It was a bloody weekend on Belize’s highways. There were four separate accidents, three on the Phillip Goldson Highway and one on the George Price Highway, leaving multiple persons injured and four dead. The first terrible accident happened on Saturday night between mile forty-nine and fifty, on the outskirts of Carmelita Village in the Orange […]
A near fatal road traffic accident along the Phillip Goldson Highway on Saturday morning preceded a deadly crash moments later. Andre Gordon and Marvin Ramirez were traveling in opposite directions when they collided into each other a stone’s throw from the Haulover Bridge. Fortunately, neither motorist suffered any life threatening injuries. That pileup, however, may […]
While there was no loss of life in that accident, another RTA occurred in the same vicinity near the Haulover Bridge on January second. Two persons perished instantly; money lender Pamela Bennett and Alfredo Navarette were traveling in separate vehicles when they were involved in a head on collision. Bennett’s husband was also injured and […]
Even in death, controversy seems to surround Pamela Bennett. Late this afternoon, police were summoned to the businesswoman’s residence where irate members of her family were gathered. Their bone of contention is that attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd, along with someone considered a stranger to Bennett’s siblings, had entered the house on Caesar Ridge Road and removed […]
The first murder for the year took place minutes after five o’clock on New Year’s Day. A young man was accompanying two females from the neighborhood on Jane Usher Boulevard in the old capital when he was accosted. One of two men opened fire hitting him multiple times. Kieron Shaquille Moss of a Freedom Street […]
In the Supreme Court earlier today, businessman Jack Charles lost his only option to legally examine the rationale behind a decision taken by the Government of Belize to confiscate a shipment of Guyanese rice. The consignment of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds of prepackaged grain arrived via freight at the port in Big Creek […]
While Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay, who represents the Mennonite community, maintains that Jack Charles acted in open disobedience of the law. As a result, the Customs and Excise Department, according to Courtenay, has indicated that the illegal cargo must leave the country sooner than later. Eamon Courtenay, Attorney, Belize Agro-productive Sector Group “The rice […]
The importation of Guyanese rice was an issue that was in the headlines for the most part of December. The premise on which the shipment of rice was being imported to Belize and introduced to the local market is affordability. Previously, Jack Charles proposed that he could retail a pound of Guyanese rice for as […]
Tonight, forty-four year old Goldburn Adolphus, aka “Easy Glen” is in trouble with the law again for allegedly beating up and then threatening to kill his baby’s mother and then escaping from police custody by claiming he needed his seizure medication. This morning, Adolphus who appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser was read four criminal […]
We’ve told you about the shooting death of Kieron Moss, but there was another shooting that happened prior to his murder on New Year’s Day. Just minutes after the clock struck midnight, thirty-one year old Ryne McKenzie and twenty-one year old Ryan Foster were riding on separate bicycles on McKay Boulevard, in the Saint Martin […]
An eighteen-year-old woman was sexually assaulted a little over a month ago in Ladyville. A report of the incident was not filed until New Year’s Day. According to Rural Eastern Division Commander, Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster, the suspect is believed to be a Guatemalan national. While he could not explain the delay in reporting the […]
The Orange Walk’s Quick Response Team made a very large drug bust on Sunday, and it is believed that it was part of a cartel shipment. That’s because the marijuana, all one hundred and eighty pounds of it, was tightly compressed, neatly packaged and all those packages were labelled with a ‘J.’ The surprising and […]
Just a few hours after the Quick Response Team, acting on information received, made another discovery – this time a weapon. No ammunition was found with that weapon, but it is still one more gun off the streets of Orange Walk. Supt. Selvyn Tillett, Officer Commanding, Orange Walk Police Formation “At about four p.m. […]
An Asian couple, proprietors of Amy’s Restaurant in Ladyville, came under attack by a pair of armed robbers on New Year’s Day. According to Xiao Zheng Lo, she was inside her place of business when the duo stormed in. During the invasion the thieves made off with seven thousand dollars in cash and other items. […]
So far we have reported on the road fatalities, murders and other crimes. But there is some good news that prompted celebrations over at the K.H.M.H. The birth of babies is always a joyful occasion, so when we headed out to the hospital to meet 2016’s firstborn; we also had opportunity to meet the proud […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Folks we start off with the 6th annual Smart New Year’s Day Race as presented by the Weekend Warriors Cycling Club. It’s a race that left the Orange Walk Town Council for the finish at the M&M Engineering Office around mile 2 on the […]
