Accusations against the Belize government that it gave extraordinarily generous terms to a group of local businessmen in an oil concession have yet to be answered by Belmopan. Our canvassing of Cabinet members reveals that the members have spent the last three days reviewing their minutes of the June fifth meeting, presumably to refresh their […]
Details remain sketchy but police have made plans to exhume the remains of a Corozal resident so investigators can determine whether he was murdered. For four days, seventy-seven year old security guard Enrique Lino had been hospitalized, first in Corozal, then at the K.H.M.H. in Belize City. When he died last Friday, the body was […]
It is always disturbing to report attacks against children and older persons, but on Sunday morning an elderly woman was viciously assaulted and raped in the Cayo District. According to the sixty-seven year old victim, she was at her home in San Ignacio around six a.m. when she was attacked by an intruder. The perpetrator […]
Two men are wanted by police in connection with reports filed by separate pregnant girls in Belmopan. In the company of a social worker, a twelve year old girl told cops in the capital that over the summer she met a Corozal man named “Luis”. The two became friends and then in June, the child […]
One of four prisoners who escaped from Hattieville prison earlier this month has been captured. Twenty-seven year old Terry Bainton was apprehended shortly after noon on Sunday as the result of a police raid on a house in Belize City. According to police press officer Bart Jones, based on a tip, officers entered a residence […]
Two months after a Belize City businessman was shot during a botched robbery, police have made an arrest in the case. On Friday, twenty year old Marlon Jones was charged with Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Grievous Harm. The accused was remanded to Hattieville Prison until December eleventh. Apparently Jones had […]
Separate cases of burglary have resulted in one man being sentenced to jail and two others imprisoned on remand. According to court reports, on Saturday night police were tipped off that there was an intruder near the Romac’s warehouse on Albert Street. The security guard was subsequently able to detain the individual who was later […]
Police are looking for a suspected arsonist who torched a school building in the Toledo district over the weekend. Around two on Sunday morning, villagers of the Bladen community woke up to the smell of smoke and when they looked outside, they were horrified to see four classrooms of the Fabian Cayetano R.C. School engulfed […]
The seven-member delegation included four athletes and three officials and today they returned to Belize after a splendid performance at the recent Special Olympics in China. Michael Graham, Gold Medallist, Track & Field “Just try hard and bring the gold to Belize.” Marion Ali “Anybody can do this?” Michael Graham “Yes.” Marion Ali “Was it […]
The votes have been tallied and in the closest balloting ever, the last two finalists in Ultimate KTV have been selected. Earlier today Ilda Chiac of the auditing firm PKF Belize confirmed the results of the text message voting. Mary Mangar, Producer, Ultimate KTV “Ilda, can you confirm that your firm has reviewed the text […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this session of Sports Monday. Week four of the R.F.G. Cup Tournament found the Belize Defence Force making a stand at the M.C.C. Grounds against the Revolutionary Conquerors of Dangriga. Five minutes in, B.D.F.’s Deon ‘Pussy’ Flowers get this shot at goal but the Dangriga defence […]
