Three murders in three days…on Thursday, twenty-seven year old food vendor Gerald Palmer was shot and killed on Grants Alley by a lone gunman who opened fire on him during a nationwide blackout. Grant’s murder was followed by the slaying of Harrison Smith on Friday and the fatal shooting of Lincoln Sabido, about twenty-six hours […]
The weekend’s second murder took place on Saturday night. Another man, well-known to the law, who also twice beat the murder rap lost his life in a hail of bullets. Lincoln “Corn” Sabido died minutes after he was shot multiple times by a lone gunman who snuck up on him from behind the house he […]
As we said earlier in the newscast, twenty-seven-year-old Gerald Palmer, a food vendor of Belize City, was shot and killed on Thursday night during a nationwide power outage. He was waylaid by a lone assailant who fired as many as six shots in his direction before standing over his bullet riddled body to complete the […]
There was more violence over the weekend. A vicious chopping incident in Teakettle Village on Saturday evening has left one man short of a left hand. Twenty-four-year-old Aldo Moro was at J&J’s Store when he was accosted by someone he knew. According to Moro, he was returning to his vehicle when Shaylon Santos, also known […]
Later that night, twenty-one-year-old Edel Diaz, a resident of Salvapan, lost his left index finger when he was also attacked by a machete-wielding assailant. Diaz, who works as a warehouse assistant, was socializing with a few friends at a bar on Cemetery Road in Salvapan when Clifford Alvarado confronted him. A forceful swing of […]
On Friday, the nation was shocked and outraged at the news that a gang of armed Guatemalan civilians came across the border and confronted BDF personnel. The incident happened at Valentin Camp about one kilometre from the border, where a new outpost is being constructed. According to the Ministry of National Security, villagers from the […]
The Coast Guard’s Forward Operating Base, located on Hunting Caye, remains a point of much contention. Last week, the news broke that the base, funded by the US, is being built by a Guatemalan firm that contracted Guatemalan workers. Now that news would have raised eyebrows in the most tranquil of times. But these aren’t […]
A flood mitigation project is being funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, which is a good thing because the City Council seems to be chronically cash-strapped. A significant portion of the financial burden on City Hall is its sanitation debts to companies like Belize Waste Control and Belize Maintenance Limited. The situation where BML is […]
A terrible domestic tragedy in the quiet village of Seine Bight has left a woman clinging to life, while the man who viciously stabbed her took his own life. At around eleven-thirty on Saturday, police were called to a house in the village and discovered a woman bleeding profusely from multiple stab wounds to the […]
From the south to the city where a young girl is claiming she was raped. The sixteen year old minor of Belize City reported to police last Friday that while she was home alone, a man she knew came to her house and had sexual intercourse with her against her will. The man who police […]
Belizean businessman, Ignacio Villanueva, was attacked on Sunday by a gang of eight men. Villanueva was on Wagner’s Lane shortly before midnight, when he was targeted. The fifty-one year old businessman says he was approached by a man he recognized as Shane Budram and seven others who encircled him. And according to Villanueva, Budram hit […]
This morning, the Belize City Council broke ground on a twenty-million dollar project designed to relieve the perpetual problem of flooding in Belize City. It’s called the Flood Mitigation Infrastructure Project, and includes the construction of a drainage canal below Douglas Jones Street and Cinderella Plaza. The extensive works will commence immediately, and residents of […]
Fifty-five primary school students took part this summer in an art program sponsored by the Taiwanese Embassy and the National Institute of Culture and History. The arts program is taught by Taiwanese Art Teacher, Fiona Huang and it includes two months of learning the different techniques of painting and drawing. Before the closing of the […]
Jalacte is a remote southern community in the Toledo District and, for many years, was off the beaten path for most Belizeans. While its inaccessibility placed it out of reach for the average tourist, it has remained open to Guatemalan nationals who wander freely across the border into Belize to conduct business or attend school. […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 24th Women’s National Softball Championship reigned supreme insdie Roger’s Stadium yesterday. 7 teams had started the campaign but in money time, it was the Belize Bank Bull Dogs and Roaring Creek Grace Kennedy battling for the 2014 crown. We go to the top […]
