This evening, officers attached to Precinct Two in Belize City took to the streets to meet with residents in the areas of Euphrates and Amara Avenues, as well as nearby George Street. The brief session was part of the department’s weekly outreach where cops learn from the public its concerns regarding safety and citizen security […]
A hot dog vendor of Belize City was robbed and shot dead in front of his home on Sunday morning. Forty-four-year-old Honduran businessman Juan Angel Vargas, who had lived in Belize for nearly twenty years, had just come home to Tigris Street from a night of vending and playing pool. While he and a co-worker […]
A resident of Santa Elena was killed in the early hours of Monday morning outside a night club in San Ignacio. Contrary to speculations that Kyne Gentle was partying at the club, the family says he was never there to party just to buy a plate of food from street vendors. But shortly after he […]
There is yet another murder case, similar to that in Belmopan last Tuesday in which it is believed that a British national was killed and then his house set on fire to conceal the crime. Over the long weekend in Hopkins, there was a murder inside what used to be Flomon’s Guesthouse on the main […]
Tonight, the Conch Shell Bay community is mourning the death of Michelle Anderson, a staple at the nearby fish market whose job was to scrape and clean the day’s catch. Anderson was one of two persons injured during a mid-morning shooting at the Michael Finnegan Market on Monday. She was in the process of preparing […]
A trio of Roaring Creek men is in police custody tonight pending charges of handling stolen goods, after being found in possession of a number of items belonging to Bruce Davidson. The British national has been reported missing, despite charred human remains being found on his property following a fire last Tuesday near the outskirts […]
A twenty-year-old young man from Roaring Creek Village is missing tonight and his family fears the worst. Oswald Arnold was last seen alive around five o’clock on Thursday evening and promised his family he would return the next day from a fishing trip with a group of friends. The friends made it back safely, but […]
Tonight a family is worried as their mother and partner has been missing for a week. The last anyone saw of Sharon Ferguson, she had left her home following an argument and has not been heard from since. Ferguson is of Creole descent, has two missing front teeth and stands about five feet six inches […]
It’s not exactly a glamorous profession, but the Department of General Sales Tax is reporting tonight that there are people out there impersonating officers of the department. All G.S.T. officers must have and present their identification cards identifying themselves as G.S.T. officers when interacting with registered persons. The General Sales Tax Act, Section fifty-four, makes […]
A twenty-year-old hospital attendant of Belize City was arrested and charged with drug trafficking. On Thursday night, just before eight-thirty, members of the Mobile Interdiction Team were on patrol in the Faber’s Road area when they stopped and searched a backpack that Travane Trapp was carrying. Police discovered a little over seven and half pounds […]
There was also a drug bust up north in Orange Walk District. On Thursday just before five in the morning, the Quick Response Team conducted a search at a house belonging to Jerry Vasquez on San Juan Alley, Orange Walk. That search led to the discovery of three thousand one hundred and fifty grams of […]
There is an update to the arson in Belmopan where the body of a man was discovered on Tuesday. As we told you British national Bruce Davidson is believed to have been killed and his house on Jordan Ranch Road off the Banana Bank Road, set on fire to conceal the murder. His vehicle, identified […]
Police and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions are in a pickle tonight because they are revisiting manslaughter charges slapped against three men in Orange Walk. Last Thursday, twenty-six-year-old immigration officer Leodegario Chan, twenty-four-year-old welder Carlos Westby and twenty-eight-year-old Delthran Perez, all of Trial Farm Village, were first jointly charged with the crime […]
There is some progress in the investigation into the brazen killing of American national Lamont Lipka in San Pedro. On Sunday night, the forty-nine-year-old restaurateur, better known as “Monty”, was shot and killed in front of his employees and customers inside his restaurant, Tropical Bar and Grill. Lipka was shot six times to the face […]
There is another case that police are trying to crack and they are not getting any help from the results of an autopsy conducted on charred remains of a human body, discovered after a fire in Belmopan. Those results are inconclusive on the cause of death and the identity of the person also remains unknown. […]
Police today gave an update on the shooting at the Valencia Street residence of Mayor Belisle. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett confirmed today that the department is exploring a lead into who targeted the mayor’s house. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “The investigation is still ongoing. We are following one […]
A thirty-two-year-old accountant from San Jose Palmar Village in Orange Walk District was the victim of a shooting on Wednesday night. Jose Oscar Santana says he was inside his yard when someone from across the street opened fire at him. The gunman reportedly hid within an overgrown lot before taking aim at the unsuspecting man, […]
Austin Williams is tonight recovering at the Southern Regional Hospital, reportedly under police guard, following a shooting incident that occurred overnight in Seine Bight Village on the peninsula. Williams was socializing with another person when he was assaulted by a gunman who simply walked up to him and opened fire. He was hit twice and […]
As we reported on Wednesday, police arrested and charged Benjamin Reid for the murder of Daniel Guardado who was shot and killed on May fifth on Partridge Street Extension. Today, Assistant Superintendent of Police Alejandro Cowo confirms that the repairman was executed in a case of mistaken identity. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Eastern […]
Police suspect that a cluster of houses in the Banana Bank area in the outskirts of Belmopan was set on fire to disguise a murder. The fire swept through the four wooden houses early on Tuesday afternoon, but around three o’clock firefighters found the charred remains of a man believed to be British national Bruce […]
Police have arrested and charged twenty-one-year-old Benjamin Alexander Reid for the murder of Daniel Guardado. After leaving his place of work on the night of Saturday May fifth, Guardado was hanging out with friends and left the group briefly to make a purchase and promised to return but he never did. A single gunman ambushed […]
Brent Borland, principal of Borland Capital Group and an investment manager from New York, faces separate criminal and civil cases in the Southern District of New York and by the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to Reuters news agency, forty-eight-year-old Borland is accused of securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy counts in relation to diverting […]
As connected as we all are via computers and the Internet, society is becoming increasingly vulnerable to attacks on personal security and information. It can be quite a job keeping up with the hackers and others demanding open access, but companies are adapting to the new reality. Today a U.S. firm visited Belize to tout […]
Belmopan’s Mayor Khalid Belisle was awoken on Monday night to the sound of gun blasts. Located on Cohune Walk in the capital, there were at least four bullet holes on the concrete structure of his house and another four shots to a car parked on the street in front of the mayor’s house. Belisle retired […]
Monday night’s shooting in Cohune Walk happened less than a hundred feet away from a police booth at the entrance of the community. That checkpoint, according to Mayor Belisle, has been out of operation and is in need of urgent repair. While those works are pending, he is focusing tonight on beefing up security at […]
