At around midday today, San Pedro police conducted a search at the residence of thirty-seven-year-old Brionne Deston Swift, a fisherman of the DFC area. The joint operation led to the discovery of a transparent plastic bag containing eight point four grams of cocaine hidden inside a speaker. They also found several quantities of cannabis amounting […]
There have been an alarming number of homicides countrywide for the first five months of this year and counting. More than sixty-five are recorded which means that so far, there are as many as seventeen more than in 2017. Even worse is that over fifty percent of those murders have been committed in Belize City […]
A postmortem examination is pending following further investigation into a body found on Monday morning off the Placencia peninsula. Reports are that the remains of a man, who has since been identified as Juan Cordero Caducio, was seen floating near Harvest Caye in southern Belize. The seventy-three-year-old naturalized Belizean left his home on the peninsula […]
An American businessman was murdered in cold blood inside his restaurant in San Pedro Town on Sunday night. Lamont Lipka of Texas, U.S.A was inside his bar and grill on the south end of the island when a man walked inside and fired several shots killing him behind the cash register. Police say they are […]
More than two weeks after Demetrio Pott and his brother were badly beaten following a traffic accident in Trial Farm, Orange Walk on April twenty-seventh. The forty-seven-year-old succumbed to his injuries this Saturday at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he and his brother were attacked immediately after they had crashed into another vehicle. Late […]
Richard Hyde is tonight in big trouble with the law after he was charged on Saturday and arraigned today for the murder of Luis Monge, who was killed on Friday morning in Belmopan during a stabbing outside of La Cabana Night Club. Monge and a friend had pursued Hyde who reportedly stole a chain from […]
A seventeen-year-old minor from Mayflower Street in Belize City was remanded today following a shooting incident on Saturday morning, in which a minor was injured. According to police, just before ten a.m., officers responded to shots fired at the corner of Vernon Street and Central American Boulevard. Upon arrival there, police were informed that a […]
Former registry employees Alvan Alvarez and Benedict Pascascio are tonight without jobs having been charged for forgery at the Registry of the Supreme Court. The two clerks are accused of forging two certificates last week and the Registrar General called in the police, who took the men into custody. They were formally arrested and charged […]
Just before ten p.m. on Saturday, a robbery at a restaurant in Belmopan led to a vehicle chase involving police and the robbers. That pursuit quickly escalated to a shootout, but unfortunately the robbers still got away with an undisclosed amount of cash and jewelry. According to police, three men, one wearing a masked entered […]
Jude Joseph Moody of Sand Hill Village was arraigned for attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and dangerous harm before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford following a chopping incident that occurred on Friday night sometime around eleven o’clock in the village. An argument ensued between a group of persons which ended with twenty-six-year-old Ivan […]
A Roaring Creek resident is tonight in police custody, following an early morning murder in Belmopan. Reports are that as police were closing up shop at La Cabana Night Club, one of its bartenders and another person ran to the aid of a woman who had been robbed of her gold chain. The duo, Luis […]
Sometime after midnight on Thursday, an SUV belonging to Melanie Staine was observed on fire on North Creek in Belize City. The Fire Department was called out to extinguish the fire. . Reports are that someone set it ablaze but the fire service would not confirm a case of arson. Benisford Matura says the national […]
This week’s firings at City Hall have ignited a political firestorm that has morphed into a potentially dangerous situation. A vehicle belonging to a high ranking official at City Hall was torched on Wednesday night. From all accounts it was politically motivated. Sharlene Rudon was in bed at home in the Kings Park area of […]
There has been a major development in a missing person case dating back to February of this year, when thirty-five-year-old Alaine Garcia was reported missing. The Hattieville resident was last seen returning home on Sylvestre Boulevard after taking his children to catch the bus to go to school. While no body has yet been found, […]
On the heels of the confiscation of some thirty pounds of marijuana in the San Antonio Village, the police department is reporting yet another huge drug bust in the west. On Wednesday afternoon, around two o’clock, police intercepted a Great Wall Wingle loaded with cannabis from Guatemala en route to Belize City, during a joint […]
A fifty-year-old security guard is tonight recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a frightening home invasion in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. Around one o’clock this morning, as Merrick Lambey slept on a sofa inside his house on Curl Thompson Street, he was awoken by a knock at the door. […]
Two persons are tonight in police custody pending further investigation into a shooting in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. Police say that on Monday night, at least one gunman opened fire on the residence of Eric Mendez, a nineteen-year-old who was remanded that same day for the shooting of Tyrone Stevens over […]
Police were also quizzed today about an incident that occurred on April twenty-seventh in Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk in which Demetrio Pott and his brother were beaten badly following a traffic accident in the village. Forty-seven-year-old Pott is tonight clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he and his brother were […]
Following the recent shootings and murders in south side of Belize City, the police has amped up its patrols and presence in Port Loyola, specifically in the Jane Usher Boulevard area. Both shootings reported earlier in the newscast, happened under the nose of the police, which has a checkpoint about two blocks away. So have […]
The result of the recent referendum on taking the unfounded Guatemalan claim on Belize to the International Court of Justice in Guatemala has led to a renewed assault on Belizean resources, according to Friends for Conservation and Development. On Tuesday, May eighth, F.C.D.’s rangers in the south Chiquibul National Park found plantations of beans, corn […]
Cops and Churches are working together to curb crime. Today, in the weekly meet and greet sessions, police officers were accompanied by three pastors of the Evangelical Churches. We caught up with Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and Pastor Howell Longsworth on the south side and they shared how this partnership can help to […]
Conflict resolution is high on the police department’s agenda when dealing with rival gangs in Belize City. For the most part, the crime and violence that continue to plague the Old Capital have been attributed to warring factions meting out street-style justice upon each other. Since assuming the Eastern Division command a few weeks ago, […]
We have been reporting on the frequency of suspected drug planes – at least seven since November 2017 – landing in northern and central Belize. The abandoned planes are usually found without cargo and in some cases damaged. But the illicit drugs are not only being transported by air, but also by water. Tonight, authorities […]
There’s another bust that has given Belize a black eye in the international press. A judge in El Salvador has ordered further detention for seven persons, including five Belizeans, who are accused of money laundering crimes. Between them, they carried more than sixty-six thousand U.S. dollars, just under a thousand Belize dollars and a small […]
A Saint Matthew’s villager was escorted by police to a courtroom in Belmopan this morning and arraigned for murder. Twenty-one-year-old Dean Galvez was well-known to murder victim, Roni Casasola who is also from Saint Matthew’s Village. Casasola met his untimely death on Sunday morning following an altercation at a local bar. He had been picked […]
