It was a bloody weekend: there are three murders to report tonight, two traffic fatalities, and much more. But we start first in the city where an unusual blast interrupted the hectic pace of mid morning. It came from the Brown’s Butane Gas Service and was heard from far away when a faulty pressurized butane […]
At the top of the newscast, we reported on the death of Elton Herrera, an employee of Brown’s Butane Gas Company. This afternoon, the Fire Department explained that the cause of the blast was the rapid expansion of the butane liquid in the cylinder. Divisional Officer of the Fire Department, Michael Middleton, says that the […]
The weekend’s first homicide occurred in Big Falls Village in Toledo around seven o’clock on Saturday night when a single gunshot shattered the quiet of the night. It was the shot that ended the life of a well known businessman during an armed hold up at his store which is also houses his family home. […]
Earlier we promised you details about the late Francis Johnston. He was the man who held a lease to farmland in Golden Stream Village which members of the Maya Leaders Alliance were contesting in court. This is because a Maya farmer, Alfonso Cal, had planted cacao on the land that Johnston had leased. Johnston bulldozed […]
In another homicide, the brother of a cycling champion was slain on Sunday night in Belize City. Thirty-six year old Ellis “Peppa Gacho,” Meighan, was murdered near his home by a lone gunman. Ellis, a resident of Banak Street, was across the Central American Boulevard and was standing near a lamp post when his assailant […]
In the third murder also on Sunday, this time up north in Orange Walk, twenty-two year old Marvin Lennens Stevens of Guinea Grass Village is facing murder charges for the homicide of Roberto Cal, a resident of the same village. Just after midnight Sunday morning, Stevens and thirty-seven year old Cal, got into an altercation. […]
The school year has just opened but students at the Caye Caulker Roman Catholic School are taking the rest of the week off… and it’s no major holiday. An undetermined viral infection has raised serious concerns in the school and at least one third of the students have been sent home since classes started. Health […]
While the primary school kids in Caye Caulker have fallen ill, the highways claimed the life of two individuals in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Sunday at three-thirty in the afternoon, three generations of the Marin family were caught in a brutal accident. It is believed that a tire blow out caused Genoveiva […]
The second accident that occurred over the weekend involved a Belize City resident. Thirty-nine year old Lawrence Cleland, a tour guide of Faber’s Road was travelling alone in the direction of Scotland Half-moon towards Burrell Boom at five-forty-five on Sunday morning when disaster struck. It is not known if Cleland fell asleep at the wheel […]
Early on the morning of the tenth September, quick police work averted a major break-in at the Customs Department on Caesar Ridge Road. It is believed it was an inside job and the thieves were looking for weapons. Today five men were charged for the break-in including two employees of the department who were on […]
He came to Belize in July of this year, and tonight forty one year old Guyanese national, Calvin Fitzpatrick Lewis, finds himself in trouble with the law. The charge against him is a rare one, Preparation to a Crime. Police allege that on September third they searched Lewis’ house on Freshman Lane in the West […]
And a Honduran man living in Belize City is spending his first night behind bars after he allegedly stabbed his neighbor and her two children. Twenty-five year old Alexis Rojas is accused of inflicting the injuries on the family on Saturday September twelfth on Mahogany Street Extension. According to police, they responded to a report […]
The silver trophy is safely in the hands of the Belize National Basketball Team after their spectacular performance in the COCABA games in which they beat the other Central American teams and held the Mexicans at bay until the last seconds of a gripping game. But in Switzerland today, a hearing was held on the […]
The Expo Belize Marketplace 2009 was held at the St. John’s Landivar Gymnasium over the weekend. The two days were a scorcher but the heat did not stop the crowd from looking for bargains amongst the one hundred plus businesses who signed up for the event. In case you didn’t make it out to the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve just logged on to this show we call Sports Monday. The national Celebrations always bring with it a plethora of sporting events and this year is no exception. So we take you immediately to the new and improved Albert Street Circuit for the start of the Elite Open […]
