One hundred and eight thousand dollars. That’s the amount of money taken by a lone gunman this morning from Save-U Supermarket, one of Belize City’s major shopping emporiums. The jacking occurred around nine this morning as a Save-U employee, Patrick Roches, was carrying the company’s deposit bag from the store to the branch of FirstCaribbean […]
He is accused of leading a Boxing Day shooting spree in Gales Point and today twenty-five year old Elvis Myers was formally arraigned for murder and a number of other crimes. The murder rap stems from the death of Winfield Slusher Junior at a village bram on the night of December twenty-sixth. Myers is also […]
Meanwhile, two men convicted of manslaughter will have to wait a little bit longer to learn their fate. Clifford and Russel Hyde, convicted on December twenty-first in connection with the June 2004 killing of Allison Castillo, appeared for sentencing in the courtroom of Justice Troadio Gonzalez this morning, but attorney Ellis Arnold asked the judge […]
The hype surrounding the upcoming city and town council elections cooled off over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, but with politics as something of a national sport, it will not take long for things to heat up between now and March first. Today, the UDP candidates in Belize City fired the year’s first electoral […]
From a pool of more than ninety thousand entries, this morning Courts customer Daria Vallecillo’s ticket was pulled from the Surprize Draw barrel, giving the resident of Santa Familia, Cayo the chance to win up to seventy-five thousand tax free dollars. Our camera was on hand as officials called Vallecillo on her cell phone with […]
