An accident on the New River in the Orange Walk district over the weekend has resulted in the death of a boat captain and left several tourists injured. Around ten on Sunday morning, Captain Vicente Avila, his sideman and a tour guide left the dock at Tower Hill with fourteen passengers and headed to the […]
In other tragic news from the north, a Corozal family is mourning the loss of a loved one following a freak accident in their backyard. Apparently nineteen year old Wilbert Dermont was helping his father and brother build a septic tank near their home in San Antonio village. But while Wilbert was walking on one […]
Tourism statistics for the first five months of the year are out and the numbers are good or bad, depending on whether you earn your living in the overnight or cruise side of the industry. For traditional overnight visitations, arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport are up a healthy four point seven percent over […]
Authorities are tonight searching for three suspects following an attack on Calabash Caye over the weekend. In his statement to police, fifty-one year old caretaker William Ysaguirre reported that around eight thirty on Saturday night, three masked men arrived at his house and held everyone inside hostage. The men immediately tied up his son, Devon […]
A string of burglaries in the capital city has left investigators with their hands full and three men behind bars. The first call came from three Belmopan residents who returned from vacation to find their possessions missing and their homes gutted by fire. Subsequent investigations have led to the arrest of eighteen year old Hildibrant […]
The Court of Appeal has declined to increase the sentence of a man convicted of beating his girlfriend senseless. In June of 2004 Elston Young repeatedly punched Lorna Wade with his fists and then whopped her in the head with a stick, sending her to the hospital with serious head injuries. In January of this […]
Belize City police are tonight on the lookout for one suspect involved in a shooting in the downtown area around noon today. According to reports, twenty year old Chris Hernandez was on his way to buy lunch when he was shot once in his lower right abdomen at the corner of Rocky Road and West […]
If you ran out of butane gas today you would have discovered that the cost of cooking has gone up. According to a release from the Ministry of Finance the new controlled price of a hundred pound cylinder in Belize City is one hundred and two dollars. The rise of around eight dollars applies equally […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and you?ve just jumped aboard the express we call Sports Monday. The San Pedro Tiger Sharks swam into Capital City, Belmopan Friday night in a bid to close out the fifth game semi-basketball championship series after going 2-zip out at the Island over the University of Belize Jaguars. And at […]
