There weren’t any murders in the city over the weekend but there was an attempt on the life of a taxi man. Karl Lamb was shot around four on Saturday morning and Police say that a fifteen-year-old boy did it. Lamb told Police that he was on Gladden Street when a man who looked suspicious […]
As the March seventh elections draw closer, temperatures are running high in Cayo where the two political parties are clashing and violence is emerging. On Thursday evening, a young man alleges that he was beaten up by the campaign team led by U.D.P. mayor Earl Trapp. While he has several injuries to show, late this […]
Mexico continues to count the cost of the ongoing drug war in which thousands have been killed over the years. While the annual murder rate is much smaller than Belize, the sheer numbers are larger although mostly concentrated in the north and center of the country. But more recently there has been unruly behavior at […]
Earlier this week, we reported on the case of two Guatemalan fishermen charged with illegal fishing in southern Belize. Tonight, Friends for Conservation and Development, FCD, is reporting that on Sunday, a joint patrol comprising of the Chiquibul National Park Rangers, the Belize Defence Force and Special Patrol Unit of the Police Department detained three […]
Siblings Cricencia and Josephine Oh were savagely mutilated near the village of San Jose in the Toledo District on January twenty-first as they were returning from attending mass and visiting with a brother in that vicinity. Their murders shocked and outraged the Maya community, particularly since crimes of such heinous nature are uncommon in the […]
The shocking deaths of the Oh sisters have galvanized residents from San Jose and San Antonio villages. Together they have organized a Walk for Justice in memory of Cricencia and Josephine Oh. The walk is intended to condemn crime, and appeal for justice, unity and peace in the Toledo District, as well as the country. […]
Thirty-four-year-old Kenrick Valencia was attacked by an unknown assailant as he stood in front of the Novelo’s Bus Terminal this morning. The predawn assault resulted in the security guard being stabbed once to the abdomen. According to Belize City police, the Lord’s Bank resident remains in a critical but stable condition. Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino, […]
Back from his end-of-year working visit to his homeland to meet with counterparts in the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat, Ambassador of Mexico to Belize, Carlos Quesnel Melendez, hosted the press at the Institute of Mexico in Belize City, to review the work of last year and the projects for 2018. February second marks three years in […]
A man was arrested and charged today for the shocking double killing of two sisters in the south, eleven days ago. Police say that twenty-one-year-old Wilmer Alexander Escobar of Bella Vista Village has been charged for killing Josephine and Crecencia Oh. Unconfirmed reports are that Escobar confessed to killing the young women and that he […]
There’s another murder arrest. One month after the vicious killing of twenty-six-year-old Errol Gabourel Smith, Devon Brooks of Cotton Tree village has been charged with his murder. On December twenty-seventh, the body of Gabourel, also known as “Rabbit,” was found in the Belize River outside of Roaring Creek. Gabourel was an ex-con seeking a new […]
The shooting death of thirty-six-year-old Jermaine Curtis Hyde remains an open case for the Belize Police Department whose investigators have made little progress in delving into his murder. Onion, as he was popularly known, was shot once to the back of the head while walking along Thurton Lane just before five a.m. on Saturday. According […]
Two Guatemalan fishermen remain in detention tonight after they were fined in the Punta Gorda Magistrate’s Court over seven thousand dollars for illegally fishing in the Port Honduras Marine Reserve. Around two on Sunday morning, Mynor Cifuentes and Sergio Lopez were discovered with miles of illegal fishing lines and catch well within Belizean territorial waters. […]
Today Belmopan police took twenty youth from the capital to the Kolbe Foundation-managed Central Prison at Hattieville, though it was to prevent future crime, not punish offenders. The Officer Commanding Belmopan Police Formation, Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett says that young people often don’t go to the prison until they become first time offenders. The visitors […]
There were three murders over the weekend, one in Ladyville, another in Belize City and the third occurred this morning in Dangriga. We start tonight’s newscast with the stabbing murder of forty-one-year-old Gavin Palmerston on Friday night. Palmerston was with a lady friend around eighty-thirty when he was fatally stabbed by thirty-seven-year-old Robert Brown, the […]
A Hattieville resident was the second murder victim for the weekend. Jermaine Hyde aka “Onion’’ was executed on Saturday morning here in the city. Hyde was last seen alive in the area of the Swing Bridge buying his favorite tacos. His body was found on Thurton Lane with a single gunshot to the head. Bernadette […]
In Dangriga early this morning, an artist from San Pedro was found dead. Miguel Angel Guerrero was chopped to the neck and left to die on the street near the Havana Club in that southern municipality. Guerrero was seen alive on Saturday night, but so far no one has come forward with information on any […]
On Saturday morning in Punta Gorda, despite inclement weather, residents, including family and friends of Mario Vernon Junior took the streets to protest his killing. The twenty-four-year-old grandson of Leela Vernon was shot and killed by police constable Tevin Aranda on January thirteenth. While his death has been ruled a manslaughter, the grieving family is […]
For security reasons, the three men accused of killing Jamaal Paul Jex last Tuesday on Ambergris Caye were brought to Belize City for arraignment. Nineteen-year-old Nelson Paguada and a fifteen-year-old minor, both fishermen of San Mateo, and forty-five-year-old Timothy Carcamo, a fisherman of San Juan area, were arraigned for the sensational murder of Jex, who […]
But following the murder of Jex, several persons were detained for questioning. One of the detainees was Simon Velasquez, who was murdered two days later on Plues Street in Belize City, in George Street Gang territory. While it is speculated that the murders are related because Jex is associated with GSG, police today say that […]
William Godoy is accused of murder, following the shooting death of twenty-eight-year-old Alfredo Cowo in San Pedro on January sixteenth. Despite having been charged and placed on remand at the Belize Central Prison, his family says that there is an ironclad alibi which proves that the mechanic was not involved in Cowo’s execution. Police say […]
One man remains hospitalized after being chopped multiple times on Saturday night in South Stann Creek. The incident took place just outside of Independence Village where the victim was reportedly approached by several persons who viciously attacked him. While the police department was very limited in the information that it shared with the media earlier […]
Thirty-three-year-old Edgar Flores is listed in critical condition at the K.H.M.H., after being shot in the right side of his face on Sunday night. The incident happened on Jones Street, near its intersection with Complex Avenue. Flores was along with several other persons inside a yard when a lone gunman emerged on the scene. He […]
A British-Belizean dual national who formerly held diplomatic status for Belize was pulled over by cops in London on January nineteenth. He was cited for using illegal diplomatic license plates and an expired diplomatic ID card. He was also suspected of driving without insurance. Fifty-one-year-old Andrew Wigmore was a trade and investment envoy for Belize […]
Police are looking for this man, Sergio Aguirre for sexual related offenses. Aguirre is from the Maya Mopan area of Belmopan and is twenty-seven-years-old. His occupation is listed as a labourer, he has dark complexion, weighs about one hundred and forty-five pounds and has brown eyes. Anyone with information of Aguirre whereabouts is asked to […]
On Thursday evening, police officially arrested and charged a duo from Ladyville for Tuesday night’s double murder. This afternoon the two youths were brought to court for the murders of Casey Lozano and Marlon Spain and injury to Jonah Gray and Sydney Humes. Twenty-three-year-old Jessie Mejia and twenty-two-year-old Darwin Prado also appeared before Chief Magistrate […]
