Police are investigating another sexual crime against a female. Also in the Cayo District, a twenty-four-year-old woman reported to police that just after midnight on October fifth she was in the company of a man, who is also from the same village. The man invited her to his house and soon after they got inside, […]
A resident of Trio Village in Toledo District is hospitalized in a critical condition following a chopping incident on Sunday night in the village. Forty-two-year-old Alejandro Xol was struck to the neck with a machete by another resident in front of a supermarket in the village. At this time, authorities have not been able to […]
One man has been charged for last Wednesday’s attempt on the life of forty-two-year-old Eugene Tillett. The Belize City resident was shot on Ebony Street as he made his way to Central American Boulevard. According to official details, the gunman appeared and fired a single shot and he is now in a critical condition at […]
A minor is currently admitted in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot on Sunday night near South Creek Bridge. Sixteen-year-old Emory Reyes was among a group of persons standing on Ramsey Street in south side Belize City when several gunshots rang out. The group scattered, but Reyes was injured. He was […]
Two fishermen escaped unhurt on Marine Parade after a gunman fired several shots at their direction. Michael Hemmans and Shelton Reyes were at the pier near Golden Bay when a van drove up and a person inside opened fire at the unsuspecting duo. Luckily, none of them were injured in the shooting and they escaped […]
Tonight there is another home invasion to report in San Lazaro Village in the Orange Walk District. A woman was attacked while she rested in her bedroom, rendered unconscious and woke up on her kitchen floor. It happened on Thursday night and is one more frightening assault coming out of the village, leaving residents scared. […]
There was a shooting in the city just before eight o’clock on Thursday night which fortunately was not fatal for the victims. It happened on Santa Barbara Street where a trio of men were socializing. A car, reportedly carrying taxi license plates, drove up and someone from inside opened fire on Justice Richards, Jamal Elijio […]
Earlier this week, a Gulfstream jet was found damaged and abandoned near the Blue Creek community at a feeder road. It had all the seats inside so the thinking was that it transported a drug king pin but not the drugs. Well today, Mexican newspapers are reporting the find of a significant amount of parcels […]
Forty-two-year-old Belize City resident Eugene Tillett was shot on Wednesday night on Ebony Street. Tillett was reportedly making his way to Central American Boulevard when the gunman appeared and fired a single shot which hit him. Tillett is now in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero tells us more. Sr. […]
There was another shooting on Ebony Street in Belize City. This one happened on Tuesday night where twenty-eight-year-old Linsford Baldwin was targetted. Sometime after eight that night, Baldwin was along with a sibling on a front steps of a house when a man approached them and opened fire. Baldwin was shot in the shoulder and […]
Police say that twenty-two-year-old Aaron Munnings robbed a ninety-year-old man of two thousand dollars. Munnings was arrested and charged with one count of robbery. This charges stems from an incident that happened on Tuesday just outside of the St. John’s Credit Union on Basra Street in Belize City. The elderly man, identified as Lewis Tillett, […]
Almost a month and a half after he was targeted on Police Street in the Saint Martin De Porres area of Belize City, forty-four-year-old Brindel Munnings Junior passed away at his house. Munnings was only recently released from the K.H.M.H. after being hospitalized for weeks. He was shot multiples times in August in what police […]
Just eleven days ago, a Beechcraft Super King Air Two Hundred landed on an illegal airstrip off the Coastal Road. Sixty million dollars worth of cocaine were confiscated from the plane and eight men from Honduras, Ecuador and Mexico have been charged and are spending time at the Hattieville prison. This morning, a much larger […]
While police investigate this most recent jet landing, the Opposition Leader John Briceño says government is not taking the matter of taking these suspected drug planes as seriously as it should be. Here is what he told the media in a press briefing today. John Briceño, Leader of Opposition “There is a radar that […]
There was a murder in the city over the weekend. Twenty-one-year-old Jebran Wagner, who lives on Majestic Alley, was fatally shot at a house party on Coney Drive. Originally from Dangriga, Wagner was the stepson of man who was executed at the compound of the Southern Regional Hospital in Dangriga in July. Police are investigating […]
There was another murder, but in southern Belize. A Guatemalan national was killed on his farm sometime on Sunday. The Pomona resident was found with massive chop wounds on his corn plantation sometime after midnight. A search party went looking for Domingo Mathias after he didn’t return from the farm. His family claims that he […]
Today, the Head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch ACP Joseph Myvett spoke with the media about the murder in the Stann Creek Valley. Police say that they are following several leads and one villager has been detained for questioning. Myvett says that by seven on Sunday night Domingo Mathias was reported missing and a […]
There was a shooting in the early hours of this morning at a night club in San Pedro Town. Police say that the incident started with a fight and left one man injured. Police moved quickly and have made an arrest. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Shortly after two-thirty a.m., San […]
There was a scary home invasion in the neighbourhood of King’s Park, Belize City. The aggravated burglary occurred around seven-fifteen on September twenty-seventh at the corner of Nursey and Saint Joseph Streets. A mother and her daughter were inside their elevated wooden house when they were accosted by three men. According to the report made […]
Back in February of this year, forty-two-year-old Marl Clarke was shot to the head near Pitts Alley on north side Belize City. He survived the incident, but no one had been charged. On Friday night, a second attempt was made on his life in the same area, at the corner of Pitts Alley and New […]
Two armed Mexican nationals were picked up near the border over the weekend. Police say both men had firearms and are now in police detention awaiting charges. At today’s press briefing the police gave details on the arrest. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “On Saturday morning, shortly before five a.m, while […]
A Moneygram outlet at the I.C.B. office on Central American Boulevard in Belize City was robbed on Friday morning after eleven. Two armed men held up the security and made off with a few thousand dollars. ACP Joseph Myvett shares details of the incident. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “On Friday […]
Two men from Honduras are behind bars tonight charged in connection and a Venezuelan plane laden with sixty million dollars of cocaine that landed off the Coastal Road on the night of September ninth. The duo, Allan Yovani Mejia Chirinos and Nolan Jose Carrasco Lopez were each charged with one count of possession of controlled […]
The media in Ecuador and even in Mexico has picked up the news of the arrest of the foreign nationals for landing and attempting to move a cargo of cocaine here. According to one report in Noticias Primicias, forty-three-year-old Ecuadorian, Juan Pablo Larrea Cruz who is locked up at the Hattieville prison, is the brother […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Jahnon Trapp, a resident of Esperanza Village, has been arraigned for the murder of Mirna Young, a mother of six who was gunned down inside her home in Santa Elena last Wednesday. Trapp stands accused of letting loose a barrage of gunshots at a pair of men, including Young’s son who was standing inside […]
