Two brothers are dead, a third is hospitalised and a friend is in critical condition following a shooting spree early Sunday morning in Belize City. The rumour mill has been in high gear since the incident, but the scenario appears to revolve around the not unfamiliar story line of petty jealousies and alleged disrespect ending […]
While police were busy connecting the dots in the Brannon murders, officers were called to another shooting, this time in the Yabra area. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Twenty four year old Tyrone Felix was on his way home from the City Centre?s Mother?s Day Bash when he was shot in the back of his head at […]
Police in Belmopan also have a homicide on their hands. On Sunday night they were called to Montalvo Street in the Las Flores neighbourhood where they were shown the unidentified body of a man suffering from numerous chop wounds to the head and neck. The deceased was lying on a foam mattress in a house […]
A combination of luck and good police work has resulted in the arrest of two suspects who audaciously robbed a couple and also raped the woman. Nineteen year old Michael Trapp and twenty-two year old Derrick Sampson, both of Belize City, have been jointly charged with two counts of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery […]
The massive assault on the innocence of Belizean children continues unabated. The latest abomination was reported in Corozal, where a thirty-three year old man has been arrested for the rape of a nine year old girl. According to a report filed by the girl, Ludijerio Castenada visited the child’s home in October of last year […]
In the Belize City Supreme Court today, the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management filed a motion asking for judicial review of a government permit granted to a U.S. company to conduct seismic testing within the Sarstoon Temash National Park. Following the court proceedings, representatives of five Toledo villages: Barranco, Sunday Wood, Crique Sarco, Conejo […]
During brief ceremonies in Belize City today, librarians gathered at the Thurton Library on North Front Street to mark the official opening of an exhibition celebrating the country’s young history. The show is called “The National Collection: Contributing to National Growth.” According to Brian Plummer, chairman of the Thurton Library Board, the idea of the […]
On the first night they lost by seventeen points. On the second night, the deficit grew to twenty-one. And today our national men’s basketball team is making its way north to where they will once again go head to head with the Mexicans in the third game of the four game series. And while we […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and we welcome you to this issue of Sports Monday. Mother?s Day not only brings with it a focus on the role of mothers, but it also produces the female cyclist of the year on that very special day. So we take you to yesterday?s start of the seventeenth Annual […]
