The latest victim to fall to the vicious cycle of crime in the south side of the city is only fifteen-years-old. Jaheem Mahler, a student, was riding his bicycle on Iguana Street Extension when he was targeted. As many as nine bullets found their mark on the young man, who from many accounts is not […]
A sizeable haul of powder cocaine, packaged into twenty-five individual bricks, is said to remain under strict police security pending destruction in the coming days. The find which is worth an estimated half a million Belize dollars was the result of privileged information provided to San Pedro police. That intelligence led them to a location […]
The controversial Puerto Azul project was a scam from the get go. It was launched at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in France, where Ministers Manuel Heredia Junior and Erwin Contreras travelled for the grand event along with other high profile personalities. It came crashing down this morning when, financial police in Varese, Northern Italy, […]
Back in December, a San Ignacio couple came to our studios to make a complaint against a GSU Officer. They claimed that they were brutalized at the hands of the law enforcement personnel. Well, it has been over a month and the couple claims that they are being harassed by the officer, whose name we […]
A farmer of San Antonio, Toledo District remains hospitalized tonight after surviving a near-fatal shooting incident on Monday night. Shortly before eight o’clock, fifty-six-year-old Rufino Bul was inside his bar when four masked men entered the premises. One of them produced a firearm and took aim at the proprietor before discharging his weapon. Bul was […]
For the second time in twelve days, the Police Department has removed an American type fragmentation grenade from south side, Belize City. On Saturday, the police were tipped off about the location of the live grenade. Bomb expert and B.D.F. Commander, Brigadier General David Jones was called in to retrieve the grenade from Lake Independence […]
San Pedro is primarily known as a premier destination for tourists from across the world and is visited by hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. But there is a flipside to La Isla Bonita because north of the island is also known for illicit activity. The trafficking of large quantity of drugs, primarily cocaine in […]
There were two separate shootings in the City over this weekend. We start first with the shooting incident where thirty-five-year-old Deon Bennett of Mayflower Street was shot multiple times. Sometime around seven-thirty on Sunday morning, Bennett was riding his bike on University Drive when a SUV approached him from the opposite direction. Bennett told police […]
A total of sixteen grenades have been discovered and removed from the streets of Southside Belize City. Most have been without incident, but there have been three explosions, two of which produced fatalities. More than eight years after the first instance of violent and criminal use of a grenade on Mayflower Street, Belize City, the […]
In other news….five persons were killed and fifteen others wounded after a shooter opened fire at a nightclub in Playa del Carmen resort, Mexico. The coastal resort town, which is a popular location visited by many including Belizeans, was the venue for the annual ten-day Bartenders, Promoters, Musicians (BPM) Festival that sees music lovers and […]
A sixty-two-year old man who left his home to go fishing on Thursday never made it back home in the Gungulung community, Belize City. Salvador Rivera Marquez suffered a horrible and cruel death, but it is not known why or who took his life in a remote area off the George Price Highway. Police, however, […]
The Gang Suppression Unit is under fire once again, following allegations of police brutality at the hands of its officers. Forty-three-year-old Earl Belisle, his girlfriend and their seven-year-old son stopped by our office late this evening to voice their displeasure with the conduct of GSU personnel. The family was visiting a relative in the Pickstock […]
At this time, Belize City police are processing the scene of a yet another grisly homicide. Late this evening, a team of officers was summoned to an area off the George Price Highway near mile three, in the vicinity of Tapir nightclub where they found the lifeless body of a Hispanic man. Unconfirmed reports reaching […]
The Mayflower Bocawina National Park, in the Stann Creek District, covers over seven thousand, one hundred acres of verdant jungle, refreshing waterfalls and early Mayan sites. Located near Silk Grass Village, the vast expanse is mostly evergreen broadleaf, lowland and hill forest ecosystems. It is also under attack by illegal tree cutters and poachers. Earlier […]
The Chiquibul Forest Investment Initiative is a fifteen-million dollar Government project in collaboration with a number of high-profile organizations doing environmental work, including Friends for Conservation and Development. Volunteer with F.C.D., Valerie Woods, today said that even with the investment, additional money is needed to keep up with the continuous, unabated illegal logging and harvesting […]
On Wednesday, twenty-two-year-old Jordon Murray was arraigned for another charge of obtaining property by deception; this time in relation to an allegation by Ashton Jones who says that in November of last year, he was conned by Murray who introduced himself to him as “Jay Jay” Saldivar. Jones claims that Murray swindled two thousand seven […]
Garcia says that she suspects that the alleged conman was not acting on his own, but in collusion with others. Garcia says she reported the matter to the Ladyville police, providing all receipts as well as email correspondence, but interestingly when she followed up with the matter all that file was missing or so she […]
Aside from a steady increase in the number of murders in 2016, shooting incidents, which fall within the major crimes category, were recorded in all municipalities. Belize District led the count, despite an overall reduction in the number of major crimes reported last year. That figure, which also includes stabbings and other violent crimes, fell […]
Residents and visitors of Punta Gorda Town and Toledo District can take comfort that the municipality is the safest of all six districts, as far as shootings are concerned. While there were five such incidents in 2015, that number has since reduced to two. As we mentioned earlier, Belize District recorded the highest incidents of […]
An official breakdown of the 2016 crime statistics was provided by the top brass of the police today. As we have reported, murders are up by nineteen when compared to 2015; it means that the bloodshed in the past year was the highest since 2012. Most of the homicides were gang related. Today, the police […]
Wil Maheia, the leader of the Belize Territorial Volunteers, continues to keep close watch on illegal activity at and near the mouth of the Sarstoon River, half of which is considered Belizean territorial waters. For the past few years, the area has seen persistent depletion of resources by Guatemalan fishermen who – with the exception […]
The relationship between the Belize Police Department and the local media has, for the most part, been a mutually beneficial arrangement. We have been able to provide you, our viewers, with firsthand official information on crime-related matters, as well as initiatives undertaken by the law enforcement agency to address these social issues. The past few […]
Firearm offences remain on the rise, as handguns are the weapons of choice for criminals committing various felonies. The proliferation of guns in the streets of Belize City has caused great concern within the Ministry of Home Affairs. Not only has that number increased significantly, but those pistols, more often than not, find themselves in […]
While the department tries to get a handle on the domestic gang infestation, another problem seems to be looming overhead. That is the influx of gang members from neighboring Central American countries, particularly El Salvador where the prison system is overran with feuding criminal organizations. Those individuals, primarily belonging to the MS-Thirteen gang, may be […]
Wilfred “Chickie Blue Nicholas, a resident of Ladyville, received cut wounds to the head and a few of his dreadlocks were chopped off after the owner of Green Jade Restaurant reportedly attacked him with a cleaver. But there was another act of violence in the village later than night on Friday. Thirty-year-old Jesus Mai was […]
