Police were on alert over the past extended weekend but still the criminals ruled the streets. There were two murders, many shootings, one which ended fatally at the hands of the cops and still yet a sudden and bizarre death of a customs officer while in police custody. We start first with a report from […]
While the Duran family claims Matthias died due to police negligence, in Belize City another family is grieving the loss of a loved one who died after he was shot in broad daylight by the cops. The police claim one of their own pulled the trigger in self-defense but the family says Elmore Neal was […]
Turning to the weekend’s homicide’s, Jeffery Martindale Kelly was shot at least seven times on Monday night while he stood at the corner of Prince Street and the canal side near Deng’s store. He lived for the past eleven years at a popular home in the neighborhood known as ‘Wax House’ along with friends who […]
The long weekend also saw more violence erupting in the north where a group of youths allegedly took matters into their own hands in San Lazaro Village, eight miles away from Orange Walk Town. A cane farmer was allegedly hacked to death one day after he was involved in a fight with members of the […]
By now you have heard of the Xate operations that are being undertaken by Eco-Green in the Cayo District. It is a controversial business because primarily Guatemalans cross into the Belizean territory, in forest reserves at that, to harvest the xate that is exported to Europe and the US. So when we reported back in […]
Ruckus erupted in the south side this afternoon when two entities of the catholic Diocese went head to head over and old land dispute. The staff and principal of Saint John Vianney School interrupted their monthly meeting when they were disrupted by a loud bang outside. What they found when they went outside was a […]
Back on February fifteenth, a sixth form student, Carlos Zelaya Junior reported to the police that he had been badly beaten by Dr. John Gough, a prominent cardiologist, and Egbert Nicholson, a sales clerk. We broke that story on February, twenty-fourth and the pictures of Zelaya’s injuries received wide circulation in this newscast and on […]
Twenty-three year old Victor Bah Jr., a resident of San Antonio Village, Toledo District who has been on the run for the past nine months after being accused of raping a nineteen year old resident of the area, is tonight behind bars. Bah was accused of committing the crime on June nineteenth, 2009 and when […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on the murders and a shooting death at the hands of police in the City. But there were other violent incidents. In one shooting spree, five Belize City residents including a minor were injured on Friday night shortly after eleven o’clock. The victims: twenty-three year old Tony Gamboa, forty […]
In another shooting in Orange Walk, last Friday an enraged villager in Santa Cruz, shot a man in the foot with his licensed firearm. You’d think all would be well for the victim after a few hours of medical treatment right? Wrong. It turns out that life will never be the same again for Alido […]
Thick smoke and flames coming from a house on Lindo’s Alley early this morning alerted the neighborhood to the fire that gutted everything inside the wooden building. The fire service responded and managed to put out the blaze before it could spread to any of the nearby buildings, but they have not yet been able […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and today we’ve got a jammed pack Sports Monday for you. To start, let’s quickly jump into La Ruta Maya River Challenge which blasted off its thirteenth edition Friday inside the Macal River at San Ignacio under the gaze of thousands of fans which gives testimony to its meteoric rise […]
