The efforts of Corozal cops and their Chetumal counterparts investigating last week’s murder in San Joaquin Village have produced enough evidence to make two arrests. According to police, twenty-seven year old Edmund Crawford Sanka of Carolina Village and twenty-five year old William Wade of Calcutta Village were arrested in connection with the murder of Chinese […]
Kite flying in March is about as Belizean as you can get, but a family is in mourning tonight after an accident in Sandhill Village left a loved one dead. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Shortly before five on Sunday evening twenty-six year old Kennon Hernandez decided to take advantage […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has left a cyclist hospitalised. Police reports are that around eight on Saturday night, William Velasquez was riding his bicycle between miles sixty-seven and sixty-eight toward San Ignacio when he was knocked down by a Toyota Camry travelling in the same direction. The driver of the car, thirty-two […]
Meanwhile, cops in the west are also investigating a drunken brawl that left five friends suffering from stab wounds, cuts, and bruises. Apparently, Robert Velasquez was hosting a party at his house on Joseph Andrews Drive and Jesus Lobos, Wayne Murray, Edgar Ayala, and Jimmy DeLeon showed up to celebrate. But somewhere along the line, […]
Members of the Dangriga HIV/AIDS Society are the victims of vandalism after someone or a group of people attacked one of their billboards over the weekend. According to officials of the N.G.O., the sign at mile three on the Stann Creek Valley Road was a symbol of fighting stigma and discrimination. But as we later […]
Popular paediatrician and President of the Friends of Paediatrics, Dr. Egbert Grinage, are convalescing in an American hospital tonight after suffering a mild heart attack late last week. According to family members, the forty-four year old Grinage woke up around three on Friday morning complaining of pain in the chest and left shoulder. Grinage was […]
A father of four from the Cayo district is dead tonight after an accident over the skies in Spanish Lookout. According to family members, On Sunday thirty-two year old Ben Kornelsen decided to take advantage of the strong winds by flying a parapropter, which is described as a motorized parachute. But shortly after taking off, […]
He’s been serving the rich and famous at Cayo Espanto for years, but tonight Ernesto Azueta is, at least by Belizean standards, rich and famous in his own right. On Wednesday, Azueta won the seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollar Lotto jackpot. The thirty-two year old stopped by Tropical Gaming this morning to pick up his […]
Over the weekend, residents of Dangriga and members of the southern town’s new council participated in a beach clean up designed to improve the area’s tourist image. According to organisers, the project is a joint effort between Town Hall and the Petters Research Institute. We understand volunteers, including Mayor Frank “Papa” Mena, began work on […]
A new art show opened over the weekend at the Image Factory in Belize City featuring the work of conceptual Honduran artist Adan Valencillo. The exhibition is called “Asepsic Power” and according to curator Gilvano Swasey, is sure to provoke a lot of thought. Swasey says the idea is to shake up the norm. Gilvano […]
For years advocates have been appealing for high school students to take centre stage a la their younger peers in the Festival of Arts. And though this is not the first time secondary schools have participated in the event, when the show officially opened this morning, it was clear that the Belize district institutions were […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we welcome you to this fresh serving of sports Monday. Week five in the RFG Trophy Tournament found F.C. Belize of the Metropolis inside the Isidoro Beaton Stadium Saturday night against Belmopan United. And it?s the home team looking for the early lead off this spotkick from Derys Benavides, […]
