It was not a particularly good weekend for police as in at least two instances the conduct of individual officers has left civilians with major complaints, not to mention serious injuries. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has been investigating the incidents since morning and finds that, in the case of a traffic accident on Saturday night, […]
The weekend’s other allegation of police impropriety involves a tactic that authorities have been using for years: that is the entering and ransacking of private premises without the benefit of a search warrant. The cops say it’s both legal and necessary…but for one man hassled in the wee hours of Saturday morning, it’s a practice […]
An elderly Corozal man is dead and two young men are detained pending a charge for murder. Police say seventy six year old Alfonso Santos was chopped in the back of his head during an attack by a pair of assailants as he rode his bicycle on Corozo Street, a newly constructed road that links […]
While an edged tool was the weapon of choice in the Corozal murder, in Orange Walk a senseless act involving a chunk of concrete has left a sixteen-year old boy hospitalised in critical condition. Police say that on Sunday night, Francisco Cawich and a group of friends were hanging out on the side of the […]
He’s no stranger to police and tonight thirty-three year old Kenrick Domingo, also known as Buck Dougal is in lockdown, accused not only of thieving a young woman’s bicycle, but also attempting to attack the victim when she identified the thief. Emily Lopez reported the bicycle theft on Saturday and while police could not locate […]
A trio of workers from a Belize City warehouse got the day off from work today, but their appointment with a Magistrate could severely interrupt their employment status. Twenty-three year old Freddy Calderon, twenty-one year old Abdulio Calderon, both of Saint Matthews Village, and twenty-five year old Minol Ventura of Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala, are […]
It has been closed for all but emergency business since October ninth of last year. And when the consular section of the U.S. Embassy finally reopened today there were new procedures to match the fresh decor. Patrick Jones was at the front of the line this morning and files the following report. Patrick Jones, Reporting […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley with yet another dish of Sports Monday. Week six of the B.P.F.L.’s B League brought a monster showdown to the Sandhill field yesterday as Belize Rural All Stars hosted Yabra United of Belize City. We join the action as the host team Rural attacks with this nice heel play that […]
