It’s the start of the celebration of Women’s month, but it turned fatal for an alleged victim of domestic abuse. The twenty-two year old vivacious sales representative of Smart on Bishop Street in Belize City was viciously stabbed by her boyfriend on the street in front of her house in Orange Walk Town on Monday […]
Late this evening, police issued a release on a midnight shootout in the downtown Punta Gorda. Two brothers and a Asian businessman, known as Tommy, were injured and twenty six expended shells were recovered from the scene. The police version is that the violence started when Sergeant John Sanchez’s house was fired at from a […]
A family of four lost everything today in a midday blaze. The origin of the fire is still being determined but it is widely believed an electrical failure triggered it. The wooden structure was located on Jane Usher Boulevard and took little time to be consumed by the flames. Onlookers watched, unable to access the […]
A loan of forty-eight million dollars will be spent to upgrade twenty three miles of road in the south that will link the Southern Highway to the Belize/Guatemala border. Tonight’s question is: Do you think the security problems from the upgraded road access will outweigh the economic benefits to the south? Send your comments and […]
The City council met today behind closed doors and when that meeting was over, councilor Dean Samuels was elevated to Deputy Mayor for one year to succeed Councilor Philip Willoughby, whose stint as deputy will be remembered more for what he said than what he did. Samuels, an ally of Mayor Zenaida Moya-Flowers, is expected […]
Mexican soldier Jose Beltran is believed to have crossed the border already after being granted bail by Magistrate Clive Lino. On February twenty-fourth, Beltran was arrested in the Corozal Free Zone and was found in possession of an unlicensed point twenty-five caliber handgun, accompanying rounds and twenty thousand dollars in US currency. But a bank […]
After several trips to the courthouse, a lawsuit filed by ex-police officer, Aldo Ayuso, ended today before Justice Oswell Legall in the Supreme Court. Ayuso sued the Commissioner of Police and the Belize Advisory Board for wrongful dismissal from the Police Department. This morning he was awarded five years of salaries plus interest, all allowances, […]
The principal of Belmopan Comprehensive School, Denroy Tillett, was acquitted today of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature upon a school warden. Legal Aid Attorney, Phillip Palacio, made a no case submission, when the prosecutor’s two main witnesses did not show up to testify. The submission was upheld by Magistrate Adolph Lucas Junior because there […]
The four police officers who were charged in connection with the drug plane that landed on the Southern Highway on November thirteenth, 2010 will have to face a police tribunal. Sergeants Jacinto Roches and Lawrence Humes along with Corporals Renel Grant and Nelson Middleton were served with notices of disciplinary proceedings last Thursday. The letters […]
The five men who were on trial for conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit robbery upon the Shoman family of Belize City have all been found guilty. Miguel Mayorga, Eswin Rosales, Carlos Juarez, Jose Cordova and Cesar Aldana will be sentenced on March tenth. Mayorga was also found guilty of two counts of […]
A Corozal woman was the victim of a horrifying home invasion in broad daylight over the weekend. The twenty-eight year old woman reported to police that on Sunday afternoon, someone knocked at her door and when she opened it a Hispanic male stormed in and attempted to rape her. The woman screamed for help and […]
Last week we told you the story of Jamelia, the twenty three year old woman who was a virtual slave and a victim of human trafficking to the United States. Karen Baptist, her mother and another woman, Shelmadine Daly gave two sons to the same American national that took Jamelia. Tonight we have another story […]
We have been reporting on the recent slew of attacks on the leadership of Peoples United Party’s John Briceño. Last week, it was Leonard Chavarria who vociferously railed against Briceño that was followed by a stinging indictment by former Cabinet colleague Godfrey Smith, and it was topped by the resignation of Don Hector Silva from […]
For the past twenty-seven years, preschoolers have marked the beginning of March with a parade through the streets, promoting early childhood education. Today that tradition continued countrywide, as the activities for Child Stimulation Month got underway. The events planned for the next thirty days are tailored to encourage parents, not only to enroll their children […]
KTV Latino hopefuls are tuning up their vocals at this hour to take the stage for another round of competition. The line-up includes six hopefuls of Group A and they plan to bring it on tonight with a diverse repertoire of your favorite Latin songs. It’s a one of a kind competition that showcases sensational […]
