If the recent epidemic of gangland style shooting murders in Belize City makes us reflect on the kind of society we have created for our youths, the homicide by slit throat that occurred in Orange Walk over the weekend may cause us to question the state of our domestic relationships. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. […]
In Belize City police are investigating a more familiar type of homicide which occurred late Sunday night. After receiving reports around nine p.m. of shots fired on Berkeley Street in the area of Wagner’s lane, cops discovered thirty year old William “Cat” Usher, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the face and chest. Usher was […]
Only two days after Leonard “Ghost” Myers was remanded to Hattieville Prison on a charge of Murder for the death of fourteen year old Rodney Cornorquie, police report that a gunman fired several shots at Myers’ brother on Friday night. It appears, however, that twenty-three year old Raymond Myers was prepared, as although the two […]
The Belize Police Department has bagged another U.S. fugitive. This time, however, instead of a tax dodger, bigamist or sex offender they hit the jackpot, nabbing a suspect with ties to the world of terrorism. Forty-one year old Ernest James Thompson, also known as James Ujaama and Bilal Ahmed, violated parole in the United States […]
It may not involve terrorism but two visitors to Belize are in a heap of trouble tonight as security officers at the Philip Goldson International Airport found a loaded pistol in their luggage. Forty-four year old Ryan Roark and forty-one year old Tichakorn Chaikumnerd, both of California, were charged with Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and […]
Three sisters are recovering from injuries resulting from a hit and run which took place Friday evening in the Dump Area of Punta Gorda. Twenty-one year old Martina Cal received severe head and body injuries and was later transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where she remains in a serious but stable condition. Twelve […]
Today the police department, acting on a directive from the D.P.P., arrested one of its own and charged him for the crime of Murder. The charges against Constable Jesus Maroquin stem from an incident on September twenty-seventh in Los Lagos. On that day, police responded to a burglary in progress at a home in the […]
This afternoon, veteran teacher, principal and activist David Price was laid to rest in a small ceremony at Wesley Church on Albert Street. Price, at the time of his death, was chairing the Commission of Inquiry into the D.F.C. He became critically ill in November and was rushed to a specialist centre in Cuba. He […]
They refuse to let Belizeans take advantage of low cost computer based phone services like Skype or Vonage and for that and other reasons few people will be singing the praises of B.T.L. this Christmas. But as of December fifteenth the phone company is offering an alternative that, while not as economical as we’d like, […]
People in the global music industry will tell you that for every overnight success there are a hundred performers who worked their way up the hard way. So it has been with the annual Brokdong competition. What started three years ago as an almost forlorn attempt to revive a forgotten musical tradition has grown into […]
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