It was a long holiday weekend, and that normally means at least a few grizzly murders, but this extended Christmas was blessedly free of fatal violence. It was not for lack of trying, however. In two unrelated incidents that can only be described as bizarre, one policeman was severely wounded by a machete and a […]
In the second incident involving law enforcement authorities, a police special constable is clinging to life tonight at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot by a fellow member of the security forces. Police report that shortly after noon on Christmas Day special constable Bill Arana was shot in the right leg and chest following an […]
It was not reported on any police press release, but more than a week after a major hold-up and robbery at Jaguar Paw Resort on December twenty-first, News 5 was today informed about the drama via an email from one of the victims. Belmopan police have confirmed that around three-thirty that evening, three armed masked […]
It’s a seldom-discussed benefit of the radical rise in cruise ship arrivals. That is the business of selling cocaine. On Christmas Day, however, that business turned sour for one dealer as a tip-off by security personnel aboard one ship of the Norwegian Caribbean Line led police to bust a crew member as he was about […]
Traffic accidents on the Western and Northern Highways over the holidays have left two people dead and several others with varying degrees of injuries. On Wednesday evening, a Ford Ranger pickup truck with six passengers in the pan overturned between miles thirty-seven and thirty-eight on the Western Highway. The driver of the vehicle, Edward Gonzalez, […]
And in a final bit of police news, the cops were out in force today following up a lead in none other than the now infamous immigration scandal. Based on a tip that there were computer records of illegal passport sales, police searched the home of immigration agent Jose Shoman on the Northern Highway. The […]
Around five-thirty on Friday evening, a pilot from the Mennonite community of Blue Creek took off on his last flight in a day of pleasure flying. But as the aircraft, a single engine V-max piloted by twenty-five year old Norman Rempel, circled at one hundred feet, something went terribly wrong. As those on the ground […]
It was not a particularly well-kept secret, but today government announced the identities of those concerns who will be taking over control of the Philip Goldson International Airport. The investment consortium is comprised of three local groups and two from abroad. The Belizeans are the Mena group based in Belmopan, the Roe group, and a […]
He’s a successful Businessman and former Mayor of Guatemala City. And today Oscar Berger has one more achievement to add to his resume: President of Guatemala. Berger won the run-off in Guatemala’s presidential election on Sunday by capturing fifty-four percent of the vote. His rival, Alvaro Colom, was left with the remaining forty-six percent of […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into another delivery of Sports Monday. Week four of the B.P.F.L.’s B League saw Rural All Stars host Delta Sport of Corozal at the Sandhill field yesterday. And it’s the All Stars looking for the early lead when Tyrone Muschamp tries for the near corner against Robel […]
