Our headline story on Wednesday night was about the chilling murder of a woman, her common-law husband and one of her children. It is one of the most monstrous homicides, and it was witnessed by two other siblings in a remote farm off the northern highway. The children are left traumatized and in fear for […]
Belmopan police have charged four persons with the murder of twenty-two year old Jesse Jones of Ontario Village, Cayo. Jones was shot dead as he tried to bring two rival groups together to make amends. Three of the four are well known notorious figures: twenty-four year old Lionel Sampson, twenty-five year old Cecil Castillo and […]
Turning to news of a financial nature, it is known that Prime Minister Dean Barrow will use the occasion of Independence Day to announce the sale of shares in the government owned B.T.L. which he arbitrarily took over in August 2009. The sale was discussed today at a special meeting of the Social Security. There […]
In the courts, a nineteen year old was charged with the Attempted Murder of two police officers after a shooting around eight o’clock on Tuesday night. The officers, Abel Mendez and Abelio Itza, both of the Mahogany Street sub-station, were responding to a report of a robbery in progress on Partridge Street. On their way […]
The home of Hattieville resident Wendy Castillo was burglarized on Monday by culprits, believed to be her neighbours. Castillo’s husband got news of the break-in at around three o’clock that afternoon and they later found that sixteenth thousand, six hundred and ninety-five dollars in items were stolen. The thieves got their hands on everything that […]
The grisly murders of thirty-five year old Carmita Rivas, her fourteen year old son Carlos Wagner and her common-law-husband sixty-five year old Pantaleon Navarro, has the small northern community of Carmelita in a complete state of shock. Rivas and Navarro both lived with their eight children on a remote farm several miles off the northern […]
There was more commotion near the Queen Square Market where fruit and vegetable vendors line the banks of the canal to sell their produce. The problem is that the vendors, primarily the wholesalers, say the Belize City Council is too heavy-handed in holding them to an existing agreement over the hours and days they can […]
The Prime Minister and his wife Kim, will leave the country this Saturday for Mexico via Miami. The purpose of the visit is to join in the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of our neighbour’s Independence and the one hundredth Anniversary of their revolution. The office of the PM says he will be back […]
September, the month of our national celebrations, also has patriotic fervour among our northern and southern neighbours. Central American countries, except for Panama, but including Mexico will be holding a joint celebration in the capital this weekend. The event takes place at four p.m. at the Governor General’s Field in Belmopan on Sunday, September twelfth. […]
One of the favourite groups in the Carnival parade is the tumblers. At the end of the parade, kids and adults are treated with performances by the youths of the city, who jump, bounce and roll on the city streets. It’s a sport that can be hazardous, but don’t tell that to the kids who […]
The performances were stunning and thrilled the audience from start to finish. Four aspiring duos in Group B of Duets stepped up their game at the Bliss stage and according to the judges, the performances were the best ever. The duos from the south relied on humorous lines to tell the history of the colony […]
We’ve all been accustomed to hearing “Milk does the body good” and while a daily dose of calcium through milk is indeed good for your health, milk, for some people ‘does the body bad’. That’s the case for the persons who are lactose Intolerant. Healthy living, this week, finds out more about this disorder. Marleni […]
