Allen Whylie’s pointed remarks toward the media and his so-called political detractors during a final public address on Wednesday, was the proverbial parting shot heard across the country. The outgoing Commissioner of Police took full advantage of his time on the podium during Chester Williams’ installation to set the record straight on a number of […]
Allen Whylie held back nothing on Wednesday in his farewell statement to the Belize Police Department in which he departed from the usual niceties on such occasions. Whylie confirmed that he had been pushed out abruptly and that the decision to retire him was delivered on the same day he was to go. The ex-ComPol […]
With Commissioner Chester Williams now at the helm of law enforcement, he inherits the never-ending challenge of fighting crime and violence. The complement of officers within the department is larger than it has ever been, owing to several recruitments during Whylie’s time as the top cop. But is there the political will on the part […]
Three years ago, on January sixteenth, 2016, American producer for ABC Anne Swaney was violently murdered in western Belize. Swaney was vacationing at the Nabitunich Resort and was last seen heading towards a river deck to practice yoga. Twenty-four hours later, her body was fished out of the Mopan River near San Jose Succotz Village. […]
One man is dead and two others are missing, but what happened on Mapp Caye days ago is still being pieced together. Up until Monday night, all we knew was that one man was murdered and two had disappeared without a trace. Family members of one of the missing men, identified as forty-eight-year-old diver Evan […]
And what of Evan Neal? Well, forty-eight-year old Neal is the owner of Mapp Caye and veteran seaman. His family describes him as a diver and hard-working man, whom they say didn’t dabble in the drug business. They say he was to return home on Friday evening after he dropped off groceries for the two […]
And so the search is ongoing for Evan Neal and Anthony Reneau. This evening we spoke with Operations Officer of the Belize Coast Guard Lieutenant Roque Canul who says that today’s search didn’t turn up a shred of evidence that would point to the men’s whereabouts. Canul says they have been talking to fishermen and […]
A trio of men was escorted to court this morning for the brazen heist that evolved into a hostage situation in Belize City on Sunday night. The three: Wayne Welch, Steven Bernard and Richard O’Neil are facing a slew of charges. They are accused of robbing Rong Bin Liang and his wife, the proprietors of […]
Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Crawford, no stranger to the law, remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. tonight, following an attempt on his life while on his way home on Monday night. Sometime around eight o’clock, Crawford was riding a bicycle along Antelope Street Extension when he was ambushed and fired upon by an unknown individual. Crawford was shot […]
A press conference was held late this evening by the family of missing woman, Anisha Young and search team lead, Jose Espat. After providing a detailed run down of what has transpired since Young was reported missing on December ninth, Espat spoke about the efforts to locate the twenty-three-year-old woman, who they presume was murdered […]
It’s been over five weeks since Anisha disappeared and the family has not been able to find closure; they have, however, come to accept that Anisha was murdered. Today, Sheree Salgado and Sandra Hyde pleaded for anyone with information to come forward. Hyde believes that Charles Fortune, who was Anisha’s boyfriend and the main suspect […]
An armed robbery turned into a dangerous hostage situation on Sunday night. Three armed thieves broke into a store on Mahogany Street in Belize City. Seven Days Shop is located on the lower flat of the building and the owners live on the upper flat. Just as they were closing down business on Sunday night, […]
The lengthy standoff between three armed bandits and officers from the Belize Police Department has prompted ComPol Chester Williams to carefully consider the leadership, as well as the role of the Gang Suppression Unit. Not only will there be a new commander of G.S.U. in the weeks ahead, but that as yet unnamed lawman will […]
A Belize City man was brutally murdered over the weekend. The body of twenty-nine-year-old Jose Manuel Ayala was found with five gunshot wounds to the face in the wee hours of Saturday morning. His body was found inside his white Chevrolet TrailBlazer which was found parked at mile three of the George Price Highway. Investigators […]
The eighth murder for the New Year was recorded today. Police say a watchman is dead and two others are missing from Mapp Caye. While his name has not been confirmed, his body was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head and dumped in a latrine. The last time trio’s families heard from them […]
A fifteen-year-old youth is in a coma tonight after surviving a horrible ordeal. The teenager, Jamil Reyes, was socializing with friends in Roaring Creek when he came under a vicious attack. He was brutally beaten and shot to the back of the head. If that was not enough, he was buried in a shallow grave […]
Twenty-five-year-old Honduran national Josue Danilo Villatoro Amado was transported from San Pedro to Belize City and arraigned for the murder of Corporal Alfonso Guy. This afternoon, Villatoro, who is a waiter and food and beverage employee at Captain Morgan’s Place, was arraigned before newly appointed Magistrate Tricia Pitts Anderson and remanded to prison until February […]
Last Friday, we reported on the stabbing that left forty-three-year-old cab driver Stephen Leiva hospitalized. He was stabbed outside of his room near the Bel China Bridge in the early hours of Friday morning when a woman asked to use his restroom. As we showed you on Friday, Leiva’s family thinks that he was set […]
A chopping in Valley of Peace last Friday night has left one man without three of his fingers and with chop wounds to the back. Police were called out to a shop in the village where a man was attacked by his nephew with a machete. ACP Joseph Myvett says the man has now gone […]
Friends for Conservation and Development has been documenting threats within the Chiquibul Forest for eleven years. Those threats include illegal logging, poaching, and gold panning, which was the biggest threat in 2017. But according to Executive Director Rafael Manzanero, there is an even bigger threat on the horizon. It’s known as “narco-cattle ranching” and it […]
A police officer was killed on after one o’clock this morning on San Pedro. Corporal Alfonso Guy had been stationed on the island for years and had been socializing with a friend prior to the shooting death inside his quarters. While police this morning said it was a murder investigation, late this evening, an official […]
There are new details tonight about the home invasion and kidnapping of former minister Elodio Aragon Senior, the father of the junior minister of police. Aragon Senior was abducted from his house in Orange Walk on Thursday morning and taken by two persons to an area, miles away and then released. He showed up at […]
A Belize City man was stabbed multiple times this morning and left for dead. Forty-three-year-old taxi driver Stephen Leiva was set up by a woman he knows. The woman went to his house near Bel China Bridge and asked to use his bathroom and when Leiva opened his door, two women and a man attacked […]
The father of the Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security was abducted. A police report says that Elodio Aragon Senior, a former Minister of Government, was kidnapped after his home was burglarized. The release is very sparse with details – with no mention of what time the incident occurred or how many […]
It is no secret that Belize’s location makes the country vulnerable to transnational organized criminal groups such as the drug cartels. In recent months, we have seen an alarming number of drug plans land across the country. And on January third, Vicente Zambada, son of one of the bosses of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, dropped […]
