It has happened again: more persons have managed to escape the COVID-19 quarantine centers. The latest breakout happened in Cayo where the government is using the Victor Galvez Stadium as a quarantine facility. A group of six Guatemalans escaped over the weekend under very questionable circumstances. We say questionable because the padlocks remained intact suggesting […]
There is a disturbing report coming out of the south tonight. The remains of a newborn baby were discovered around five-forty on Sunday evening on a farm in San Roman Village in Stann Creek. A farmer was in the area when he happened upon the decomposing lower parts of a baby – the head, chest […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has ordered the arrest of about twelve persons including two police officers and three B.D.F. soldiers. The men were in the Santa Martha Village over the weekend near a fishing area at around three o’clock in the morning, within curfew hours. The group was approached by Coast Guard officers and […]
Glenford “Easy Glen” Adolphus is facing more jail time tonight. The well-known Belize City man, who was imprisoned for shady land deals, was in the hospital when he escaped from police just after midday last Friday. But he didn’t get far when police picked him up and now he is staring at an additional charge […]
A Father’s day celebration on Sunday did not end well for two families on Berry Street, Belize City. A number of family members had converged at the house of the Yorke family patriarch when the GSU stormed the residence. Family members are not certain what triggered the alleged GSU assault, but from there, the Unit […]
The incident was captured in video and Yorke and Neal families have their convictions about what transpired on Sunday night on Berry Street in the Lake independence. A video capturing the police mobile taking away two men has gone viral on social media. While it is not clear if it is the same incident, today, […]
A woman in Cotton Tree Village is accusing police officers of stealing six thousand dollars from her home. As many as eighteen law enforcement officers reportedly conducted a search at the residence on Wednesday, June twentieth. The homeowner, Maude Blancaneux, reported that she wasn’t at home when the cops breached her front door and raided […]
A mother and her two children were stabbed in their home on Friday night around eight-forty-five. The man who did the stabbing is identified as Guatemalan national Esau Ramirez Lopez. He is the woman’s ex-common-law husband. Orange Walk Police were called out to the Northern Regional Hospital on Friday night. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
Robbers target a second Gas Tomza depot in less than a week. The latest incident happened on Friday around five-forty in the evening in Belmopan where armed men held up the gas attendant. They stole monies and personal items. Just last week, the depot at one and a half miles on George Price Highway in […]
Now this plan, comes on the heels of a number of allegations in the training school and more recently following an allegation of rape for which Sergeant Margarito Pop was criminally charged. But Pop, from what we are told, still hasn’t been placed on interdiction. The B.D.F. says that final sign off comes from the […]
And finally on the topic of B.D.F for tonight, the press also took the opportunity to ask General Ortega about the issue of the border jumpers escaping from quarantine facilities. There were two incidents, one at the ITVET over a month ago and more recently in the south. The soldiers, as explained by the B.D.F. […]
An eighteen year old youth is out on bail two days after he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison for having sexual intercourse with a minor. Attorney, Oscar Selgado today argued for bail for Rasheed Coffin before Supreme Court Justice, Colin Williams and was successful. Justice Williams granted Coffin bail of seven thousand dollars […]
A man who was caught walking out of 88 Shopping Centre on Central American Boulevard on Thursday with three pounds of pork chops which he ordered and did not pay for, was fined today when he appeared before Magistrate, Stephanie Gillett. Kenroy Gomez told the Court that he finds himself in all kinds of financial […]
Two men were arraigned today for the brazen Wednesday evening robbery of Gaz Tomza on the George Price Highway. It is alleged that Robert Spain and Clive Hendricks, armed with a weapon, entered the business office sometime around four o’clock on Wednesday evening and relieved Jim Catzim, an employee of Gas Tomza of three cell phones and […]
Quick police response to a robbery led officers to the detention of two suspects. It happened just before four o’clock this evening at Gas Tomza Limited, which is located on mile one and a half on the George Price Highway. We are told that employees of the butane outlet were held at gunpoint by two […]
Last week, reports of a narco plane landing in southern Belize surfaced, the police confirmed it had deployed a team in search of the plane but there was no find. This morning, it was reported in the Mexican media that a white drug plane was tracked and it landed near Javier Rojo Gomez, a city […]
A man from Esperanza Village in western Belize remains hospitalized after he came under attack by someone he knew. Isaias Estrada’s hand was severed in a confrontation with Shane Jeal. The incident occurred over the weekend in the village when Estrada went to aid a neighbor, but ended up losing his hand and sustained injuries […]
There was a shooting incident in San Ignacio on Sunday night that has left a local marijuana dealer hospitalized with an injury to the upper leg. Sometime after eight o’clock on Sunday, a pair of men on a motorbike visited the home of Isaias Azueta where they inquired about purchasing weed. When he responded that […]
A businessman and a woman were robbed this past weekend in separate incidents that occurred in Hattieville and Belize City, respectively. Thea Gillett was making her way on foot along Marine Parade, in the vicinity of A+ Happy Hour Bar, when she was accosted and held at gunpoint by a trio of men. They stole […]
One day after the vicious killing of U.S. national Robert Hurley, a man has been charged for his murder. Earlier this morning, the San Ignacio Police levelled the charge and by this afternoon session of the Magistrate’s Court in that jurisdiction, David Valencia was paraded up the stairs and arraigned for the crime. On the […]
A U.S. national was murdered in the bedroom of his house on the Benque Viejo del Carmen Road on Tuesday night. The man detained in the bizarre murder is the ex of Robert Hurley’s common-law-wife. He is David Valencia, who police say was employed by Hurley and is now in police custody. Hurley and twenty-seven-year-old […]
Two cops are in trouble with the law and are facing charges of extortion. Police was quick to act and the officers were arraigned today in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court. Corporal Raymundo Carillo and Police Constable Marlon Triminius are accused of extracting one hundred dollars from a motorist who was not carrying on him a […]
Two armed men walked into a store in Corozal Town on Tuesday night, held up the cashier and made away with the money in the register. The robbers also robbed and assaulted two customers inside the grocery store. The brazen robbery lasted about a minute and it was all caught on camera. Police are looking […]
Three weeks ago we took you to the border village of Arenal in the west. Because half of the village is in Belize and the other half lies in Guatemala, the people move back and forth freely. But during a time of pandemic it is of big concern and there is still movement of Guatemalans […]
A mother from Ontario Village, Cayo is struggling to come to terms with the gruesome death of her son, and it is suspected he was the victim of a vicious murder. In September 2018, Gerardo Vasquez went missing; he was seventeen-years-old and gay and was the victim of constant bullying. Searches for him came up […]
