Few crimes, mainly robberies, were reported over the extended Easter weekend. It is comforting news since the sensational announcement last Thursday when the Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jefferies, and Prime Minister Dean Barrow informed that a ring of rogue cops who had terrorized the nation with robberies and possible murders, had been busted. News Five […]
And while Mangar finds himself in a heap of trouble, he is not the only one facing the music. When they held the press conference last Thursday, PM Barrow and ComPol Jeffries said there would be other officers who would be suspended and possibly more members of the ring would be known as the investigations […]
When we recessed for the Easter holidays on Thursday we asked the question: Do you believe hanging should be brought back? On our e-poll, over six hundred persons participated and eighty-six percent supported the notion of bringing back hanging. On our IMS, our viewers thought hanging should be enforced. One said that hanging needs to […]
A group of six men and a woman has been charged in connection with last Tuesday’s deadly bank heist in Spanish Lookout. During the robbery unarmed KBH security officer Steven Lopez was mortally wounded. The robbers then turned their guns on a police officer who was stationed next to the Scotia Bank Branch. Today Police […]
The country is in an economic recession but there is money on the streets or at least plenty cash inside some vehicles on the street. During a routine vehicle checkpoint at the junction of Sandhill Village and Maskall Road police checked a Ford Expedition and found sixty thousand two hundred and forty dollars in U.S. […]
It was not reported on the official police release, but last week Thursday, while the department was dealing with rogue cops who masterminded a botched robbery on Chon Saan Palace, there was another incident which implicated at least two police officers. The alleged incident occurred in Vista Del Mar at the home of a Czechoslovakian […]
A Ladyville resident who tried to steal a woman’s Toyota Camry from near her home is today out on a three thousand dollar bail after he was slapped with charges of Attempted Theft and Damage to Property. This morning, Donovan Clarke, the Ladyville construction worker, was arraigned in Court before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb-McKenzie. It […]
A car dealer who was on trial for the 2006 Manslaughter of his former girlfriend, Woman Police Constable Myrna Lopez, was today found not guilty. A jury of nine this afternoon acquitted thirty-four year old Ken Lyndon Young. WPC Myrna Lopez was shot dead during a family outing at Grace Bank on October first, 2006. […]
The Public Utilities Commission has approved an increase in water rates. The new rates took effect on April first, at the same time the dreaded increase of an overall twelve and a half percent tax on GST came on line. Though the water increase isn’t the twenty-five percent initially requested by Belize Water Services Ltd. […]
What was supposed to have been quite possibly the biggest dancehall concert over the Easter weekend instead confirmed what skeptics were saying all along that there would be no Movado on the beaches of Placencia. The controversial artist known for his brash lyrics and uncensored song content was scheduled to perform one night on the […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we present to you, this Tuesday version of sports Monday. As dawn breaks across Belize City on Holy Saturday, all traffic leads to Leslie’s Imports just outside the city limits where eighteen teams, thirteen local and five foreign units which adds up to ninety-eight athletes are suited up for […]
