Fifty-five-year-old Teakettle resident, Simeon Alvaro Perez remains hospitalized at the Western Regional Hospital in a stable condition, following an early morning home invasion at his place of work in Ontario Village. Perez was defending his employer at the DeYoung residence on the hilltop off the Prayer Mountain Road because four armed thieves had accosted a […]
Investigations continue into the murder of Jermain Sanker. The twenty-three-year-old, who is originally from Corozal, was executed inside a rented car on Cemetery Road in the Salvapan area of Belmopan on Monday afternoon. Several persons were taken into custody today, but during the weekly police press brief this morning, ACP Joseph Myvett confirmed that Sanker […]
Police are nowhere closer to solving the November eighteenth murder of Eric Staine. The twenty-one-year-old Belize City barber was shot and killed on Sunday night at the intersection of Krooman Road and the George Price Highway. But police have still not been able to establish a motive for the crime nor has anyone been arrested. […]
A Belize City resident has been charged for the murder of American restaurateur Lamont Lipka. Lipka was executed in front of his patrons inside his business, Tropicana Bar & Grill on Coconut Drive, back on May thirteenth. For the past six months, police had been searching for a trio believed to have been responsible for […]
Police have also made an arrest in connection with an attempt made on the life of Stephan Tablada. Over the weekend, Tablada was struck to the right calf by a bullet as he entered his home on Neal’s Pen Road. He reportedly recognised two men on motorcycle in the area and believes that one of […]
A seventeen-year-old Belize City resident has been charged for a pair of robberies out west. The minor was injured during the robbery of a store in Unitedville last week. ACP Joseph Myvett says that the minor was slapped with charges of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery and attempted robbery of a customer for the incident. […]
A fifty-five-year-old caretaker is tonight in a critical, but stable condition at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan, following an early morning attack at a farm in Ontario Village. Simeon Alvaro Perez had just arrived to work around seven o’clock when he was attacked by three men, who were burglarizing his workplace, the DeYoung residence, […]
The Ministry of National Security has formally introduced a new working group headed by retired Commissioner of Police Gerald Westby whose mandate is to assist in the investigation of matters involving police officers. The Civilian Complaint Review Committee is made up of representatives from each of the six districts and will be working in partnership […]
It shouldn’t take long before the country has a fully functional DNA laboratory. Well, that’s the impression that C.E.O. in the Ministry of National Security George Lovell gave the media on Tuesday. It has been more than five years since the ministry began making moves to locate funding in order to construct the facility which […]
Earlier this month, Supreme Court Justice Courtenay Abel dismissed an application for judicial review filed by three police officers who were challenging their transfers from the Orange Walk Police formation. Their transfers came after police up north made a huge cocaine bust which led to the subsequent arrest of Orange Walk’s former commander, Superintendent David […]
Four persons lost their lives to gun violence and road traffic accidents over the extended weekend. There was also a string of robberies and shootings across the Old Capital and elsewhere that has left several persons hospitalized. Tonight, we start the newscast with the execution of a Corozal resident in Belmopan on Monday afternoon. Twenty-three-year-old […]
Twenty-one-year-old Eric Staine was shot and killed on Sunday night in the vicinity of Krooman Road near the George Price Highway. The young barber lost his life in a hail of bullets, before being dumped on the roadside. The incident, according to police, happened around ten p.m. When they responded to the scene of the […]
Police say a sixteen-year-old boy suffering from gunshot injuries is hospitalized at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan. The minor has shared conflicting reports about what led to his injuries and police have since placed him under guard at the hospital. Police say the teenager, who is from Belize City, is being investigated for a […]
A Belize City man was shot on Sunday night sometime around eight-fifteen. Stephan Tablada was hit with a single bullet to the right calf as he entered his home on Neal’s Pen Road. Tablada recognized two men on motorcycle in the area and police say they are now looking for those persons. Tablada is a […]
An attempted robbery at Tommy’s Wholesale on Central American Boulevard in Belize City has left one man injured. On Sunday night, sometime just before nine-thirty, police were called out to the business establishment where they found Chester Humes, an employee of the store, with a gunshot wound to the left arm. Police say that two […]
For years now, there have been talks about compiling and maintaining a sex offenders registry. An official move from the government was taken back in 2014 when the National Assembly passed amendments to Belize’s Criminal Code. This made it possible for the creation of the National Sex Offenders Database. The registry will contain the name, […]
A fifteen-year-old girl reported to police that she was raped. Sometime after four-thirty on Saturday evening, the girl and her mother visited the Roaring Creek Police Station where the minor stated that she was at a house in Camalote village with her uncle and one of his friends. The man reportedly raped the girl while […]
On Monday, November nineteenth, three men, one of whom was armed, robbed the security guard posted at the University of Belize compound on Chancellor Avenue in Belize City. The men were said to be looking for firearms, but when the guard couldn’t produce one, they handcuffed and robbed him of his personal items. Inspector Wilfredo […]
On Friday, we reported on a robbery at Yi Long store in Unitedville. Today, police say that they have arrested and charged a seventeen-year-old from Belize City for the crime. The minor was slapped with charges of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery and attempted robbery of a customer. Police confirmed today that the teenager has […]
There are two more guns on the street after burglars made off with a nine-millimetre pistol and one hundred live rounds of the same caliber as well as a twelve gauge shot gun with fifty-one of its cartridges. Last week, Randy Gaithor of the River of Life Ministry on the Valley of Peace Road reported […]
On Sunday afternoon, two men attempted to rob a tacos vendor in Orange Walk Town. One of the robbers was armed with a handgun, but quick response from the police led to the detention of a minor from Carmelita Village. ACP Joseph Myvett says they are investigating this incident and are yet to determine if […]
The infamous John McAfee is back in the news tonight. He has been found legally “liable” for the death of his neighbor, Gregory Faull. A Florida court on Thursday handed down a default judgment against McAfee as part of a five-year legal battle by Faull’s family against McAfee. Faull was found dead with gunshot wound […]
The F.B.I. is offering ten thousand U.S. dollars as a reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of the person or persons who killed thirty-six-year-old U.S. national Drew Thomas De Voursney. De Voursney was found dead along with his Canadian girlfriend fifty-two-year-old Francesca Matus on April twenty-fifth of 2017. Their bodies […]
Police believe they have cracked the latest murder in San Pedro. Late this evening, a fourteen-year-old minor was charged for the execution of Cyril Jones, a thirty-seven-year-old BWS employee who was targeted at his home on Tuesday night. The minor is among several persons held since Tuesday after the deadly incident in the San Pedrito […]
There was suspicious criminal activity involving a group of heavily armed men along the Coastal Road last weekend. This occurred on the heels of a sting operation by the police the B.D.F. and the coastguard at the start of November on the Coastal Road in which a Toyota Prado loaded with fifteen bails of cocaine […]
