Only two weeks ago, a heinous triple murder was reported in Carmelita Village, one of the victims was a fourteen year old boy whose parents were also killed. Tonight there is a double homicide of two minors to report also in the Orange Walk District. The two were killed at around one o’clock on […]
Police have now clarified that aside from being attacked with machetes, the victims were also shot behind the head. It has also been established that the eight attackers, who were dressed in camouflage clothing and armed with rifles, went to the ranch and assaulted the three victims after midday. Police Press Officer Fitzroy Yearwood says […]
There are two other murders to add to the grim statistics. At nine-thirty on Sunday morning, the body of a minor was discovered in a drain at Lord’s Bank. His head was wrapped with a red shirt and his feet were placed in a white nylon bag. Rene Alfaro was last seen on Saturday night […]
The weekend’s fourth murder was reported in the south. William Martinez, is murder victim number ninety-eight. Martinez, who worked on a banana farm, was found dead in his room at the Barracks where the farm workers are housed. He was hacked several times with a machete and left to die. It has since been revealed […]
A fifth person lost his life, but it was not to gun or other violence. The lifeless body of a man was retrieved from the Belize River on Saturday morning, a short distance from the foot of the Bel-China Bridge. Residents of the Conch Shell Bay area in Belize City were alerted to the scene […]
Senior Counsel Rodwell Williams, law partner and close friend of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, returned to Belize on Sunday after more than three months of intensive care at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida. Williams was critically injured in an execution attempt on the night of June first while he was leaving his firm, Barrow and […]
While most persons were looking for bargains at the trade expo over the weekend, a woman saw her house go up in flames. After three-thirty on Sunday, a house at three and a half miles on the Northern Highway caught on fire. And even though the Fire Department responded promptly, the ply-cem house was completely […]
It also got heated at the trade expo at the new ITVET building and tonight Police Corporal Bradford Berry is the subject of an investigation after an incident involving Kremandala personality Mose Hyde. Reports are that around five o’clock on Sunday evening the men got into a verbal altercation at the fairgrounds when Berry informed […]
Five Belize City men appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare today to face gun possession and ammunition charges after a bust on Friday night. Twenty-two year old Steven Flowers, twenty-eight year old Tylon Tillett, twenty year old Charles Young Jr. and thirty-four year old Robert Gilharry were arrested following the discovery of a black nine millimeter […]
The annual Expo Marketplace has returned to its original home. Thousands trekked through the gates of the new ITVET compound on Freetown Road looking for deals. The new venue attracted a larger number of Belizeans on Saturday and Sunday. There were special treats for consumers and for businesses it was a time to boost sales. […]
The national flag is a symbol of nationhood and unity. It was first unfurled at midnight on September twenty-first, 1981as Belize became an independent nation. The flag’s design was the work of the National Symbols Committee which received submissions from the public. But over the years, there have been changes to the red, white and […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. The decisive Game III for the 2010 Belize Bank Super League Football title was staged on the neutral turf of the People’s Stadium in Orange Walk yesterday as City Boys United FC and Nizhee Corozal made their final bid for this football championship. With so […]
