This afternoon police escorted four men to court, including one of their fellow officers, whom they believe were behind the Valentine’s Day murder of Roberto Torres and Eugene Flores and the wounding of Ron Thomas. The men, twenty-two year old Ryan Felix, twenty-one year old Albert Allen, twenty-eight year old Earl Hamilton and twenty-one year […]
A man wanted for questioning over last week’s double murder of Jose Ricalde and Nazim Romero and the shooting of Noe Perez has turned himself in to police. Luis Cardenas visited the Orange Walk Police Station on Friday and police have already charged him with two counts of Robbery for crimes which occurred in that […]
Three people are hospitalised and seven others are in police custody tonight following a predawn road accident in the Corozal District. According to investigators, around four on Sunday morning officers on mobile patrol in San Joaquin village spotted a black Grand Marquis heading towards Libertad. The cops got suspicious when the car took off and […]
Police are looking for a man after he allegedly raped a woman inside her home. The fifty-six year old housewife, who lives at mile forty-four on the Old Northern Highway, told Orange Walk police that she was alone at home around ten on Sunday morning when a man she knows as Sergio Betancourt came to […]
A Benque Viejo resident accused of child molestation has been convicted of the crime. It took the jury less than two hours to find thirty-two year old Raul Rivero guilty of the Carnal Knowledge of a ten year old girl. During trial, the victim, who is now twelve years old, took the stand and told […]
Preliminary sparring continues in what promises to be a no holds barred fight for the leadership of the Peoples’ United Party. While the P.U.P. hierarchy continues to line up behind the candidacy of Freetown representative Francis Fonseca, former G-7 members and area reps John Briceño, Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde are taking their case for […]
A Belize City man riding on the wrong side of the road was killed when he was knocked of his bicycle Sunday night. The mishap occurred in front of B.T.L headquarters on Princess Margaret Drive around six-thirty and claimed the life of sixty-four year old Lionel Leslie. Forty-six year old Ronford Wagner reported to police […]
The captain of a boat that rammed a small skiff, killing one of its occupants, has been arrested and charged with a number of criminal offenses. Forty year old Richard “Bo Peep” Sjogreen has been charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct, and Negligent Harm in the death of eleven year old […]
The wheels of the judicial system often turn slowly but swift justice has been handed down to two burglars who broke into a Belize City home on Sunday morning. According to court reports, fifty-one year old Eneyda Perera left her house at mile two and a half at about five past nine but fifteen minutes […]
He has been involved with conservation in Belize for over a quarter century and on Saturday the efforts of Philip Balderamos were recognized when he was presented with the James A. Waight Award by the Belize Audubon Society. When he took the podium to accept the award, Balderamos dedicated it to Father Leonard Dieckman, Homer […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re back with another portion of Sports Monday. Stage five of the M&M Tour of Belize roared off at the usual nine a.m. U.C.I. start Saturday from Benque Viejo headed to Dangriga for the hundred fourteen miles of cycling that would finish at the gap on its way back […]
