Less than twenty-four hours after Belize Police Department intercepted one of the biggest drug cargos on record, the deaths of the four Belize Defence Soldiers were reported and that tragedy continues to play out and dominate the news. And so when the press caught up with Commissioner of Police today, we inquired about the drugs […]
Fifty-three-year-old Belizean Moses Anthon Francisco has been sentenced to eighteen years behind bars in the United States. According to news outlets in Iowa, Francisco led law enforcement on a high-speed chase from southern Minnesota into North Iowa on June eleventh, 2019. It is reported that he was observed driving erratically and had pointed a handgun […]
Three cops attached to the San Ignacio Police Station are to be placed on interdiction following a charge of extortion. There are concerns that the cops were not placed on interdiction immediately, as they remain on duty. Today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams responded to questions about why the officers aren’t on interdiction as yet: […]
There was mayhem in the City this afternoon as a number of shootings took place in the south side. At news time, it is known that one person was killed in the gun violence at the corner of Iguana Street and Central American Boulevard. At this time police are processing the scene. Earlier this afternoon, […]
There was a robbery of tourists at El Pilar Site over the weekend. The visitors were along with their tour guides when they were targeted. They report that four men, one armed with a rifle and another yielding a machete, attacked them jacking their personal items and fleeing across the border into Guatemala. Head of the […]
And this news, police are currently at the scene of a fourth shooting today. A few minutes ago, gunfire exploded on Ebony Street.
This afternoon, shots rang out on Police Street in Belize City. A gunman opened fire on Gregory Martinez, who was at his grandmother repairing a vehicle. Martinez fled into Mahogany Street but was pursued by the gunman. In the ensuing chaos, passengers in a dollar van were also injured. Martinez was rushed to the K.H.M.H. […]
Two persons were killed and one injured on Saturday night in San Ignacio. The security officer at the Tia Kong Supermarket, thirty-two year old Shann Vasquez and cashier thirty-two year old Marva Rivero, perished at the hospital in the town. The two victims had closed off the store for the night when they were met […]
So far we have reported on two murders, there was also slew of stabbings and shootings over the weekend. Police are looking for two suspects after Ronnie Pott was stabbed in the back on Lizarraga Avenue around seven o’clock on Saturday night. Deputy Head of the National Crimes Investigations Branch, Senior Superintendent of Police Hilberto […]
The entire nation mourns tonight the worst air disaster in which two pilots and two crews of the Belize Defense Force perished. The four died in a helicopter crash sometime between Thursday and Friday near the Gales Point Wildlife Sanctuary while conducting air surveillance near the site of the drug plane off the Coastal Road. […]
The B.D.F is still reeling from the fatal crash that claimed the lives of four of their own. But tonight there are still many questions and at today’s press briefing, Brigadier General Steven Ortega answered some of those questions. Ortega, visibly shaken by the deaths of four of his officers, responded to few questions today. […]
As we reported tonight, the deaths of four offices comes directly on the heel of the seizure of two tons of cocaine. As we showed you on Thursday, the Belize Police Department proudly spoke on the success of the operation. At today’s media briefing, the C.E.O. in the Ministry of National Security says that they […]
As you’ve heard earlier in the newscast, four of the B.D.F. soldiers are dead following the helicopter crash in the lagoon just off the Coastal Road. Two pilots and two crew members were a part of the surveillance team. The two pilots are highly decorated and long serving members of the force. Members of the […]
In Thursday’s bust of a Golf Stream narco plane off the Coastal Road, sixty-nine bales of cocaine were found, amounting to two thousand and seventy parcels with a huge street value of as much as one hundred million dollars. The operation was coordinated by the B.D.F., Police and counterparts from the region, who tracked the […]
The biggest cocaine bus here in Belize took place in the wee hours of this morning. Combined work of the Belize Defense Force, the Police and Central American counterparts tracked a Gulf Stream narco plane originating from Venezuela. The plane landed two miles off the Coastal Road, where work has just began on its upgrade. […]
Unlike other instances when the police have come up empty-handed—only to find remnants of burnt planes—the Gulf Stream this morning was intercepted on the illegal airstrip loaded with sixty-nine bales of cocaine, worth millions. In September 2018, police made a similar bust near Tres Leguas in Orange Walk. There, the cargo was found and two […]
Police are spread thin and under-resourced in the fight against the illicit drug trade, which uses sophisticated equipment to evade the long arms of the law. Williams says that the Anti-Narcotics Unit is also anaemic in personnel and that while a radar has been acquired, another will be required to assist the police in tracking […]
The Commissioner of Police acknowledges that every plane landing gives Belize a black eye and there have been three since the start of the year. But according to Chester Williams, based on the level of activity that is happening in drug trafficking within the region, Belize is still doing well. Chester Williams, Commissioner of […]
The excess production of cocaine in Colombia has been causing increased activity in getting the drug into the North American market, where the appetite is insatiable. It means that the transhipment of drugs through places like Belize is also expected to heighten. Williams says the department will have to step up. Chester Williams, Commissioner […]
The most recent drug bust, on record as the largest confiscation of narcotics in Belize‘s history, comes on the heels of the latest Cabinet change where Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte has been named as the substantive Minister of National Security. Many are wondering whether the seizure is a matter of happenstance given its timing and […]
Police have released the photograph of this man, Omar Cahueque, from Corozal Town. Cahueque is on the lam, having escaped from police custody this morning in Corozal Town. The inmate is wanted for charges of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm. Police have issued an advisory to remind that it is illegal to be aiding and […]
There was a shooting on Antelope Street in Belize City on Tuesday night. Two persons were injured and fortunately for them, it did not turn out to be fatal. One was at home with his family when he came under fire and the other was riding his bicycle when he was met by the gunfire […]
In other news, seventy-nine-year-old Canadian national James Slemp was brutally murdered in Hopkins Village. His was partially decapitated body was found in a creek on Monday, three days after he went missing. Slemp lived alone on his farm and was last seen alive on Friday. Before his untimely death, Slemp was involved in an argument […]
Two persons have been charged for the murder of forty-three-year-old Shane Budram. They are nineteen-year-old Raheem Budram and Kareem Eagan Junior. Shane was fatally shot during an altercation on Wagner’s Lane’s in Belize City. It happened on Friday night and police say that Shane was involved in a scuffle with his nephew. A motive for […]
Police are looking for three Belize City men for their affiliation with gangs. They are Kelvin Gongora, Ulide Allen, and Tevin James Cacho. The trio is wanted on the strength of a commitment warrant for being gang members. According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, these persons also have outstanding fines in the courts. Williams […]
