A forty year old woman, Lucilla Bartley, a single mother of two, is at the Central Prison tonight. She is among a small number of women to be charged with murder. The only other woman charged recently, is Lavern Longsworth, also known as Antichrist, who is awaiting trial for the murder of her common-law-husband. Bartley […]
There was another stabbing and it involved forty-one year old Elvis Rhamdas, a Belize City fisherman of a Central American Boulevard Address. Sometime around nine o’clock p.m. on Holy Thursday, Rhamdas, who was standing at the corner of New Road and Victoria Street, got involved in an altercation with a group of men. One of […]
While two families grieve the deaths of their loved ones, it didn’t turn out as tragic for a mother and son in Orange Walk Town. Two armed robbers burst into a store belonging to Chinese nationals at the start of the Easter holidays. They held up the store owner and fired indiscriminately in the air. […]
A recent victim of robbery passed away and now the crime has been upgraded to murder. He is murder victim number forty. On April twelfth, two salesmen were robbed at Belize Food Supply on the Northern Highway. After nine p.m. a truck driven by Carlos Alvarado and his sideman Armando Castellanos entered the compound of […]
Three men and a woman believed to be linked to the ruthless Los Pelones cartel have been arrested in Cancun and according to the Mexican media; two of the suspects are Belizeans. On Thursday afternoon, the Mexican Police received an anonymous tip that a group of suspicious persons were at a house in the area […]
Forty-four year old Kirk Belisle was shot and killed in Belize City while repairing a rented black Chevy Nova near Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church on La Croix Street off Central America Boulevard on April tenth. Today a fisherman was charged with his murder. Belisle had retired for the night but left home when his […]
Also appearing in court today was thirty-one year old Michael Palacio who was charged with of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature upon a minor and Grievous Harm upon a female relative of the minor. Palacio was remanded to the Belize Central Prison after he was denied bail. The first charge is in connection with […]
The Gang Suppression Unit was busy over the Easter holidays; they did not pull in any high powered weapons, but they found a whole lot of marijuana when they conducted searches in the Hattieville area. The biggest bust came on Sunday morning when the G.S.U. executed a search warrant at the Dollar Bank Road residence […]
Gas stations continue to be a source of quick cash for thieves. The latest target is the Esso Superstation in the Pound Yard Bridge area of Belize City. On Sunday at two p.m., twenty year old Stephen Teck was on duty along with his coworkers Earl Hamilton and Norise Santos. The three attendants were accosted […]
The biggest drug bust in Belize was recorded in November last year when a twin-engine Beechcraft Super King Air 200 plane landed on the Southern highway laden with Colombian cocaine; all of two point six tons of the white stuff with a value of a whopping one hundred and forty million Belize dollars. The plane […]
Are you between the ages of eight and twelve years old? Do you have a keen interest in painting? Then you’d be interested in the fifteenth annual Mexican Children Painting Contest, which is open to Belizean students. This year the competition is being held under the theme “How do you imagine Tourist Destinations in Mexico?” […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this portion of Sports Monday. The 83rd Annual Cross Country Cycling Classic grabbed center stage on Holy Saturday as the entire nation tuned in to be entertained by the biggest one day sporting spectacle in the Jewel. In fact, we dare say fan support was the biggest […]
Shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, the coastguard retrieved the body of a man who had been missing at sea since Sunday. Kenrod Brown was among a group, including family members, who set out to sea on a fishing expedition to Bannister Caye. Things soon went awry when the engine of their small boat experienced […]
