Two men, Michael Young, 22, and Armando “Mando” Davis, 24, were sentenced to 5 years today in the #1 Magistrate’s Court after they pleaded guilty to burglary.

The police investigation into a case of aggravated burglary in which Monica Mendez, 24, was beaten in her home and robbed, has resulted in the arrest of two of three suspects - Delbert Hinds, 28 and Ryan Neal, 17. The third suspect, Herbert “Kid” Velasquez, remains at large

He was shot twice, in right leg and palm

This morning, at 11:00, a press conference was held at the Racoon Street Police Station to inform the media about the recent shootings, a robbery and a murder as recent as this morning. On the panel were Inspector Allen Whylie, Clemente Cacho, Edward Broaster, and Sergeant Glen Rivero, Officer Commanding Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB

Just as my article for October 7th was being submitted, I was informed that Rufus X had been attacked by a man with an iron bar in his own yard as he was returning from The Kremandala Show. The last paragraphs of that October 7th article were a commentary on the vandalism punctuated by gunshots that took place outside Mose Hyde’s house in the early hours of Saturday morning. It was hardly a surprise to me, and I believe that both Mose and Rufus X weren’t surprised either.

Derrick Sampson, 22, and Michael Trapp, 21, showed no remorse this evening when a jury of 8 - 7 women and one man, after deliberating for about two hours unanimously found them guilty in connection with a violent crime in which a couple were robbed and the young woman, 19 at the time, was raped on the seawall near the roundabout on Marine Parade, shortly after 12:30 a.m. on May 13, 2006

Yesterday evening, two Belize City residents were taken to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and charged jointly for their involvement in the burglary of the Institute of Creative Arts (ICA), at the Bliss Institute, which occurred over the past weekend.

Domestic worker Phillipa Longsworth, 60, is mourning the shooting death of Earl “Old Man” Figueroa, 29, her second son to die violently. Earl’s younger brother, Edward “Bones” Figueroa, 20, was stabbed to death almost 7 years ago, on July 4, 1999. The incident occurred on Curassow Street, not far from his home.

Yesterday morning at about 11:30, businesswoman Jean Deeks, 32, the assistant general manager of Diamonds International of the Fort Street Tourism Village, was robbed at gunpoint as she attempted to make her way into the ScotiaBank (Belize) Limited branch located at Mile 2 ½ on the Northern Highway.

Corruption does not operate in a vacuum. It is not isolated from the culture of the community/society in which it exists. In the case of small, poor countries like Belize, corruption is a process sometimes initiated, and at all times exacerbated, by foreign individuals and companies who need to get certain kinds of business done.