Criminal elements were on a rampage over the weekend wreaking havoc in the City and around the country. There was one murder, a grenade explosion, robberies and plenty more crime. We start first with a murder in the wee hours of Saturday morning in Belize City. Jose Sanchez has a report. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Thirty-six […]
A loud bang shattered across Port Loyola last Friday night just after seven p.m. Memories of Mayflower Street and the Carnival Day grenade echoed into the night. Near the junction with Kraal and Fabers road, the neighbourhood was afraid, fragments tore into trees and walls and a large hole was found in a yard. But […]
With all the crime, a police officer who fell asleep on the job is now facing his peers. Since the officer dozed off in the company of Belize Defence Soldiers and a police officer, you would think he was safe. Well think again because this is what happened to twenty-four year old Police Constable Daniel […]
And if the missing officer’s pistol was not enough to embarrass the police department, there is an allegation that a Senior Superintendent has been busted by the Customs Department for contraband liquor. While one litre of alcohol is permitted across the border, the officer allegedly had on him an entire case of Jamaican Appleton rum. […]
Meanwhile, a man is dead tonight, the victim of a road traffic accident on the Northern Highway. The deceased has been identified as Ruclin Caal. On Friday, twenty-six year old Manuel Romero of Benque Viejo Road in San Ignacio reported to police that he was driving his truck on the Northern Highway towards Orange Walk […]
But back in Belize City, a number of taxi drivers were targeted over the weekend by robbers and in the case of Leon Young, they included minors on a rampage. At about three-thirty a.m. on Sunday morning, police visited the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they saw twenty-four year old Leon Young, a taxi driver […]
And in related news, on Saturday night at around nine-thirty, the cops received information that fifty year old Gustavo Baeza suffered a single gunshot wound to his left clavicle. The victim, businessman of Sapodilla Street in Orange Walk Town, was accompanied by sixteen year old Anna Lainez of Banak Street. Both Baeza and Lainez were […]
But if that was not bad enough, there is a second report of bestiality in the course of a month to report tonight. On Saturday, police formally arrested and charged twenty-seven year old Lisandro Matu of Patchakan Village in Corozal District with Committing an Unnatural Crime. The incident occurred when cane farmer, Omar Vallejas told […]
This morning in Belmopan, dismissed BAHA workers protested in front of their former workplace alongside sympathizers and members of the People’s United Party. According to the protestors, which included party leader John Briceño and Lake I area rep Cordel Hyde, they are voicing their displeasure at the actions of the U.D.P. government and are sending […]
Aside from the bill to amend the Business Tax Act to increase taxes on telecoms and the PICs, which were the big items at last Friday’s House meeting, several other bills were introduced, including one to amend the Belize National AIDS Commission Act. This change would make way for the appointment of an Executive Director […]
And in court, Magistrate Ed Usher today withdrew charges for the recovery of business tax that were made by the Commissioner of Income tax against Belize Telemedia Ltd, Business Enterprise System and B.T.L. Digicell Limited. The charges were placed in August by the Income Tax Department ordering the utility company to pay one million seventy-one […]
He has the rank of Ambassador for Youth, but the long arms of the law today reached nineteen year old Kenroy Young of Regent Street, who was charged with nine offences in connection with three forged cheques when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court. Young was charged with three counts each of Possession of a False […]
In the Supreme Court, a married man and father of two, who was found guilty of Carnal Knowledge last week, will spend six years behind bars for the crime. Forty-one year old Leroy Stevens received the sentence today in the Court of Justice Adolph Lucas. Before passing the sentence Justice Lucas heard a plea of […]
But on a positive note, on Wednesday, Belizeans will get the day off to commemorate the 1823 arrival of Garinagus to the country. In the weeks leading up to the actual day, teachers typically take the opportunity to teach their students about the various cultures in Belize. This morning approximately five hundred and sixty-three students […]
As Pickstock representative, Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington teamed up with Telemedia to repair and renovate the Lloyd Coffin Preschool on Mahogany Street. On Saturday, staff members of the Telemedia and the Pickstock community including the Pickstock Development Committee convened at the school to begin the work. The two groups worked hand in hand with the painting, […]
We first heard of Melodyman when he sang as a guest artist on Ras Indio’s Belizean Girls. Four years in the making, Melodyman Escobar has finally finished recording his debut album called Belizean Artists. The album was released on the fourteenth and is available in stores countrywide. Melodyman dropped by our studio on Friday and […]
When viewers of NBC’s The Today Show tuned in this morning, they found Ann Curry in Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa; Meredith Viera in Australia; Al Roker in Iceland and Matt Lauer from the Blue Hole in Belize. Lauer toured the world renowned environmental site diving, in a helicopter, and by boat. In NBC’s Ends […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve just logged on to what we call Sports Monday. We take you to the M.C.C. Grounds where yesterday that vaunted venue was invaded by a pumped up posse from the north who came to see if Nizhee Corozal could send the Belize Defence Force packing in game two […]
