It was a pity that there was no cruise ship in port today as the pageantry that took place on Regent Street this morning was definitely several cuts above the usual fire eater or snake man. But while it was the show in front of the Supreme Court that drew a crowd, it was the […]
An attack in the Orange Walk District has left a shopkeeper fighting for her life. According to police, sixty-three year old Catarina Teck was stabbed in the back around 9:30 this morning at her shop in San Jose Village. Police apprehended eighteen-year-old Kevin Rodriguez after villagers responded to Teck’s screams and detained him. He allegedly […]
He was on the run for over three weeks, but eighteen-year old Godfrey Hemsley could not elude the long arm of the law. The teenager has been arrested and charged for the attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm against twenty-three year old Clive Arnold Junior on December twenty-eighth. According to police, Arnold […]
A fifty-five year old Belize City Boledo vendor was robbed at gunpoint on Sunday. Police say Michael Theus was selling lottery tickets at his home on West Street when two young men brandishing handguns entered and held him up. One of the robbers emptied Theus’s pockets of three hundred and thirty-five dollars. Not satisfied, the […]
And in news just in from the police press office, it appears that a pedestrian has been killed in a Cayo traffic accident. The body of twenty-four year old Byron Canto was found on the Cristo Rey Road around three-thirty Sunday morning. Later in the day twenty-year old Carlos Rodriguez reported to police that he […]
On Saturday British Foreign Office Minister responsible for Latin America and the Caribbean, Bill Rammell, presented a cheque for one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars to finance an international conference on conflict prevention, human rights, and economic integration. The conference, co-hosted by the University of Belize and San Carlos University of Guatemala, is the first […]
The final instalment of the Courts Megabucks promotion was held over the weekend at the company’s Belize City headquarters. The name of Paula Edwards of Corozal Town had already been selected from the barrel and on Saturday morning she stepped up to the wheel in search of a maximum payday of seventy-five thousand dollars. Emcee, […]
It is the city’s sole public cemetery and with a location that brackets the old capital’s western entrance it’s pretty difficult not to notice what’s going on there. But as Jacqueline Woods discovered, there’s quite a bit happening behind the scenes in the graveyard–and some of it is not pretty. Paul Ferguson, Concerned Citizen “No, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve locked into this latest dish of Sports Monday. We take you immediately to the Hattieville field where the Hattieville Sporting Club hosted Kremandala Lake of Belize City yesterday in week seven of the B.P.F.L.’s B League. We’re only seven minutes in when Paul Bradley centres into the danger […]
