The streets of Bagdad may be safer than Belize City tonight as a fourth grenade, aimed at a thick crowd of revelers, interrupts the carnival road march. And at news time tonight two people have been detained by police following what could have had a disastrous ending were it not for a twist of fate […]
While there were no casualties in the grenade attack, a car dealer died of gunshot wounds this weekend. Police retrieved the body of eighteen year old Stanley Moguel about a hundred yards away from the Haulover Bridge shortly after six on Sunday morning. The body which was lying face down on the left shoulder of […]
At the tail end of the carnival, while thousands of onlookers were converged on Princess Margaret Drive in front of Jabiru Auto Rental, another violent incident sent the crowds scrambling for cover. One person was injured by gunshots and others were injured when bottles were hurled into the air. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
The shootings were not confined to Saturday. On Sunday night two Belize City men who were hanging-out near a popular Asian establishment on Central American Boulevard, became the targets of a shoot-out. Lee’s Shopping City also known as Archie’s, was where thirty year old Patrick Kerr of Flamboyant Street and twenty-two year old Leo Palacio […]
And in another incident in the West Landivar area, just before six o’clock, a motor cycle driven by an adventurous man ran off the road. The incident occurred at the entrance to St. John’s Junior College when thirty year old Michael Brown who was driving his Honda CBR 600 motorcycle on Princess Margaret heading from […]
Acting on tip-offs, Fisheries Officers made a double bust today in Belize City; the first at around two-thirty this afternoon at Wanton Restaurant on New Road. On the second floor of the building which houses the residential quarters, fisheries officers discovered several bags containing one hundred ninety-six conchs and two bags of twenty-two undersized lobsters. […]
Taking advantage of a black-out and to make life even more dangerous, three inmates busted out of Hattieville prison sometime between two-thirty and two-forty-five on Sunday morning by picking a lock. Word from prison officials is that the inmates may be heading west and north. They are Rene Morente, a Guatemalan national serving time for […]
It’s not as common an occurrence as road collisions, but over the weekend, one more plane crash was added to the country’s list of air incidents. Around nine-forty on Sunday morning, Roy Bradley, piloting a Tropic Air Caravan made an emergency landing in the waters near Belizean Beach. The plane had just taken off from […]
The Stars Restaurant and Bar in Roaring Creek Village went up in flames Sunday night. When fire officials arrived at the scene around ten-forty-five, they found the entire upper floor of the two storey wooden structure ablaze. The lower flat of the building was a popular bar and restaurant frequented by travelers on the Western […]
Luck can come in different ways and a man’s luck changed for the better after he won Wednesday night’s Lotto Jackpot of a hundred and thirty-two thousand, five hundred dollars. This afternoon, seventy year old Santiago Coyoc of Xiabe Village in the Corozal District, picked up his big cheque from Tropical Gaming Company in Belize […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re most welcome this issue of Sports Monday. We take you immediately to Sand Lighters Promenade here in the city where the Belize Triathlon Association staged the ninth Lionman event as part of the tenth Celebrations. It happened yesterday. For the defending champion Jose Alberto Xol of Guatemala, being […]
