A suspect in the gruesome machete murder of Guatemalan labourer Elmer Salazar has been arrested. The apprehension of Efrain Beltran earlier today comes after he allegedly chopped Salazar to death on the compound of Belize Marine and Mooring Services on Monday evening. The incident occurred near mile four and a half on the George Price […]
The images were circulated on Facebook by Police Corporal Darrel Usher, who is on interdiction. Now, Usher and his brother spent more than forty hours inside the holding cell, also known as the “piss house.” Usher was there because he had been detained for an incident on Saturday night in which it was alleged that […]
A horrific chopping incident took place on Monday evening involving a current and an ex-employee. It ended with the murder of forty-three-year-old Guatemalan national, Elmer Yobany Salazar, who was a former employee of Belize Marine and Mooring Services located on the George Price Highway. Salazar went to the company grounds, reportedly intoxicated, and after a […]
Police are tonight following all leads to crack the murder of Johvanney Tablada, the twenty-three-year-old was shot and killed in front of the house of his girlfriend on Saturday night where a party was taking place. Tablada’s family believes it is not gang related but police are not ruling that out. They are also investigating […]
Twenty-one-year-old Marcos Zelaya remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, following a brazen attempt on his life on Saturday morning. He was reportedly riding a bicycle along Complex Avenue when he was pursued by several persons inside a vehicle. One of them opened fire on Zelaya, hitting him in the right shoulder and upper […]
Earlier you heard how interdicted cop, thirty-six-year-old Darrel Usher also known as Tutsi describe the horrible conditions at the Queen Street lock up. Well he and his younger brother, thirty-five-year-old Dorian Usher were arraigned in court today and soon after freed. Darrel and Dorian were reportedly involved in a gun play in which Christopher Faber […]
A Harpy Security Guard, Richie Mendez was today before the court for a preliminary inquiry which ended in a paper committal. It means that Mendez will stand trial for attempted murder in the stabbing of thirty-year-old Jose Guzman. This morning before Senior Magistrate, Aretha Ford, Mendez saw his old bail revoked and a new bail […]
Three Mexican nationals are before the Corozal Magistrate’s Court for several counts of theft of the Atlantic Bank’s A.T.M. The three are Belen Hernandez, Joscan Jaffet Hernandez and Lionel Rodriquez. The first incident happened in November 2017 and police believe more than ten thousand dollars was stolen from the bank. Two months later in January […]
Two weeks ago Jamil Reyes was shot in the head – and today the fifteen-year-old is still fighting for his life. His family says he needs an urgent surgery because the bullet lodged in his head has moved. According to his mother, the bullet was at the centre of the brain about two centimetres but […]
The Hilltop headquarters of the Public Service Union is once again in the news tonight, not for the secret sale of the property to a Chinese businessman, but because of a burglary that happened overnight. According to the administrative staff, when they arrived at work this morning they discovered a ransacked office where thieves had […]
There is breaking news tonight that a man was chopped to death. This report has just come into our newsroom and we will have more on it on Tuesday. But from what we were able to confirm, a man was attacked and chopped before the culprit escaped in his vehicle. It reportedly occurred on the […]
There were two murders on Saturday within four hours of each other. Tonight, the family of Michael Alexander Williams says they know that someone wanted him dead, but they are having trouble figuring out who and why. The fifty-eight-year-old general manager and son of well-known businesswoman Marie Sharp was executed around midnight, Saturday. He was […]
Hours before the Williams’ murder, the weekend’s first homicide took place on Faber’s Road where Johvanney Tablada was marked for dead. The twenty-three-year-old was at a party at the house of his girlfriend when he was executed before eight o’clock. Police are looking at different angles including one that it may have been motivated by […]
“Contrived stories” and “conspiratorial fantasies” are words that National Security Minister John Saldivar used to describe some reports about police’s involvement in narco-trafficking in Belize. Those remarks were specifically aimed at the many suspected drug planes that have landed in Belize over the past year and allegations of corruption amongst high ranking officers of the […]
Gun violence over the weekend, claimed the life of two persons and left two others injured. The violence started on Saturday morning and is believed to be gang-related in retaliation for the murder of Backalands Crips leader Joseph Babb. Police are on high alert to avert further bloodshed. Twenty-one-year-old Marcos Zelaya, his father and other […]
A fifty-one-year-old man was also shot in Mahogany Heights on Saturday. Police say that sometime around one-thirty in the afternoon, security guard Rodwell Cuthkelvin was on his motorcycle when a man shot him. Police say investigation shows that the shooting resulted from a gang rivalry between two sparring groups in the Mahogany Heights Community. ASP […]
Police say that they’ve had a number of drug interdictions in western Belize in recent weeks. As a result, they have stepped up their response to tackle many small drug trafficking operations in that area. While the authorities believe there are other persons heading the drug operation, they have so far managed to nab some […]
In a separate incident, police arrested another Guatemalan national on drug trafficking charges. Police and B.D.F. were conducting a vehicular check point on the Arenal Road in Benque Viejo when they searched a taxi and discovered three hundred and thirty-six grams of marijuana. The woman has since been charged ten thousand dollars and if she […]
Tonight, we have more details about one of two men who went missing off Mapp Caye two weeks ago. His name, as we have reported is Anthony Reneau and his identity has now been confirmed by this picture. He is an elderly man whom we’ve learnt has spent some time in prison and was released […]
Police Constable Tyrell Rowley was granted bail on Wednesday having been charged for wounding San Pedro resident, Jamil Leal. The brutality at the hands of the officer was witnessed by many partygoers on New Year’s Day on the island and by far more who saw the videos. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, Rowley […]
Since the last police press brief on Monday, there have been little to no criminal activities reported; that is, except for two robberies that occurred in downtown Belize City and in Ladyville. On Tuesday, Zitro International Western Union Branch was targeted by two armed thieves. They entered barefaced and were able to bypass the security […]
ASP Alejandro Cowo also gave brief details of an armed robbery in downtown Belize City, which occurred on Tuesday. Midtown Grocery was targeted by two men who posed as customers. One of the robbers, who wore a hooded jacket, pulled out a gun and held up the storeowner, while the other cleaned out the cash […]
A Hattieville resident has been charged for firearm offenses after she was found in possession of a large quantity of nine-millimetre rounds of ammunition. Tiffarah Usher is tonight in big trouble with the law after Orange Walk Police intercepted her at a checkpoint and discovered five boxes of bullets in her bag. She was taken […]
Police are investigating the drowning of a one-year-old baby boy in southern Belize. On Tuesday, Independence Police visited the polyclinic where Christopher Daniel Cruz was seen motionless. According to the child’s mother, she left her baby in the care of his grandfather in Bella Vista Village, Toledo District. She would later find baby Christopher floating […]
Belize’s name came up recently during “El Chapo” Guzman’s trial in a New York courtroom in relation to cocaine. In 2018, we reported on an increasing number of drug plane landings across Belize. In most cases, the planes would land and its cargo offloaded before the aircrafts would be torched to destroy any evidence of […]
