Former F.F.B. executive Rawell Pelayo is at home tonight in Orange Walk a free man. He was deported by U.S. marshals on a flight back to Belize earlier today and handed over to the Belize Police Department. Pelayo’s unexpected return follows a twenty-one month detention in a U.S. prison on suspicion of his involvement in […]
On Easter Monday, at the end of a joint maritime operation of Belize’s armed forces, twenty-four year old Coast Guard Seaman Keyren Tzib approached the vessel’s captain, thirty-seven year old Kurt Hyde and shot him in the face with her M-four assault rifle. Police investigators say she never uttered a word before she fired that […]
On Thursday night, we left you with the story about a boat that caught on fire in the hanger area near the Belize City Municipal Airstrip. Four men were heading out to Saint George’s Caye to drop off items for their return Easter holiday on Friday. As the boat started and launched it burst into […]
In speaking with News Five today, Stephen Bradley said the skiff, Miss Din, was regularly maintained since he bought it twelve years ago. Bradley also pointed out that a new engine was installed just last year. So what caused the fire? Well, the fire department has been doing its investigations. Today, Benisford Matura of the […]
The body of a Belize City man was today retrieved from the lagoon in Seine Bight on the Peninsula. Eighteen year old George Richard Maskall was last seen by relatives in Placencia on Thursday and this morning a missing report was made to the police. Hours later, around eleven-thirty a.m., a report would come to […]
There was a string of three arsons across the country over the Easter weekend, the most tragic being the deliberate destruction of a Garifuna spiritual temple in Barranco Village. Since July 1996, the thatched structure served as an informal gathering place for residents of the remote community and more officially as a ceremonial shrine for […]
A toddler is dead and police are investigating the cause of the death of the eleven month old baby. Karen De Jesus Perez reported to police that sometime around seven-thirty on Wednesday, April first she was attending to her eleven month old daughter, Mia Eusebia Lopez, when the child started to cry. Perez told police […]
Earlier in the newscast, we reported on two cases of arson in the village of Barranco in the south. Well, there is another incident in which a small house was also deliberately set on fire. In Belize City, a sole bread winner, her father and her four children are homeless tonight. Two minors are suspected […]
There were two other fires in the Toledo District…one in at a school in Big Falls and the other in Blue Creek. In the wee hours of Monday, a fire would erupt in the principal’s office of the Roman Catholic School in Big Falls. Over ten thousand dollars in books and office equipment went up […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Victor Underwood perished in a fatal road traffic accident which occurred along the Phillip Goldson Highway at the start of the Easter weekend. He would be the first of two victims to succumb to injuries received in separate incidents in less than twenty-four hours. The mentally challenged wanderer was walking along the stretch of […]
According to Underwood’s brother, while he concedes that his sibling was at times difficult to deal with; his death may have been the result of negligence on the part of hospital authorities. Isani Cayetano “I understand that your brother suffered from an acute mental illness where he has been dealing with this thing for […]
On Wednesday, April Fools’ Day, forty-two year old security guard, Patrick Castillo Senior, viciously chopped his stepson, Guatemalan Jose Maderos, to death. It was a bloody scene which left a family traumatized. Castillo claimed self-defence, allegedly stating that Maderos came home intoxicated and tried to force open the front door, after which they got into […]
A teenager lost his life over the weekend in a drowning accident in the Belize River Valley. The seventeen-year-old was reportedly spending his Saturday afternoon with a group of friends swimming near Bermudian Landing when he went under and did not resurface. Despite desperately clinging on to a friend’s arm, Christian Valentin, a resident of […]
Today is being celebrated as World Health Day under the theme of Food Safety. It’s not a topic that we often think about, but it’s a very serious matter for your health. While Belize hasn’t faced any major food borne epidemic, the risk still exists, considering the importance of food for local consumption, tourism product […]
The Summit of the Americas takes place this week on Friday and Saturday in Panama City, under the “Prosperity with Equity: The Challenge of Cooperation in the Americas.” The event takes place every three years but this summit is likely to turn out interesting because Cuba’s Raul Castro is being invited for the first time […]
British soldiers are a regular sight on our roads, especially in the west as they train in the rough of the Mountain Pine Ridge. Belize actually provides an ideal training ground for elite troops from other parts of the world, but particularly the British who are a constant presence here. One media organization in the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday on a Tuesday. Hope you had an enjoyable Easter Weekend. For certain you were thrilled with the results of the 87th Annual Cross Country Cycling Classic, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. In front of B.T.L. for the rolling start and honored to […]
