Two Containers Smuggled Out of the Customs Department
Last week we told you about a container that was cleared from Customs and then recalled. But before it could get back to the compound, the driver was jacked on the Coastal Road at gunpoint by seven armed men. Or so the story goes. The container was later found abandoned in Belmopan and all its contents had been...
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DPP Lutchman Sooknandan Leaving Office
Lutchman Sooknandan started working as DPP in January of 2007 and tonight 16 months later the news is that he's leaving the job. But he's not been fired. Sooknandan confirmed to us that the Prime Minister's office gave him a fair deal, and he's leaving without acrimony and on terms with which he is satisfied. That tells...
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Price of butane goes up by four dollars
One week after fuel prices jumped by more than fifty cents at the pump, Belmopan has announced a four dollar increase in the price of butane. The new rates take effect on Saturday with a hundred pound cylinder selling for a hundred and twenty-two dollars in Belize City, one twenty four in Belmopan and San Ignacio and...
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Corozal villagers busted with four pounds of crack cocaine
Many motorists are simply waved through a police checkpoint but on Thursday there was something about the three men and a woman travelling in an Isuzu Trooper that made officers stop and take a second look. And it was a good thing they did. According to police, inside the vehicle they found one point nine kilos or just...
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Salesman Charged for Theft Says He was Jacked
Earlier this week, we told you about Belize Refrigeration Limited salesman Dave Burgess wanted by police for stealing $3,253 in sales proceeds form his employee. Well, police found him and he appeared in court today. Burgess, who is an ex policeman, was charged with two counts of theft, for a total of three thousand dollars...
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Home raid turns up possible murder weapon
A Belize City musician is singing "Jail House Rock" tonight after cops found an unlicensed gun in his bedroom closet. But as serious as that charge is, twenty-eight year old Ernest Young may have bigger trouble on his hands because police believe the firearm has been used as a murder weapon. Acting on a tip, on Thursday police...
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School security guard claims former student kidnapped him
The assault of security guards for their weapons has become a common crime but tonight a Belize City watchman is alleging that he was kidnapped and beaten by three attackers. According to thirty year old Gregory Stamp, on Wednesday afternoon he was working at Edward P. Yorke High School when a former student...
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U.S. Embassy Delivers 5 Fuso Trucks to BDF
This morning the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy Leonard Hill handed over the keys for five trucks to Minister of National Security Carlos Perdomo. The Mitsubishi Fuso trucks are valued at US$216,000, just under half a million dollars, and will be used by the BDF's Light Engineering Company. Commander of...
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Cayo villagers rebel against Water Board changes
It's a part of the transition process following General Elections, but this week control of a water board in the Cayo District ended in the detention of two people and allegations of political victimization. According to El Progresso Village Councillor Geraldo Garcia, on Wednesday, Rural Development Officers arrived in...
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Bzean American wins U.S. $97 million in Louisiana
It's a favourite fantasy to imagine winning millions of dollars but for one Belizean American and his wife, that dream has come true. On Thursday, seventy-four-year old Carl Bernard Hunter and his wife Diane claimed, wait for it, the ninety-seven million U.S. dollars they won in the Louisiana Powerball jackpot. In January,...
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