There were at least three shootings over the weekend in the City, but the crime wave spilled to the west on Sunday night. More on the shootings later, but in San Ignacio, one man was killed and another was badly injured in an early morning shooting. It is believed the shooting was motivated by revenge […]
The execution style murder of Southside gang leader, Andre Trapp, took place last Thursday in the most unlikely of places during broad daylight, the area of the Magistrate Court. Today two men with links to the police were arraigned for the murder. It is believed that the hit on Trapp was a contract killing, but […]
The Court of Appeal today made a decision on the case of the Belize Telemedia Employees Trust versus the Government of Belize. The case was brought about after the Barrow administration compulsorily acquired B.T.L. last August. Trustees representing the Employees Trust, Dean Boyce and Keith Arnold, initially took the case to the Supreme Court challenging […]
The prospects look good for Telemedia employees, but we did not know how good. Trustee of the Employee Trust, Dean Boyce, told us what the value of the over twenty percent shares is worth. Dean Boyce, Trustee, BTL Employees’ Trust “The B.T.L. Employees’ Trust owns about twenty-three percent of the shareholdings of B.T.L. and it […]
An entire family was today escorted to the Belize City Magistrate Court on a firearm charge this morning. It follows a shooting on Mayflower Street on June thirteenth which led to a search of the home of Ralph Sherlock Martinez, a.k.a. “Mini-man,” where police discovered a point twenty-two revolver. Police claim that while on patrol […]
Also in court, a Belize City man was arrested and charged for discharging his firearm in public. What’s even worse, at the time of the incident, the man was reportedly under the influence of alcohol. According to the police, a shot rang out on Marine Parade Boulevard at five-twenty a.m. on Saturday morning. Officers rushed […]
There was a third shooting in the Old Capital over the weekend; the victim was admitted to the surgical ward of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. It occurred shortly after eight last Friday night and involved thirty-nine year old mental patient, Harrison Staine. Staine was en route to his home located on Wagner Street when […]
In the north, a woman is still at the Northern Regional Hospital following a traffic accident in the Orange Walk District. According to Orange Walk police, shortly before midnight on Sunday, Francisca Bono and another female known to them only as Reina were travelling on San Antonio Road towards Yo Creek Village in a Mazda […]
The nation held its collective breath last Thursday when news came that the King of Brukdong, Mister Wilfred Peters, had passed away. On Sunday night, musicians and friends celebrated his life with a concert at his home. Today following a fitting official funeral in his honor, he was laid to rest. The streets were lined […]
Cancer is a disease that is generally accompanied by a lot of pain and today the persons that spend the most time with patients in that situation, the nurses, began a two-day session in pain management and palliative care. The symposium got underway this morning at the ITVET facilities on Freetown Road. It is organized […]
There will be a new man leading the mantle at the upcoming Centrobasket 2010 tournament in the Dominican Republic. His name is former NBA player and former Coach of Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, California, Marques Johnson. Johnson landed at the PSW Goldson International Airport this afternoon onboard an American Airlines flight. He’ll be […]
“Good Evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday and we’re off to the Santiago Ricalde Stadium, where Nizhee Corozal hosted a surging City Boys United as the world turns insides the Belize Bank Super League. The host team goes to the set piece with a quick goal when this floater from Edward Perez […]
