With only nine days to go in 2017, crime statistics for the past twelve months indicate that there are equal numbers of homicides recorded between this year and 2016. That figure stands at one hundred and thirty-eight murders. The paring down of the body count in Belize City can be attributed to effective crime fighting […]
The introduction of Operation ACT, a direct law enforcement response to the spike in violent crimes during the months of September and October, has, to a certain extent, stemmed the flow of blood in the streets of Belize City. One can’t help but wonder, however, that had these measures been put in place much earlier […]
The feud among inner city gangs, particularly during the aftermath of ACP Chester Williams’ departure from his previous post as Commander of Eastern Division South, is responsible for the upsurge in violent crimes. While those incidents have since been tapered, the work of the Gang Suppression Unit remains arduous. Not only is the GSU the […]
The Belize Police Department, despite its many internal challenges this year, is beating its chest proudly and basking in the success of Operation ACT. Much of that achievement was made by the men and women of law enforcement who continue to work steadfastly in keeping the citizenry safe. The brass of the department, while acknowledging […]
And finally from ComPol Whylie, is a projection of what can be expected of the department come January 2018. While many of its challenges are ever-present, the agency is armed with several crime fighting resources to tackle those obstacles head-on. The boots-on-the-ground approach to policing is also being bolstered an internal review of existing laws, […]
Belmopan police are investigating an attempt made on the life of twenty-year Jose Amilcar Najera. The Armenia farmer was shot to the lower chin and left palm on Thursday night in Belmopan. Just before eight-thirty p.m., Najera was seated inside his vehicle parked on North Ring Road when a pickup truck drove up and fired […]
Meanwhile, police are looking for two persons in connection with a stabbing on Wednesday night in Western Pines Village, near mile eight on the George Price Highway. Just before eight p.m., twenty-one-year-old Kendale Danderson was discovered with multiple stab wounds to the body. He was walking home when he was attacked by two men. The […]
A teenager who had been held in police custody, following the stabbing death of well-known auto-trader Mark Vasquez last Saturday, has been released without being indicted. Eighteen-year-old Osbaldo Nieto was discharged from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital earlier this week and held by Belize City police in connection with the grisly murder of the used […]
In respect of another murder, an all-points bulletin has been issued for the arrest of twenty-nine-year-old George Bull, a resident of Carmelita Village in the Orange Walk District. Bull is wanted in connection with the December fifteenth murder of Jaime Pelayo outside of a nightclub in Orange Walk Town. While the construction worker has been […]
There are new developments in a case of alleged rape at the Independence Police Station back in November. A pair of women is claiming that they were both sexually assaulted by officers on duty at the local precinct. That report was made several weeks ago and the Professional Standards Branch has been investigating the allegation […]
This newscast has been dominated by coverage of crime throughout the year. Tonight, we can confirm that statistics for homicides committed so far in 2017, closely rival figures that were released by the Belize Police Department a year ago. The murder count to date stands at roughly one hundred and thirty-eight, with less than a […]
Two men accused in a cocaine bust in Belize City this week were granted bail this morning in the sum of a hefty one hundred thousand dollars each by Supreme Court Judge, Adolph Lucas. Peter Schmitt, of Caye Caulker and Carlos Lopez, of Lord’s Bank, Ladyville, are facing drug trafficking, firearm and ammo charges for […]
Sixteen-year-old Victor Cus was physically assaulted by two police corporals last Wednesday in Punta Gorda Town. During the beat down three of the teenagers teeth were knocked out of his mouth and his cell phone was damaged in the process. But Cus was never charged with anything criminal, so was his trouncing at the hands […]
Remanded for the holidays, that’s what Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford ordered when fifty-three-year-old Dennis Bodden appeared before her in Courtroom Number Two. The sanitation worker, employed with the Belize City Council, was arraigned on three charges stemming from the brutal machete attack on Monday afternoon, during which his co-worker, forty-year-old Michael Tesecum, was chopped twice […]
A second man was charged with the robbery and aggravated assault of thirty-six-year-old Dorian Usher of Monica’s Pawn Shop. Twenty-three-year-old Kendale Carcamo of Ebony Street, Belize City, was arraigned in Court Number Two before Senior Magistrate, Aretha Ford. In court, Carcamo was unrepresented and was read two criminal offences; robbery with a firearm and one […]
A duo was arraigned today in the Magistrate Court for a cocaine bust made in the City over the weekend. The men are from Caye Caulker and Lords Bank, Belize City. Information is that they were being monitored and on Sunday police moved in on them. Aside from the five kilos of cocaine stashed in […]
Fifty-three-year-old Dennis Bodden, a sanitation worker with the Belize City Council, is yet to appear before the magistrate’s court where he will face charges in connection with a near-fatal assault on his coworker on Monday. Bodden, along with Michael Tesecum and several others, sat inside a work bus during their lunch break. According to an […]
Charges, if any, are yet to be preferred on a suspect who is presently in police custody after being released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital earlier today. According to investigators, Osbaldo Nieto, matches the description of a man who was seen struggling with fifty-three-year-old Mark Vasquez near the Radisson pier on Saturday night. During […]
A B.B.O.C. bus run out west was held up a by a pair of thieves on Monday night in the vicinity of Camalote Village. According to forty-two-year-old Betty Torres, a conductor employed with the Belize Bus Owners Cooperative, a pair of men boarded the vehicle around six p.m. One of them then produced a handgun […]
Two pistols and a trove of ammunition were stolen from the University of Belize Punta Gorda Campus. Police say that burglars broke into an office sometime between seven on Monday night and ten o’clock this morning. UB Administrator Roy Polonio reported that once the burglars gained entry to the building, they made their way into […]
A Belize City mason from the Gungulung area remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for stab injuries to the chest and back. On Monday night, Sherman Sanker had been stabbed multiple times at Moe’s Pizza Grill on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The act of violence stems from an altercation around six-forty-five that day […]
As we head to the end of the year, the murder count keeps going up. The bloodbath started on Friday morning with the murder of Jaime Pelayo in Orange Walk. That homicide was followed by murders in Independence village in the south, in the capital, Belmopan, and in Belize City. Mark Vasquez, a well known […]
The capital city, Belmopan, according to our archives, has seen no less than eight cab drivers murdered between 2009 and 2017. While each circumstance is different, the coincidence is too pat for residents, who like to think of themselves as a close-knit community. The latest murder victim is close to home, as sixty-nine year old […]
In southern Belize, a twenty-one-year-old student was stabbed and killed in Independence Village. Several men attacked Victor Pau and stabbed him several times on Saturday night. His body was found early on Sunday morning. Police say they are questioning three men in connection with Pau’s killing. His family say they are devastated by his murder […]
As we reported, thirty-five-year-old Jaime Pelayo was gunned down in Orange Walk Town on Friday morning, as he stood outside of a nightclub conversing with two women. The shooting incident also left one of the women injured when she was grazed by bullets. Tonight, police are closer to making an arrest since they are now […]
