All hell broke loose onboard a water taxi on Sunday afternoon loaded with passengers returning to the city from the popular Lobster Fest held in Caye Caulker. The brouhaha soon became violent and a young police officer was removed from the water taxi and subdued by another officer as he fell unconscious. To make a […]
Special Envoy for Women and Children Kim Simplis Barrow has weighed in on the matter. In a social media post, Simplis Barrow says that discrimination has no place in our communities. She adds that violence of this kind has no place in society. Executive Director for United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) echoed similar sentiments saying […]
Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, a fifty-seven-year-old resident of Neal Penn Road in Belize City was murdered after a robbery inside his house. The body of Errol Crown was found around six-thirty a.m. outside his house with injuries to his head. Crown left a party at his daughter’s house and headed home before […]
Well-known street figure in San Pedro Town, twenty-three-year-old Christian Espat, has been released by police on the island. On Friday, Espat handed himself over to police in the company of his attorney Leeroy Banner. He was being sought for questioning in the double murder of popular tour guide Mario Graniel and prominent U.S. doctor Gary […]
The double murder of Mario Graniel and Doctor Gary Swank prompted the National Security Council of Belize to call an emergency meeting. The Security Council, which is chaired by Prime Minister Dean Barrow, has agreed to some immediate measures that will later be expanded. Additional officers have been deployed to the island and according to […]
There has been no further communication from Belize Telemedia Limited since last week. On Wednesday, News Five first reported on leaked documents which purportedly showed that B.T.L. owes the government millions of dollars in backed up general sales tax. In total, the government company is said to owe close to fifty million dollars in taxes […]
Turning to the crime blotter…a brawl outside of a nightclub in Dangriga has left two persons injured with gunshot wounds after a police officer discharged his service issued weapon in an attempt to diffuse the melee. Edmond Cayetano and Raquel McKenzie were both struck by a single round fired by the responding officer who is […]
Not far away from Dangriga, in Independence Village, an altercation between two persons led to Shane Bennett being shot in the arm after pulling a pellet gun on another man who pulled out a real gun and fired at him. The incident happened shortly before noon on Sunday when Bennett and an unnamed individual got […]
Heading north, sixty-nine-year-old Primitivo Itza lost both of his legs on Friday evening when a commuter bus ran him over in Orange Walk Town. The elderly resident of Palmar was in the vicinity of the park near Queen Victoria Avenue when he was knocked down by bus driver Jovel Requeña. Due to the extent of […]
Retired British national Phillip Crabtree drowned in Placencia overnight on Thursday. The body of the fifty-eight-year-old was retrieved from the sea sometime before six o’clock on Friday morning and an autopsy conducted on his body confirms that he died from asphyxia due to drowning. While the body was observed with a cut wound over the […]
In the Magistrate Court this morning, tourism attendant Evan Gillett was arraigned for causing the death of his cousin in a traffic accident after colliding into a metal lamppost situated in the median of the Phillip Goldson Highway last month. Gillett was released after posting bail of ten thousand dollars following his arraignment for manslaughter […]
The female under-twenty-three national volleyball team claimed second place in the Central American Volleyball U-23 Championship this past weekend. It’s their first time winning this medal in the championships. The tournament was held in Managua, Nicaragua where the team played a total of six games in the past week. They lost two of the games […]
Last year, the senior Volleyball team also won the silver medal at the Central American Championships held in Belize City. This time around, the U-23 girls secured second place once again. And while we celebrate these wins at home, Volleyball Association says it is a costly to manage the teams and have them operate at […]
The new social security contribution and pension rates came into effect today. The number of persons retiring is growing annually, pushing the Social Security Fund closer to the ‘period of equilibrium’ where total income equals total expenditure. In order to avoid a financial crash, a reform was approved where revenue is higher than the cost […]
The incident over the weekend involving homophobic insults hurled at PC Ralph Gillett, along with him being rendered unconscious via a chokehold, has sparked a polarizing debate. Persons like the Special Envoy for Women and Children Kim Simplis Barrow are questioning whether the chokehold was necessary or a clear show of excessive force by the […]
The Canaan SDA High School here on Coney Drive will be transformed to a modern seven million-dollar building. The school population has been growing steadily so that it has out grown the current facilities. The plan calls for the construction of a single three-storey building to accommodate classrooms and administration. While fundraising efforts have had […]
It’s summer and that means that students are being enrolled in summer programmes across the country. For one week, sixty students between the ages of eight and twelve will be housed at the Ladyville Technical High School in the Belize District learning various life skills and disciplines while engaging in sporting activities. It culminates with […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in sports…]
