The Matura family of Central American Boulevard is no stranger to the constant street violence. At the start of the weekend, a fourth family member was murdered. Mark Matura was shot once in the head by a brazen gunman who first checked his identity and then came back to finish the job. The Matura family […]
In Ladyville, the body of a thirty-six year old resident was found under suspicious circumstances but the Police Department is unable to ascertain if the man was murdered. According to the Ladyville Police Formation, the body of Enoc Abel Montero was found after three p.m. on Friday, at his home at the Lake Garden area. […]
A lone gunman unleashed a barrage of bullets at a group of friends on Antelope Street on May twentieth, leaving two men dead and three others injured. Police believe that brazen shooter, was twenty-four year old Jaime Hendrick Smith, of Raccoon Street Extension. Smith was arrested this morning and has been charged with two counts […]
When two Belize City residents, a deacon and a small business owner decided to visit a local entertainment center on Saturday night, they hadn’t a clue that it would end up in a shooting incident, as well as a severe beating at a family home; all allegedly at the hands of the Police Department. According […]
Now for the good news, the PSE results 2011 were released late on Friday evening. We told you who the top scorers are; they comprise a mix bag from the Belize, Cayo, Corozal and Orange Walk Districts. Interestingly the public schools performed better than the private schools and English and Math remain areas of concern. […]
Earlier you met this year’s top PSE students; most of them from public schools. And as we said, the results in English and Math were not encouraging. Last year, the mean performance in English was at sixty-three point five percent and this year it dropped to the C level at fifty-four point nine percent. In […]
With convention season in full swing, the machineries of the political parties revved up in the Orange Walk South, Belmopan and Toledo East constituencies over the weekend. In the north, Rosendo “Chendo” Urbina, the sitting Ambassador of Belize to Mexico, who previously ran but lost in Orange Walk Central, garnered one thousand and fifty votes, […]
A reputed member of the Gill Street Gang was arrested for Kept prohibited firearm and Kept unlicensed ammunition, but he is also being investigated and may be charged for the Murder of Mark Matura. When police responded to the scene of the fatal shooting on Friday, they were securing a three block area and noticed […]
A Belize City businessman decided today that he did not want to proceed to trial against two accused men for attempting to rob his business and trying to kill him. After two years of waiting for the case to come up, Feliciano Coy, manager of Diamonds Entertainment Bar, told the court this morning that he […]
A police woman was also before the court today, facing charges for stealing jewelry and other items from Julissa Westby, who was detained back in March. Westby’s complaint led to the speedy arrest of Special Constable Andrea Rivero and today twenty-nine year old WPC Nicholette Bermudez was charged with Theft. Bermudez appeared unrepresented before Magistrate […]
The Michael Finnegan Market Vendors are unhappy with the new configurations implemented by the Belize City Council. The street vendors who normally block traffic along the canal side have been moved and the wholesalers have been relegated to sell their produce on a side street. Last week Deputy Mayor Phillip Willoughby said that the new […]
The forty-first General Assembly of the Organization of American States is underway in El Salvador and is being held under the theme “Citizen Security in the Americas”. Organized transnational crime is a burning issue that is plaguing Belize, like the rest of the region. The assembly brings together the foreign ministers of the thirty-five member […]
A top agenda item at the general assembly is the re-admission of Honduras, which lost its membership after a military coup in June 2009, interrupted the democratic process ousting former president Manuel Zelaya. After a deal was worked out, Zelaya has now returned to Honduras from where he was exiled. Today, Honduran Minister of Public […]
The violence in the old capital has often been the source of pain and media coverage. But there are families whose pain though not exposed in the news headlines requires reporting. Evadney Jones is a Belize City resident who needs assistance in raising funds to cover her next visit to the doctor. She needs to […]
But tonight twenty two year old Tanisha Beaton, a second class clerk at the Treasury Department is the luck winner of the Lotto jackpot. When Beaton collected her winnings of fifty-five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, she said that luck was on her side when she changed a free ticket for a quick pick. […]
Good Evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Belize Bank Super League Tournament blasted off its 2011 playoffs yesterday with the reams fighting to get into the finals under the double elimination format. At the People Stadium, Orange Walk United played host to Paradise Freedom Fighters who had not been beaten by […]
