The fourth murder victim is an eighteen-year-old recent graduate of Mopan Technical High School, who was also found dead this morning on a farm in Benque Viejo Del Carmen. Police were called out to an isolated area on the Puga Farm where the body of Oscar Obando was discovered with a single gunshot to the […]
Up north, Corozal is experiencing a spike in burglaries and robberies. A robber made off with ten thousand dollars from the Western Union outlet in Corozal Town around nine this morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Doris Montejo reported to police that she was inside the western union office on Fourth Street when a man approached her holding what […]
The topic of marijuana possession and consumption, in the days following the decriminalization of a small handful, remains at the center of public discourse simply because there are still more questions than answers. Last Tuesday, the church raised serious objections to the passage of the new law, though it was too little, too late. With […]
While the public continues to ask questions, a countrywide education campaign is being held within the Belize Police Department to inform officers of the new law and its parameters. According to attorney Bart Jones, himself a career police officer, it is necessary to teach his colleagues about the law and its regulations, despite their individual […]
One of four murders over the weekend occurred in the Old Capital; and even though the loss of one life is too much, the murder did not occur within any of three zones designated as hotspots in the City. Less than two weeks ago, police rolled out the Addressing Crime Together, which is its latest […]
There was another shooting incident this morning in Belize City, however no one was injured. Just after five this morning, police were called out to Kut Avenue where shots were fired. They apprehended twenty-four-year-old Reese Fitzgibbon of Supal Street. From Fitzgibbon police recovered a nine-millimeter pistol and five rounds of ammunition. As of news time, […]
A week ago Saturday, fifty-four-year-old Ryan Swift died after suffering a seizure at his home on Central American Boulevard. On Thursday, police confirmed that he was poisoned after consuming a toxic substance. Ryan, an exterminator by trade, and his brother sixty-one-year-old Steven Swift had been socializing early on Saturday at his residence after earlier handling […]
The charred, skeletal remains of an unidentified person were discovered off the Coastal Road on Sunday. Since then the Belize Police Department and forensic pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran have been working to determine the cause of death and the identity of the individual. Five days later, investigators have confirmed that the bones are those of […]
Violence has sparked up in Corozal where an elderly couple was viciously attacked in an early morning home invasion on Monday. This Wednesday, a woman was shot in the abdomen while she was at home. Tonight, twenty-two-year-old Brenda Jandrez is in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Jandrez was at home along […]
So far for 2017, there have been a staggering one hundred and twenty-three murders across the country. Belize City has taken the majority with fifty-two homicides, that’s over forty-two percent of the murder count. According to our records, Cayo District is registering twenty-one homicides, two of which occurred in the Capital City Belmopan. Both Toledo […]
An aggravated burglary took place in Camalote Village two weeks ago, where an individual known as Ryan Hyde reportedly made off with several items, including a pair of laptop computers. Details of the incident are scarce, as the incident never made it to the daily police blotter. According to ASP Alejandro Cowo, charges have been […]
A major arrest is being reported in Honduras on an issuing plaguing Belize and neighboring countries. No less than an employee in the Ministry of Health in Honduras was arrested for trafficking in persons in the forms of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation. Honduran authorities picked up Denia Syuapa Ochoa in San Pedro Sula […]
Earlier this year, Belize was ranked in Tier Three by the U.S. State Department as one of the worst offenders in the region for trafficking persons. Considering that Belize was previously in tier two as late as four years ago, it was a long hard fall fueled by persistent reports of high-level complicity in the […]
Prison inmate, Carl Reneau, an electrician of Iguana Street in Belize City will have to stand trial for the murder of fifteen-year-old Jaheem Mahler, a student gunned down during a spade of murders in the city earlier this year. A prima facie has been established against Reneau so he will have to stand trial at […]
Burglars roaming in the Corozal District have traumatized the community. The latest victims of armed robbers are expats Michael and Janet McGhee. The elderly U.S. couple has been living in the quiet village of Ranchito since 2011. Early on Monday morning, however, as they slept, the McGhees were surprised by armed masked men who bound […]
A Belize City youth has been arraigned for the attempted murder of well-known taxi-man, James Swazo, who was shot on October twenty-ninth, 2017 at his home in the Jane Usher Boulevard area. After three days of an intensive search, police arrested and charged twenty-year-old Joshua Gillett of Belize City. When he appeared in court, Gillett […]
Police are looking for twenty-three-year-old Elston Elijio of Dangriga in connection with a case of forgery. Belmopan Police issued a ‘wanted poster’ for Elijio because he reportedly created a fake Facebook account under the name “Colville Young”, the Governor General of Belize. Elijio allegedly created the fake account using an email address similar to that […]
When we caught up with NEAB today, we also asked about the alarming crime situation. Antipathy for the Government aside, the association agreed with and adopted the position of Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Elrington that turf wars over imported marijuana is behind much of the recent killing on the Southside. While some of the […]
There were three shooting incidents beginning Friday evening in the south side of Belize City that left one person dead and five others injured. Shooting victim Cardinal Andrews also succumbed and elsewhere, police are trying to determine the cause of death of a person whose remains were discovered off the Coastal Road. We go to […]
A second person succumbed to the ongoing gun violence in the Lake Independence area of south side Belize City. Four days after he was shot to the head by a gunman on bicycle, twenty-eight-year-old Cardinal Andrews succumbed to his injuries inside the Intensive Care Unit of the K.H.M.H. His murder takes the murder count up […]
But on Friday morning, investigators in southern Belize had a murder on their hands. A taxi operator, who is originally from Orange Walk, was shot dead inside his vehicle and his body was found in an orchard off the Southern Highway. The body of thirty-two-year-old Jose Alfredo Majil was discovered around seven a.m. near a […]
But police are also investigating the remains of a body which was discovered on the Coastal Road on Sunday, which may be upgraded to that of a murder. Today, Police said that they have not determined the sex or identity of the skeletal remains because it is charred beyond recognition. Information late this evening to […]
But the strangest death over the weekend involved one of two Belize City brothers, who are believed to have inadvertently consumed a toxic chemical as they socialized on Saturday afternoon. Ryan Swift, a well-known exterminator died immediately while his sibling, Steve Swift, remains alive and has pulled out of a coma at the Karl Heusner […]
A physical altercation between a police officer and a young activist was captured on video this weekend. Justin Usher was arrested for reportedly punching the policeman. But the tirade did not end with his arrest. Despite being restrained, a tearful Usher can be heard saying that his detention perpetuated the so-called injustice that Belizeans are […]
Four persons were injured in a single shooting on Sunday afternoon as they socialized on Neal Pen Road. A man walked up to the group of friends and fired several shots, which hit four men in the group. They were hospitalized for gunshot injuries and so far only one of the men has been released. […]
