According to Williams, the department, which works under the Ministry of Human Development, does continuous training in an effort to build the capacity of its staff. Among the challenges, she says, is that persons are apprehensive of working with that population of young girls. On the Phone: Maureen Williams, Deputy Director, Community Rehabilitation Department […]
Police have yet to charge someone for the stabbing death of Santa Cruz resident, twenty-four-year-old Everaldo Samayoa. He was at the Placencia Hotel and Casino on August eighth along with two of his brothers when he was fatally stabbed. A physical confrontation between the brothers and security officer, Darwin Castillo, preceded the incident. According to […]
According to Juan, he and his brothers were then leaving the casino when Castillo allegedly followed them into the parking lot and attacked them from the rear. Voice of: Juan Samayoa, Brother of Deceased “When a lady hollered at us, he is coming with a knife, run! But when she said that the security […]
He is no stranger to the cops and has been charged multiple times in the past for drug related incidents, but on Thursday night, Carlos Lopez was murdered inside his home in Lord’s Bank Village. Around eight p.m., Lopez and his niece had just arrived home when within minutes the blast of gunshots echoed in […]
Tonight, two police officers are in detention, Derrick Ramirez remains missing and Oscar Williams, the main suspect believed to be responsible for his disappearance, allegedly escaped at the hands of the two very same police officers in question. It is a complex story with lots of grey areas which Commissioner of Police Chester Williams recognizes. […]
From there, the plot takes a very sinister twist because, as Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett explained, members of the Belize Coast Guard arrested three men; including main suspect Oscar Williams, for the disappearance of Derrick Ramirez at Cross Caye. But Williams was removed from detention by Inspector Kevin Hernandez and another officer and […]
Investigators have forty-eight hours to gather enough evidence and criminally charge the two police officers. The police constable has already been slapped with the disciplinary charges of allowing a prisoner to escape from lawful custody and bringing the police department into disrepute. According to Commissioner Williams, the constable, along with the inspector, has been placed […]
Police in the west are also investigating the circumstances leading to the death of an unidentified young man in Saint Margaret’s Village. The body of John Doe was found late on Thursday evening at a farm behind the village. He was found with a large cut wound on the leg. Belmopan police are treating the […]
A thirty-two-year-old stevedore of Belize City was executed on Wednesday night. Brian Armstrong spent most of his adult life in prison and according to his family, he had been attempting to reform. On Wednesday night, however, a second attempt ended the life of the father of one. Armstrong was gunned down in the Gungulung area […]
When police responded to the call of a barrage of shots being fired in the CET Site area, they found no one in the immediate vicinity, save for Armstrong’s motionless body. Despite having canvassed the neighborhood in the wake of the shooting there are very few details that have led to a suspect thus far. […]
In the peninsula, police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a Santa Cruz resident. The forty-four-year-old was at the Placencia Hotel and Casino along with two of his brothers when he was stabbed. An argument started inside the casino and escalated when the men went outside the premises. Twenty-four-year-old Everaldo Samayoa was stabbed and died, […]
Dangriga native Derrick Ramirez has been reported missing, but family members have a strong suspicion that he has been killed. Ramirez was last seen on August fourth at around two o’clock in the afternoon. He was in the company of his brother, Kevin Hernandez, who filed the missing person report, and brother-in-law, Joseph Coleman. The […]
Guillermo says that he attempted to locate Hernandez several times after Ramirez’s disappearance but has not been able to locate him. Guillermo is seeking answers to many questions that Hernandez left him with. In fact, Guillermo asserts that his son was lured to his death. Guillermo Ramirez, Father of Derrick Ramirez “He said that […]
Guillermo is asking for Dangriga police to increase their efforts in locating Ramirez. In Belmopan today, Head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch Joseph Myvett told the media that law enforcement agencies have been deployed in search of Ramirez. Myvett says that Ramirez, at this moment, is presumed ‘missing’ and not dead. ACP Joseph […]
On June twenty-sixth, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams laid out a plan to the San Pedro community in the wake of the double murder of well-known tour guide Mario Graniel and tourist Doctor Gary Swank. One of the Belize Police Department’s promises to San Pedro was to hire a dozen Tourism Police Officers. Well, today […]
Attorney Kareem Musa, who represents the family of Allyson Major Junior, was away in China last week when Corporal Kent Martinez was arraigned on a single charge of Manslaughter by Negligence. Martinez is the officer who allegedly shot and killed Major during a vehicular pursuit on July sixteenth which ended on Regent Street West near […]
The likelihood of a judicial review challenging the charge that was brought against Corporal Martinez is also being explored by Musa’s colleague, attorney Anthony Sylvestre. Together, they are looking at the possibility of gaining access to evidence found during the special investigation in order to argue that the charge of Manslaughter by Negligence should have […]
A Belize City tour guide picked up a drug conviction after he admitted to possession of one hundred and fifty grams of weed found at his home. The amount is fifteen times more than allowed by law since the decriminalization of marijuana. Fifty-two-year-old Cecil Gill pleaded guilty to the drug offense when he appeared in […]
Thirty-four-year-old Belize City resident Darwin Rocke was callously murdered. His body was found dumped far away between Burrell Boom and Hattieville, last Thursday. Rocke was partially decapitated and one of his hands was severed. While it is believed he knew his killers, there have been no arrests so far in Rocke’s murder. News Five Isani […]
Why was Manuel Barrera, an elderly Guatemalan national, killed in Young Bank? It’s a question that investigators in the Cayo District are still trying to have answered. The seventy-eight-year-old met a vicious demise when he was attacked and killed inside his residence in that area of Camalote Village. Barrera’s decomposing body had what appeared to […]
A formal report is yet to be filed with the Belize Police Department, following an incident on July twenty-sixth in which a vehicle driven by Brandon Mejia was reportedly shot at on Jasmine Street. According to Mejia, while driving along that carriageway in Lake Independence he came under gunfire from police in the area. The […]
A body was found this morning at entrance of the Burrell Boom, Belize District. The upper part of the body was covered with a plastic bag and covered with a tarpaulin. Soon after the discovery, family members were able to confirm that it was one of their own, Darwin Rocke. He had been killed and […]
Police are also investigating the murder of an elderly man in the village of Young Bank, Cayo District. On Wednesday afternoon, police were called out to the village located along the Valley of Peace Road. There, they found Guatemalan national Manuel Barrera dead inside his house. The family believes Barrera was eating lunch when he […]
So, what are police saying about this murder? They say that they don’t know what the motive is as yet. The investigation is in its early stages and they are still interviewing neighbours and friends. At this time police are looking for one person they believe that can assist them with this investigation. Here’s more […]
While two persons were found dead in less than twenty-four hours, in Belize City, twenty-seven year old Rafael Usher survived a shooting. Usher was on Central American Boulevard on Wednesday night when he came under fire from two gunmen He was shot multiple times and remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Prior to […]
