Just after ten o’clock on Saturday morning, the body of nineteen-year-old Charleston Cleland was found dumped in a swampy area near an embankment off the George Price Highway. Cleland was out on Friday night and was last seen with friends at one of the popular hangout clubs in the city. When he left the entertainment […]
It could have turned deadly earlier on Friday night in Belize City when a gunman pulled out a firearm and attempted to kill several persons. Security footage of Tasty Restaurant on Mahogany Street, Belize City, shows a man pulling out a weapon, pointing it at several persons and attempting to fire. Luckily for the intended […]
A Camalote resident in western Belize was stabbed as many as seven times on Saturday night. Jose Gonzalez was at a bar when his attacker pounced on him. His family believes that the stabbing stems from a previous incident in which Gonzalez had intervened. But even as he fights for his life at the hospital […]
In Benque Viejo Del Carmen, police do not suspect foul play in the drowning of a popular taxi operator. Abel Chi lost his life in the waters of the Mopan River on Saturday morning when he went for a swim. Chi, who is originally from Guatemala, suffered from epilepsy and it is believed he experienced […]
American National forty-nine-year-old Claire Elizabeth Rigdon was found dead in her swimming pool at her Consejo property in Corozal last Sunday. According to her husband, Robely Smith Rigdon, he and his wife were socializing that afternoon around four. He told police that he fell asleep and when he woke up around eight in the night, […]
If you’ve been by Marine Parade lately, you may have noticed a building being erected along the seaside, beside the south end of the Ramada Princess Hotel. Construction began a few weeks ago and the idea is to establish a family-oriented restaurant. Well, that’s the plan of Hiasam and Ekaterina Diab, who entered into a […]
In March 2017, Calaney Flowers was acquitted of the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Lyndon Morrison, who was riding his motorcycle with his new girlfriend in the area of Freetown Road when he was knocked down and killed. But her case continues to meander in the courts even though she was freed. In the Court of […]
There is some good news coming out of Sacred Heart Primary School. Today, we got an update from Principal Philippa Hulett and she says they have found a solution to the massive sewerage problem that caused the school to shut down. Details of that plan will be shared with the media later this week. We […]
An attempt was made on the life of twenty-two-year-old Raheem Gordon. The Belize City man was sitting inside his house on Casuarina Street on Sunday night around eight-thirty, when a bullet zipped passed his ear and hit the concrete wall. The fragments from the wall caused a small injury to Gordon’s neck. When we spoke […]
In the early hours of Sunday morning, Nathaniel Lockwood of Sand Hill Village was shot several times in the chest and stomach in Gardenia Village. Twenty-one-year-old Lockwood is now listed in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. Police say that Lockwood and a friend were on a motorcycle when they were pursued by someone in […]
Police are asking for your help in locating Ruby Petino. The Guatemalan national was living with a friend on East Collet Canal up to the time of her disappearance on October sixteenth. Police say Petino was with her baby when they left home and has not been seen or heard from since. Today, police shared […]
The marijuana debate has fizzled with the decriminalization of a small quantity for personal use in 2017. Weed smokers across the country continue to enjoy the freedom of possessing up to ten grams of cannabis without fear of prosecution, while farmers and retailers remain under close scrutiny by law enforcement for cultivation, trafficking and retailing. […]
Wesley College is hosting its twentieth annual “Red Ribbon” week. The school dedicates a week each year to promote awareness of the impacts of drug use and abuse. To do this, the school hosts a number of activities to encourage students to engage in positive hobbies and resist influences. Andrea Polanco shares more from today’s […]
A group of Belizean media sat down with an international law lecturer at the Mexican Autonomous University in Mexico City last Friday. Professor Carlos Bernal shared his experience as a legal advisor for Mexico in its case at the I.C.J. Bernal asserts that Belize should take the claim to the I.C.J., he also acknowledges there […]
An issue in the minds of many is whether there could be any geopolitical influence on the judges sitting at the International Court of Justice? Bernal says decisions are about international law. Carlos Bernal, Professor of International Law, Mexican Autonomous University “Politics is politics. I am sure all the judges read the papers every […]
A feud among neighbors has resulted in a young woman losing the use of an eye after being struck repeatedly to the head and body during a physical altercation last Friday. Felicia Audinett was reportedly mobbed by a group of persons near her home on Riverside Street, following an exchange of words. Despite an attempt […]
The Stella Maris School in Belize City officially opened its “Leela Vernon” music room. The school has added a music programme to its offerings after it received a number of music equipment including music sheets, saxophone, and trombone. We stopped in for the ribbon cutting at today’s event. Karima Oshon, Principal, Stella Maris School […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in sports….]
