On Tuesday we brought viewers dramatic footage of massive flooding on the Western Highway. But while that road is no longer wet, the waters that covered it are now working their way east… and tonight villagers in Gracie Rock are living the aquatic life usually reserved for hicatee and iguana. Not even rubber boots could […]
Two men have been arrested and charged for the Tuesday night killing of a Chinese grocer in Ladyville. Twenty-one year old Dwayne Cruz and seventeen year old Akeem Lord were arrested and charged with murder today in Magistrate’s Court. Contrary to earlier reports, the two men who shot Weng Ger Zheng at his shop on […]
Belize City police say they do not know if twenty-one year old Stephen Yearwood was the intended victim of a shooting incident on Wednesday night, but the young man lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound to the right side of his neck. According to police, they strongly believe this man, […]
A Guatemalan has been arrested in connection with a number of marijuana plantations discovered on the Old Northern Highway. Twenty-six year old Ostilo Garcia of Trial Farm in Orange Walk has been charged with cultivation of marijuana in Magistrate’s Court after he was found in the area of the illegal farms several miles from Santa […]
In other police updates, a post-mortem on the body of David Gallego has proved inconclusive. Gallego died in his cell at the Ladyville police station early Tuesday morning where he had been detained for handling stolen goods. According to the police press officer, G. Michael Reid, pathologist Dr. Hugh Sanchez found no signs of violence […]
A Belize City granny is lucky to be alive tonight having been saved from her burning house by her grandson and a pair of quick thinking neighbours. At around four this morning, fire broke out in the lower flat of Icitadel Flowers’ house at 156 Neal Pen Road. The four children and two adults living […]
Jeffrey Prosser and his many corporate personas have responded to reports carried on this station and Channel 7 claiming that Prosser has defaulted on his multimillion dollar loan with the R.B.T.T. bank. Following a brief email exchange with Rene Henry, Prosser’s former P.R. chief and current special advisor, Henry made the following statement. “The transaction […]
They are called “confidence building measures” but to some observers on both sides of the border relations between the armies of Belize and Guatemala may be getting too confident for comfort. Today the two forces, with help from the O.A.S., took another step toward reducing tensions on the frontier. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Before an audience […]
