There was a brazen home invasion at a popular restaurant in the Yabra area. On Sunday afternoon, the proprietors of Fantaxia Restaurant located on Queen Charlotte Street in Belize City were held up by three masked men, who carried a knife and two guns. The armed burglars proceeded to tie up an elderly woman and […]
A report was made to the Police over the weekend of the abduction of a minor. On Saturday sometime after three p.m., a fifteen-year-old girl reported that she was walking on Holy Emmanuel Street heading towards La Croix Boulevard. Within minutes, a white heavily tinted SUV stopped about four feet from her before a cyclist […]
Five Mexican nationals, who were detained on Thursday evening at a boutique, were released on Saturday afternoon. After being held for almost three days, forty-seven-year-old attorney Reymundo Choc, his wife thirty-year-old Norma Gonzalez, forty-seven-year-old Victorino Rivera, thirty-five-year-old Jovita Sagredo and Blanca Sagredo were free to go without any charges. Choc and Rivera were held at […]
Police also reported today on an attempted rape in Corozal. A Hispanic man is in custody tonight pending charges of assault of a female minor in San Andres, Corozal. On Sunday night, a seventeen-year-old girl was riding a bicycle near the Corozal Community College auditorium when she was attacked. According to the minor, she was […]
Police are looking for a suspect in a shooting on Sunday night in which a man was injured. Twenty-nine-year-old Darryl Berry it seems was at the wrong place at the wrong time because as he rode his bicycle towards the intersection of Fabers Road Extension and the George Price Highway, he was struck in the […]
In late August, we reported on a shooting incident on Mahogany Street where Dawn Parchue had been shot multiple times to the body. The attempt made on her life was as a result of an altercation minutes earlier with a group of persons at a restaurant in the area. Three weeks later, police were able […]
Going into the weekend, we reported on the brazen robbery in Belmopan in which two minors were involved; they were caught at the bus terminal with the loot and a recreational weapon in hand. The two young men, a fifteen and a sixteen-year-old from the Saint Martin’s area of Belize City, were today arraigned in […]
A twenty-eight-year-old housekeeper of San Pedrito area of San Pedro has been arrested and charged for drug trafficking. According to the report, Dorla Morales was caught red-handed at the boat dock in San Pedro with four parcels of compressed cannabis. Three thousand two hundred and seventy-seven grams or the equivalent of seven point one-one pounds […]
A twenty-three-year-old fisherman of a Pelican Street address in San Pedro is also missing. Miguel Arroyo left home on September tenth en-route to a store and has not been seen or heard from since. He is described as a person of Hispanic decent five feet seven inches in height, slim built, green eyes and black […]
Five Mexican nationals, two men and four women, were detained by Belize City Police on Thursday evening. They are forty-seven-year-old attorney Reymundo Choc, his wife thirty-year-old Norma Gonzalez, forty-seven-year-old Victorino Rivera, thirty-five-year-old Jovita Sagredo and Blanca Sagredo. Choc and Rivera are being held at the Raccoon Street Police Station, while the three women are in […]
Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber today chimed in on the recent drug plane landing in northern Belize for which two Mexicans and three Belizeans including superintendent of police, David Chi, have been charged. The fourteen million dollar cargo on board the CESSNA plane was cocaine packed in bales. Faber says that Belize is a victim […]
The proclamation on a “State of Public Emergency” on two south side neighbourhoods in Belize City has been met with criticism from various quarters on the basis that it violates the human rights of persons living in these areas. The measure was approved by Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber on September fourth as a reaction […]
Two minors are in police custody pending charges of armed robbery. The two young men, one fifteen and another sixteen years old, believed to be from Belize City, were captured on camera holding-up the owner of Tai San Shop in Belmopan with a pellet gun. The robbery lasted for about a minute, before noon on […]
A missing person report has been filed by a thirty-year-old domestic of Orange Walk Town who told police that her husband, Julio Estuardo Choc left home on September ninth for work in Belmopan and has not been seen or heard from since. The driver did not arrive at work on that day and there has […]
Three Belizeans and two Mexican nationals were arraigned in court this morning on charges relating to a drug plane that landed on September eleventh in Tres Leguas, near Blue Creek, Orange Walk District. The cargo was one thousand two hundred and twenty-six pounds of cocaine, with a value of fourteen million dollars. The arraignment took […]
Forty persons including adults and minors who police have determined are gang members have been transferred to the Hattieville Central prison where they will be locked up until the end of this month. On Wednesday, which marked the seventh day since they had been detained, the group was transported to prison from the holding cells […]
Amid the ongoing public discourse on the state of emergency in parts of Belize City is a fear that upon release, there is potential for aggrieved gang members to retaliate on members of society. It’s a serious concern that may not be allayed by tough talk alone. Earlier today, Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams […]
With a state of emergency in effect for two south side neighborhoods, are other Belize City gangs laying low or is there potential for a flare up elsewhere? When asked that question at today’s press conference, Deputy ComPol Williams revealed that similar documents have been drafted for the entire south side of the Old Capital […]
Two months ago, Placencia resident Shane Vellos stopped by our office to share his experience of police brutality. Vellos was locked up after he was accused of theft, but later released and never charged. However, Vellos claims that he was badly beaten by an officer who also broke his left arm. Today, his father, Rudolph […]
An Asian businessman was robbed at gunpoint on Monday morning in Armenia Village. According to the owner of Yung Xing Store, a duo of men entered his place of business on the tenth of September and relieved him of an unspecified amount of cash. While no arrests have been made, police say they are following […]
A cache of firearms and ammunition was seized in an area of San Ignacio Town last Thursday. The hidden supply of weapons and marijuana was discovered in an overgrown property in the Shawville neighborhood. According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett, one of the guns traces back to El Salvador where the military had […]
Seven days ago in the dead of the night more than one hundred purported gang members from the Mayflower/Banak and George Streets were detained and placed in c ells at the Queen Street and Raccoon Street police stations. The round-up happened within-hours of a proclamation of the controversial special public emergency zones in the two […]
The state of public emergency which has been effected in the George Street and Mayflower neighborhoods waives certain constitutional rights enjoyed by the citizenry of those respective communities. With the incarceration of almost sixty persons, will they also be denied privileges that have been extended to those on remand or convicted inmates? Those freedoms include […]
As you’ve heard, the legal fraternity, including the Bar Association and the Human Rights Commission of Belize, has weighed in on the state of emergency that has been declared in parts of Belize City. Their position has resounded across the media in the days that followed the rounding up of gang members. But what about […]
Still on the State of Public Emergency, the Taiwanese Government has issued an advisory to its citizen living in Belize to exercise caution. The advisory was issued on Monday by Taiwan’s Bureau of Consular Affairs which advised its citizens to remain vigilant and pay attention to their own safety, avoid crowded places and stay tuned […]
