It was the kind of weekend that has become a staple on the Monday media circuit: Keen competition on the sporting field, first class entertainment on the stage and a morgue filled to capacity with the victims of murder and bad driving. We’ll begin with the murders. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from the Salt […]
The weekend’s second homicide occurred on Sunday, this time in Orange Walk Town. Nineteen-year-old Honduran Nulvis Gomez was pronounced dead on arrival at Northern Regional, the result of a massive cut wound to the side of the neck. According to police, around nine-forty-five p.m. Gomez was involved in an argument over money with one Daniel […]
She was returning to the jewel after eighteen years in Los Angeles…but Shawn Smith’s homecoming to the land of her birth lasted only a matter of hours. After a long trip through Mexico, she managed to hitch a ride with a family headed to Belize City. That ride ended just before midnight on Saturday night. […]
Meanwhile, a man has been arrested in connection with another deadly accident that occurred in the Cayo District over the weekend. According to San Ignacio police around twelve-fifteen on Sunday afternoon, twenty-three year old Jorge Freissen, a resident of Spanish Lookout, was driving his Plymouth van on the Spanish Lookout Road toward Blackman Eddy. Inside […]
While resulting in some significant busts of illegal guns, the 922 hotline has been plagued by suspicions over confidentiality practically from the time it was launched last year. Now, with the help of the Rotary Club of Belize, the Crimestoppers concept is about to undergo an overhaul. Incoming Rotary Club President, Alberto Young, says his […]
With the seemingly unending flow of violent crime and highway carnage it’s easy to forget that the overwhelming majority of Belizeans are not only law abiding citizens, but actually love and care for each other. Over the weekend News 5’s Jacqueline Woods took a ride up the road to Ladyville–not to report on a tragedy–but […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. With the National Football Team having returned from the World Cup qualifiers at Canada, the Regent Insurance Cup Playoff kicked off in earnest over the weekend. Yesterday at the People?s Stadium, the number two seed in this four-team playoffs, Juventus of Orange Walk, held court […]
