Well-known psychotherapist Jenny Lovell experienced a horrible scare this early this morning. Robbers broke into her family home as she and her sister were sleeping. Fortunately for her, an alert neighbour called the police to report that thieves had broken into Lovell’s house. The brazen duo was able to get away. Lovell says the incident […]
Amateur video of Belize City police physically roughing up a teenage escapee on North Front Street on Wednesday evening has gone viral on social media and many are up in arms over the manhandling of the female minor. The teen, who is in the custody of the youth hostel on the George Price Highway, was […]
On Wednesday, the Belize Network of N.G.O.s sent out another release to express its concerns on a very different but growing concern – crime. The B.N.N. says that there are reasons to be concerned about the frequency of violent crimes, including murders and sexual offences. Today, Senator Osmany Salas called for crime to be addressed […]
Reynaldo Verde, the Deputy Director of the Belize Tax Services, has been in a U.S. jail since September seventh, on a charge of extortion and attempted extortion. He was picked up by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the Washington Dulles airport, as he was making his way back to Belize. Prior to […]
A bomb threat was reported around noon today in Belmopan, at the offices of the Ministry of Natural Resources. Members of staff alerted the authorities that several calls were received insinuating that an explosive device had been planted inside the building. Belmopan police immediately responded along with a team of officers from the K-nine Unit […]
Emily Ico remains hospitalized at the Western Regional Hospital. If the name sounds familiar, it is because she is the mother of nine-year-old Danielle Hall, who was strangled to death inside their home in Unitedville, Cayo on August sixteenth. The child’s father made the discovery after he was called to the house where neighbours claim […]
Sixty-two-year-old Taiwanese national Ching-Sung Chen was killed inside his store in Camalote, Cayo. He was sound asleep but woken by robbers who had entered E-Star Store through a window on the lower flat of his property. There were two armed robbers, one opened fire on the businessman hitting him as many as four for times. […]
As we said the murders of Chinese nationals, including the most recent in Camalote, has triggered the offering of cash rewards by the Belize Chinese Association. The B.C.A. is offering at least six thousand dollars for information and conviction for the September tenth murder of Xu Jing Zhang at Chen’s Store in Bella Vista, Stann […]
There was a second murder recorded over the extended weekend In the Old Capital. Shooting victim Joseph Rowland succumbed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The thirty-one mechanic was critically injured and was clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a drive-by shooting exactly one week ago. Rowland was in front of […]
A second person has been charged for the murder of Mexican national Ofelia Cruz. The sixty-nine-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death inside her house in the Salt Creek area of Sand Hill Village. In late August, eighteen-year-old Camalote resident Derry Bennett was charged and remanded to central prison for the murder. Late this evening, in […]
Police say they are trying to figure out who attacked Earl Pratt over two weeks ago in Double Head Cabbage, Belize District, leaving him in a critical condition. Pratt was found by villagers; police were alerted and transported him to the hospital. Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero says Pratt was going home when he was ambushed. […]
The police needs assistance in locating nineteen-year-old Jose Salvador Alfaro Chavez; he is nineteen-year-old and from El Salvador. Alfaro Chavez is wanted in connection with the murder of cousins Gruver Delado and Herman Valladares. Both young men were shot on Saturday morning in the San Martin area of Belmopan. Prior to the shooting, the cousins […]
On Thursday afternoon, twenty-two-year-old Harmonyville resident, Nelson Espinosa was arraigned for the heinous murder of nineteen-year-old Adamir Choc. It is believed that Choc was sexually assaulted and murdered in a bushy area off Never Delay Road the morning she went missing from a nightclub in Belmopan. Police have impounded a car in relation to the […]
There is heightened tension in San Elena, Cayo tonight where a mother of six was killed on Wednesday night. Mirna Young was with her family at home when she was injured by a gunman who was targeting her son, Mynor Galindo and his friend Angel Martinez, who were in the yard. Her husband, David, was […]
Investigation continues in the Belmopan double murder of minors Gruver Delgado and Herman Valladarez. The two cousins were gunned down after delivering freshly made tortillas. While several persons of interests are being sought by the police, there have been no arrests so far; neither has the murder weapon been recovered. But have the suspects escaped […]
A U.S. national indicted on sex charges and wanted in Kentucky was detained in Belize this morning. The Special Branch Unit zoomed in on sixty-year-old Ladd Duane Ottofy who was residing at an apartment complex owned by former U.D.P. senator Juliet Thimbriel in Ladyville. Local officers who were accompanied by officials from the U.S. Embassy, made this […]
Thirty-one year-old Joseph Rowland remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a drive-by shooting on Tuesday night. Rowland was in front of his house on Antelope Street, Belize City, speaking to another person when a gunman opened fire on them. He was hit to the rear and the vehicle sped […]
As much as sixty million dollars worth of cocaine went up in billowing smoke today. The drugs contained in more than forty parcels were ceased by the police in one of the biggest drug busts so far. It happened in the wee hours of September ninth off the Coastal Road where police were waiting for […]
Investigations into the murdered young woman from the San Martin area of Belmopan, Adamir Choc, have produced a possible break in the case. There is word that three persons are detained charges are expected once the investigations wrap up. The nineteen-year-old vanished for days and her body was found last Saturday off a feeder road […]
Thirty-one-year-old Joseph Rowland was shot in the buttocks last night. It happened at Rowland’s residence on Pelican Street, Belize City. Police say that Rowland was with a customer for whom Rowland had repaired a generator for when a vehicle pulled over and opened fire at the duo’s direction. The vehicle sped off and Rowland was […]
An alleged robber or would-be robber is detained. It all played out in the streets of the city and captured on video. The incident is said to have happened this morning when a man on bicycle was pursued by a vehicle. It is believed he was attempting to get away from a robbery at one […]
A minor, as young as thirteen years old, is believed to have been involved in the double murder of Gruver Delgado and Herman Villadares. The cousins were shot and killed on Saturday morning in San Martin, Belmopan, after a tortilla delivery. Family members of the shooting victims believe that the gunman is a member of […]
A Saint Mathews Village resident has been charged for robberies of two bars in Trinidad Village, Orange Walk District, which occurred after nine o’clock on Friday night. While police has not issued any formal report on the incident, they have released the name of one person who was charged on Sunday. He is thirty-four-year-old Francisco […]
A rash of murders has the community on edge in Belmopan. We start with a double murder in the San Martin area of Belmopan on Saturday morning. Two cousins, both minors, were shot following a squabble with two other minors, one of them merely thirteen-years-old. The shooters lived in the same neighbourhood as their victims […]
The Choc family also of San Martin area in Belmopan, though hoping for the best, had their worst fears confirmed on Saturday. The body of nineteen-year-old Adamir Choc was found off the road of Never Delay. While there is closure, there are still lingering questions as to how the young woman was killed. Her body […]
