Their fate hangs in the balance, and by the end of the night, accused murderers Leslie Pipersburg and Patrick Robateau will know whether they will face the hangman’s noose or not. The jury comprising seven men and five women, got the case from presiding judge Troadio Gonzales late this evening after more than four hours […]
The Belize Police Department had to arrest yet another member of its ranks this weekend after a young woman reported being raped. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid says it received a report that three couples had been partying in Hattieville on Friday night and checked into a Ladyville hotel early Saturday morning. But things […]
Belize City has seen a spate of fires recently, and this weekend it happened again. Around seven-thirty Friday night a house caught fire on Kraal Road. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Marva Young, who was sleeping inside her house at the time of the incident, says she was awakened by people screaming her name […]
The results of the post-mortem on Eustace Vernon, found dead at his business on Central American Boulevard, are indicating that he was strangled. However, almost a week after the eighty-four year old businessman was discovered bound and gagged, police have yet to make any arrests. They are asking anyone with information who could assist in […]
A traffic accident last night on the Western Highway has claimed the life of a fifty-year-old woman and left her husband hospitalised in Belmopan. Around ten o’clock last night, two small pickup trucks were travelling in opposite directions in Camalote Village when somehow they collided. The impact of metal meeting metal sent one of the […]
It took three and a half years, but today fifteen families displaced by Hurricane Keith got replacement houses in Caye Caulker. Funding was provided by the Board of Episcopal Relief and Development working through the Anglican Diocese of Belize, the Government of Belize, and the Caye Caulker Village Council. Today the Prime Minister Said Musa […]
It is a recurrent question: can humans coexist alongside crocodiles? The answer seems to be “sometimes.” But when the animals become a threat to the community, they need to be caught and relocated. One man decided there must be an easier way to trap the crocs than the usual snare method and devised a trap […]
It was an opening fit for a king, or in our case a Baron. On Friday, The Bliss Center for the Performing Arts reopened after a year of construction work to upgrade the facility named in honour of Baron Bliss, Belize’s greatest benefactor, and built in 1955. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, audiences were […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week two of the B.P.F.L.’s semi-pro football season took the defending champions, Benny’s Kulture Yabra of Belize City north to the People’s Stadium in search of its first season win. At the very least, it was not going to be an easy win against the […]
