Bennett’s legal representative, Audrey Matura, explained the arduous process of seeking and securing his release. The life sentence was initially appealed at the Court of Appeal where it was dismissed. As a final attempt, Matura applied for leave for the matter to be heard before the C.C.J. Audrey Matura, Attorney for Japhet Bennett “After […]
A pair of robbers made off with an undisclosed amount of money on Wednesday night after they held up the owner of CP Gas Station in Belize City. Two men, one armed with a firearm entered CP Gas Station at around seven o’clock and while one of them pretended to be buying, the other went […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Felina Margaret James has not been heard from or seen since Thursday, October eleventh. The mother of two was reportedly on her way to Sarteneja Village in her grey Kia Sportage to gather her belongings as she had decided to permanently move to Belize City. James, however, never made it home and three identification […]
Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Moore became a free man on Wednesday night after Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams told him that the murder case against him is being discontinued. Moore who was on remand for the 2010 murder of Andrew Moses was told that the DPP’s office decided to discontinue the case against him due to lack […]
The man investigators believed fatally shot thirty-six-year-old Kevin Thomas remains under police guard at the K.H.M.H. Police say that as soon as he is released the charge of murder will be levied against him. Shadron Gillett is accused of fatally shooting Thomas several times on Monday night. Thomas was in front of Steven’s Shop on […]
Police have issued bulletins for two men wanted for murder. Eighteen-year-old Leonidis Perez seen in this picture is five feet five inches in height and weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds, his address is Salvapan, Belmopan. Police are also looking for John Albert Henry Junior. Henry Junior is thirty-five-years old and five feet seven […]
A Belize City woman is lucky to be alive tonight after someone attempted to burn down her house while she slept inside on Wednesday night. Twenty-one-year-old Andre Diaz was in deep slumber inside her Consuelo Street house when she heard the sound of sirens. When she exited, Diaz realized that someone had thrown a plastic […]
Shooting victim, Kevin Thomas, clung to life for less than two days. But tonight the raffle man, as he is known, is dead. Thomas was shot multiple times on Monday night while standing in front of a store on the Yarborough Road. The bullets penetrated his abdomen and head and though he underwent surgery at […]
There is an alarming report coming out of San Pedro Town, today. A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped at the hands of her step-father who is in custody and has been charged with rape of a child. He is a thirty-one-year-old Salvadoran National. The child’s mother visited the San Pedro Police Station on Tuesday morning […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice handed down two significant rulings today. As a result of the first, twenty-four-year-old Japhet Bennett is a free man tonight after spending close to a decade in prison. He was released from the Belize Central prison late this evening at the hands of his family and his attorney. His release […]
In the local courts, Honduran National, Elrin Archiaga has been found not guilty of murder by Belmopan’s Supreme Court Justice Antoinette Moore. Archiaga, who stood trial for the murder of Nigel Neal Tillett, was represented by Attorney Leroy Bradley Junior. The trial commenced on September twenty-first and ended on October fifth. During the trial three […]
Over the past months, fear has been building among Orange Walk Town residents as gun violence in that municipality is in an upward trend. Five persons have been fatally shot since July; four of them are known gang members. A sixth person, also a known gang member, was shot but he survived and then there […]
The son of Assistant Commissioner of Police, Noel Leal Junior, was executed and his Ladyville house ransacked likely by his killer over the weekend. Leal Junior was shot once to the back of his head inside his vehicle in an isolated area in the Mahogany Heights community on the George Price Highway. The thirty-three-year–old Ladyville […]
Tonight, Kevin Thomas, a popular raffle man, is fighting to stay alive at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital having undergone various rounds of surgery. Thomas was shot multiple times on the head and abdomen while at a Chinese Store in the Yarborough area. His alleged attacker waylaid him before letting loose a volley of bullets. […]
Prior to the shooting of Kevin Thomas, there was another act of gun violence over the extended weekend. Around one-thirty on Monday afternoon, in the vicinity of Belize Water Services Limited, forty-nine-year-old Elroy Saldano was fired upon by a lone gunman as he rode a bicycle in the direction of Central American Boulevard. According to […]
A pair of Guatemalan lawmen is in hot water for having crossed over into Belizean territory over the weekend with a concealed weapon inside their vehicle. Police officers Juan Garcia Palma and Armando Hub Pop were busted inside the Benque Viejo Free Zone on Saturday afternoon in possession of an Uzi submachine gun with matching […]
An American ex-pat died inside a swimming pool at her home on Saturday night in Consejo, Corozal District. Forty-nine-year-old Claire Elizabeth Rigdon was found floating in the pool by her husband who set out in search of her when he realized that she was nowhere to be seen. According to Robley Smith Rigdon, they were […]
Thirty-one-year-old Sharn Vanegas has been arrested and charged for the rape of a German national who reported to police that she was sexually assaulted by a pair of men with whom she caught a ride on Friday night. According to Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, both men were riding on separate motorcycles when they took the […]
Orange Police are making some progress in the murder of twenty-one-year-old Jose “Duffy” Medina. He was fatally shot last week Thursday while he was on an alley off Mahogany Street in Orange Walk Town. His girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Lucia Luna was also shot, but survived. One of the suspects who police were looking for handed himself […]
Fourteen-year-old Danielly Tillett left her home in August Pine Ridge en route to a nearby shop on September twenty-fourth and has not been seen by her mother since. Despite communicating with her parent by phone, authorities have not been able to locate the minor whom it is believed is in the company of a male […]
There was a fatal shooting in San Pedro on Thursday night. Two brothers Julian and Armando Trapp were among a group of friends when they came under fire. The Trapp brothers had just ordered food at a local restaurant on the island when they came under attack. Julian was hit many times and died inside […]
Orange Walk Police have made some progress in the murder investigation of twenty-one-year-old Jose “Duffy” Medina. Accompanied by an attorney, one of the persons wanted for questioning handed himself over to police today. That individual we are told is an associated of the Back-A-Town Crips Gang and is known to police. Going into the extended […]
Orange Police and the Orange Walk community are grappling with an escalating, internal gang war. Another Back-A-Town Gang associate was gunned down in broad daylight this morning. Twenty-one-year-old Jose “Duffy” Medina was fatally was executed as he rode his bicycle just a few feet away from the house he was renting off Mahogany Street. A […]
Two minors are behind bars tonight for the murder of San Ignacio teenager Bobby Garcia. Charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder were levied on the under-aged high school duo from the west on Wednesday. Garcia was stabbed multiple times inside a temple at the Cahal Pech Archaeological Site where a visitor found his […]
A twenty-six-year-old Belama resident was charged for the attempted murder of Thomas Ferguson. The nineteen-year-old Arlington Drive was targeted last Friday while talking to a friend a short distance from his house in Belize City. Ferguson was shot twice to the stomach and back and remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. Police say that they believe […]
