Renowned anthropologist Dr. Herbert Gayle is back in town and will be delivering a public lecture on Friday at the Bliss Institute. Dubbed the Failure of Suppression, why and how violence reduction makes dollars and sense, the instructional speech will look at how the system of suppression has failed to achieve its desired results in […]
The area of Blue Creek in northern Belize continues to be a hot spot for drugs and illegal plane landings. Police have confirmed that another illegal aircraft, likely a drug plane, landed in Orange Walk District. This past Tuesday, police found what was left of a single engine aircraft at a farm about eighteen kilometres […]
There’s been a major arrest in Belize of a Mexican national wanted by Interpol. News reports from Mexico say that a former government employee, Gonzalo Herrera Castilla has been detained in Belize. Herrera Castilla worked during the tenure of former Quintana Roo governor, Roberto Borge Angula and had been on the lam for some time […]
There was a late night shooting in Belize City on Monday which claimed the life of a young man from Lord’s Bank Village. Police are yet to determine whether the murder of Roy Lord is tied to gang activity. What they have been able to confirm is that he was accosted by a lone gunman […]
All roads led west this morning as a convoy of police vehicles made its way to an undisclosed location where a huge haul of drugs was incinerated. It’s part of a routine destruction process where a mass of seized narcotics is ferried to a remote area and done away with. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. […]
Sexual abuse allegations and scandal have rocked the Catholic Church and tonight a Belizean priest is one of forty-two clergymen who have “a credible and substantiated allegation of sexual abuse” against a child. The list was published three days ago by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A and it includes Father Oliver Joseph Smalls […]
Cyber bullying has become a trending topic since a series of pornographic videos were shared across various social media platforms over the weekend. The incidents have raised the ire of many, including social activists, who have since gone on record to express their displeasure with what can only be described as a most despicable act […]
Police say two minors were raped in separate incidents and the men accused are in police custody. On Sunday sometime after seven in the night, a fifteen-year-old girl was raped by a man she knows in Orange Walk. In the other incident, a thirteen-year-old reported to police that on Valentine’s Day a man she is […]
Police shot a robber and have another man in custody after they robbed a grocery store on Daly Street in Belize City. According to Police, two men went to Kum Hua store sometime after eight-thirty on Saturday night pretending to be customers and shortly after held up the store’s owner at gun point. The owners […]
Police say they have recovered close to one thousand ammunition believed to be from the Victor L. Bryant burglary that happened last week. And they say that another five hundred rounds are still out in the streets. As we’ve reported, the arms dealer’s business on Chetumal Street was burglarized and a stock of firearms and […]
Disaster struck a family in the wee hours of this morning. A fire gutted the home of Kirk Davis Senior and his family, including Virginia Garnett who we met back in 2017 when she gave birth to triplets. Everything was lost in the inferno, and the family was able to escape with their lives and […]
Police say an arsonist set a vehicle on fire in Punta Gorda sometime around one on Sunday morning. The pick-up truck was in a parking lot at a shopping center when fire was seen coming from the front passenger seat. Police recovered a bottle with liquid substance suspected to be kerosene. There have been at […]
Five Belizeans are in Acayucan, a city in Veracruz, Mexico after they were attacked overnight and robbed of their travel documents, cash and other personal items. The men were towing several vehicles from the U.S. en route to Belize and were in the hills coming into the Mexican city when they were accosted by what […]
The murder of star athlete Dwayne Cummings last Sunday in Orange Walk Town remains unsolved, despite investigators following several leads in an attempt to crack the case. The twenty-one-year-old basketball player who was a member of the Orange Walk Running Rebels was shot dead as he walked home in the early hours of February tenth. […]
Earlier this week, a resident of Corozal Town came under gunfire during an attempt on his life. Charles Itza reported to police in that jurisdiction that he was riding a bicycle in an area of town when he was accosted by a lone gunman who shot him to the right leg. Additional details have been […]
Corozal police, with assistance from the Major Crimes Unit, are investigating a horrifying home invasion turned murder. The home of retired American couple Elizabeth Rousseau and Gary Hakes was broken into sometime between seven forty-five and eight p.m. on Wednesday night. The couple was at home when a male intruder gained access to the building […]
The murder of American citizen Elizabeth Rousseau and the attack on her husband Gary Hakes adds to the list of foreigners who have fallen victims to major crimes in the country. The Consejo area of Corozal is known as a haven for Canadian and American expats who have chosen Belize to retire. It also makes […]
Twenty-one-year-old Randy Chambers made headlines in December 2015, when he was walloped by a trio of officers as he was walking through his family yard on Police Street Extension. The physical abuse of the young carpenter was captured by a security camera at his parents’ home in an adjacent property. Tonight, he is once again […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has also written to proprietor Phillip Gallaty in respect of the burglary, particularly since the security of the building from which the trove of weapons was stolen, has bearing on his license to sell firearms. While ComPol Williams did not disclose much on the results of an investigation into the […]
A Belize City resident of Frederick’s Alley was the intended target of a murder attempt last evening when someone inside a vehicle took aim at him with a firearm as he stood in front of a store on New Road. Sometime after seven o’clock on Wednesday night gunfire erupted and when the shooting subsided, forty-one-year-old […]
There was also a home invasion in the Mennonite community of Spanish Lookout on Wednesday night where a couple was bound and their home rummage by thieves. Cornelius Peters reported to police that five men carrying firearms broke into his abode, tied him and his wife up, turned the place inside out and made off […]
There was a vicious chopping incident that occurred in Unitedville on Wednesday night where Michael Smith, a resident of that community, was reportedly attacked by a pair of men. The assault, during which he was chopped multiple times with a machete, was precipitated by an argument outside of a convenient store in that village. […]
On Wednesday, forty-eight-year-old American national, Brent Borland, pleaded guilty to running a multimillion dollar scam and using Belize to do so. He pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy. According to U.S. federal laws, each count carries a maximum of a twenty-year prison sentence. Borland confessed to running a twenty-one-point-nine […]
The Department of Youth Services condemns the killing of UB students Masaki Yanai and Dwayne Cummings. In a release issued today, the DYS says that it joins with the CARICOM Youth Ambassadors to express its condolences and denounce the murder of two young and productive members of society. Masaki Yanai was shot and killed last […]
Between April and May of last year a string of robberies in the downtown area targeted vendors and businesses and left city residents feeling unsafe to shop. Those incidents, which preyed on businesses like Hofius and Spoonaz café, among several others, pushed police to implement Operation Safe Zone. The policing strategy saw the beefing up […]
