Just before news time, a shooting took place at a private property on Park Avenue in Belize City. Our news team reports that a father and son were injured by armed robbers and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The victims are Chinese nationals, who were shot on the chest and taken to the […]
A pair of cousins is behind bars tonight for a wild shootout on the heavily trafficked Coney Drive in Belize City. On Wednesday afternoon, twenty-one-year-old Ulide Allen beat a hasty retreat amid a shower of bullets during the brazen exchange of gunfire with Belize City police. During the mid-afternoon shootout, a responding officer was grazed […]
Guatemalan national Anibal Avila is wanted by Belizean authorities, following an incident at the western border this morning during which he reportedly opened fire in the direction of the customs building at the Benque Viejo crossing. Avila, according to customs and immigration officials, has been denied entry to Belize on previous occasions after being arrested […]
A string of automotive fires in Punta Gorda on Wednesday morning has residents on edge and investigators working diligently to crack these most recent cases of arson. Vehicles belonging to Christon Foster, Patrick Avila and Burlington Jones were all destroyed by fire just before dawn on February sixth and police are now trying to determine […]
Coney Drive here in the city was in mayhem and traffic backed up this afternoon after a shootout between police and two men known to the law. Police were on hot pursuit of a duo of men on motorcycle when the shootout occurred. The duo appeared suspicious to the cops and when they reached the […]
There was another shooting just before nine o’clock on Tuesday night in Belize City. Twenty-five-year-old Keshawn Dennison was among a group of men gathered at the corner Laura Dunn Street and Antelope Street Extension when a gunman opened fire. He was hit in both legs and is listed in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. […]
A group of fishermen from Sarteneja Village says that they are being targeted by the Belize Coast Guard. According to the fishermen, last year the Coast Guard removed them from a small caye they call Sandbore Caye, which is being used as fishing camp sixteen miles south east of Placencia. They say that the Sandbore […]
When we reached out to the Belize Coast Guard, they had a different version of the story. According to Captain Elton Bennett, they have offered multiple notices to the occupants of the small caye, dating back to last year. Bennett says that the Coast Guard is not targeting a specific group of people, but that […]
The Belize Police Department has taken a number of weapons off the streets in the last few days. Some of the weapons were found in abandoned lots and two were confiscated from persons who have since been charged for unlicensed firearm. Bart Jones, who is the legal advisor for the department, says one of the […]
And while the police department is happy to remove the guns off the streets, they know that it takes more than searching suspicious persons and combing empty lots. So, what is the plan to get more firearms off the streets? Last year, then Commander Howell Gillett was keen on reviving the gun amnesty program, but […]
For some time, a Belizean has been named as one of the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s most-wanted deportable aliens. He is forty-six-year-old Santos Moriera who has a number of convictions and has been deported a number of times from the U.S., but somehow managed to get back into the United States. But the long […]
Three days into February, the first murder happened on Saint Thomas Street in Belize City. Tour guide thirty-three-year-old Shawn Hemmans was shot as many as eleven times as he walked down the steps of a house, where he had gone to watch the Super Bowl. Hemmans was rushed to the hospital, but succumbed as he […]
About a week and a half ago, a joint operation between the Police and Customs Departments as well as the Coastguard led to the interception of contrabandistas in canoes transporting uncustomed goods across the border. San Victor village is a popular illegal crossing used by peddlers up north. Over the weekend, Orange Walk and Corozal […]
In western Belize, three Guatemalan farmers were detained on Saturday while they were six hundred meters inside the Chiquibul National Park. The trio was handed over to San Ignacio police the following day on Sunday. Forty-three-year-old Mario Ramos Hernandez, forty-two-year-old Neftali Hernandez, and twenty-four-year-old Levi Felipe Reymundo, all from the Peten Area in Guatemalan, were […]
The family of a Santa Elena resident needs help in identifying the perpetrator of a vicious attack on Nicholas Flores. Flores, a fifty-eight-year-old, was badly beaten on the night of January twenty-fifth at the bus stop near Boiton’s Barbecue in the western municipality. The severe beating left Flores in a coma, from which he has […]
About an hour before the murder of Shawn Hemmans on Saint Thomas Street, in Belize City, shots rang out on Westlake Park Street in the Eight Miles Community on the George Price Highway. Around six p.m. on Sunday, Devon Faber had just arrived home when an SUV drove up and opened fire. He was shot […]
Thirty-year-old Michael Gladden needs public assistance in receiving as many as thirteen pints of blood if he is to survive a near-fatal ordeal that befell him on Wednesday night. The unemployed resident was shot multiple times during an ambush, as he walked along a London Bridge off Holy Emmanuel Street. Police say his shooting is […]
The newly installed UNO Gas Service Station in Tower Hill was targeted by thieves in the wee hours of today. Just before two a.m., security guards, Teodoro Jimenez and Francisco Santana, who are both in their fifties, were accosted by a gunman who demanded money. They were ordered to remain in the security booth while […]
Two persons remain in police custody tonight in Corozal; they were caught shortly after a brazen broad daylight home invasion in the Santa Rita community of Corozal Town. The men are believed to be part of a trio who targeted the home of well-known butcher, Javier Gonzalez. As Gonzalez got home from work at the […]
An attempt on the life of a thirty-year-old has signs that gang warfare is flaring up in the city. Michael Gladden is hospitalized after six bullets hit him on Wednesday night just before nine o’clock. Gladden had left his mother’s home and was walking on a London Bridge heading to his house in the Gungulung […]
Gladden was shot on Wednesday night, but previous to that shooting, in the same area, twenty-one-year-old Marcus Zelaya was targeted. Investigators are looking if there is any connection between the two shootings involving feuding gangs. Zelaya remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. after being shot several times on the morning of January twenty-sixth, as he rode […]
In Punta Gorda tonight, the police remain on alert following the murder of Jordy Flores. The thirty-year-old was executed on Tuesday evening by a hit man who went to his house and opened fire on the Flores as he walked out of the house and into his back yard. Three men are being questioned and […]
Police have been able to crack the murder of Elmer Salazar. On Wednesday, fifty-four-year-old Efrain Beltran Martinez surrendered himself to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, after being wanted for the chopping death of the Guatemalan national. The horrific incident in which the construction worker was viciously hacked, took place on the compound of Belize Marine […]
Five days ago, Belize City businessman Michael Williams was executed in the old Capital. The son of the famous Marie Sharp was the general manager of her wholesale office here in Belize City. Williams was with his girlfriend inside his SUV on North Front Street when they came under fire. Bullets hit Williams on the […]
The life of thirty-year-old Jordy Flores was cut short on Tuesday night in his own back yard. He had survived two previous attempts, but the third proved fatal. Punta Gorda police have moved quickly and three persons are being questioned while investigators are seeking another. Family members say that someone came calling on him at […]
