry Lee Jones, wanted by the cops on a charge of human trafficking, has not yet been found and chances are that he is no longer in the country, as reports to News […]
A U.S. tourist has died after SCUBA diving. On Wednesday fifty-five year old Kenneth Goth was diving near the reef at Gallows Point, eight miles east of Belize City, when according to his wife, he began to experience problems breathing. He surfaced and those with him administered C.P.R., but those efforts failed. Goth’s body awaits […]
Police report that a series of jackings were committed in Belize City on Wednesday, all of which appear remarkably similar in nature. At around six-thirty p.m. on Gibnut Street an eighteen-year-old woman was accosted by two men, with one of them grabbing her neck while the other took away her cell phone. On Water Lane […]
The following story combines two problems that we’ve covered many times before. The first is illegal squatters who build makeshift houses on land that isn’t theirs, while the second is the propensity for certain newly developed areas of Port Loyola to retain large amounts of water following heavy rains. It’s hard to tell which of […]
