While efforts to maintain law and order in Belize City were mostly successful, tonight one family continues to mourn the loss of their loved one to deadly violence. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Thirty year old John Williams is the person Belize City police believe killed fifty year old Mauricio Velasquez. According to Carlos Pinto, his brother […]
Meanwhile, authorities in Punta Gorda are asking the public’s help in solving a murder of their own. Just after noon on Easter Sunday, the lifeless body of Tito Alcarez was discovered in a building under construction on Main Middle Street. Investigators immediately observed injuries to the back of the victim’s head and over his left […]
A similar incident in Benque Viejo has left another man in critical condition. According to cops, around twelve-thirty Friday morning twenty-one year old Succotz villager Oscar Itza was drinking with his friends when a fight broke out. During the melee, two men pulled out machetes and the blades struck Itza in the head and right […]
While investigators in Succotz are still trying to determine the motive behind the chopping, their counterparts in Dangriga know exactly why a Steadfast villager was stabbed in the wee hours of Holy Saturday. Apparently, twenty-five year old Rosa Requeña and twenty-one year old Isais Larios were at home asleep when Requeña’s common-law husband, and the […]
In more crime news from the old capital, two men are tonight under guard at the K.H.M.H. following a brazen shootout in front of the police. According to authorities, around three-thirty on Monday morning, police on duty in the Yabra area heard the sound of gunfire and then saw two young men chasing another man. […]
A teenaged girl has reported being raped in Placencia. The fifteen year old victim told police that around eight-thirty on Saturday night, she was on the beach when a man of East Indian descent attacked her, pulled her into the bush, and had sex with her against her will. A medical check has since confirmed […]
He was one of the busiest fast food vendors in the city, but tonight Belizean Fry Chicken owner Fred Hornby is thousands of miles away from his business, cooling his heels in an American jail. The U.S. national was picked up by members of the Crime Intelligence Unit bright and early on Monday morning and […]
Catholic Bishop Dorrick Wright is tonight recovering from brain surgery following a collapse late last week. Wright, a long time diabetic, fell ill following mass on Holy Thursday and had to be rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. After it was determined that he required neurological care, Wright was transferred to Belize Medical Associates. […]
Separate incidents have claimed the lives of two people who went swimming with friends over the weekend. One of the tragedies occurred around four on Easter Sunday in the Belize district. Stephanie Smith, Mother of the Deceased “When I gone to see him, I just can’t hold it. Dah mi wah shock, a total shock.” […]
Despite significant advances in medical care in Belize, technology that has become standard in other parts of the world is still out of reach of needy patients. But this week, one group of Belizeans will benefit from a donation that will make life a lot less complicated. Kendra Griffith, Reporting For a number of Belizeans, […]
On Wednesday night, the first travelling Caribbean Film Showcase will open in Belize City at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. The event is being sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry in collaboration with CARICOM. For the next eight days, more […]
James Adderley Good evening, I’m James Adderley and it is with great pleasure to welcome you to this splash of Sports Monday. The magic of the annual Cross Country Cycling Classic permeates this Holy Saturday morning. A large multitude has assembled to experience the rush at the start of the seventy-ninth edition. Some one hundred […]
