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We begin tonight’s newscast with reports of a weekend of violence, including three murders. In the first case, a live-in girlfriend who recently was released from central prison appears to be the main suspect in the murder of her boyfriend at a horse track. It happened in the wee hours of Saturday morning in Burrell […]
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In the second case, this time in the Belmopan area, a woman was killed when she was literally stoned to death. Her common-law husband, who was also attacked, survived the assault. At around one on Saturday afternoon police visited Costa Rica Street in the Salvapan Area where fifty year old Geralda Ramirez was found in […]
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And violence permeated over the weekend. And in this case, we’ve heard about the new type of crime on the scene – home invasions and what follows could be a plot made for movies. And if the allegations we’re about to reveal were actually carried out, then cops would have had a blood bath in […]
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Shots were fired at him and due to his quick reaction he was unscathed except for a graze to his left leg. On Sunday, a lone gunman fired six shots at twenty-seven year old Kareem Flowers who was on his veranda at his home on G Street in the King’s Park Area. According to Flowers, […]
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The murder of the Brannon brothers made headlines more than two years ago. From the onset there was speculation that the accused men would walk and that came to pass today when the indeed the two accused walked free today. The case started in early October and was adjourned due to administrative matters in the […]
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And in the Belize City Magistrate Court, another nolle prosequi was entered when again the prosecution was unable to proceed with the case. This time twenty three year old Gregory Johnson, was freed of the charge of Attempted Murder of twenty-one year old Ismael Locke who was shot in the abdomen on October thirteenth, 2006. […]
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Also appearing in court today were two teens who robbed a man of a gun and a chain that is allegedly worth more than your average car. The sixteen and fifteen year olds were charged with the robbery of a gold and diamond chain valued at a whopping fifty four thousand dollars and a nine […]
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Also in court, a mother has been charged with Causing Death by Careless Conduct. The charge against Pauline McLean has to do with a fire that claimed her son’s life. McLean’s son three year old Omar Aguilar, perished in the afternoon blaze at their home at eighteen Dean Street in Belize City. McLean’s other son, […]
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In related news, in Belmopan at around midday on Friday the home of Dolly Chan of Iguana Street went up in flames. The cement structure was completely gutted when according to the forty-two year old mother, her eight year old son, Nestor, accidentally fell off a chair on top of the butane tank in the […]
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They have become a household name and have come a long way since they first began performing sixteen years ago. And this holiday season, the Pantempters are hosting their third Christmas Concert on Tuesday night at the Bliss. The concert, entitled Christmas Fantasia Three, will provide good family entertainment and Publicity Director, Akintade Atkens, says […]
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They are known nationally and internationally for the prestigious one barrel rum, Cristal rum and tropical brandy and on Friday, Travelers Liquors Limited celebrated its success with the history of their product. The business is owned by the Perdomo family and at Friday’s inauguration of a museum, Travelers was honoured as one of the biggest […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked on to this ride we call Sports Monday. Week fourteen of the Belize Bank Football Super League Tournament brought the cache of Belize City teams inside the M.C.C. Ground yesterday as Kraal Road took on Lake-Collet Survivors. Folks, we’re only six minutes into the action when defense […]
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