A police constable is facing criminal and disciplinary charges after he was found with a stash of contraband beers. Benque Viejo Police were conducting a vehicular checkpoint around five on Sunday evening when they stopped a vehicle driven by Godfrey Moreira. Inside the pickup, they found the uncustomed beverage. ACP Joseph Myvett told us more: […]
A Guatemalan national has been charged for having unlicensed firearm and ammunition in his possession. Police say that forest rangers discovered the Guatemalan inside Belize’s territory somewhere near the Caracol archaeological site. He was detained and handed over to the authorities. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Forest Rangers handed over to […]
A Canadian woman was stabbed four times on Sunday around four-thirty p.m. in San Pedro. According to police, Christina Pott was asleep inside a hotel room on the north end of Ambergris Caye when a man broke in through a window and attacked her while she slept. Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo gave a brief on […]
An argument between two friends on Sunday night in Maskall Village has left one man hospitalized. Police say that sometime before eleven o’clock, Samuel Torres was walking in the village when he met a friend; the men got into an argument and Torres was stabbed twice. He is in a stable condition at the Karl […]
A female referee was physically assaulted by a football player on Sunday evening in the Corozal District where she was officiating a match between San Antonio and Concepcion Village. According to thirty-one-year-old Yuri Daniels, she was viciously punched in the mouth after issuing a red card to Darnel Mossiah for unsportsmanlike behavior towards other players. […]
A mother of three from Punta Gorda, who moved to the city a year ago, was senselessly killed on Thursday night. The suspect is her babies’ daddy. Roxanna Pop was at a popular store on Central American Boulevard when she was stabbed three times to the abdomen. The injuries lead to her quick demise at […]
The spate of armed robberies continued this afternoon in the city when two men held up two gas pump attendants at PUMA Gas Station on the Philip Goldson Highway. Security footage shows the duo, one armed with a handgun, approaching the unsuspecting attendants and robbing them of an undisclosed amount of cash. This latest, brazen, […]
There was another robbery of a business house overnight in Corozal Town. Quality Poultry Product and Chicken Express was jacked sometime after five o’clock on Thursday evening when the store closed for business. The manager, Ingrid Vega, went back to work this morning at eight o’clock and discovered that thieves had gained access into the […]
A total of one hundred and fifty robberies were reported for the first six months of 2018. This is an increase of fifty-two robberies when compared to the same period in 2017. The total figure, however, has increased significantly since June. In the past month, we have been reporting on a number of armed robberies […]
One more issue on crime…a top crime investigator has been assigned to the murder of seventy-four-year-old Richard Foster. Inspector Aban is leading the investigative team with the hopes to make a significant arrest by this weekend and crack the case. The British filmmaker was kidnapped from his home at Savanna Guest House sometime Monday night […]
Robbers jacked a store in Mango Creek, Independence on Wednesday and unknown to them; surveillance camera captured the armed burglary which lasted for just over a minute but likely felt like a lifetime to the victim. Three robbers acting in tandem entered the grocery store named Lisa Store. One held up the cashier at gunpoint […]
One man has been detained for the fatal stabbing of seventy-four-year-old British filmmaker Richard Foster. Foster’s body was found a day after he was kidnapped from his home at Savanna Guest House on the George Price Highway. His body was found by a resident of the Rivera area of Belmopan on Tuesday night. Today, police […]
On Tuesday afternoon around five-thirty, there was a home invasion at an apartment complex on Campus Avenue in the north side of Belize City. Armed burglars gained access to the building through an unlocked burglar bar door and swept through three rooms undetected. When they got to apartment number seven, however, tenant Rosa Soria was […]
Earlier this week we reported about the attempted robbery of Carlos Ortiz at his fruit shop on Coney Drive for which a man was detained. That suspect, Luis Miguel Beaton, was caught by police onboard a city bus, which is believed to be the means of transport used by the alleged culprit to escape from […]
Police have yet to detain a suspect in the San Pedro fire that has since been determined to be a case of arson. Several statements have been recorded as the investigation continues into the early morning blaze in the Boca Del Rio area on Saturday. As has been reported, ten houses were gutted and eighty-seven […]
An eighty-thousand-dollar Containerized Test Fire Range was today handed over to the National Forensic Science Service. The donation comes courtesy of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament, and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2008 U.N. LIREC undertook a technical mission to Belize to provide training and assistance in the area […]
Shockwaves were felt across the conservation and film industry communities after it was learned that the body of seventy-four-year-old Richard Foster was found on Tuesday night. The well known British filmmaker had been brutally stabbed and his body was dumped in the Rivera area of Belmopan. The gruesome discovery was made at around eight o’clock […]
There is growing concern tonight for the safety of Richard Foster, the famed film maker who has made Belize his home for decades. When he did not answer calls from his wife Carol, who is in the United States, a check of the property revealed that something was awfully wrong. His house was found open, […]
As has been reported, the fire that cleared down a block of ten houses in the Boca Del Rio area was deliberately set. On Monday, Fire Chief Ted Smith confirmed that the blaze was caused by an incendiary that started in the house of Angelita Velasquez. The well-known food vendor and artisan was not at […]
Hours before the devastating fire in San Pedro, a man was stabbed to death inside his house on Caribeña Street on the island. The chopping victim is Carlos Valdes. He was found lifeless by off-duty police officer, Nestor Campus, around seven-thirty on Friday night. Campus lives in an adjacent room from where he detected Gilbert […]
Have you seen Nyle Vasquez from Dangriga? The wanted man is on the run and police are looking for him. On Saturday, the twenty-four-year-old construction worker was arrested and charged for the July second murder of Melvin Locke that happened in Dangriga. But Vasquez escaped from police custody a few hours later that Saturday evening […]
A minor and an eighteen-year-old man were today arrested by Belize City police after they allegedly attempted to rob a fruit and vegetable shop. The botched robbery happened at around ten o’clock on Coney Drive at Anna Delia’s Food Shop. The family told News Five that two young men first appeared, wanting to buy bananas […]
A Quality Poultry Products deliveryman was jacked of seven thousand dollars on the job. The employee told police that on Saturday around three-thirty he was parked on Nim Li Punit Street in front of a supermarket in Belmopan when two armed men approached him and demanded money. Fearing for his life, he handed over the […]
A former accountant at Santander Limited was arrested and charged with theft of over two hundred thousand dollars from the Spanish company. Last Thursday, the Santander’s management reported to police that after an audit they discovered that there were a number of unaccounted cheques that had been cashed and the trail led back to the […]
Police say they made some progress in the burglary that happened at Odette’s Store in Orange Walk. They conducted a search at the home of Martin Mendoza on San Pedro Street in Orange Walk Town and there they found several items that were burglarized from Odette’s. Around two on Thursday morning, three armed, masked men […]
