A mother and daughter were attacked inside their home in Georgeville sometime after midnight on Wednesday by a pair of thieves. Ana Myvett was awakened by two masked intruders who gained entry through the rear of the building. One of the men reportedly placed an object believed to be a firearm to her head and […]
Three persons, including a minor are recovering from chop wounds after they were reportedly attacked by a man they know. Police report that on Monday evening around six-thirty, forty-eight-year-old Victor Tzub and twenty-four-year-old Adan Rodriguez Melgar were at their home in San Roman Village, Stann Creek District, when a man they know attacked them with […]
There was a brutal attack on an elder taxi operator in the west. Sixty-eight-year-old Jose Roca of Arenal was attacked with a knife and cut to the left hand and under his chin by two men who caught his taxi from the Benque Viejo Bus Terminal to the western border. According to Roca, his attackers […]
An eleven-year-old student of Saint Luke’s Methodist Primary School in Belize City is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was innocently shot while carrying out an errand for his mother. Kyron Green went to buy at a nearby grocery store on Central American Boulevard when a gunman approached and opened […]
Turning to other news….it was an exceptionally violent weekend across the country. We start the crime news with a homicide in the west. Thirty-four-year-old Clifford Anthony Matute was murdered after midnight, on Saturday morning, in Teakettle Village, Cayo. He was at home on his verandah when two men on a motorcycle appeared. One of the […]
The second murder for the weekend occurred in the Old Capital on Faber’s Road Extension. Tyrick Francis was shot and killed as he was walking home. It is believed that a gunman waylaid him and as he was about to make a left turn on to Krooman Road, he was ambushed. The blood stains on […]
Less than a week after the shooting death of Lindon Baldwin on Ebony Street, police arrested and charged four persons, including a minor, for the crime. This afternoon, Shawn Gibson was first to appear before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer and arraigned for murder; he was remanded to prison until July twenty-first. Shortly after, fishermen Denver […]
Tonight, an eleven-year-old student is in a critical condition at the hospital after he was caught in a hail of bullets intended for another person. Kyron Green was inside a shop on Central American Boulevard in Belize City when he was shot in the cheek. That bullet, however, was not meant for the minor. It […]
Within hours of the shooting on North Creek, gun violence erupted in Belama. Just after ten p.m., a group of men were socializing on Peter Ashton Street in Belama Phase Two when a gunman approached and fired shots at the men. William Lewis and Raheem Staine were injured and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial […]
There was further gun violence on Sunday and police believe that the two shootings that span both south and north side Belize City are related. It started early when Ronald Michael was shot near the corner of Calle al Mar and Baymen Avenue. The Lovely Lane resident was travelling in a vehicle with his common-law […]
By ten-thirty that night, shots rang out on Pelican Street Extension and two persons were injured. Three men were standing on the street corner in front of the home of Jamal Palacio when two men approached on a motorcycle. One of them then pulled out a gun and opened fire at the trio. Palacio was […]
An elderly man from Carmelita Village, Orange Walk is in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed multiple times to the chest and abdomen. On Sunday night, seventy-year-old Pedro Chuc was rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital after neighbours found him on the street, ailing from stab wounds inflicted to […]
Lincoln Bejerano escaped from police custody in Belmopan in October of 2016, but tonight we can report that after two and a half years on the lam, he is back behind bars. He was wanted by Interpol as the main suspect in the murder of taxi driver Isidro Suar in January of 2016, but later […]
A well-known attorney was pulled over by the Gang Suppression Unit on Faber’s Road on Thursday morning and a search of his vehicle yielded several rounds of unlicensed ammunition. Ordinarily, it is a charge that would land the driver behind bars for an indictable offense. The fact that he was set free following the raid […]
Charges may be upgraded for Zena Armstrong, who was charged earlier this week for the manslaughter of a Corozal teen. In the wake of Sunday’s stabbing death of nineteen-year-old Ana Villanueva, her family and friends, as well as the public, took to social media to express their discontent with the instruction by the Director of […]
There was an aggravated burglary in Kings Park in the early hours of this morning. Police were called out to Leslie Street in Belize City where businesswoman Jian Hong Wu reported that she had just left her business Wong Gock Restaurant and was entering her yard when she saw three dark complexion male persons wearing […]
A tour operator in southern Belize has been charged for the murder of his common-law wife on Tuesday morning. Forty-eight-year-old Andrew Caliz shot and killed Francisca Caceres Duarte inside their home in Big Falls, Toledo District. The couple was inside the bedroom when a single gunshot fatally injured the Honduran national. Caliz then rushed Caceres to […]
Twenty-year-old Zena Armstrong is out on bail after being charged with manslaughter. The incident involved the fatal stabbing of Ana Villanueva in Corozal on Monday night. The young ladies had a history of bad blood between them and that enmity turned deadly when a knife was drawn during an altercation. Villanueva was stabbed once with […]
Belize City police are looking for five persons in connection with the murder of Lindon Baldwin who was shot and killed on Monday night on Ebony Street. According to investigators Baldwin’s execution may have been the result of an ongoing feud between rival factions in the Conch Shell Bay neighborhood. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., […]
Chilean national Juan Espinosa SaaVerdra pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an ATM scam in Dangriga and Belize City; he was fined a total of six thousand dollars, which he met forthwith and has now been handed over to the Immigration Department for his expulsion from the country. Espinosa, along with two other South Americans, […]
On Wednesday, police formally arrested and charged two of four persons believed to have been involved in an aggravated burglary at a farm near mile forty-four on the George Price Highway. Camalote resident, Justin Banner and Santa Elena resident, Luis Castellanos have been jointly charged for aggravated burglary; Banner has additionally been charged for attempted […]
Nineteen-year-old Zena Armstrong is out on bail tonight, following the stabbing death of Ana Villanueva in Corozal Town over the weekend. Armstrong was arraigned for one count of manslaughter, for which she pleaded not guilty and was given bail of eight thousand dollars. On Sunday night, the young women were involved in a fight during […]
A watchman from San Ignacio is at home recovering from injuries he sustained during an aggravated burglary at his place of work just outside of Belmopan. On Tuesday morning, Juan Garcia stood watch at a farm near mile forty-four on the George Price Highway when he came under attack by four masked, armed robbers. Garcia […]
An investigation into the shooting death of thirty-one-year-old Francisca Caceres Duarte, a Honduran national who was killed in the predawn hours of Tuesday, remains open. Punta Gorda police are yet to determine whether the common-law wife of Andrew Caliz was accidentally killed when a licensed firearm belonging to the tour operator reportedly discharged inside their […]
On April thirtieth, an inmate lost his life while trying to escape from the Belize Central Prison. Nineteen-year-old Kevin Moore, a resident of Punta Gorda was shot and killed by prison officers when he made a dash for freedom. During the incident, the teenager managed to scale the perimeter fence after escaping from Tango Six, […]
