Two persons fell victim to street violence over the weekend. A resident of Faber’s Road was shot at close range on Sunday night. One bullet found its mark on Russel Douglas’ abdomen as he socialized with friends at a regular hang-out spot on Faber’s Road. The gunman simply rode up on a bicycle and delivered […]
The other victim did not die from gun violence, he succumbed to stab wounds. Forty-one year old Elvis Rhamdas, who was viciously knifed on Holy Thursday whilst standing at the corners of Victoria Street and New Road, passed away after a weeklong battle for his life in the intensive care unit at the K.H.M.H. On […]
In a late afternoon session in court, Customs personnel filed a complaint against the owner of a Plymouth Voyager Van that was found with contraband vegetables on Monday night. The vehicle was pursued on the Northern Highway and shots were fired when the driver sped off, but the occupants abandoned the van and escaped in […]
On November fourteenth, 2010 a team of law enforcement personnel including four police officers and a customs boatman was nabbed near the entrance of San Juan Village. The men, it is suspected, were the masterminds behind the landing of an executive jet, laden with eighty bales of Colombian cocaine, along the Southern Highway in the […]
It’s been at the top of the news around the world. The most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, the founder of the militant Al-Qaeda organization was killed on May first during an operation in Pakistan that had been under the directive of U.S. President Barack Obama. Bin Laden, fifty three years old, was shot in […]
In news of a political nature, are Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde back in the P.U.P. graces? There is word that the executive of the People’s United Party will be meeting this Wednesday to decide on some major changes in the hierarchy of the party. The executive is being asked to consider the re-instatement of […]
And there were two political conventions over the weekend. On Sunday, the U.D.P. elected Hugo Patt, the Chairman of the Belize Sugar Industries Control Board, as the new standard bearer for the Corozal North Constituency. Patt who garnered one thousand one hundred and forty votes thrashed the area representative of the constituency, Nemencio Acosta who […]
Two Belizeans are safely behind bars in Mexico. Wilton Osvaldo Lopez and Walter Antonio Lopez were arraigned in the Fifth District Court in Cancun on Friday after they were captured a week earlier. They are facing charges along with Mexican nationals Moisés Martínez Sánchez and Ana Isabel Rodriguez Zetina for carrying a firearm and possession […]
In Magistrates Court today, a K.H.M.H. employee was slapped with five charges after he had a few too many drinks on Sunday and assaulted his wife and two police officers. Twenty-eight year old Dwight Herrera pleaded guilty to one count each of Harm and Common Assault upon his wife, two counts of Aggravated Assault upon […]
An elderly man was lucky to secure bail in Magistrates Court today after he was charged for exposing himself in public. Sixty-nine year old Senior Citizen, Albert Garbutt aka “Reds” was arraigned today in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a single charge following allegations that on Thursday, April twenty-ninth, he exposed his private part […]
The Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage is involved on a nationwide campaign for a referendum on the question of oil drilling and exploration. It is still short of the seventeen thousand signatures required for the poll, but as the deadline approaches, it has solicited the help of two foreign technical experts to assess the […]
There was a fire last night in Belize City. It occurred after eight p.m. on Amara Avenue and luckily no one was hurt. The blaze allegedly started from the rear of apartment number seven in the barracks behind St. Ignatius Primary School. The National Fire Service was called to the area to assist in outing […]
Belize’s Tourism package received a boost earlier today from the online search engine, yahoo.com. The article listed the top ten destinations tourists should visit before they disappear and Belize’s Barrier Reef, particularly the Blue Hole was listed as the number one destination in the world. Although the article pointed out the diversity of sea life […]
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Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Raymond Gentle City Boys United took its quest for perfection into the People’s Stadium as week 10 found them in action against Orange Walk United and folks this match-up lined up to its pre-game hype – sp lets get started. It’s all OW in the […]
