On July fifteenth David White, the common-law-husband of court personality, Lavern Longsworth was doused and set on fire during an argument at their home on Castle Street. White died this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he was hospitalized since the incident. Longsworth, who is known as a victim of domestic abuse, was […]
There’s another tragic story to report tonight. A mother to be was stabbed before dawn at her home on Neal’s Pen Road. The incident was not reported in the daily police sitrep, but Valerie Sherann was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after three o’clock this morning. Sherann, who was seven months pregnant, was […]
Eighteen year old Gilroy Barrow was killed on M and M Street in the St. Martin De Porres area of Belize City on July twenty ninth. Barrow was shot six times by gunmen whom family members claim were once his friends. His sister, Sherilee, claims that the former friends threatened to kill Gilroy because of […]
Esso Ramon’s Gas Station at two miles on the Northern Highway was robbed over the weekend. It seems that the robbers were casing the joint before moving in since they waited until the manager closed the business and then they followed him to his home on Dolphin Street. When Ricardo Gongora exited his van, two […]
The President of Honduras Porfirio Lobo and a delegation arrived at the PGIA at ten o’clock this morning on private aircraft and left some five hours later. It is his first visit and he used the occasion to lobby support from Belize and by extension CARCIOM, for his country’s reinstatement to the thirty-three member Organization […]
It will be another two and a half years before elections are due for a new government, but the ruling United Democratic Party is already lining up its thoroughbreds for the big race. On Sunday the U.D.P. went north, in the backyard of the leader of the PUP, for its National Convention at the People’s […]
Earlier we told about Sunday’s U.D.P. convention which elected Patrick Faber, as chairman defeating John Saldivar by a huge margin. Faber had just assumed his post when he indicated that he has ambitions to climb the political ladder. He says he envisions himself effectively filling the post while still keeping his ministerial duties, but it […]
The Mayan land rights issues have gone from the courtroom to the political arena. The U.D.P., at its convention, announced that it supports the government’s decision to appeal a recent decision handed down by the Supreme Court in favor of the Maya Leaders Alliance. The landmark ruling by Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh on June twenty-eighth […]
You would have seen Earl Clare Junior on News Five at the September 2008 expo fair, speaking as the technical director of MyBelize.net. Well, tonight Clare is in the news because cops found a whopping fifty-one and a half pounds of marijuana inside his bedroom. Police conducted an anti-drug raid at Clare’s home on University […]
Jermaine Belgrave was back in court today on another charge of attempted murder. His latest brush with the law has to do with a shooting that occurred back in February when Cleo Robinson was shot three times. Robinson claims that on the night of February twenty-third at about eleven o’clock he was riding a beach […]
A robbery last Thursday at Olympic Restaurant, ended with a Security Guard being shot. At least three persons were believed to be involved, and today one of them, twenty-one year old Kareem Grant, was charged. Grant, who was unrepresented, was charged with Robbery for allegedly stealing eighty dollars in cash and seventy dollars in prepaid […]
Lillian McCullock, a mother of twin boys, was outraged on Friday when her two year old sons were released from the K.H.M.H. after a week of treatment. McCullock claimed that kids were beaten by her common-law-husband, Leon Lopez, who was being sought by the police. Well, today Lopez came to our studios to give his […]
Last week Friday we brought you the touching story of seven month old Daniel Estell who has a rare liver disease called ‘Biliary Atresia.’ Doctors have given Daniel two weeks to live if he doesn’t get the surgery he needs. A fundraising drive has been initiated to raise the funds and though a substantial sum […]
The Clinched Fist Productions brothers Eli and Kahlil Jacobs-Fauntauzzi are in Belize. The brothers were here in 2008 to promote their documentary Inventos Hip Hop Cubano. But this time they are here primarily to be a part of the Institute of Creative Arts summer program for youths. While Kahlil concentrates on photography, Eli will be […]
The National Song competition is nearing the end and so far the submissions are impressive. But while the quality good, the quantity is raising concerns. According to Jacklyn Castillo, the Industry Creative Development Officer at the Institute of Creative Arts, they would like to see more artists take up the challenge, particularly in the junior […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley, welcome to this delivery of Sports Monday. Week two of the Belize bank Super League playoffs saw Nizhee Corozal play host to the always dangerous City Boys F.C. United inside the Ricalde Stadium. And it’s the home team looking to strike first when Michael Whittaker attempts this wicked power slice […]
