A brazen, late evening shooting near downtown Belize City has landed two persons inside the emergency room at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. As many as twenty-one shots were discharged on South Street at its intersection with Wagner’s Lane. When the smoke cleared in the area also known as Jump Street, two victims lay on […]
Lavern Longsworth, also known as Anti-Christ, is facing a murder charge tonight. On July fifteenth, 2010, during a heated argument at her home on Castle Street, Longsworth threw kerosene on David White, her common-law husband and set him on fire. Initially, the now single mother of three faced an attempted murder charge, but since White […]
It’s a month and a half into 2011, and already there are eleven murders on record. While in the courts, four murder cases have fallen apart; leaving a total of six accused killers free to roam the streets. In three of those instances, the trials ended in a nolle prosequi because witnesses were too afraid […]
For the second time in one month, a tourist has lost her life while on a water expedition in Belize. This time the deceased is an eighty-three year old who died after she fell out of a canoe into ten-foot deep waters during a caving expedition in the Cayo District. The accident occurred around twelve-thirty […]
A second suspect has been charged for the double murder of thirty-four year old Ian Martinez and seventeen year old Daniel Puerto. The two were killed on February fourth in a hail of bullets that was unleashed by two gunmen as they stood at the corner of Tibruce Street and Hibiscus Lane. Daniel’s twin brother, […]
The sugar industry is still at a standstill tonight as Belize Sugar Industries is inoperable because of malfunctioning turbines at the BELCOGEN plant. Loans with I.N.G. and First Caribbean International Banks are still outstanding and B.S.I. was hoping that it would attract a new financier in the form of Banco Atlantida from Honduras. After representatives […]
After hearing about the Banco Atlantida proposal, the Leader of the Opposition John Briceño contacted B.S.I. Briceño says that no one at B.S.I. is aware of the offer and instead of entertaining offers for a buyout, the government’s effort should be concentrated on assisting with finding a financier for the multi- million dollar debt. John […]
A shocking verdict was handed down in the Corozal Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon. After four hours of deliberation, a jury of nine found twenty-two year old Ivan Sosa and twenty-one year old Herby Narvaez not guilty of Rape; much to the surprise of Senior Crown Council, Cecil Ramirez. Both men were charged following a […]
That alleged rape was not the only sexual offense before the courts today. In the second case, a sixteen year old minor is accused of carnal knowledge against another minor, a fourteen year old girl. The teen initially told police he was nineteen, but when he was taken before the Chief Magistrate, his true age […]
High School students normally impress the public with open-days on school compounds. But the Tubal and Trade Vocational Institute students take their handicraft to the public. A week ago, students of the Ladyville based trade school, handed over the keys to a new home that they built for a Hattieville victim of Hurricane Richard. But […]
“Be Prepared” is the motto that is constant on the minds of the youths who become scouts. The Local Association of Boy Scouts of British Honduras was established in 1911. One hundred years later, as the Scout Association of Belize, the organization’s numbers have significantly grown to two thousand members. This week, the association is […]
Tiger Woods is the most popular face associated with golf, which is not a sport popular to most of Belize. But the sport is actually making the fairway into a classroom. If you didn’t already know, there is a Belize Golf Association and it is currently combining the sport with education for the benefit of […]
In one of the most exciting shows of KTV Latino Season Two, the surprise announcement was made on Tuesday night that Wild Cards would be introduced. That means that two persons who rocked the auditions, but just barely missed the mark to stay in the competition, are coming back to spice things up. So the […]
