Life is cheap in Belize–at least that’s the way it seemed this weekend–as no less than four people found themselves on the wrong end of fatal violence. The most gruesome killings occurred in the Stann Creek District where a father and son were brutally butchered. A.S.P. Russell Blackett, O.C. Dangriga Police Station ?To tell you […]
The weekend’s third homicide occurred on Saturday night in Ladyville. News Five’s Alyssa Noble reports. Alyssa Noble, Reporting Police, tonight, are still investigating a shooting that has left thirty-nine year old Emerson Elijio of Ladyville, dead. I.S.P. Chris Noble, Ladyville Police Department ?The information that we have is that Saturday sometime after eight p.m., there […]
And in Roaring Creek police are investigating what appears to be a case of murder in which the victim was beaten to death. The fatal assault took place Saturday night at a tire shop in that roadside village near Belmopan. The dead man has been identified as forty-four year old Hollis Alexander Lopez. One suspect […]
Anyone who has ever purchased an airline ticket knows the rising costs of air travel can hurt. But this weekend, it was the airline company hurting. Sometime early Sunday morning, the American Airlines office at San Cas Plaza, was broken into. According to police reports, the security supervisor for the airline stopped by the office […]
A Belize City businessman has been charged with manslaughter as the result of a shooting that occurred almost a year ago. Thirty-nine year old Ben Bou-Nahra was arraigned this afternoon before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and released on ten thousand dollars bail. Bou-Nahra fatally shot Shawn Copius on September seventeenth, 2005, after Copius had allegedly burglarised […]
Last week we brought you the story of eighteen year old Tyrone Teck, the young man injured by a hit and run driver on Currasow Street in Belize City. Today police arrested and charged the man they believe knocked Teck down and sped away. He is Sergio Rivera, a resident of Warrie Street and the […]
It has been called a tempest in a teapot but the gathering storm over the application of G.S.T. to electricity bills is threatening to boil over and burn consumers. At issue is hundreds of thousands of dollars in G.S.T. invoices issued by B.E.L. Apparently, after much discussion, government gave the company the O.K. to charge […]
The massive month long rains may have let up but flooding continues to be a problem for a number of low lying riverbank communities. According to the Hydrology Department, while the flow is slackening upstream, the water at Crooked Tree is still two feet over the causeway, the Sibun River at Freetown has overflowed its […]
Saturday’s Lotto draw, like every one since April fifth, 2006, failed to produce a winner. That means the record jackpot climbs to one hundred sixty-five thousand for Wednesday’s big event.
Belize may have a large population of Manatees but their days of easy living appear to be numbered. Today Manatee researchers report two corpses found in the waters off Belize City. According to preliminary examinations, the victims may be a mother and child. Nicole Auil, Manatee Researcher ?This Manatee was found today at Duke Marine […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and we?re privileged to launch this latest dish of Sports Monday live into your living room. For some time now we?ve been telling you about the Guines 8 Ball Pool Tournament in action here in Belize City, well tonight we take you to an actual match. Friday night when Triangle […]
