San Pedro residents were stunned on Sunday when word of a double murder spread across the island. Police on Ambergris Caye are investigating the deaths of Mario Graniel, a well-known tour guide. Graniel was with Doctor Gary Paul Swank when both men came under gunfire at around ten o’clock that morning. The men were on […]
Investigators are working on establishing a motive. This was not the first time that Graniel came under gunfire. A day before the double murder, shots were fired at Graniel’s apartment in the Boca del Rio area. Graniel was inside his room on the second floor when he heard three gunshots. When he made checks, he […]
A total of seven persons have been murdered at sea in less than five days, including the quintuple murder in the Mapp Caye/Swallow Caye area and the double murder in San Pedro. Today, the Ministry of National Security issued a release, condemning the violence in all forms, assuring the public that no stones will be […]
A construction worker was killed in Corozal Town on Friday night. Police say they don’t know why David Martinez was gunned down and if the bullets were meant for him when he was shot to death at his family’s residence. At this time several persons are in police detention but cops say that they need […]
Residents of Bullet Tree Falls Village were shocked to find out that a murder had taken place in their neck of the woods on Sunday evening, more so that the vicious stabbing involved a love triangle. Yolanda Requeña lost her life this weekend when she was stabbed in the heart by Thelma Warrior, the wife […]
The bloodbath over the weekend has triggered a statement from Leader of the Opposition. John Briceño notes that ten persons lost their lives this past week in a crime spree. In a statement, he holds the Barrow administration responsible for another six months in which the law-abiding citizenry continues to be paralyzed by crime. The P.U.P. […]
Today, police shared details of the suspected drug plane which was found already burnt in northern Belize. According to the authorities, they were alerted about the remnants of the aircraft last week and when they visited the area they found very few clues that would point to the origin. Police say that no one was […]
Police seized over five thousand grams of weed between Friday and Saturday. The seizures all happened on passenger buses traveling in the north heading in a south bound direction. Police say that they have made some arrests but not all the marijuana packages could be tied to passengers on the buses. Here’s more from ACP […]
A supermarket in the southern community of Trio was hit by armed thieves on Friday night. According to police, four men stormed the business and proceeded to rob the propriety of an undisclosed sum of money before escaping on stolen bicycles. Investigators are trying to ascertain whether the incident was captured on surveillance cameras affixed […]
There is yet another triple murder in less than three weeks, this time at sea. Three of five fishermen have been murdered, shot to death and their bodies dumped in the Caribbean Sea. Within fifteen hours, the decomposing bodies have been retrieved and immediately following the post-mortem exams, have been buried. The victims include the […]
The police have been working closely with the Belize Coast Guard as investigations continue into this triple homicide at sea. Now there are a number of fishing camps at and around Swallow Caye and off Drown Caye that can be spotted from the Belize City coastline. Fisherfolks from those various camps have been interviewed in […]
A Belizean man was shot multiple times and killed on Wednesday in Barberton, Ohio, U.S.A. He has been identified as forty-one-year-old Shannon Callahan. According to online reports, Barberton Police responded to a 911 call which led them to Callahan’s driveway. There they found him bleeding profusely. He was treated on scene by emergency medical personnel […]
Twenty-nine year old Juan Carlos “Canikas” Quintero is tonight behind bars at the Belize Central Prison. Quintero who was on the run for months and believe to have been residing somewhere in the Yucatan State of Mexico was captured yesterday while in Orange Walk Town. A warrant for his arrest was issued in 2018 as […]
There was a major drug bust on Wednesday night in Orange Walk. Personnel from the Belize Customs Department were conducting routine patrols when they intercepted a pickup truck containing ten parcels of marijuana. The drugs weighed about eleven thousand grams or over twenty-four pounds of weed. The vehicle was impounded and the driver taken into […]
The Commissioner of Police also gave an update on the deadly beating of Nestor Vasquez Junior. The sixty-year-old mental health patient was in police custody when he was fatally attacked by Collin Francis Junior inside a jail cell. The case made headlines and questioned the protocols and training of officers when dealing with mental health […]
CIB and coastguard personnel have been dispatched to Swallow Caye where the lifeless body of an unidentified male was discovered floating in the sea late this evening. The corpse which has the name Beulah Lee tattooed on the chest was observed with a single gunshot wound to the head. He is described as a dark […]
Abraham Leslie remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed on Monday afternoon. Just before three p.m., Ladyville police were called out to a mechanic shop between miles nine and ten on the Philip Goldson Highway to find that the thirty-one-year-old had been stabbed multiple times. Despite going […]
Where are Melvin Montesino and Silverio Cal? The two men went missing one week ago when they headed to the north side of Ambergris Caye on a motorcycle. Despite several searches by the family and police, the men have still not been located. But the discovery of a helmet and a slippers, believed to have […]
Earlier this week, we reported about the late night food vendors who are being shut down at midnight on the south side and by two a.m. on the north side. The vendors told us that they have vendor’s permits which do not stipulate time and they believe that their livelihoods are being threatened with this […]
It’s been five days since two men disappeared on Ambergris Caye. Silverio Cal and Melvin Montesino were last seen alive on Thursday night heading to the north side of the island. They have not reported to work, nor have they been in contact with relatives. Several searches conducted between miles eleven and fourteen, north of […]
Father’s Day for the Talbert family in Doublehead Cabbage was shattered on Sunday morning when they were informed of a tragic incident involving their loved one who was at work when she lost her life. Marcia Talbert, an employee of Cerebrus Security, a subsidiary of Bowen and Bowen Limited, was gravely wounded when she was […]
Belize City Police are investigating a stabbing incident that left thirty-six-year-old Orlette Sanchez hospitalized. On Sunday morning, before six o’clock, officers were called out to Sanchez’s residence on Guadalupe Street in Belize City. There they found her suffering from a single stab wound to the chest. Sanchez alleges that she was attacked and stabbed by […]
An employee of the Belize City Council was abducted at gunpoint on Saturday morning by a pair of thieves dressed in camouflage and later released in an area along the Hummingbird Highway, but not before being robbed of a rented vehicle. Despite a subsequent report of being taken against his will by armed bandits on […]
Worries are mounting over the sudden disappearance of two men on northern Ambergris Caye. Twenty-seven-year-old Silverio Cal and twenty-six-year-old Melvin Montesino have not been seen or heard from since last Thursday. They were together en route to the northern part of the island. Several searches have proved futile as the family clings to hope that […]
Corozal police continue their investigations into the kidnapping of fifty-year-old Kiran Kumar Solanri. The businessman of Palmar Village in Orange Walk was robbed at gunpoint on Thursday morning as he drove into the Corozal Free Zone. He told police that he was intercepted by another vehicle, kidnapped and robbed of three thousand U.S. dollars and […]
