Two men who snatched a bag full of loot as it was about to be deposited in the bank are behind bars tonight, thanks to some quick thinking by police. The action unfolded in the Belama area of Belize City around eleven-thirty this morning. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting This black Honda Civic car with taxi license […]
Two years ago he was charged with the murder of Dangriga resident Michael Palacio, but when witnesses failed to show up to testify, the case against thirty year old Sherwin Baltazar evaporated and he was subsequently released from Hattieville prison. On Sunday morning, however Baltazar’s freedom came to an abrupt and vicious end. Dangriga authorities […]
Dangriga police may have arrested one alleged murderer, but they are still on a manhunt for two other suspected killers. Guatemalans twenty-nine year old Carlos Adelmito Zuniga and forty-one year old Neftali Cruz, both of Alta Vista in the Stann Creek Valley, are being sought for the murder of thirty year old Ismael Castellanos. Castellanos’ […]
Over two weeks after twenty year old Cruz Sho was brutally murdered inside her house in Lords Bank Village, this afternoon police charged their third suspect in the killing, nineteen year old Lynsdale Franklin. Franklin has been on the run since the homicide on March fifteenth, but police say last Friday he turned himself in. […]
A weekend traffic accident in the Toledo District has claimed the life of a Belize City man. According to Punta Gorda police, around three Saturday morning, seventy-nine year old George Grant, Sr. of Vernon Street in Belize City was driving a grey Dodge pickup near the Cerros Hills Bridge when he apparently lost control, causing […]
The case of Christine Perriott versus Belize Telecommunications Limited got underway this morning in the courtroom of Justice John Muria. But before they tackled the substantive issues of Perriott’s reinstatement and compensation for her alleged losses, her attorney Lois Young is in the meantime asking the court to force B.T.L. to give Perriott her job […]
Week three of the nationwide balloting for village councils is now history and to absolutely nobody’s surprise, the major political parties once again have different interpretations of the results. According to a press release from the United Democratic Party, they won twenty-one of the thirty-eight villages outright and say that an additional four villages in […]
Residents of two Toledo villages will file a suit in the Supreme Court tomorrow, claiming that the Government of Belize has failed to protect traditional Maya land rights. A press release from the Maya Leaders Alliance says the residents seek to have Belmopan formally recognise communal rights to land and related resources based on “longstanding […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The WIN Belize Basketball Competition reached money time Friday night inside the Civic Center as Acros Whirlpool found itself in a must win situation against the red hot Lake I Boyz in the three game senior male championship series. It’s a pretty good start for […]
