According to our records, the nation’s last murder occurred back on August twentieth, a veritable lifetime ago by current standards. Well, that nearly two weeks of relative peace was broken in a big way this weekend by three homicides: two by gunfire and one by machete. The first shots rang out on Friday night. Jacqueline […]
The weekend’s second murder occurred on Sunday night, also on the south side of Belize City. Again, it was the victim’s relatives left with more questions than answers. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Members of his family are having a very tough time dealing with the shooting death of twenty-seven year old Sherwin Requeña. Requeña, who was […]
The country’s third murder of the weekend is believed to have occurred sometime late Sunday night. According to authorities in the Corozal District, at around six this morning, police were notified that the body of a Hispanic man was lying on the road in Caledonia Village. Investigators tell News Five that the victim, identified as […]
In addition to three murders over the weekend, another Belizean lost his life in a traffic accident. Eighteen year old Benson Ramclam Junior was killed on Saturday night when the truck in which he was a passenger collided with another vehicle between miles twenty-one and twenty-two on the Hummingbird Highway. Ramclam was thrown from the […]
If you just read the police report you’d think the failed robbery in the nation’s capital was just another routine jacking. But even though no money was taken, nor lives lost, the videotapes in this next story tell a frightening tale of what might have been. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today, it was business as usual […]
It had been promised as part of government’s agreement with the Unions earlier this year and although it took a while, the Ministry of Finance has published the first of what promises to be a monthly report on G.O.B.’s revenue and expenditure. In its introduction to the first release, which covers April through July, the […]
Two more standard bearers have been chosen by the United Democratic Party in weekend conventions. In Belize City’s Albert Division a sparsely attended gathering saw Thomas Morrison squeak by Joseph Bradley, two hundred and twenty-seven votes to two hundred and two. In Toledo, nearly two thousand voters showed up to give Juan Coy the nod […]
It may be a unique and fascinating part of Belize’s natural heritage, but without proper management the Swallow Caye Wildlife Sanctuary would not be in business very long. Today the protected area east of Belize City received a major boost as fifty tour guides completed a specialized course in dealing with the park’s plentiful population […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and here’s your fresh dish of Sports Monday. Fresh off the presentation of the national softball tournament, the Belize Softball Federation followed up by staging the prestigious invitational inside Roger’s Stadium yesterday in Belize City. Four teams made a bid for the title this year under the double elimination format. […]
