The constant stream of reports of crimes against children has done little to erase the shock value of brutal attacks on the nation’s most helpless citizens. Tonight, a thirteen-year-old boy slips in and out consciousness as he fights to recover from a violent assault near his home on the Southside of the city. Today News […]
In the ward with Stanwell Arana is twenty-seven year old John Conorquie who was hit by a moving vehicle on Friday afternoon near Belize Waste Control on the Western Highway. Police reports are that Conorquie was crossing the street near the entrance to the dump when he was struck by a van heading towards Belmopan. […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has left a resident of the Cayo District dead. According to police reports, forty-five year old Carlos Oscar Lara was driving his Toyota Previa from Belize City to San Ignacio in the early morning hours of Saturday. But between miles sixty-nine and seventy, the van went off the […]
A shooting in the Stann Creek District has left a police officer suffering from chop wounds and his assailant recovering from gunshots to the leg. Reports are that on Saturday night, a mobile police unit was travelling on Fadden Avenue in Independence Village, but the officers say when two men standing on the street saw […]
Meanwhile, police in Belize City has charged a man in connection with a shooting at the corner of Gibnut Street and Central American Boulevard last Friday. Twenty-two year old Rowland Smalls of a Mayflower Street address have been charged with dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm and discharging a firearm in public. Smalls […]
And still on the crime beat, police have arrested and charged one of their own for sex offences against a thirteen year old girl from the Orange Walk District. According to the minor, thirty-four year old Corporal Sebastian Coc has been having sex with her since July. Medical examinations of the child confirmed that she […]
If you are suffering from Monday blues, this next bit of news might be just what you need to hear. Pan American Day, which falls on Tuesday October twelfth this year, will instead be observed on Monday, October eleventh. So yes, that does mean a three day weekend. The holiday is celebrated annually and is […]
Over the weekend, hundreds of Belizean music lovers gathered at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts to attend the Heavenlies Gospel Concert, held to launch their latest CD: ?Next Level?. Here are the highlights of their big night on stage. (Scenes of concert)
James Adderley Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re back with another serving of Sports Monday. Let?s jump into the thick of it folks as we take you to the Sandhill Field for Week III of the Reginald Jex Challenge Cup which was staged yesterday. And we can tell you right off the bat […]
