Mile 26 on the Western Highway was the site of six horrifying deaths on Saturday, July 10, 2010. At around 7:45 in the morning—a rainy morning—a collision between a car and a trailer truck claimed the lives of five persons, including three children, one of them a baby.

Employee Sharon McFadzean: “This will cripple our business drastically.…We are disappointed”.. SSB will issue statement on Friday... Fabro’s Glass Limited, of #27 Victoria Street, told Amandala today that they were “very disappointed” to learn that a contract from the Social Security Board, on which the struggling company had been depending, which could have been worth nearly $200,000, had instead been given to a Guatemalan company.

Phillip Anthony Barrera’s family wants revenge, not “justice” – a life for a life...A Sunday morning murder has left five children without a father, and a family very angry, and vengeful.

Companies only have to show that they are “in the business and have assets!” As the fierce debate over petroleum concessions spanning the length and breadth of Belize continues, our investigation has revealed that the Government of Belize has been giving out oil contracts without following the clear rules of the game — granting concessions to companies that one vocal attorney contends do not meet the legal requirements. Among the important features a company should have, under the Laws of Belize, is money and expertise. Some companies don’t meet those basics.

“There is no other way to go but to appeal the CJ’s judgment.” -- Lois Young... The Maya community of Southern Belize scored a landmark victory in the courtroom of Chief Justice Dr. Abdulai Conteh Monday morning – a victory that is bound to have far-reaching implications for that part of the country, including how the Government proceeds with logging, mining, and petroleum concessions in what the Maya community claims is over 500,000 acres of ancestral homeland.

San Pedro, NTUCB add serious clout to coalition against offshore drilling... Over 30 entities now onboard... With the national petition drive to muster public support against petroleum exploration in offshore Belize and protected areas in full effect, the movement picked up major momentum in the past week with the country’s leading organization representing the interest of the working population, coming onboard to unanimously endorse the cause.

A mother’s worst nightmare came true as a teenager, a recent high school graduate, who was reported to police last week Thursday, June 17, 2010, as missing since the day before, Wednesday, June 16, was discovered fatally stabbed and cut multiple times over her body, with a plastic bag on her face on the morning of her prom.

Gunfire rocked the area in front of #5 Sibun Street, in the long barracks area off Vernon Street late this evening, near the corner of Vernon Street Bridge before it crosses to the Zoe Church, on the canal side in the direction of the river, and when the echoes died away, a young woman lay mortally wounded.

Today, Bernard Moore, his wife, Amy Moore, and nephew, Alton White, came to Amandala to report that Bernard’s brother, Edmund Hartfield Spain, 65, had been killed by two pit bulls in an area near Hattieville.

In a scene reminiscent of the brazenness of the Mexican drug cartels, two assassins in broad daylight this morning ambushed Andre Trapp, the reputed leader of the so-called Southside gang, in the Belize City Magistrate Courts’ parking lot. Trapp was fatally shot, despite the number of policemen and court officials normally present at the many courtrooms at the Magistrate Courts. Not only that, Belize City’s Supreme Courts are adjacent to the Magistrate Courts, separated only by a narrow street.

A 15-year-old youth succumbed to head injuries he sustained during an attack by a fellow villager who, enraged, allegedly delivered the deadly blows with a baseball bat, leaving the victim with a fractured skull.

PM Barrow’s office will be directly responsible for crime-fighting initiative, “RESTORE Belize”... Will “Safe Zones” ever be realized on the Southside? “We will never be able to convince the public that we are serious about any plan, except [if] that plan includes measures to deal with whatever corruption is within the Police Department”

Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s law partner shot in abdomen; reports are that he is serious, but stable... One of Belize’s most renowned attorneys, Rodwell Williams, SC, the government-appointed chairman of the Belize Electricity Limited and law partner of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, was shot in his abdomen tonight, Monday, just after leaving work around 8:00, inside a rented parking lot, located just two lots down from the Barrow & Williams law office, at 99 Albert Street.

73 counted dead in Jamaica as police, military sniff out alleged Shower Posse leader, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, wanted in the US on narcotics and firearms charges