There has been only one other murder in Orange Walk since the beginning the year, but on Saturday night, all that changed when two teenage friends were gruesomely murdered in front of a house across from the popular Boundary Store Warehouse compound located on Palmar Boundary Road. The double murder of sixteen year old Oscar […]
There was also an attempt made of the life of a forty-one year old salesman of Orange Walk Town on Saturday night. Around eleven o’clock, Rosendo Santana was at his Progress Street house when someone called his name outside. As he opened the front door to see who it was, a man dressed in dark […]
There was also a shooting in the city over the weekend. Early on Saturday morning, police headed to the corner of Faber’s Road and Central American Boulevard, where they found a pair of red and black slippers and a bicycle lying on the blooded sidewalk. Twenty-eight year old Kareem Stevens was riding his bicycle on […]
Eleven-year-old Austin Olivera Junior has succumbed on Sunday night to injuries he received last Tuesday when he was knocked down by a tour guide near the Airport Road in Ladyville. Olivera, a student of Stella Maris, was on his way to school that morning when he was hit by a silver minivan while crossing the […]
Today, police had to be called in to the K.H.M.H. Emergency Area after an irate patient smashed the glass entrance door, cutting himself badly. The story is an old and tired one – patients waiting hours for treatment and claiming that they are being ignored by K.H.M.H. staff on duty in the emergency room. This […]
Tonight diesel fuel remains an extremely scarce commodity in the country…and those few gas stations that have gotten stock in by tanker truck from Guatemala are dispensing frugally. The ship is expected to arrive in Belize on Tuesday night, which means that things should return to normal by Thursday morning. The shortage has impacted many […]
There is a disturbing report of incest that allegedly occurred in southern Belize. An underage sixteen year old girl reports that a brother had sexual intercourse with her earlier this year. The student of the Indianville area, Punta Gorda claims that her brother had sex with her twice in the month of January, 2015 and […]
Tonight, one Belize City man who the police claim is a member of the gang, Peace in the Village, is free from the charge of Professed to Belong to a Criminal Gang. He is twenty-six year old Leon Gray of Belize City. The charge was dismissed this morning before the Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. […]
The Puerto Azul Development Project has remained very much below the radar since Chief Environmental Officer Martin Alegria gave an update to the media back in January. The proposed billion dollar investment touted as the world’s first eight star resort is the brainchild of developer Domenico Giannini and will be launched in December. That is […]
The controlled price for locally produced rice is ninety cents per pound, but it is retailing anywhere between one dollar and twenty cents to one dollar and forty cents. This all came to light because businessman of Extra-House, Jack Charles, wants to import rice from Guyana and says he can bring it into the country […]
The Territorial Volunteers is a group of Belizean patriots who have taken it upon themselves to draw attention to the border between Belize and Guatemala, from north to south. They do so through refurbishing dilapidated monuments, symbolic clearing along the border and planting coconut trees – basically as a reminder to both Belize and Guatemalan […]
Three weeks ago, thirty-eight Belizeans were detained in Belizean waters by Guatemalan military and forced into the Guatemalan port of Livingston. You might think such an incident would spark national outrage from the government because no matter how you slice it, the action is outrageous. It has sparked some anger from G.O.B., to be truthful, […]
Students from across the country sat Part One of the Primary School Examination which sets the stage for them to advance to secondary school. It is not a requirement, except for a few schools, but still high achievers qualify for scholarships which is clearly is an incentive. Over seven thousand students took the exams including […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Sacred Heart Gym in San Ignacio hosted the showdown between undefeated Cayo Western Ballaz and the surging Belmopan Red Taigaz in a ballgame that was certainly to test the mettle of the most dominant team at this time in the season. The home […]
