We begin the newscast tonight with a report of seven B.D.F. soldiers that are hospitalised with various injuries after the truck they were travelling in overturned in Mountain Pine Ridge. The incident occurred just before noon today as a four-tonner truck was transporting nine soldiers from the Las Cuevas Research Centre to Camp Belizario. This […]
Last week we reported that police had picked up a B.D.F. private in connection with the grenade which was thrown at spectators on carnival day in Belize City. The private was being questioned for his possible involvement in facilitating the release of the grenade. Tonight it appears that there was not enough evidence to link […]
Reports of crime involving grenades, shootings, stabbings and drug smuggling, have been constant on the news and now there is reason to believe that a serial rapist is lurking in the city streets. Over the past four weeks there have been six cases of rapes and attempted rapes committed presumably by the same person. While […]
And in another case of rape which is not linked to the serial rapist, a nineteen year old woman reported that between one and four Saturday morning she was outside MJ’s Club in Belize City when a man approached her and asked if she wanted a ride home. The teen accepted and got in a […]
But there is one criminal less off the streets as one of three inmates who escaped from Hattieville Prison earlier this month is back in jail. Twenty-two year old Guatemalan Rene Lopez Morente was surprised and captured on Wednesday near the Mopan River in Benque Viejo. Acting on information they received, police visited the area […]
The weekend’s fatality came not from a gun, but from something just as deadly: a vehicle collision. The deceased has been identified as forty-one year old Jose Orellano, a Salvadoran national of Cemetery Road in Belize City. On Friday night thirty-one year old Derwayne Swift says he was driving his Mitsubishi Montero between miles two […]
Police in San Pedro are reporting two drug busts which both have the airstrip in common. Around three-twenty on Friday police say they were on mobile patrol in the San Pedrito area when they noticed a dark-skinned male hurl an item over the fence into the Tropic Air compound. Police found it to be a […]
Two men appeared in court today for separate shooting incidents. In the first case, a twenty-four year old fisherman of Rivero Street, Leon Blease, was charged in connection with the shooting of thirty-three year old Freddy Grant. Blease was charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Chief Magistrate Margaret […]
In June of this year, tropical storm Arthur severed southern Stann Creek and the Toledo Districts from the rest of the country. The overflow of the Sittee River washed away the Kendall Bridge and tonight once again, there is no access to southern Belize beginning at Mile twenty-six due to heavy rains over the weekend. […]
A rich collection of books has been added to the Supreme Court Library. The collection was named the Edward Laing’s Collection and was received today by Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, seven years after the death of the author. It includes a wide assortment of books, magazines, articles and legal writings of the late Judge Edward […]
There were tightened security measures in place for this year’s Independence Day to put the population at ease after the grenade scare of September sixth … and it worked. Independence Day was welcomed with the traditional raising of the red, white and blue standard at the Memorial park, followed hours later by the official ceremonies […]
The country turned twenty-seven and the oldest political party that has claim to its own record of accomplishments in the political landscape of Belize turns fifty-eight. It has been in government longer than any other political party and next week on the twenty-ninth, the now opposition party will celebrate its birthday. And to mark its […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The rains couldn’t stop the nation from celebrating its twenty-seventh birthday over the weekend. However, on Saturday its effects became very apparent to Brilliant of Crooked Tree and Surprise of Lemonal whose representatives gather around the umpire for a decision on whether game two of […]
