In Hattieville, Belize District, a man was murdered on Friday evening. As investigations take place, police say that they don’t know much about the shooting death of twenty-six-year-old Richard Smith who was heading home when he was ambushed. At this time, they only know that he was socializing right before he was killed. Andrea Polanco […]
The third murder victim for the weekend was Shaquille Michael Philips of Corozal Town. After midnight on Sunday, Phillips was gunned down as he sat on the verandah of his family’s house. He was with his father who has just stepped inside to retire for the night when the twenty-year-old came under fire. His wife […]
A businessman who possesses Belizean citizenship is currently detained in China for allegedly colluding with people in the United States to meddle in the affairs of Hong Kong. This is what the official Guangdong Communist Party newspaper reported on Saturday, identifying the Belizean as Lee Henley Hu Xiang. Xiang who lives in China is accused […]
Police have arrested and charged one man in connection with the kidnapping and shooting of Richard O’Neil which happened last week. Police says that the following the investigation and interviews conducted with several persons, they felt they had enough to charge Elden Flowers with attempted murder. Here’s more from Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero. Sr. […]
A man was shot on Sunday in Belize City. Police say that Raymond Smith was out for the day and upon his return, he was walking on North Front Street when he was shot around six-fifteen that evening. He is in stable condition. Here’s more from the police. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, […]
The Police Department has launched criminal and internal investigations into a high speed chase between police and civilians that resulted in a shooting. One of the two men, Jordy Usher, was left with gunshot wounds to the face; the commissioner of says the incident is unfortunate. According to police, on Saturday night around nine-thirty, Usher […]
On the crime blotter, a man was chopped in the head in Belize City on Friday night. Police say that the incident happened sometime around nine-forty-five. Fortunately, the victim survived to make a report to police. At this time it is still not yet known what led to the incident. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, […]
An intruder was caught red-handed and chopped up inside the house he was stealing from. Police say that a man is in the hospital recovering from chop wounds when the owner of the property where he was stealing caught him and chopped him. The incident happened on Saturday night around seven o’clock in Trinidad village […]
Have you seen Densmore Bowman? Police say that the thirty-four-year-old man from Belmopan is missing. He was last seen alive sometime on Friday night. His family reported that it is unlike him to leave home and not return. Here’s what police know so far about Bowman’s disappearance. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crime Investigation […]
On Sunday, November twenty-fourth, a gunman sprayed the Martin’s residence on Antelope Street Extension with bullets. That same shooter shot one-year-old Melanie Martinez who was asleep in the house and twenty-three-year-old Mervin Martin, and his girlfriend sixteen-year-old Chanteuse Martinez who were near the gate. Investigators say they have arrested the shooter. On Thursday, a male minor was […]
Another dead prisoner is being recorded from inside the walls of the Queen Street Police Station and the Police Department is conducting an investigation into what happened. Police confirmed today that Jose Espinosa hung himself with a shoelace inside a prison cell within two hours of being detained for common assault. But there seems to […]
On Tuesday, Joseph Vaccaro, a resident of Neal Pen Road, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the murder of well-known businessman Zheng Liu. Liu was executed near mile four of the George Price Highway after receiving a call that a vehicle he imported had broken down on the road. He picked up […]
Richard O’Neil remains in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. following an attempt on his life on Wednesday. In the wee hours of that morning, O’Neil says that he was kidnapped by three persons, forced into a car and taken to the Boom/Hattieville Road. He was shot several times and left for dead. An injured O’Neil […]
It has not been a good week for minors, three of whom have been victims of gun violence in less than twenty-four hours. The youngest, a one-year-old baby was asleep with her grandmother inside their house when she was struck by a bullet. Sixteen-year-old Chantuse Martinez was also injured in the gunfire on Sunday night. […]
At the weekly police press brief held today in Belize City, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo also shared official details on a home invasion in the Belama Phase One area of Belize City. Two thieves, who accessed the property on Samuel Haynes Street, via the Haulover Creek, entered a residence and assaulted a sixty-six-year-old babysitter from Sandhill. […]
A construction worker of Ordonez Street is tonight in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. after an attempt was made on his life overnight. Richard O’Neil was reportedly kidnapped from Belize City and taken to an area along the Boom/Hattieville Road where he was shot multiple times. But he survived the attack and managed to […]
There were several burglaries reported in the Belama area over the past twenty-four hours, but on Tuesday afternoon around 1:15, an elderly woman was assaulted during a home invasion on Samuel Haynes Street in the Belama Phase One area of Belize City. Sandhill villager Alma Rodriguez told police that around midday, while babysitting a two-year-old, […]
The search for three Belize City youths who set out to sea last Friday has since become a recovery operation as personnel from the Belize Coast Guard are now focused on finding the bodies of Sheldon Gibson, Elijah Usher Jr. and fourteen-year-old Kevin Roches. The trio left en route to Mapp Caye on November twenty-second […]
The execution style murder of prominent businessman Zheng Liu continues to rock the Chinese community and the thousands who knew and liked one of the owners of the Eighty Eight Group of Companies on Central American Boulevard. Liu was called by cell phone on Friday night by an associate; he left the store and headed […]
Three fisher folks have not been located and their families are coming to terms with the notion that they may not be alive. The trio embarked on a fishing trip last Friday to the area of Mapp Caye, well-known for an ongoing fishing turf war. The Coast Guard and the police have been conducting search […]
While coast guard personnel were out combing the area of Drowned Caye, several miles away from where Gibson and two other fishermen went missing, they happened upon a vessel that they have been searching for since mid-January. At first it was believed that the vessel belonged to Gibson, but the small fiberglass boat, is now […]
A developing scandal in India is being linked to Belize. In the centre of the storm is Godman Nithyananda, a spiritual leader, who fled India, even though his passport had expired, by using a fake Venezuelan passport. The accused rapist, torturer and abductor is said to be hiding in this region and Indian media houses […]
A one-year-old girl Melanie Martin was shot as she slept with her grandmother on Sunday night. Sixteen-year-old Chantuse Martinez was also shot in the same incident and remains in critical condition. Within twenty-four hours, another girl was shot on Monday night in Belize City. Police say that just after ten-thirty, fourteen-year-old Trishelle Minor was sleeping […]
A Dangriga resident was shot on Monday morning in that southern municipality which has been plagued by a rash of violence. Police say that twenty-five-year-old Ramon Bernardez was standing when he was approached by a man he knows. The two men got into an argument and that’s when the man pulled out a gun and […]
Police took a firearm and some ammunition off the streets during searches in the west and south. On Monday morning around eleven-thirty, police conducted a search in an abandoned lot in the Hattieville area in Roaring Creek where they discovered a point thirty-eight Smith and Wesson Revolver. No one was in the area at the […]
