There is no bottom to the abyss to which crime has plunged. Six persons were murdered in the weekend’s wave of terror; four in the city and two in the west. How do you top this new record? There is yet no official comment, but there is general public outrage at the carnage, and we […]
The second minor in the weekend’s blood bath is seventeen year old Marlon Zelaya of Moya Street. The unexplained circumstances surrounding his murder have baffled residents in the St. Martin De Porres area, including his grandmother Margaret Zelaya. There are many theories for the motive behind the killing but none have been confirmed. His lifeless […]
Shortly after Marlon Zelaya’s murder on Sunday morning, a man riding his bicycle was shot twice on Castle Street. Everett Lincoln Davis was reforming his life after doing time in prison, but in the end, gun violence caught up with the twenty-five year old. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports on the third homicide in the […]
A seventy-three year old man was murdered while visiting his children in Belize City last week. While his murder remains unsolved, a sixty year old citizen was gunned down after seven on Sunday morning. Apolonio Salome left his home near the Entrance of Bird’s Isle on his bicycle to buy rice for Sunday dinner, but […]
Aside from the four homicides in the City, two additional bodies were found in the west. In Teakettle, dogs alerted a villager to a body that was found off a dirt road. The father of five children had left his Esperanza home to visit his daughter; he never made it. A single shot to his […]
The murder of Lyndon Mangar is not the only one that Belmopan police have to solve. This morning another lifeless body was discovered in a creek about a mile off the Hummingbird Highway near Red Rose Farm at mile fourteen. The man, who was clad in a pair of black pants, brown boots and black […]
There was more violence, but twenty year old Lorenzo Garbutt was fortunate and narrowly escaped death. Garbutt was shot at the corner of King and West Streets by one of two unidentified men who rode up next to him on bicycles. A single shot was fired and that bullet penetrated the back of Garbutt’s neck […]
So far in the newscast we have reported on the shooting spree, but there was other mayhem in the City and elsewhere. Eleven persons were affected by fires over the weekend. In the first instance, it is believed that the house of Inspector Claudio Mai who is stationed in San Ignacio, was deliberately set on […]
The damage was similar at a house on the Airport Road—all its contents were destroyed and just the frame of the house remained standing. But the cause of this fire was electrical. While the owner, Anita Estelle, is away, the house was occupied by Mario Sanchez and Dora Perrera, who were both at home at […]
It has been two weeks since the Rash siblings, Onelia and Benjamin, disappeared without a trace while selling lime and craboo near the village of Cattle Landing in the Toledo District. Since then authorities in Belize and Guatemala have been working both sides of the border trying to locate them. Despite a massive search party […]
The office of attorney Godfrey Smith was burglarized on the eve of the tenth. Today, five men who were captured on surveillance camera were arraigned on charges of burglary. They are Fredrick Waight, Mark Alamilla, Jose Caliz, Charles Neal, and Michael Fairweather, all from Belize City. The accused appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner for allegedly […]
Earlier we told you about the murder of Marlon Zelaya, which may be linked to the shooting of Police Constable Abel Mendez last Tuesday. Today a second person was charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm of the police constable. The suspect, a seventeen year old minor, is charged […]
Earlier we heard from the Met Office on the latest on a weather system that is developing over the central Caribbean. The system has put the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) on alert. We repeat that a trough of low pressure between eastern Jamaica and Costa Rica is producing unsystematic cloudiness and thunderstorms as it […]
The streets were flooded with onlookers and revellers on Saturday afternoon as the mas bands put off a show on the main streets of the city in the carnival road march for 2010. The carnival was smaller than previous years but it is still one of the highlights of the September celebrations. And while it’s […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. It was the 10th day of September when our national Football Team hosted their Trinidad and Tobago counterparts, also known as the Soca Warriors, inside the FFB Stadium at the Capital City, Belmopan. We must say the pre-game ceremonies added pump and circumstance to an […]
