One man is dead and four others are injured as the twin town of Santa Elena, Cayo, was the scene of a family feud gone violent. The shootings took place on Saturday night and today I went West looking for answers. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting According to Yolanda Echeverria her brothers, seventeen year old Marvin, twenty-five […]
Police in Independence are tonight investigating an apparent drowning that occurred near Mango Creek on Sunday. According to officials of TMM Yacht Vacations, around six Sunday evening one of their employees, thirty-five-year-old Estevan Nab, used one of the company’s small inflatable boats to transport a co-worker from their base in Placencia across the lagoon to […]
Also in Placencia over the weekend, thieves, believed to be using a boat, made off with two new outboard engines from the stern of a barge anchored in the lagoon. The engines, forty horsepower four stroke Mercuries, are black with blue trim with some red scuff marks. A reward of one thousand dollars is being […]
A three-year old child died on Sunday after a barbeque grill fell on top of him. According to the boy’s mother, thirty-one year old Sophia Gladden, she and her son Kevin Garnett, had been watching television shortly before he ran into the yard to play. But that was the last time the high school teacher […]
Tonight police believe there is a young man suffering from gunshot wounds hiding somewhere in the city after a robbery went wrong over the weekend. According to reports, around two on Saturday afternoon two men, one armed with a handgun, walked into VRJ’s Fast Food on West Canal and demanded money from owner Deepak Gidwani. […]
In other police news, a homeless woman has been detained by police, accused of stabbing a homeless man. Fifty-six year old Leo Jones was hospitalized with a single wound to his abdomen after he was stabbed around ten on Sunday morning. The victim and the alleged perpetrator reside at the Department of Human Services Homeless […]
Police have made arrests in two recent Belize City shootings. Twenty-two year old Bejohn Martinez of Tibruce Street has been identified as the man who shot food vendor Silas Molina in an attempted robbery on the morning of August second, on Dolphin Street. Martinez has been charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, Use of Deadly […]
Two years after a fatal shooting at a popular nightclub, the man accused of the crime has been convicted of murder. According to court reports, this afternoon twenty-nine year old Dean Hyde was found guilty in connection with the death of sixteen year old Dual Wagner Jr. On October ninth, 2004, Wagner was at the […]
Five members of the University of Belize Engineering faculty have received scholarships to study in Taiwan. The grants, for graduate and post-graduate studies at Yunlin University, will be for the 2007/2008 academic year beginning in September. Jeffrey Jones, Leonard Mortis and Adrian Leslie will do graduate work in construction engineering while Andres Chimilio will pursue […]
This morning officials of the Ministry of Health, the Belize Cancer Society, and a team of medical practitioners from several universities in the U.S. began a one week campaign to help Belizean women defeat a disease that, with early detection, need not be fatal. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. Marion Ali, Reporting Worldwide, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this version of Sports Monday. The champion and the sub-champion in the 2007 Belize Premier Football League take their dreams to the international scene as they compete in this year’s UNCAF Champions Tournament. The champion F.C. Belize opens against Puntarenas at Cost Rica tomorrow three p.m., […]
