Solicitor General Nigel Hawke appears on behalf of the Attorney General. During his turn before the bench, the Sol Gen argued that Titan International Securities folded as a result of the indictment and not as a consequence of the raid on its premises. Nigel Hawke, Solicitor General “It is our respectful submission that they […]
From the CCJ in Trinidad to the Supreme Court in Belize, a third and last person accused with the 2013 murder of sixty-one year old truck driver George Blanco was granted bail today. Thirty-year old Roque Middleton, received bail of twenty-five thousand dollars before Justice Adolph Lucas. Middleton, however, has to meet various conditions including […]
A San Pedro man was stabbed multiple times this morning. Police say that thirty-five-year-old bartender Marlon Escobar had a misunderstanding with his employer Ahmad Mousa, owner of Marlins Bar in San Pedro, when Mousa allegedly stabbed him. Escobar was airlifted from San Pedro’s Polyclinic and is hospitalized at the KHMH where he underwent surgery. He […]
The first six months of this year, has been bloody especially in the City where on Thursday night the murder of another teenager was recorded. There are more patrols on the ground and new initiatives to engage young persons, but still crime is persistent and stubborn. Tonight, the Informed Teen reporters, or ITR’s for short, […]
A murder-suicide claimed the lives of a Belizean woman and her American husband. Thirty-five-year-old Rushan Tucker was shot and killed by her husband Malcolm Tucker on Sunday morning in their Seattle, Washington home. According to online media reports, Tucker, who lived in Belize City before relocating to the United States about ten years ago, was […]
Over the past month and a half, there have been a string of robberies within the city and elsewhere across the country and police are inching closer to the perpetrators. The versatile thieves pose as customers, dress as police officers and even as students when they carry out the armed robberies. But is it a […]
Despite an ongoing hunt, San Narciso businessman Omero Campos remains missing. Campos was abducted on June sixteenth when he headed to his farm in the nearby village San Victor, well known for contraband and other illicit activities. A one-million dollar ransom was demanded by kidnappers, but this week, an email surfaced where the purported abductors […]
Within twenty-four hours, there were three shootings in the north, west and south of the country that have left six persons hospitalized. On Tuesday, shortly after eight p.m., Orange Walk Police responded to the Northern Regional Hospital and then to the residence of Nazario Herrera in Trial Farm Village where a wild shooting landed four […]
Also on Tuesday night, there was a shooting shortly after nine p.m. in Bella Vista Village on the Southern Highway. Nineteen-year-old Valerio Bak was shot multiple times to the body by one of three men from the village with whom he had conflict. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett says that Bak was treated at […]
Russell Hyde Junior has been charged for the aggravated assault and wounding of Jose Gonzalez, who was shot on Sunday in Camalote Village. Gonzalez was shot to the chest as he and a friend were returning from Buena Vista and stopped at the farm belonging to the deceased father of Hyde Junior. The shooting victim […]
The spate of shooting started on Monday night in Camalote Village, in the Cayo District when Truman Parham was shot to the abdomen and arm by off-duty Police Corporal Luis Matute. An internal and criminal investigation is currently underway to determine whether the shooting was justified, since multiple recorded statements say that Parham entered the […]
On Monday we reported a home invasion in Saint Matthew’s Village. Bibiana Kus and her family were accosted by a pair of armed men, who stormed her property sometime after nine p.m. on Saturday and stole an assortment of jewelry and her vehicle. The vehicle was recovered, but the jewelry remains missing. Today, police say […]
A pregnant woman is critical after a wild shooting at her home in Trial Farm Village on Tuesday night. 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. A lone gunman made his way into the yard, pulled out a […]
An officer-involved shooting in Camalote Village on Monday flew below the radar for over thirty-six hours, despite several inquiries to ascertain what transpired that evening. Forty-four-year-old Truman Parham was shot by off-duty Corporal Luis Matute during an incident in which it is alleged that he entered the policeman’s yard wielding a machete. Parham, who reportedly […]
A post mortem examination, following the death of fifty-six-year-old Lindberg Anthony inside a holding cell in Crooked Tree Village, indicates that the well-known mechanic died as a result of asphyxia due to hanging. That’s according to a relative of his whom we spoke with by phone this evening. It is reported that on Saturday night […]
Belmopan Police have arrested and charged a man and a woman in the brutal chopping death of fifty-two-year-old Santos Guerra Dominguez. Guatemalan nationals’ forty-year-old Arnulfo Nunez Gonzalez and thirty-nine-year-old Hilcia Cano Arevalo, both of Franks Eddy Village, were jointly charged with the murder of Guerra Dominguez. Sometime around four on Sunday morning, the Salvadoran national […]
Just before the close of business on Monday night, a robbery occurred in the heart of Corozal Town on Fifth Avenue. Shan He, the proprietor of Mo’s Supermarket, was targeted by a pair of armed robbers. According to the Chinese businessman, the two men entered his store with their faces covered; one was armed with […]
Police made a bust today in Belmopan in which two men were arrested. During a joint operation before three o’clock this afternoon, a vehicle was searched between miles forty-eight and forty-nine on the George Price Highway. Forty-year-old taxi driver of Belama Phase One in Belize City, Deon Flowers was driving the vehicle and travelling with […]
On Monday, we reported that one of our viewers from Hopkins in southern Belize reached out to our newsroom saying that she recognized Jane Doe, a Caucasian woman, whose body washed up on shore in the coastal village. She sent pictures of the person, who has since been identified as Leanne Gagliardi. According to police, […]
A Salvadoran national was murdered in Frank’s Eddy Village, Cayo District in the early hours of Sunday morning. Santos Guerra Dominguez was reportedly in Belize visiting his son for the past month and was considering relocating from El Salvador. But he met a cruel death, chopped to the face and head with a machete, after […]
Another business has been hit by robbers. Since the beginning of the month, we have been reporting on a considerable spike in the number of armed robberies which have seemingly moved from Belize City to its surrounding communities. This morning in Ladyville, an armed robber targeted the Moneygram office at Ramon’s Plaza and relieved the […]
Thirty-year-old Rene Godoy was beaten to death by a group of villagers in Silk Grass in the wee early hours of June twenty-first. The Salvadoran national was allegedly involved in a number of chopping incidents in that southern community prior to being attacked by an angry mob which took justice into its own hands. Godoy […]
The badly decomposed remains of a Caucasian woman, believed to be a visitor, was found along a stretch of sandy beach on the south end of Hopkins Village on Friday morning. The body of Jane Doe was discovered after it had washed up on shore sometime earlier. An autopsy later determined that the unidentified woman […]
A farmhand is lucky to have escaped grave injury after being shot in the chest on Sunday in Camalote Village. Jose Gonzalez had been working on a property belonging to the deceased Russell Hyde Senior when he was shot once to the right upper chest. According to the shooting victim, he and a friend of […]
Omero Campos, the San Narciso businessman, who was abducted from his farm near San Victor, remains missing since June seventeenth. Soon after, his kidnappers via a phone call from a Mexican cell number, demanded from the Campos’ family a million dollar ransom which they were unable to raise. The family has spoken to Campos once […]
