Two men have been charged for the murder of Eleazar Chan, including a fifteen-year-old. Police say that on Wednesday they arrested and charged nineteen-year-old Ronaldo Marin and the minor for Chan’s murder that happened on April first in Corozal. Today at the routine press brief, Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett disclosed how police were […]
Roaring Creek resident forty-five-year-old Nelson Twist has been released from the Western Regional Hospital having recovered from multiple stab wounds to the body following an incident on Saturday morning in the village. He was attacked by two men after he was involved in a dispute with his sister at his residence. Today, police say that […]
Police are investigating a recent fire on T-Street as a case of arson. According to the authorities, while the National Fire Service is exploring that angle, the fire left fifty-nine-year-old Gild Jones without a home. Jones, however, has not formally made a report that she had been threatened. As police await the final conclusion, they […]
There’s been a string of robberies across the City in recent weeks. The robbers started targeting business owners in the downtown area, but after police implemented the ‘operation safe zone,’ the criminals moved to the north side of the city. Police have been warning businesses to keep vigilant and report any suspicious activities. And that […]
A seventeen-year-old is recovering from stab wounds after he was brutally attacked in Hope Creek Village on July second sometime after ten-thirty in the morning. Police say that a group of young men in the village have an ongoing beef and targeted Jose Salinas. The suspect is a fifteen-year-old, but no one has been detained. […]
There were two robberies in Bella Vista Village last month. Two brothers were arrested and charged for burgling the same house on separate occasions. But the family of the boys says that it appears police conspired with villagers to have the brothers arrested and sent off to jail. ACP Joseph Myvett says they have received […]
On Wednesday morning sometime after one, a lone robber targeted the M and S Nightclub in Saint Matthews Village. According to Police, the owner was inside the business and was closing up when a man walked him and attacked him. The robber made off with a cell-phone, a turn-table music system and a vehicle. But […]
A teen was grazed by a bullet in Dangriga; the shots were reportedly fired by a police officer—not once, but three times. But the family says that they have not been able to get answers from the department because when the teenager was in the hospital, the same cop who shot him went to take […]
Police have cracked the murder of forty-two-year-old Eleazar Chan in the Corozal District. Two persons, including a minor, have been charged for the killing of the Louisville resident. The body of Chan was found in a cane field on an access road to San Pedro Village in April. The owner of the cane field made […]
Region One of Eastern Division has a new Deputy Commander and he is Superintendent Dwayne Sutherland. Sutherland, who was previously the Commander of the Belmopan Police Formation, has nineteen years of experience. He plans to use his expertise and skills to build upon what Gillett has been doing with community policing in the jurisdiction. […]
A constitutional case has finally brought relief to a minor whose liberty was breached by the Gang Suppression Unit. Six years ago, on July six, 2012, then fourteen-year-old Brhea Bowen was arrested by the Gang Suppression Unit while at a summer camp. On that same day, the G.S.U. searched her home on Lacroix Boulevard in […]
An emotional Brhea Bowen exited the court room of Supreme Court Justice Shona Griffith along with her mother, Romie Anthony, saying she hopes that she can put the nightmare behind her. Brhea Bowen, Claimant “All these years I have not really thought of it. I have talked about it but it is not something […]
A jury was still deliberating this evening in the court of Justice Colin Williams for a verdict in the case of Rudolph Smith Junior, charged with rape and aggravated burglary. Smith is accused in an incident that occurred in November, 2011, at a house on Berkley Street. At the time, a fifteen-year-old girl claimed that […]
A minor in Dangriga says that he was unjustly shot by a police officer. According to the family of seventeen-year-old Cameron Smith, on Sunday morning sometime before seven o’clock, an officer on patrol appeared to have signaled at him; he gave the officer a nod and continued on his way. Shortly after, while on the […]
Fifty-year-old Melvin Locke left his family and home on Sunday night for a routine game of dice in the Backatown area of Dangriga which he is known to frequent. The handyman, who is also called “Pack Bread,’’ didn’t return home alive. Just after midnight, he was executed as he and others were engrossed in a […]
There have been developments in the murder investigation of seventeen-year-old Warren Rudon who was shot and killed in Belize City on Thursday night. The teenager was fatally injured in an armed assault during which he was shot once in the head as he walked along Lovely Lane around seven-thirty p.m. Earlier today, the police department […]
Three Guatemalans escaped from the Belize Central Prison in the early hours of Sunday morning. The men, all charged with illegal entry into the Chiquibul National Park and firearm offences, were on remand when they broke out between one and three-thirty on Sunday morning. Police say they have set up checkup points to try and […]
We’ve been reporting on the growing number of robberies at businesses and residences on the north side of Belize City. Over the weekend, a well-known couple was targeted on Saturday night in a home invasion at the residence of seventy-two-year-old Solangel Arguelles on Baymen Avenue in Belize City. Miss Soli of Florasol and her husband […]
There were two unrelated stabbing incidents in the west over the weekend that occurred within minutes of each other and in separate villages along with George Price Highway. Both victims are currently hospitalized in stable condition at the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan and police have since detained one of the suspects and are looking […]
Even before the incident in Georgeville, further east in the village of Roaring Creek, a family dispute ended with the multiple stabbing of a forty-five-year-old resident. Just after midnight on Friday, two men assaulted Nelson Twist at his residence in the village; he was badly beaten before the men stabbed him as many as seven […]
Police say a man was grazed to the head by a bullet whilst he was riding his bicycle in Punta Gorda. On Friday night around ten-thirty, Police were called out to Jose Maria Nunez Street where they saw an injured Brighton Jacobs. Jacobs has since refused to cooperate with police, but cops say they want […]
Police say there is not much to report on the investigation into missing San Narciso businessman Omero Campos. Campos was kidnapped on June sixteenth in San Victor Village where the family owns a farm. Police say that while the family has not made any ransom payment, it is not known if Campos has been harmed. […]
Police have arrested and charged Bruce Henry in connection with a wild shooting that injured four persons, including a pregnant woman, in Trial Farm, Orange Walk last week Tuesday. Diana Ack was shot several times as she was with her common-law husband Nazario Herrera and friends at their house on San Narciso Street in the […]
The last murder in Belize City took place on June fourteenth, but that spell was broken on Thursday night when seventeen-year old Warren Rudon was executed on Lovely Lane. The gunman trailed Rudon as he walked towards the area known as Jungle. The teenager was on his way to visit some friends when the gunman […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice presided over a matter earlier today in which the principals of Titan International Securities are suing the Government of Belize. The lawsuit arises from the closure of the company, following a raid of its offices on the fourth floor of the Matalon Building on September ninth, 2014. On that afternoon, […]
