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Two teenagers arrested for Ladyville murder

Residents of the Lord’s Bank community will sleep a little easier tonight knowing that two men have been arrested and charged for the cruel killing of Cruz Sho inside her home last Thursday. But perhaps what is equally disturbing about Sho’s murder is the fact that the accused murderers are teenagers. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today […]

Banana worker killed in machete fight

Homicide detectives in the south are tonight investigating the murder of a banana worker that occurred over the weekend. According to authorities, around ten on Saturday morning, officers were notified that the body of a man had been found near the Placencia junction with the Southern Highway. Multiple chop wounds to the head and body […]

Motorcyclist dies following hit and run accident

A traffic accident in Belize City has resulted in the death of a young man and tonight his grieving relatives need your help to track down the hit and run driver. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around one-thirty on Saturday morning, twenty-three year old Jerry Solwin Romero had just taken a friend home on Cemetery Road and […]

Newborn baby dumped in North Creek canal

Meanwhile Belize City police are also searching for the parents of a baby discovered dead in a canal off Central American Boulevard. According to sixty-three year old sanitation worker Noel Ebanks, around nine-thirty on Saturday morning he was cleaning the side of the North Creek Canal when he spotted the body of a newborn baby […]

Cops seize 9 pounds of coke in Vista del Mar bust

A drug bust in the Belize district has resulted in the arrest of two people. According to police, officers from the Crimes Investigation Unit and the Anti-Drug Unit were on patrol in the Vista Del Mar area when they stopped a white four door Crown Victoria. During the subsequent search of the vehicle, the cops […]

Deadline for Perriott report passes; unions want disclosure

It might have gone unnoticed given the protest rally in Belmopan but on Friday, the Minister of Labour was to have been presented with a comprehensive report regarding the firing of Christine Perriott from Belize Telecommunications Limited. The National Trade Union Congress of Belize issued a press release to that effect this morning but our […]

New citrus board to review investment deal

At their last gathering, shouting matches, fights for the microphone, and mass resignations set the precedent for meetings of the Citrus Growers Association at an all time low. But word out of the south tonight is that Saturday’s Annual General Meeting of the association was the model of discipline and democracy. Of course it helped […]

U.D.P. and P.U.P. claim victory in village council elections

On Sunday, residents in forty-seven villages countrywide went to the polls to elect a chairperson and seven councillors. And while the party lines in village elections can sometimes be blurred, in a press release from its secretariat, the United Democratic Party is claiming the lion’s share of the slates, thirty-four in fact, as victories for […]

First Preschool Festival of Arts starts tonight

They’ve got rhythm, they’ve got music and they’ve got dance and starting tonight the participants in the first ever Preschool Festival of Arts will have centre stage at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. This morning I stopped by for a preview of the entertainment. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Over the next four days, students […]

Mateo Cruz claims victory in Masters Cross Country

Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this issue of Sports Monday. We take you immediately to in front of Garbutt’s Texaco Gas Station inside Roaring Creek where the ninety-mile Masters Cross Country Classic is about to take off featuring thirty riders whose classification demands they must be thirty years and over. […]