There’s breaking news just into our newsroom tonight. Keon Williams Myvett was shot in the head just before news time on Castle Street. Williams was rushed to the K.H.M.H. and is believed to be dead. We’ll have more on this tomorrow but Williams was recently acquitted of Manslaughter charge in the 2007 of Michael Gladden.
In our newscast on Friday we left you with the story of Eric Savery, the notorious street figure who was killed on East Canal on Friday afternoon. A little over twenty-four hours later, a minor was executed as he slept at an abandoned house in close proximity to the Savery murder scene. It is not […]
As we said, Eric Savery, also known as Eric Lewis, was murdered on Friday afternoon. Tonight Belize City Police are questioning one person in his shooting death. The thirty-seven year old was executed near East Canal sometime around two o’clock after an attempt on his life in the morning. The individual in custody is said […]
The weekend’s other murder took place in San Pedro where a cabinet maker was stabbed to death outside a bar. Lionel Pinelo had moved to the island years ago in search of a better future. But just before midnight on Friday, he was viciously stabbed outside a bar and he died hours later, early Saturday […]
Police are still trying to close in on leads in the other murder in San Pedro of Spanish flight attendant, thirty-seven year old Maria Antonia Plaza Gomez who was strangled to death on October thirty-first. Late last Friday evening San Pedro police detained a man who matched the description of the suspect in whose company […]
Our investigations on the immigration scandal started weeks ago when chartered flights from Haiti carrying Chinese nationals landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport. It exposed a human smuggling ring which we have said is international and complex. So far we have focused on the Chinese nationals who invariably obtain visas at the Embassy of […]
The media publicity over the termination of High Commissioner Kamela Palma on November first has stirred an ant’s nest in Belmopan. Last Friday at a press conference, Prime Minister Dean Barrow left a window open when he declared that Palma could possibly get her job back if she apologized to the C.E.O. of the Ministry […]
The Belize Sugar Industries Limited has announced that it is unable to make the third payment for the 2009-2010 crop, which is due to cane farmers on November eighth. The delay in payment is the result of a decision by I.N.G. Bank not to renew its agreement with B.S.I., which expired on September thirtieth, because […]
A resident of Burrell Boom, twenty-six year old Selvin Seguro was charged today after running wild in his village in the last weekend of September. Seguro was charged in relation to three incidents: a burglary at Royal Palm Estate, another at the home of Fiona Usher and the theft of a canoe; all in Burrell […]
Jamar Gentle’s day started with an early morning walk with his dog and ended with him being sent to prison for two years. Police busted the twenty-five year old with a point thirty-eight revolver and five live rounds. Gentle was walking his dog on Princess Margaret Drive at about six-forty a.m. when he was spotted […]
The culture of herbal medicine and midwifery is still practiced primarily at rural communities. There is one traditional healer who made her mark in Belize and beyond our borders in her sixty-nine years of practicing traditional medicine. Tonight her family and all those she helped along the way, are grieving her death. Hortense Robinson was […]
It’s not coming on line this year, but the Institute of Archaeology has announced an imminent increase in entrance fees to fourteen reserves. Prices at all the sites will be doubled, but according to the National Institute of Culture and History, they will remain the lowest in the region. So if you’re planning a visit, […]
There are many stories of how people were affected by Hurricane Richard. The next interview shows how the hurricane also impacted those that have passed away. Nora Slusher’s father died in 1995 and her mother passed away in 2008. Their caskets were placed in the same tomb but a tree crushed the tomb during Hurricane […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday The 6th Annual Sagitun Cycling Classic was staged yesterday at Independence with a whopping 60 riders suited up for the 66 Mile Open race on a circuit from Senter to PG Junction, through Big Creek and back to Senter for the big finish. And of […]
