Municipal elections are not due until 2009, but with heavy in-fighting and public quarrels, the U.D.P. has begun early mayoral conventions in districts and the cities. There are plenty candidates to go around with the U.D.P. in control of all town councils and city councils around the country. Punta Gorda, however, sticks out, where the […]
And from politics in the capital city we go south to Punta Gorda where police and the Fire Department are investigating a series of fires that completely gutted four houses in the southern village of Crique Sarco, Toledo. The fires have attracted the attention of police because the dwellings belong to three members of one […]
Two women were taken to court this morning in connection with the ongoing investigation into the rape and brutal murder of a Belize City single mother Sandra Ruiz, on August tenth. The two are related to Darrel Grant, who has already been arrested and charged with Ruiz’s murder. Police had the two women in custody […]
Domestic abuse is often reported to the police and then regularly dismissed in Court. And today at Magistrate Court number one, twenty-eight year old Claudia Saunders told Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie that she does not want any further court action against her alleged attacker and husband, thirty-five year old Brian Saunders. On Friday, nightclub owner […]
There is no end to reports of crime and violence, and over the weekend, two more persons were injured in separate shootings, one of them critically. Police investigations reveal that the first victim, twenty-eight year old Angel Dorado, who is an agent at Ready Call Center on Newtown Barracks, was riding with a woman on […]
Not too often, victims survive bullets, in particularly when the gunshots penetrate the skull and brain. And while the majority of the cases we’ve reported have ended in loss of life and grief, there is one minor that has a good chance of leading a normal life after he was wounded last week. Such is […]
A Guatemalan waitress has reported to police that she was raped at around one o’clock on Sunday morning. According to the thirty-three year old woman, she left her workplace with a male customer who she knew only as ‘Castillo’ and went to the man’s house on Water Lane. The woman says Castillo then dragged her […]
Robbers took advantage of the absence of a car dealer and emptied the man’s house presumably between July twenty-fourth and August seventeenth. On his return from a trip abroad yesterday, forty-year old Marvin Williams of Neal Pen Road, reported to the police that his house had been burglarized. Williams was robbed of forty-six thousand, three […]
A twenty year old man has been charged with Suppression of Evidence, not a charge we hear of often. Police arrested and charged Michael ‘Quacky’ Foreman of Louise Bevans Street in Belize City for attempting to get a sixteen year old minor to drop a charge of Aggravated Assault. The young man, along with his […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club have announced the recipients of its first ever Employer of the Year awards. At a ceremony on Friday night Scotiabank walked away with the title of Overall Best Employer and Best Physical Environment. Other awardees include Citrus Products of Belize, named as the Best Industry Employer, […]
The Belize Kidney Association has a new president and executive. The organisation held its Annual General Meeting at the Belize Institute of Management on Saturday and elected Andrea Cox as president, Olga Herrera as vice president, Godfrey Sosa as secretary and Ruby Nicholas was elected as Treasurer. Five other officers were also elected to serve […]
Gentle Touch grabs 3rd consecutive championship Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this version of Sports Monday. Week four of the RF&G Cup Tournament brought Benque DC to the M.C.C. Grounds for the long awaited shoot-out with the Belize Defence Force. And the Military wastes no time in going offensive when Evan […]
