The life of a young woman who had her own share of misfortune was cut short in Corozal on Sunday night. Nineteen-year-old Ana Villanueva was visiting with a friend when she became embroiled in a fight with another young woman who lives nearby and with whom she had a conflict. It is said that the […]
The first murder for the weekend occurred in Belize City on Saturday night. He was recently released from prison, but twenty-one-year-old Denzel Flowers was shot multiple times as he walked on Louise Bevans Street heading toward Cemetery Road. A gunman approached him just as he was about to get to his house. As many as […]
Another man was killed in the city within hours of the murder of Denzel Flowers. The case, however, is being treated as a fatal shooting because police say Shemar Nunez was killed during an armed robbery on Albert Street, while service was ongoing at the Wesley Church. Initially police said that Nunez was stopped in […]
Arriving in the country today was thirty-eight-year old Dexter Todd, a Guyanese attorney. Todd has been retained by William “Danny” Mason, also from Guyana, who is expected to go back to Supreme Court in Belmopan this Tuesday for the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas. Mason’s previous attorney, Herbert Panton and Rachel Montejo, were released so […]
Fortunately, no one was injured this morning when shots were fired in Belize City, but the shooting caused commotion in the neighbourhood. At around ten o’clock, shots were fired behind a house on Allan Pitts Crescent. A number of residents scrambled for safety fearing for their lives. Police arrived on the scene, but one of […]
Last year, Orel Leslie was freed of a murder charge, but on Sunday morning it appears he was a marked man. Leslie was driving on Bocotora Street around five in the morning when two unidentified men fired shots at him. Leslie escaped the gunfire unharmed. Police recovered six expended shells from the street. Today, police […]
Police have detained one man and are looking for another suspect in connection with a shooting incident that happened on Freetown Road on Sunday morning. Police say that shortly after the shooting incident on Albert Street, two other persons carried out a shooting on Freetown Road. Surveillance footage shows a man running across the street […]
Businessman and cyclist, Santino Castillo, is returning to the political arena. Castillo has announced he wants to run again in the Caribbean Shores Constituency for the U.D.P. After serving as Minister of State, in 2015, Castillo stepped down to allow former Belize City Darrell Bradley to go against the P.U.P.’s Kareem Musa who emerged as […]
Senate President Lee Mark Chang and former U.D.P. Belize City Councilor Leila Peyrefitte are the two names who have reportedly expressed interest in representing Caribbean Shores. While Castillo won in the Caribbean Shores in 2012, Lee Mark Chang was most unsuccessful in the Freetown when he was bested by area representative Francis Fonseca. Chang made […]
With the referendum results showing a strong YES in favour of the U.D.P. position, it’s silly season in the party. Now, Prime Minister Barrow will also be making his exit as leader. First to jump out on Friday night was U.D.P. Belmopan area rep John Saldivar, who took to Facebook to remind his party that […]
There is an allegation against a police officer coming out of the Toledo District tonight. Residents from the Santa Teresa Village claim that the officer has stolen rosewood from its area. According to the Pablo Max, the Chairperson of the Quiche Ha Community-based Enterprise that manages the forest products in the village, a team was […]
The Economic Development Council, Compete Caribbean and the Inter-American Development Bank hosted a one-day workshop to discuss using innovation within the private sector to achieve exponential growth in Belize. At today’s event, a partner from Innovation Agency in Medellin, Colombia shared how technology and knowledge were used to transform Medellin. The city was considered dangerous, […]
The popular cashew festival took place over the weekend attracting its own share of visitors to the village; from tourists to mothers celebrating their special day. All things cashew were available, from wines to jams to preserves and cakes. So while the festival is a celebration of the delicious cashew, the event promotes Crooked Tree […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in Sports…]
