The weekend was filled with crime and tonight’s broadcast is likely to read more like a police sitrep than a normal newscast. But the incident which has caused the most concern, public speculation, and in many cases outrage, was the death of a thirteen year old boy who was shot to death by a police […]
Orange Walk police are on the look out for two men they believed killed a co-worker and then dumped his body at the worksite. The deceased has been identified as twenty-four year old Roman Cisuentes, a Guatemalan resident of the Honey Camp Area. Authorities say Cisuentes’s body was found on a farm with several chop […]
Police in Punta Gorda have made an arrest in the death of escaped burglar Colin Mangar. Heminio Ical of Forest Home Village in the Toledo District has been charged with murder, as well as handling stolen property. Police believe that Ical and Mangar were partners and probably had an argument over items that they had […]
Police in Belmopan have identified the body of a man discovered last week. According to authorities in the capital city, the badly decomposed body is that of thirty year old Enrique Doroteo. A post-mortem has since certified that Doroteo died of massive brain trauma due to a gunshot wound to the head. Doroteo’s body was […]
On Saturday, Belize City and Ladyville police responding to a robbery in Bermudian Landing soon became involved in a high speed chase that ended in a shootout between the cops and the robbers. According to Assistant Commissioner of Police and Head of the Central and Eastern Divisions, Crispin Jeffries, the police were on their way […]
Tonight police are appealing to anyone who can assist them in their investigation into the death of forty-three year old William Arnold, the watchman for Cavalry Temple Primary School. Sometime on Saturday, Arnold, who lives on the premises, was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, but died from injuries police believe he may have […]
A police officer remains hospitalised tonight after he was knocked down in Belize City on Saturday evening. According to authorities, P.C. Jody Ingram was walking to work around three-twenty that afternoon, but as he reached the Pound Yard Bridge he was hit by a car. Assistant Commissioner Crispin Jeffries “He was reporting for duty. He […]
Another traffic accident, this time in Corozal, has claimed the life of a resident of Chan Chen Village. According to Hugo Espinoza, around nine on Saturday night he was driving his Toyota minivan between miles ninety and ninety-one on the Northern Highway when Ramon Rodriguez suddenly rode his bicycle into his path. Espinoza told police […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry is attempting to enhance its international profile, particularly with potential trading partners in the region. Today, it released a new video, which can be used at trade expositions and as a marketing tool by its members. The fifteen-minute documentary uses the beauty of Belize as its backdrop to […]
While many people who graduate from university leave campus life behind in favour of new pursuits, others become active members of their alumni associations and help welcome new students to their alma mater. The new director of alumni relations for the University of the West Indies is in Belize this week to help our local […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley with yet another dish of Sports Monday. The heavy downpour over the weekend forced the postponement of most sporting activities here in the Jewel. Since we live in the tropics, it’s no biggie; we simply shifted gears and caught up with Jude Lizama, tournament director of the National Softball Tournament […]
