If you read it in a novel you’d probably dismiss it as just one too many unbelievable twists in an already improbable narrative. But the story surrounding Belize Telecommunications Limited keeps growing more weird with every passing day. The latest chapter involves information long rumoured but now confirmed in the company’s most recent financial statements, […]
Police are asking for the public’s help in solving what appears to be the murder of a watchman in Belmopan over the weekend. Fifty-seven year old Santa Anna Mercado of Cotton Tree Village was found dead on Saturday morning in a sparsely populated area in University Heights in the capital city. The body had chop […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway Sunday afternoon has left two people dead and sent four others to the hospital. Sixty year old Policarpio Chan and forty-six year old Eliseo Huits were riding their bicycles on the highway between miles seventy-three and seventy-four around three-thirty when they were struck from behind by a Ford […]
A police forensic team was able to identify the body of a man found in San Pedro on Friday by his distinctive dental work. He is Ramon Andres Ramirez, a Mexican who was last seen on Wednesday when he left home to go jogging. There were no signs of violence on the body when it […]
A Corozal man who said he was the victim of a violent attack while walking home from a club may face charges that he stabbed someone else first. Twenty-year old Emmanuel Villanueva told police he was ambushed by some guys early Sunday morning and stabbed in the stomach, recounting that shortly after midnight he had […]
Two Belize City women and a ten year old boy are accused of burning down the home of a romantic rival. Eighteen-year-old Joanna Usher was charged with arson in Magistrate’s Court today after a fire on Tibruce Street destroyed a small wooden house belonging to twenty-four year old Edna Young on Saturday afternoon. Young told […]
Last week the office of the Alliance Against AIDS was broken into and computers and other equipment valued at over eighteen thousand dollars were stolen. Tonight there is some good news for the organisation as police got a tip over the weekend and they were able to recover the items and arrest four people, one […]
A taxi driver from Biscayne Village whose eye was shot out by a neighbour in 2004 says he is still trying to collect restitution ordered by the Supreme Court. Laurencio Smith told News Five that in April, Alpheus Gillette was convicted of attempted murder. Instead of being given prison time, Justice Troadio Gonzalez ordered that […]
Over the next three days officials from the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre and representatives of more than thirty regional organisations will meet in Belize to discuss information sharing and mitigation strategies against natural disasters and the impact of climate change. According to organisers, the idea is to pool ideas, methods, and resources to promote […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley with this week’s portion of Sports Monday. The RFG Insurance Cup Tournament kicked off the 2005 season over the weekend with a whopping seven ball games spread out across the nation. Here in Belize City, football fans got to see Kremandala open against Hankook Verdes at the M.C.C. Grounds, so […]
