On Friday night a resident of Independence was savagely mauled by vicious dogs while coming home at around eleven thirty from a fishing trip. The attack happened on a deserted stretch of road which connects the lagoon to a residential area known as Malacate. Twenty-three year old Jeffery O’Brien was bitten all over his body. […]
Three days, three murders in the city…The killing of Malcolm Wagner and Samuel Miguel was followed by another homicide in the dangerous streets of south side Belize City. Shortly after eight on Monday night, a minor, Myron Smith, was gunned down on Brown Street in the Lake Independence. Smith was riding along with two other […]
Police are reporting another loss of life to violence. Lloyd Augustus was attacked back on April sixteenth in Belize City. He was badly beaten and sustained numerous injuries and had to be hospitalized. His attacker, Sherman Rodney, who is no stranger to the law, was charged with Attempted Murder a few days after the incident […]
There was a frightening home invasion a few days ago. Just before nine o’clock on Sunday night, a thirty year old woman was held up at gun point at her house on Faber’s Road Extension. The woman was with her six-month old baby when an unidentified masked man entered her house. Scared and fearing for […]
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Twenty days ago, baby Laureny Pena was born to Corozal resident, Laura Pena, by cesarean section. She was past the due date by a week, but nothing seemed amiss and the mother and newborn were discharged from the Northern Regional Hospital in Orange Walk Town. All seemed well until Saturday night when the couple had […]
Vanessa Paris Champagne is causing another quandary, but this time, she is behind bars. And it is because it is not clear if the transgender woman should be placed in the female or the male block of the Belize Central Prison. Champagne, who has been attacked more than once, was today before the court to […]
Thirty-one year old taxi driver, Albert Castro remains hospitalized in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting in the wee hours of Monday. As we reported, Castro was shot on Fabers Road as he approached its junction with Watermelon Street. At least one shooter rode up to his taxi and […]
An unsuspecting forty year old Belize City clerk has been badly deceived. She reports to the police that a man she knew conned her with rent money. The woman says that on June nineteenth, she paid six hundred dollars to him toward rent for a house located at the corner of Sixth and Saint Thomas […]
In December 2013 three cops – Special Constable Joslyn Gill, Corporal Reymundo Requeña and Constable Edgar Teul – were arraigned for a now infamous ATM shakedown of Tyrell Hyde. The matter was heard before Magistrate Dale Cayetano and adjourned to April seventeenth. On April seventeenth it was adjourned to Monday, June thirtieth, and on Monday, […]
On January thirty-first a Canadian national living in Benque Viejo was attacked by a man wielding an axe and a machete. Steven Reichert was carrying his two year old daughter in his arms at the time, and in trying to protect her he received deep chop wounds to the neck and arm. The perpetrator, Genaro […]
Tonight there is a significant drug bust to report in the village of Teakettle in the Cayo district. Belmopan Police say that on Monday afternoon at around four-thirty, officers staged a surprise search in an area near the home of a known drug dealer in Teakettle. They found two plastic bags carrying eight hundred and […]
For decades the Krooman Lagoon has been designated as an important reserve for wildlife in Belize City. The area is a catchment for rainwater and was once teeming with birdlife and aquatic species. But a lot has changed over the past years, as the location has been filled by developers and settled by squatters. This […]
At nine o’clock tonight, our summer extravaganza gets underway at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. If You Can Sing it…Bring It is our brand new entertainment show for 2014. It has been conceptualized in response to calls by our faithful viewers and taking into consideration the vast talent in Belize. Tonight we will […]
