On Friday afternoon just as the lunch hour expired, armed thieves ambushed a well-known business on Mahogany Street in Belmopan. The cashier at Diversified Life Solutions Office was beaten to a pulp by two men, one armed with a gun, as they demanded that he had over the money from the day’s sales. After enduring […]
Up north, Patchakan resident Dean Renald Bruhier was stopped and searched at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Fifth Street, Corozal Town on Saturday night just before nine o’clock. Inside a knapsack bag, he was carrying about nine point five pounds of weed tightly packaged in seven parcels. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett told […]
There was an execution in the city early on Tuesday night but stevedore, Raymond Arnold did not survive the second attempt on his life. At about seven-thirty after completing his duties for the day at the Port, Arnold was murdered. He was heading to his house in the Port Loyola area when a gunman on […]
Belize remains on Tier Three in respect of human trafficking. A report by the State Department knocks the government for not fully meeting the minimum standards for the elimination of the scourge and goes further to say that there were no efforts to prosecute government employees complicit in trafficking. The report was issued at the […]
On Thursday, police seized one hundred and nineteen grams of cannabis from a Teakettle resident in the Cayo District. During a patrol in the village, police spotted twenty-five year old Gabriel Vasquez, sitting at a bus stop in the village. Vasquez was seen placing a knapsack behind him which when searched contained the four ounces […]
Two females came under gunfire on Wednesday night in the south side of Belize City. The city has been silent of gunfire for days, but around seven-thirty p.m., up to eighteen shots rang out on Kraal Road. Residents scattered as the bullets ricocheted off the pavement and nearby metal bars and houses in the area. […]
A Belizean businessman who also holds Guatemalan citizenship is being held in Guatemala following an overnight raid in Melchor de Mencos on Tuesday. On Wednesday, we reported that thirty-three-year-old Francisco Javier de la Ho Duarte had been caught with two AK-47 rifles, seventy-five rounds of ammunition and cash in an assortment of currencies from U.S. […]
There were two robberies and a home invasion in less than twenty-four hours in the Old Capital, beginning late on Tuesday night and into Wednesday afternoon. As we’ve reported, armed thieves made off with a cell phone and some jewelry from a couple just before midnight on Tuesday on Pitter Street, Belize City. The couple […]
A traffic officer was busted with weed on Wednesday on the George Price Highway. Police at the checkpoint at mile four detected the city council employee traveling on motorcycle carrying two knapsacks. When twenty-eight-year-old Stafford Young was intercepted and searched, the cops found that the knapsacks contained over twelve pounds of weed, neatly packaged in […]
Since Monday, there have been two robberies in the Corozal District; and although they were miles apart, in both instances four armed men held up the proprietors of the Chinese-owned business establishments. The first incident occurred on Monday evening around four-thirty p.m. in San Andres Village at San Fa Construction Supplies. According to the proprietor, […]
Within the twenty-four hours, a group of four thieves would strike again, this time at a convenience store at mile sixty-nine on the Phillip Goldson Highway, also in the Corozal District. While the culprits were dressed differently, the police was asked whether there is a ring of robbers carrying out these robberies that have become […]
Armed robbers also struck in the north side of the city. The first occurred around ten a.m. at mile two and a half on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Tacos vendor Geisy Molina says that a thief who posed as a customer approached and ordered tacos; he said he would return to pick up his order. […]
Hours later, another robbery occurred at a popular tortilla factory in the King’s Park area; and fortunately, several persons have since been detained. Forty-seven-year-old Maureen Lainfiesta, the cashier at Cortez Tortilla Factory on ‘C’ Street in Belize City, was held up by two men with rags over their faces; one of the perps was armed […]
A Belizean businessman was busted with an AK-47, ammunition, drugs and thousands of dollars in different currencies in Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala. Thirty-three-year-old Francisco Javier de la Ho Duarte along with forty-three-year-old Aolibama Mengibar were captured in a raid conducted by police in Melchor de Mencos on Tuesday night. Police found the duo with two […]
A couple endured a terrifying home invasion on Tuesday night on Pitter Street in Belize City. Fifty-eight-year-old Salvadoran national Vilma Ramirez and her husband Elias Ramirez were held up by two armed robbers inside their home and tonight they say they fear for their safety. Elias Ramirez says that the frightening ordeal happened sometime before […]
Thirty-one-year-old Ryan Lopez was caught with a cache of uncustomed goods on Tuesday night. At around eight-forty-five, police in Benque Viejo del Carmen intercepted Lopez who was driving a Suzuki SUV. Lopez, who is a car dealer of Belmopan, had left from the Benque Viejo Free Zone when police intercepted his car. Inside the Suzuki, […]
One of the biggest challenges facing the country has to do with citizen’s security which is being affected by a range of criminal activity; from petty incidents to a network of gangs and drugs. From private citizens to businesses, all have become vulnerable to crime. Today, the Ministry of National Security brought together government and […]
A law firm messenger was shot to the head on Friday evening on Saint Thomas Street in Belize City by a gunman who was monitoring his movements. The twenty-three-year-old was carrying an envelope with documents that turned out to be birth certificates when a gunman pounced on him. After Nyrere Parchue handed over the envelope, […]
A criminal investigation into the violent stabbing of Adrian Suarez remains ongoing even as his common-law wife has been released from detention. Police say their investigation led to a search of a home in San Pedro where the incident reportedly took place, but were unable to ascertain where he had been injured. Earlier today, an […]
Belize City police have made an arrest in the robbery of Tony’s Store on Daly Street in late-June. A seventeen-year-old has been taken before the lower court after being busted several weeks after the incident. His accomplices, described by police as an adult and a minor, are also being sought in connection with the robbery. […]
The Portofino Resort on north Ambergris Caye was burglarized in the early hours of Sunday morning by someone who broke into the main office and made off with a pair of safes. Inside the money box was sixteen thousand dollars in both U.S. and Belize currencies. According to thirty-one-year-old Raul Rodriguez, the thief also stole […]
Reports were received of a shooting incident this evening in Belize City for which one man, believed to be a messenger, was injured. Sometime around five o’clock rush hour, the corners of Saint Joseph and Saint Thomas Streets in the vicinity of the YWCA swimming pool was cordoned off by police who responded to the […]
The month of June saw the lowest number of murders; a fact that the Ministry of Police is recognizing in a release. But overall for the first six months of the year, the aggregate number shows that as many as eighty-eight persons were killed and that figure surpasses the 2017 numbers. The preceding months of […]
It went under the radar, but two weeks ago, American fugitive Kenneth Collins Dunn was caught in the Philippines with a Belizean passport under the name of Kelsey Brian Dunn. Reports from Manila are that Dunn was intercepted at the airport when he tried to mislead the agents by booking a flight to the United […]
A forty-one-year-old resident of Belize City narrowly escaped death on Wednesday night after a second attempt was made on his life. Michael Tesecum was on Tiburce Street when a gunman came dangerously close to him and opened fire. The shooter then fled leaving the injured victim to die on the street. He was hit three […]
