A double murder has shaken the Orange Walk community. Tonight the leader of the Back-a-Town Crips Gang, thirty-four-year-old Junior Triminio and nineteen-year-old Christopher Calderon, believed to be Triminio’s associate, are dead. Both men were fatally shot on Sunday evening at around five-twenty by a man who was wearing a ski mask. The brazen double homicide […]
A woman was killed by her husband in the early hours of this morning inside a hotel room where they were vacationing. Mariela Alpuche Rodriguez was choked to death in Independence Village at the hands of Arturo Rodriguez. According to Mariela’s family, her husband was insanely jealous and she was frustrated in the marriage, but […]
A trio of armed thieves followed an elderly man to his house on Landivar Street in Belize City. Fortunately, Harold Williams was unharmed, but the thieves got away with thousands of dollars in cash. The brazen robbery occurred just after one p.m., when Williams has arrived at his house from the bank. The thieves surprised […]
In recent months, there has been an escalation in the number of robberies across the country, particularly in Belize City, where thieves continue to prey on anyone, including the elderly. Not only are they targeting a vulnerable population of society, but their modus has been stepped up to home invasions. With September celebrations just around […]
A fatal traffic accident claimed the lives of two cousins in the north. Kairo and Henry Cob, both from San Victor in Corozal, died just after midday on Sunday. The two men were on a motorcycle on the San Juan Road when they crashed into an SUV traveling in the opposite direction. That vehicle was […]
A third person perished on Friday after a traffic accident which occurred over a week ago. Yuri Moralez was riding his motorcycle when he crashed into a parked vehicle on Joseph Andrews Drive in San Ignacio. The impact sent the twenty-three-year-old to the pavement; he received severe head and body injuries which led to his […]
There was further lost of life over the weekend. A toddler died on Sunday after falling into a well in Bella Vista Village, Stann Creek District. Three-year-old Benjamin Mas drowned inside the spring, despite all efforts to revive him. According to Arturo Mas, his son disappeared from sight earlier that afternoon and by the time […]
On Saturday night, Xiang Quan Chen was shot inside his shop in Ladyville. According to police, just after eight-thirty, thirty-eight-year-old Chen was inside his shop, Guan Ying on Marage Road, when two masked men entered and attempted to rob the establishment. One of the armed men fired shots which hit Chen in the chin and […]
Charges are yet to be brought against a group of women who were engaged in an all-out brawl outside of La Cabana Nightclub recently. The incident which was caught on video, last Thursday, shows the commotion near the nightclub. The six-minute amateur video shot by someone outside the club, captures the partygoers choking, kicking and […]
A fire ignited at an abandoned house on Joseph Andrews Drive in San Ignacio. The blaze erupted after three o’clock this afternoon across from the Falcon Field Park in San Ignacio and in proximity to the Town Hall in the western municipality. Residents say that the abandoned wooden building is occupied primarily by homeless persons. […]
Businessman Omero Campos was abducted from his farm near San Victor Village on Father’s Day in June. The San Narciso resident has never been seen or heard from since, despite messages and emails from his purported kidnappers to the media demanding that his ransom be paid in crypto currency. While the family has been tightlipped […]
Six high schools are preparing to participate in a programme known as street law as a new course to their curriculum. The addition is expected to start in January 2019 which means that those teachers who will be facilitating are receiving training on the local laws as well as the rights of individuals. The week-long […]
The president of Taiwan, Doctor Tsai Ing-wen, concluded a visit to Belize over the weekend. Doctor Ing-wen was afforded all the trappings of a state visit including the convening of a joint special sittings of the House of Representatives and Senate in Belmopan, both which she addressed. Belize remains a close ally of Taiwan and […]
Over the weekend, on Saturday, the 2018 National Song Competition was held at the Santa Elena Sports Complex in the west. There were as many as twenty artists who competed in the junior and senior categories in national and carnival songs. After hours of patriotic and cultural performances and the bass of the bacchanal jams, […]
On a somber note, prominent Belizean, seventy-five-year-old John Woods of Cisco Construction passed away on Friday in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. Woods was not just an extraordinary businessman; he was a builder of Belize. Apart from operating a company known for its infrastructural expertise, Woods touched the lives of many at risk youths by employing them […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
