Police Constable Marvin Locke was stabbed and killed by a civilian assailant just a few short steps away from where Minister of Police Elodio Aragon addressed a gaggle of reporters this morning. The unfortunate incident took place at the Raccoon Street Police Station on March twenty-sixth, while PC Locke was preparing to sign off duty […]
There have been heinous murders in the west since the start of the year and tonight, the murder count went up by one. The latest victim is a seventy-nine-year-old pastor from San Ignacio. The brutal beating of Florencio Guillermo Bardalez has left the community in disbelief. On Monday, the soon to be octogenarian, a Pastor […]
Police have arrested and charged a man for the crime of murder exactly one year after the crime was committed. Twenty-three-year-old Marlon Padillo of Selena Village in Cayo was slapped with the charge in connection with the chopping death of Guatemalan national sixty-three-year-old Edgar Alfonso Perdomo Aldana. The incident happened back on April second, 2016 […]
Two cops were arraigned today at the San Pedro Magistrate court. The two were captured on video manhandling a woman and then firing indiscriminately on Barrier Reef Drive where a crowd had gathered after four o’clock on Saturday morning. Five persons were injured in the mayhem. The wild shooting by the cops has sparked outrage […]
A shooting in the Old Capital on Monday has left a visiting Belizean in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Jeffery Martinez is a citizen, but resides in Honduras. He was here to regularize his status and was planning to return to Honduras, but violence got in the way and on Monday […]
A pair of Belize City men riding on a motorcycle not too far from the Raccoon Street Police Station came under gunfire on Monday night when they were intercepted by a vehicle whose occupants unloaded a fusillade of bullets in their direction. Twenty-four-year-old Reese Riverol and twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Rowland are both recovering from injuries they […]
Earlier in the newscast you heard about the cold killing of a well-known and respected Pastor of San Ignacio. The news has shocked the San Ignacio and Santa Elena communities. When we spoke with Mayor Earl Trapp earlier today he said that the level of crime is a concern for his residents, and it will […]
The police say they are carrying out a thorough investigation of an early morning shooting in San Pedro. Since Saturday morning, two videos have been circulating on social media. In one the police are seen manhandling a handcuffed woman, pinning her down and then hitting her. That incident happened at about four o’clock on Saturday […]
The blasts of up to fourteen shots could be heard in the video, but authorities say only ten expended shells were recovered from the scene in the prime tourism destination. On the island today, business owners are still reeling from the shooting, which is likely to have an impact on the industry as the Easter […]
Suffering from a black eye in the wake of the shooting, the police called a press conference this morning. While two of five officers have been charged for their roles in the shooting incident, the Professional Standards Branch of the Belize Police Department says it continues to conduct an investigation into the shooting incident. According […]
The officers in question clearly acted outside of the rules of engagement when they began firing their weapons during the disturbance. Both have been charged for wounding as many as five persons and will also be facing disciplinary charges as a result of their actions. The investigation, says ACP Lino, saw interviews being conducted and […]
At the heart of the chaos was the failed detention of an unidentified woman, whom officers assigned to work duties at the establishment, were attempting to subdue. That woman was being severely manhandled and roughed up by the officers, even though she was in handcuffs. Despite the ordeal being recorded by patrons of the night […]
A Guatemalan national identified as twenty-one-year-old Bryan Geovanny Corado was murdered on Sunday night in an area on the Belize side of the O.A.S. Adjacency Zone known as El Champon. Corado has been described by local police as a member of a transborder criminal outfit operating from Melchor de Mencos. He was recently released from […]
Twenty-five-year-old Saul Ortiz of San Ignacio Town is missing. Since earlier this week, he hasn’t been seen by his family and his mother reported him missing on Monday. Ortiz, if you may recall, was one of three men named in the murder of Coast Guard Aurelio Montero Junior. The Bullet Tree resident was discovered badly […]
A small aircraft remains parked at the apron of the Philip Goldson International Airport after it was transported from northern Belize. The white with burgundy and sliver trim Piper PA-23-250 aircraft bearing tail number N6769Y landed up north on Monday, though the precise location has not been confirmed. Authorities in Guatemala tipped their local counterparts […]
The People’s United Party says it is gravely concerned by the government’s seemingly flippant inattention to the spiralling crime. Earlier today, the P.U.P. issued a release noting that the government has cut the budget for the police by two million dollars at the most inopportune time. Over the weekend, eight persons lost their lives, including […]
Another cop goes down in the city and is tonight fighting for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City. But there are more questions than answers in this shooting incident in the Old Capital. According to the police, forty-year-old Police Corporal Daniel Paul Lawrence, who is attached to Strike Team South, […]
The daring mid-afternoon murder of Police Constable Marvin Locke, while on duty at the Raccoon Street Precinct on Sunday, has left the department badly shaken up and reeling from the unimaginable. It is being forced to seriously consider adequate security measures for the safety of its employees. As it stands, Precinct Two is among several […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Kenzle Hulse was quietly arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court last Wednesday, after being arrested and charged for the lesser crime of harm. The young businessman’s indictment comes several months after a report was officially made against him by a customer who was purchasing fuel at a gas station. According to Alberto Santos Lopez, […]
The Fisheries Department is tightening up on persons who violate fisheries regulations. A group of fishermen from Ranchito, Copper Bank and San Joaquin villages up north were taken to court this morning for possession of undersized conch found in their possession. Their arraignment lasted two hours and they all took a guilty plea before Magistrate […]
A series of murders over the weekend has shocked a nation long since used to hearing about wanton, senseless violence. The past weekend was grim with bloodshed in the Belize, Cayo and Stann Creek Districts. Eight persons were murdered, setting a new record for the number of persons killed in less than two days. Of […]
The senseless string of murders in the city, however, started early on Saturday morning in an area heavily-trafficked. Just after two o’clock, an elderly resident accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old were murdered execution-style not far from Cinderalla Plaza and near the popular Chon Saan Palace restaurant. A single gunman is said to have carried out the […]
Kelly Street is located off a busy intersection in the city; it was the venue of yet another murder in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon. Randy Green, who was recently freed of the 2011 of young Joshua Abraham, was executed at three-thirty in the afternoon while he sat inside a carpentry shop. But was Green’s […]
As the weekend came to a close, the fifth murder for the Old Capital occurred on Jones Street where a forty-year-old was gunned down in front of his gate. Selvin Bahadur was executed, shot to the forehead at the same spot his younger brother had been murdered months ago. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. […]
Aside from the five murders in Belize City, there were two others in Santa Cruz, Stann Creek and one in Cristo Rey, Cayo District. In the south, Guatemalan farmer Roberto De Leon was robbed and beaten to death after delivering oranges at the factory in Pomona. And then this morning, also in Santa Cruz, Austin […]
