Belize City lived up to its violent reputation this weekend with two residents dead and another four recovering from stab wounds. The pair of homicides occurred within three hours of each other on Friday night. Ernest Smith, Cousin of Murder Victim “Because my lee cousin he give trouble right, he gives trouble. I noh wah […]
It was a busy weekend at the K.H.M.H. emergency room as four persons were hospitalised with stab wounds that occurred in two separate incidents on Friday night and early Saturday morning. In the first, sixteen year old Christen Usher and thirty year old Henry Flowers were involved in an altercation around ten and by the […]
An armed robber in Dangriga managed to jack a delivery truck for over three thousand dollars in cash but not without being identified. According to police, on Saturday morning someone called in an order to Quality Poultry’s Dangriga branch for a delivery of two hundred chickens to an address near the town’s airstrip. When driver […]
Tonight, prison authorities and police are searching for a former inmate following a daring escape around eight this morning from the vicinity of Magistrates’ Court. Details are sketchy at this time, but reports are that well-known burglar Dennis Quilter apparently was taken by bus from Hattieville prison to court in Belize City to stand trail. […]
And lest we think that all police news this weekend was about crime, we are happy to report that over four hundred youths from around the country gathered Thursday through Saturday for three days of friendly sports competition as part of the Police Youth Cadet Corps annual camp. For the second time, the Dangriga contingent […]
After a break for Easter, Village Council elections were back on the menu this Sunday in forty-two rural locations. This time around, the People’s United Party claims twenty-two wins, gives fourteen to the U.D.P., and lists four as won by independents. According to the P.U.P., its big victories were in the Belize District where they […]
In news from Belmopan, the Musa administration is maintaining its silence regarding its latest offer to the Belize Bank as negotiations continue over settlement of the Government guaranteed multi-million dollar debt owed by Universal Health Services. In a release issued by the Press Office this afternoon, the Office of the Prime Minister categorically denied that […]
Leaders of Toledo’s Maya population continue to press their claims for a larger say in their future. For the second time this month a delegation visited the city, this time meeting for a roundtable discussion with the press. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Panellist #1 “We can all be Belizeans but we don’t all have […]
Tonight we note the death of Ismael Gomez Senior. Gomez, one of Belize’s pioneering business figures, died early this morning at his Belize City home following a three-month battle with cancer. Gomez was a senator and president of the Chamber of Commerce and in 1974 he established Belize Flour Mills Ltd., the country’s first flour […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week eight of the RFG Insurance Cup saw the Belmopan Bandits play host to Toledo United Saturday night inside the Isidro Beaton Stadium. And we’re early into the ballgame when #14 Kenneth Budna apparently commits the dreaded auto goal but gets bailed out by an […]
