Twenty-year-old Kentroy McKoy was paraded this evening before the lower court where he was arraigned on a single count of murder, following the mid-afternoon execution of Arthur ‘Taz’ Flowers on December third. McKoy, a customer service representative, was denied bail due to the nature of the offense and has been remanded to custody at the […]
A forty-nine-year old U.S. national was raped and robbed on Thursday morning at around nine in the morning. The woman lives in Ladyville and has had to be hospitalized. She was sexually attacked when she left her home and got into her vehicle. The alleged assailant was armed with a machete when he committed the […]
Police are investigating a house fire in the southern village of Big Falls. The fire destroyed the house of Angelina Ack, a twenty-eight-year-old bus owner. Fortunately, Ack and her two children were not at home when it went up in flames; they were at her parent’s house nearby. She claims that her common-law-husband, thirty-one-year-old Ken […]
Thirty-two-year-old Bride’s Alley resident, Bartholomew Lucas remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, recovering from a gunshot wound to the groin. The injury was inflicted by his common-law-wife, Tanice Mejia on Wednesday morning, around nine-thirty, at a house at the corner of Magazine Road and Vernon Street in Belize City. Police confirmed today that […]
Two murders were recorded on Monday in the city, within fourteen hours of each other. The first was an organized attack on Francis and Betsy Gill before two a.m. as they returned home from a night out at the casino. The motion detectors at their Coral Grove apartment were broken and the killer or killers […]
By three p.m., shots rang out yet again this time at the corner of Handyside and Queen Streets. Well-known car washer, Arthur Flowers was executed, shot to the right temple by a gunman who escaped in a getaway car. The suspected car remains impounded, but police say the persons who were detained in the aftermath […]
A police constable attached to the Corozal Town Police Station has been disciplinary charged and placed on interdiction after he was busted with crack cocaine. On Tuesday, San Narciso resident Arcenio Yah was at his house in the village when police, based on intelligence, executed a search of his property. Inside a shirt, the officers […]
An employee of Bee Line Company was robbed of over twelve thousand dollars, the proceeds from November’s collections in the area. The highway robbery occurred in the vicinity of San Jose Village. As the employee headed towards Orange Walk, he was cut off by another vehicle; two armed men alighted the vehicle and held him […]
Skeletal remains have been found thirteen miles north of the island of San Pedro. During its weekly press brief today, police say that the bones recovered from a bushy area far north of the island town have since been transported to the National Forensic Labs in Ladyville where tests will be conducted to determine whether […]
A victim of domestic violence took matters in her hand this morning; she shot her common-law-husband at her house on Vernon Street. After the shooting, she fled in a van, but tonight she is in police custody. Neighbours say that numerous reports had been made in the past that Tanice Mejia, had been repeatedly beaten […]
Three persons are in detention for the murder of Arthur Flowers, a well-known car washer stationed at the Majestic Alley Taxi Stand which is located not far from the Queen Street Police Station in Belize City. Taz, as he was commonly known, was executed at the corner of Handyside and Queen Streets by a gunman […]
The frequency of drug planes landing in northern Belize is on the rise and cause for great concern. But tonight there is a report of a suspected drug plane landing at the other end of the country, in southern Belize. The Police Department says it has been working around the clock to seize the illegal […]
The rate at which these drug planes are being landed in dirt roads is tainting Belize in the international press as a safe haven for drugs. Months ago, a Facebook post alleging that police knew about landings triggered more effective anti-drug operations, including the detention of a senior cop. Since then, there have been several […]
A Belize City woman is tonight facing drug-related charges. Thirty-one-year-old Felicia Samuels was busted with seven parcels of marijuana by Corozal police on Monday morning. Samuels was at the Corozal Municipal Airstrip in Ranchito Village when she was approached by police officers who searched her. Samuels had the parcels of marijuana which amounted to close […]
Accused of shooting two men, thirty-year-old Moamar Andrew Zelaya was charged with grievous harm today by police. He was also charged with possession of a firearm, while under the influence of alcohol. The charges stem from an incident on Sunday morning in San Ignacio where Zelaya reportedly shot Christopher Hudson and Jermaine Pandy. According to […]
Today at its Training Academy in Belmopan, the top brass of the Police Department gathered to look at criminal activities in the country, from a national standpoint. According to records, the murder count crept up for the first part of this year and it is dangerously close to 2017’s murder count of one hundred and […]
In recent times, however, there has been a spike in robberies and burglaries not only in Belize City, but elsewhere across the country. The Police Department has gone on record to say that businesses as well as homes were being targeted by a ring of thieves operating in Corozal, out west in Belmopan and in […]
The Christmas season is here and it means criminals will be roaming the streets. To ensure that businesses and the citizenry don’t fall prey to these criminal elements, the police department has sprung into action with its Christmas anti-crime operations across the country. Since Monday, there has been a boost in foot and vehicular patrols […]
During the national celebrations in September, a state of public emergency was declared on two areas of south side Belize City. Over forty persons were rounded up and put away at the central prison for thirty days, some without visitation rights even by their attorneys and families. Human rights activists and those affected say that […]
A few days ago, the top brass of the Belize Police Department was gifted five hundred pre-owned bulletproof vests by the Miami Dade Police Department through the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police. ComPol Allen Whylie said that the vests would be distributed to frontline officers, first responders and members of operational units such as […]
A security officer of Libertad Village, Corozal died from blunt force trauma to the head a week ago. On November twenty-fifth, Corozal police were called to the Corozal Community Hospital where they saw forty-year-old Salvadoran national Eliseo Alfaro-Enriquez dead. Police observed wounds to his head and according to ACP Joseph Myvett; it appears that Alfaro-Enriquez […]
Concern is growing tonight for eighteen-year-old Brian Fred Nicholson of Trial Farm Village. He has not been seen or heard from for days. His mother, Clarissa Mai, told Orange Walk police that she left her Nicholson and her daughter at home but when she returned, she realized that her son had disappeared. Mai searched for […]
The top brass of the police department gathered today in the capital for the first conference dubbed COMSTAT. The intention is to move to a system that will provide the department with a better understanding of crime statistics. This information will be used to forecast and prevent crime before criminals commit offences. News Five’s Duane […]
While the city streets were quiet over the weekend, today two persons were murdered in a span of fourteen hours. The latest murder victim was executed this afternoon just two blocks away from the Queen Street Police Station in proximity of Majestic Alley. A well-known car washer, forty-four-year-old Arthur Flowers, was shot and killed near […]
Hours earlier, a Belize City couple was ambushed as they returned to their apartment on Coral Grove after midnight. A gun man, who waylaid them, opened fire instantly killing Francis Gill before he could exit his vehicle. Gill’s wife, Betsy, was spared her life but remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with injuries. […]
