His name has long been associated with Belize’s criminal underworld, and tonight, thanks to the long reach of U.S. law enforcement, the future freedom of Andrew “Papa” Brown is very much in doubt. This afternoon Andrew and his brother Floyd appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord following the presentation of diplomatic notes for their extradition […]
A Belmopan man has been charged with kidnapping in the case of a missing Belize City resident. Twenty-nine year old James Hyde was arraigned today before Magistrate Earl Jones for the kidnapping of Celestino Zetina. Zetina was reported missing from July tenth and was last seen on Vernon Street being forced into a car at […]
A Belize City man has been charged with a number of crimes in connection with the sexual assault of a fourteen-year-old girl. Thirty-seven year old Michael Woods appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to face two counts of carnal knowledge, one count of aggravated assault, and one count of grievous harm. The girl has reported to […]
A suspected robber is tonight nursing his wounds and facing some jail time… all because he may have chosen the wrong victim. According to police, shortly after midnight Saturday, thirty-two year old Reynaldo Verde stopped at the corner of Freetown Road and Victoria Street to assist two acquaintances who were having problems with their vehicle. […]
A traffic accident Friday afternoon in the Orange Walk District has left a man dead. Forty-year-old Heinrich Guenther Jr. of Indian Creek was riding in the pan of a Chevy pickup travelling on the Guinea Grass Road when it collided into a Nissan car coming from the opposite direction. The pickup rolled over several times […]
For a while she had Belizeans in a state of serious agitation… but fortunately the track of Hurricane Emily did not deviate from the path chartered by meteorologists and missed us by a good several hundred miles. The risk was real, however, and nowhere as threatening as in San Pedro and the whole of Ambergris […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?re riding this fresh wave of Sports Monday. Not surprisingly folks, Emily the Hurricane put quite a damper on things here in Belize over the weekend, except for the Benque Fiesta which provided for us Belizeans, most of the non-Emily excitement over the past two days. The blast of […]
