As much as we have grown used to violent death, particularly on the mean streets of Belize City, no murder that takes place in our midst is really typical. That’s what News 5’s Jacqueline Woods discovered today as she tried to make sense out of the latest killing in the old capital. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
A man detained last week in connection with the discovery of five illegal guns has been arrested and charged. Thirty-year-old Ewert Roberts Junior of Belmopan has been charged with four counts of keeping an unlicensed firearm, three counts of unlicensed ammunition, and one count of possession of a prohibited firearm. Four of the guns, along […]
While police in the nation’s capital are taking credit for solving the case of the missing guns, cops in Corozal are expressing dismay at a lack of cooperation in a child rape case. A ten-year-old girl claims that while at the Corozal Free Zone she was sexually assaulted by a man. Although intercourse was confirmed […]
A Belize City man can count himself lucky to be among the living tonight after he picked the wrong woman to jack. That woman, forty-three year old Debbie Vasquez, a member of the Belize City Council, told police that around ten Friday night as she was walking home from work on North Front Street, an […]
And in a final piece of crime news, the court martial of three British soldiers accused in the killing of fourteen-year-old David Zabaneh opens tomorrow, more than two years after he was beaten to death. By agreement with the Belize Government, the trial will be held under British Military law. The original charge of murder […]
There were murmurs of discord last week, but predictions are that come Wednesday the situation at the Tourism Village will be chaos, as Belize’s largest cruise tour operator squabbles with its two largest suppliers of transportation. The players tried to sort it out in front of the press this afternoon, to little avail. Patrick Jones, […]
The big white building on the foreshore is once again open to the public following ceremonies on Saturday afternoon. The completely refurbished House of Culture, traditionally known as Government House was built in 1814 and until 1981 was the home of Belize’s colonial governors. The building now houses various historical exhibitions, art gallery, meeting rooms, […]
The latest winner in the Courts Megabucks promotion, Yvonne Bradley, made that familiar spin of the wheel on Saturday, this time in Dangriga. Bradley took home her full seven thousand dollars in winnings as Courts picked up the income tax bill. The next Megabucks draw will take place on December first, with the maximum jackpot […]
The process started months ago with auditions to select forty-eight contestants from all over the country. On Sunday afternoon the final four in each of two categories squared off at Club Calypso to select the champions in the 2003 edition of Children’s Karaoke Television. The first winner announced was in the junior category. Maureen Dawson, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Kulture Yabra was on the road Saturday night in week four of the Regents Cup playoffs looking to rebound after last week’s 2-1 defeat at the M.C.C. Grounds. The whole world knew the defending champion Sagitun of Independence, […]
