A horrific murder occurred in the south. The body of a Canadian national was removed from a creek after he went missing for three days. James Slemp lived a quiet life at a farm, but on Friday his life was cut short. It is suspected that a former farmhand brutally murdered the elderly man, partially […]
Belize City police are looking for another person of interest to assist with their investigation into the murder of forty-three-year-old Shane Budram who was shot and killed on Friday night in front of his home on Wagner’s Lane. Nineteen-year-old Kareem Eagan Junior is wanted for questioning following the shooting death of Budram, reportedly at the […]
Shane Budram was shot and killed near his house on Wagner’s Lane in Belize City and tonight police are looking for his nephew, Raheem Budram, as the suspect in his murder. He is the sixth family member to lose his life due to gun violence. On Friday night, the uncle and nephew were hanging at […]
Twenty-four hours later, there was another murder in Belize City. Shortly after ten o’clock on Saturday night, Ezekiel Usher, an employee of Transparent B.P.O., was gunned down across the street from where he lived on Faber’s Road. One of two men who drove up on a motorcycle unleashed a volley of bullets that ultimately took […]
Police are also investigating the suspected murder of a Canadian national who was reported missing on Friday, after a friend was unable to make contact with him. Just before eleven a.m., James Slemp was found dead in the lagoon on the Hopkins Road. The seventy-nine-year-old man was living in the Fresh Water area on the […]
There are three disturbing reports of rape from the west in our newscast tonight. We start with the case of a woman in Benque Viejo Del Carmen, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by a man, believed to be a B.D.F. soldier posted at the Arenal checkpoint in that western community. The woman says […]
There is another case of sexual assault of a woman in Cotton Tree Village. The victim is recovering at the Western Regional Hospital after she was raped at knifepoint by her Salvadoran common-law husband. According to police, on Friday night, a domestic dispute between the couple over the woman’s social media account sent her common-law-husband […]
In Camalote Village, Cayo District, there are varying versions of a report of the sexual assault of a fourteen-year-old female minor. Police say that while a medical exam conducted on the minor has revealed that she was carnally known, the circumstances under which she claims she was raped are not too certain. The minor claims […]
There have been two recent, but separate murders in Hattieville in the Belize District and another in the Halls Layout area of Corozal Town. And in what seems like a stroke of good luck, police have a person of interest in hand. He is Kenroy Gamboa was caught red-handed with proceeds of a robbery in […]
Angel Cahueque was shot and killed outside his home in Corozal Town on Tuesday night around seven-thirty. Police say that they are looking for one person in connection with this murder, but they don’t know why Cahueque was killed. Here’s more from Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes […]
Police say that they are no closer to finding out what happened to Robert Nunez. He was found dead near the western border on Wednesday night just before eleven. Cops say he was drinking in Champon and that is the last information that they have on him. Here’s what police shared on the official details […]
A robber is in police custody for robbing a grocery store at gunpoint in Orange Walk Town on Tuesday night. Police say that two armed men walked into 128 Store and proceeded to rob the establishment around seven that night. One of thieves then fired a shotgun, injuring one person inside the store. But quick […]
There were two separate murders in the north and west. There hasn’t been a murder in Corozal since February second, but all that changed on Tuesday night when a resident was lured to his death in the Hall’s Layout area. The killer called out for Angel Cahueque and opened fire when he exited his house. […]
In San Ignacio, a family’s worst fears were confirmed. Robert Nunez left his house on Sunday morning; he crossed the border heading to Melchor and later on that same day, he was seen having a good time at the Champon, which is in the Adjacency Zone. Thereafter he went missing; that is until today when […]
Turning to crime, Wayne Perry was days away from starting his career as a soldier in the Belize Defence Force. But on Monday afternoon, he was shot multiple times as he rode from his aunt’s to his house on Violet Lane, Belize City. Perry’s family believes it was a case of mistaken identity since the […]
A seventeen-year-old girl was murdered on Sunday night as she played cards along with friends at a house on Glenn Street in Belize City. Kyla Young is the second person to be killed violently among her family members. It is not known if she was the intended target, but investigators say it was a gang-related […]
Police in Hattieville are investigating two murders. The first happened a little before ten o’clock on Saturday morning and the victim is Ronny Anderson of the New Site Area. Anderson was riding a bicycle and was not far from his house when he was approached by a gunman who fired several shots at him. Anderson […]
The second murder in Hattieville on Saturday morning was execution style. Police were called out to an area about one hundred yards away from the village’s bus stop, near the police station. There, they found the body of forty-five Kenroy Danderson, who was reportedly sitting at the bus stop when a gunman took aim at […]
Just after three o’clock this afternoon, the violence continued on the south side of the city. One man was shot in the vicinity of Violet Lane in the Saint Martin de Porres area. The victim is B.D.F. soldier Wayne Perry, who was rushed to the K.H.M.H. for treatment. Perry was riding his bicycle when he […]
A confrontation between two brothers in Belize City ended in their stabbing over the weekend. The Howard brothers, Kurson and Kirk Junior, are now recuperating after the unfortunate incident during which they stabbed each other. This morning, Kirk Junior was released from police custody, while Kurson remains hospitalized for stab wounds he received to the […]
There is a second stabbing incident to report on tonight which also occurred on Valentine’s Day in Belize City. Rene Ranguy was walking on Newtown Barracks when he was accosted by two men. One of the men grabbed Ranguy from behind and stabbed him multiple times in the vicinity of the Mexican Cultural Institute. Even […]
Police are also investigating a domestic stabbing-turn-chopping that happened in Belmopan on Sunday night. Sometime around eight-thirty that night, police were called to a house on Custard Apple Street, where they met two persons with stab wounds and another with chop wounds. Cops say that the aggressor is a man on whom there is a […]
He was captured in Puerto Cortes, Honduras on February twelfth and will be handed over to Belizean authorities in the days to come. But today, the police obtained a warrant in the first instance to formally arrest and charge Rodwell Arzu for murder. The Belizean mechanic, with Honduran heritage, is originally from Independence Village and […]
A man wanted for murder in Belize was captured in Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Rodwell Arzu, a resident of Independence Village has been on the run since July of 2019; police believe that he pulled the trigger and killed his ex-girlfriend, Geraldine Flowers in the New Site area of Dangriga. It is believed that in an […]
Three persons, including a seventeen-year-old minor, were injured in a shooting on Baghdad Street in Belize City on February twelfth. Around four p.m., Errol Brown, Kelvin Casimiro and the minor were walking when two gunmen approached and opened fire on the unsuspecting trio. The victims were rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for treatment; […]
