This evening, youth counselor and coordinator of the Youth Apprenticeship Program Diane Finnegan weighed in on the life of Justin Hyde and his contribution to the intervention program coordinated by former officer-in-charge of Southside Belize City Chester Williams along with Finnegan and Nuri Muhammad. In support of his intention to change his lifestyle, Finnegan recalled […]
Prior to the murder of Justin Hyde, an Orange Walk man was shot and killed in the early hours of Sunday morning. His family is left with more questions than answers because they say he was a quiet and easy going person. Today, they told us he was shot as many as nine times and […]
There is an arrest in the murder of the Canadian national, Gabriel Bochnia. The construction consultant, who was living in Corozal for years and was married with three children, was shot to death as he returned from a trip across the northern border. A gunman lay-waited him and opened fire as he exited his vehicle […]
Twenty-eight year old Julian Ebanks is listed as stable at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being shot on Sunday night. According to police, the Hattieville resident was socializing in the Conch Shell Bay area around eleven p.m. when he was shot to his shoulder and cheek.
A seventeen-year-old minor remains in the hospital in a stable condition after being shot by a homeowner who believed he was trying to burglarize his home. Sixty-three year old Joseph Duce of Police Street saw two men on his verandah around two this morning. He fired twice at them with his licensed firearm and managed […]
Convicted prisoner, thirty-nine year old , was in court today for another offence. Already facing time behind bars for burglary and kept firearm offenses, Bailey today changed his not guilty plea to guilty for escaping from lawful custody while at Precinct Three in January of this year. This morning, Bailey appeared before Chief Magistrate, Sharon […]
On October first, the Belize Chinese Association had orchestrated a shutdown of all its affiliated businesses countrywide. This was in solidarity for a funeral for one of their own – Vernon Street shopkeeper Bainan Wu, who was gunned down inside his store on September twenty-fifth. But before that, the association had scheduled a meeting with […]
During his tenure as Southside commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams initiated a program of direct intervention with a team of youth counselors including Dianne Finnegan and Nuri Muhammad. The counseling team regularly met with young men and some young women trying to get out of the gang lifestyle. With at least twenty murders […]
This station as a matter of policy normally does not report on suicides or suicide attempts. That is to avoid unwarranted publicity. But the subject of this story is well-known due to the criminal allegations against him, and the manner of his death is rare and intriguing. That is why fifty-six year old retiree David […]
Canadian news sources have picked up on murder victim thirty-eight-year-old Gabriel Bochnia to be from Toronto, Ontario. CTV Toronto reports that his sister Kate is on her way to Belize to make funeral arrangements for her brother, who was living here with his wife Jeshanah Maritza Zetina and their three children. Police have announced no […]
For weeks we have been reporting on missing teen Erwin Rodriguez. The last time his mother saw him was six weeks ago and she fear that he is dead. No one has seen or heard from the minor since he last stopped at his mother’s work back in August and it has been widely speculated […]
Restaurant owner, fifty-five year old Oscar Guerra, who was remanded into custody on a charge of rape, was released today on a bail of ten thousand dollars. The owner of My Secret Deli located on San Pedro, appeared today before Justice Herbert Lord who imposed conditions to bail. Guerra, a naturalized Belizean, must report to […]
Bail applications for several other persons were dealt with in the court of Justice Herbert Lord. In the case of nineteen-year-old Marvin Dominguez, a Salvadoran national who was remanded into custody on a charge of aggravated assault with a firearm, bail was denied. Crown Counsel Jackie Willoughby, who represented objected on the ground that Dominguez […]
There have been nine deaths reported across the country in the span of one week. But the last twenty-four hours have been especially bloody, with four deaths reported – two in Belize City, one in Corozal and another in Roaring Creek, Cayo. Our top story tonight is the suicide of David Doehm inside a room […]
Up north in Corozal, a bloody murder took place in the quiet community of Chula Vista, smacked between Altamira and Paraiso Villages on Wednesday night. The heavy rains and thunderstorm did not prevent a gunman from carrying out what is believed to be an orchestrated hit on thirty-eight-year-old Canadian construction consultant and father of three. […]
A homeless man was murdered in Belize City. He was found lying dead in the San Cas Plaza parking lot in Belize City. He has been identified as sixty-year-old Michael Garbutt. According to reports, Garbutt has been homeless for many years and his regular route would be in the San Cas Area. We were informed […]
Garbutt lived on the streets and that made him vulnerable – like all others who use bus stops, streets and other public spaces for shelter. Joyce Ellis of the Welcome Resource Center says that others who live on the street are also exposed to harm and she asks the public to refrain from disturbing or […]
There is another murder to report out west. Thirty-three year old Isau Perez of Cotton Tree, Cayo, was discovered dead and floating in the Belize River. The body was located in the vicinity of Banana Bank Resort around eight-thirty this morning. Police say he was stabbed to the chest and throat. There are reports that […]
A Guatemalan national has been busted with a large quantity of contraband cigarettes. According to reports in the Guatemalan media, the cigarettes found their way into Melchor de Mencos from Belize presumably, the Corozal Commercial Free Zone, which has become a central point for contrabandistas smuggling cigarettes into Guatemala. Thirty-six-year-old Jorge Anibal Barrientos Mendez was […]
There was a brazen heist at the Scotia Bank Branch in Spanish Lookout, Cayo. The same branch, which was hit seven years ago, is located immediately next to the police station and is equipped with surveillance cameras as well as its own security guards. Employees and customers were busy with transactions at around nine-thirty this […]
Police have made a significant arrest in the murder of Daniel Anderson who was killed over the weekend. Late this afternoon, Steve Martin Moss, a twenty-three-year-old stevedore of Queen Charlotte Street, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser. Moss was charged with one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, and two counts of Use […]
A seventeen-year-old has been charged for the murder of eighteen-year-old Christian Contreras in San Pedro. As we reported on Tuesday night, two persons were in police custody, including a minor. Today, the teenager was formally arrested and charged for the shooting that happened just before midday that left Contreras dead and twenty-eight-year-old Ryan Lucas hospitalized. […]
The Gang Suppression Unit is apparently headed for a much narrower mandate within the Belize Police Department. This is after their run-in with Cameron Usher Senior and Kelvin Usher, which caused the teenager to flee into the bushes near Lucky Strike for four days, terrified by gunfire from a team approaching to destroy a marijuana […]
The Police Department is also tackling continuous egg on its face from officers breaking the law with impunity. Whether it is extorting members of the community, or stealing the proceeds of crime like cocaine, or overreacting to citizen protest, it has not been a good few weeks for the men and women in khaki and […]
Earlier this year, the Forestry Department announced the amendments for forest offences; those changes saw a significant increase in fines for forest related crimes. In light of the approaching logging season, the Forest Department reminds the public that they are enforcing the new amendments for forest offences on persons found logging illegally. As stated in […]
