Was a twenty-three year old deportee murdered? That’s what police are trying to determine. This weekend, the high tide in Belize City did not only wash sea water and debris closer to the mainland; on Sunday morning, the lifeless body of a Belize City man washed up on Southern Foreshore. It was partially decomposed and […]
The second death reported this weekend, was up north in Orange Walk. But the body did not wash to shore in the floods; in fact it was simply sitting in a wheelchair. Police were called to the Slaughterhouse Road area at around seven p.m. on Sunday where a man was found in the wheelchair, parked […]
In our last newscast on Friday, the seventeenth tropical depression for this year intensified and became Tropical Storm Matthew. It initially posed a threat to our nation over the past weekend. Around the country, hurricane preparedness went in full swing since the preliminary forecast for the depression showed that it could culminate as a hurricane […]
Matthew was the third storm to threaten Belize for this year’s hurricane season. And similar to the previous storms, Alex in June and Karl earlier this month, the Jewel was again spared from major damages and loss of life and limb. Matthew is reported to have killed six people as it passed over Nicaragua and […]
Matthew dumped as much as ten inches of rainfall and by this morning the water levels were rising in the west; in some areas as much as ten feet. Bridges and crossings were submerged. But there were some good tidings, in San Ignacio a News Five crew found that the flood waters brought a bounty […]
A ruling was handed down this morning in the Supreme Court in the case of two minors convicted for murder and sentenced to life. Anthony ‘Zambo’ Bowen and David Jones challenged the constitutionality of their prison sentences before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, whose ruling today was among the last of his judgments before he demits […]
Jason Flores was gunned down on the morning of December ninth, 2009. Four months after the murder, in April of this year, Ryan Alvarez was charged and remanded for the killing. And now, ten months later, eighteen year old Akeem Humes of the George Street Area, is joining Alvarez behind bars. Humes appeared unrepresented in […]
One of two men who robbed a security guard last week at the Belize Medical Associates was today escorted to face the music in court. Twenty-six year old Bryant Gentle was arraigned on four charges: Robbery, Possession of an Unlicensed Firearm, Possession of Unlicensed Ammunition, and Wounding. According to the security guard, Paul Valerio, he […]
A couple was heading out of the city on Saturday night, but before they made to the Haulover Bridge they were involved in a traffic accident. Merevaldo Cassasola was driving a Chevrolet Pickup, accompanied by his wife Margaret. But when they reached mile four and a half, a Dodge Dakota pickup pulled out of a […]
Twenty year old Sherman Rodney, a resident of Gentle Lane in the Port Loyola area remains on remand at the Central Prison after being charged for the attempted murder of Rafael Usher on September twenty-third. Usher reported to police that at about eleven-forty-five p.m. last Thursday he was visiting a female friend on Arlington Drive […]
Last Friday, the debate often got testy in the House of Representatives. There were nine bills that were tabled and passed; three of them dealt with the pressing crime situation. Because of the volume of news, we did not report on the Families and Children Bill which extends the categories of circumstances in which the […]
Since the beginning of the month the Belize Police Department has kicked into overdrive embarking on a series of joint operations to tackle crime in the city. Information from the department is difficult to come by at times but today an update was issued to the media of operations undertaken primarily by Eastern Division. Various […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The menace of Tropical Storm Matthew gripped the country of Belize over the weekend to the extent that most events, sports and otherwise, were postponed as the nation became consumed in self defense against this natural disaster. The threat has dissipated and all thanks and […]
