There is big news tonight in respect of a million dollar project to upgrade the Dangriga market which is mired in scandal and corruption. An emergency meeting of the Board of the Social Investment Fund was held late this evening in Belmopan following our story last Friday. We can report that the heads of five […]
A B.D.F. soldier is today recovering from injuries he received at the hands of officers of the San Ignacio Police Department. The brutal beating was meted out on Corporal Keith Pinnix in the early hours of Sunday morning as he was standing outside the Blue Angels nightclub in San Ignacio. There are different sides to […]
As we told you earlier, there are different sides to every story – and the version told by San Ignacio Police couldn’t be more different. According to their report, Police were on routine patrol when they saw Pinnix without a shirt, screaming and shaking the metal gate to the entrance to Blue Angels nightclub. They […]
There were sporadic shooting incidents over the weekend. Also in the city, a confrontation between apparently intoxicated revelers, following the carnival j’ouvert on Saturday morning, has resulted in one person being hospitalized after being injured during a stoning. The melee which unfolded near Renaissance Towers caught the attention of personnel from the Gang Suppression Unit, […]
In other related news, a Belize City man is in stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was badly beaten on Saturday evening. It wasn’t included in today’s Police Sitrep, but News Five has confirmed that King’s Park resident, Kingsley Estell, was attacked by at least fifteen persons as he stood at […]
City buses can no longer run on Albert Street. That’s the law handed down from City Council, and to say that the decision has unleashed a fiery storm of criticism would be an understatement. Commuters to downtown, including students, from all parts of the city now get off on Regent Street West and walk to […]
No one is being spared from a wave of robberies taking place. Minister of Immigration, Godwin Hulse, reports that sometime between last Thursday and Friday, someone broke into his warehouse located on mile ten and a half on the George Price Highway. The thieves stole a welding machine valued at two thousand dollars, six electric […]
A man from Corozal Town has reason to think twice before urinating in public again – since the last time he did so in the early hours of Sunday morning he was shot in the arm. Twenty-seven year old Francisco Castaneda claims he felt the urge to urinate at about two a.m. on Sunday, and […]
On Sunday morning, the Gang Suppression Unit searched a one bedroom shack on Gibson Street off Faber’s road occupied by twenty-four year old Calbert Young. The Unit did not have to dig too far, inside the bedroom on the floor the officers found a sack containing seventeen and a half kilos of cannabis. An additional […]
Banks Holdings Limited of Barbados and the Belize Citrus Growers Association Investment Company Limited and Citrus Products of Belize Limited were back in court this morning. The session, before Justice Rita Joseph Olivetti, was brief and arguments were put on hold. When both parties went back this afternoon, Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck informed the court […]
A businesswoman, the owner of Golden Corn Tortilla, was robbed at gunpoint in front of five of her family members. But fortunately for them, they managed to subdue the attacker. Police apprehended the robber and recovered the gun used in the armed robbery as well as stolen items. The alleged gunman has been identified as […]
Twenty-two year old Clarence Lamb, accused of robbing the Belize Tourism Board of over two thousand dollars on January second, had his day in court today. After changing his plea from not guilty to guilty, Lamb learnt his sentence which amounted to forty-six years in prison for ten criminal charges. Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, […]
Before the crack of dawn, thousands converged at the San Cas Plaza for the Jouvert 2013…. It is a prelude of what was to come later in the day for the Carnival Road March and by all accounts, the annual event has tripled in numbers. Covered in clay, mud and even chocolate the crowd swelled; […]
Following the jouvert, the carnival road march on Saturday was a spectacular show as it made its way from the Yarborough Green to the B.T.L. Park. For one there were more bands this year, the costumes were more elaborate than ever before and the thousands that lined up the parade route loved every minute of […]
With carnival 2013 behind, preparations for 2014 are already on the drawing board. While band leaders are already in the process of putting together innovative ideas to wow the judges and spectators, the Carnival Committee is also at work. Karen Vernon says that the Carnival Committee has decided to provide costume designing and engineering training […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The annual BCA September Criterium took center stage in Belize City as it ran through the Albert Street/Regent Street circuit yesterday to the delight of the many fans that turned up for the event. As we pan the start, we find the 2013 Cross […]
