Tonight, two Bahamian nationals are behind bars pending proceedings for an extradition request by the United States government. Rohn Knowles and Kelvin Leach are accused in a Belize billion dollar securities fraud and money laundering scheme. The two were named among six defendants indicted by US federal prosecutors in a New York court last week. […]
Turning to crime news. Three men were murdered over the weekend, in San Pedro, Belize City and in Cayo District. Early on Sunday morning, a Spanish Lookout resident was killed in a most brutal fashion. Pedro Ariel Diaz, a thirty-four year old Guatemalan national, was chopped to death; his head was partially severed. Diaz’s body […]
The body of forty-two-year-old Paul Morgan, who also goes by the name Paul Rubio, is at the Belize City morgue tonight. Morgan, who has a long rap sheet, was violently attacked on Friday night and shot multiple times to the upper body. Morgan was in the company of a woman inside a vehicle which was […]
There was a murder in San Pedro over the weekend, allegedly the result of an altercation in town. According to the Police report, Bowen and Bowen employee thirty-one year old Moses Coc was with a friend on Swan Street when they were attacked by another man. That man allegedly hit Coc repeatedly to the head […]
Up north, a swarm of killer bees viciously attacked a resident of Paraiso, Corozal over the weekend. Sixty-six year old Gilberto Manzanilla was riding his bicycle in the village just before noon on Saturday when he was attacked by the bees as he approached the cemetery. He was stung multiple times all over his body […]
There is a developing story tonight out of San Pedro where the government is offering submerged lots in northern Ambergris Caye. As incredible as it sounds, there are numerous pegs in the water in an area known as Sunset Cove. Forty acres of the swampy wetland have been surveyed for residential lots, but no one […]
The national referral hospital has frequently been mired in scandals; as recent as two weeks ago the K.H.M.H. settled with seven mothers after their newborns died in the neonatal unit in 2013 from a bacteria known as enterobacter cloacae. Today, however, officials put their best forward to mark the hospital’s nineteenth anniversary with the inauguration […]
Just before dawn on Saturday, a massive crowd gathered in the area of the Belcan Bridge for Jouvert. The event has grown by leaps and bounds and this year, the event was certainly the biggest in its history. Duane Moody was there for the event. Duane Moody, Reporting There were several pre-carnival bashes happening […]
The Jouvert at predawn on Saturday made way for the grand 2014 carnival road march. With colourful costumes that seem to get bigger every year, the bands started the parade at Caesar Ridge Road. The sweltering temperatures did not seem to slow down the energy of both senior and juniors bands as they gyrated to […]
The annual Carnival Road March saw thousands of Belizeans converge on the streets of Belize City. Fortunately, this year it went without a hitch. While the Belize Police Department will not disclose the number of officers who were working over the weekend, press officer Raphael Martinez says that the manpower increased by at least fifty […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We lead today with the BDVA interoffice volleyball championship which took center stage at the Belize Auditorium Friday night. The Belize Defense Force went in with a big W over Belize Telemedia Limited in a 25-20, 21-25, 15-11 3 set series on Thursday […]
