There’s another murder to report tonight. About two miles off the Buena Vista Road in the Cayo District a body of a middle-aged man of Hispanic origins was discovered. According to police, the body was found lying face up in a pond of water on a ranch in Buena Vista Village. We are unable to […]
With Christmas just around the corner, criminals are on the loose. This afternoon, they are targeted Belize Electricity Limited in broad daylight. Police are investigating the hold up of a security guard that happened shortly before three this afternoon. Two assailants made their way to the entrance of B.E.L. Headquarters at mile two on the […]
There was yet another robbery on the George Price Highway near miles twenty. A pair of robbers, pretending to be commuters, boarded a Shaw bus en route to Belmopan and would soon hold up the driver and the conductor at gunpoint. The alert conductor would switch the moneybag unknown to the robbers who then got […]
Ladyville Police are investigating the ghastly discovery of a badly decomposed body found floating along the Belize River earlier today. The body of an unidentified woman was retrieved from the waterway this afternoon, in an area approximately three miles downstream from the Burrell Boom Bridge. Dressed in a dark blue blouse and a pair of […]
Today, the family of Janeeka Campbell said their final goodbyes to the two year old child as she was laid to rest at the Lord Ridge Cemetery in Belize City, following funeral services at the Universal Church on Queen Street. But police have still not been able to determine whether her death was as a […]
Did a man who was on the run in connection with a murder take his own life? On Tuesday, Maximiliano Williams was found dead with an apparent gunshot wound to the left side of the chest in Yalbac Village in the Cayo District. He was wanted by San Ignacio Police in connection with the murder […]
A residence in the Lake Gardens community in Ladyville was burglarized by thieves this morning. Sometime around ten-thirty, Ladyville police were summoned to an isolated area where they discovered that a home had been broken into by burglars. The men reportedly gained access through the rear of the building by prying open its backdoor. But, […]
When the teachers went on an eleven-day strike in October, they had put together a list of eight demands, called the good governance agenda. One of the demands was the contracting of an international expert to investigate the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas in July. Lucas’ head was found in a bucket in the pan […]
Travelers Liquors Limited took a big hit on Monday night when it was targeted by thieves. But is it an inside job? Forty-nine thousand dollars in cash and cheques were stolen from Travelers employees en route from Belmopan to Belize City around five-thirty p.m. The employees were traveling in a company vehicle when they were […]
But with criminals becoming so crafty, Police warn drivers to be vigilant when travelling on the road. ASP Juanito Cocom, O.C., Ladyville Police “The scene was visited, processed where a piece of two by four wood and a board with the marking police check point and an orange cone were retrieved.” Reporter “So […]
Our News Five crew is just back from the west where a man was killed in Yalbac Village in the Cayo District on Sunday evening. Farmer Milicio Gonzalez was killed by a friend who bashed him in the head with a rock. The murder was witnessed by neighbours and even Gonzalez’s seven-year-old daughter watched on. […]
Police have arrested and charged nineteen year old Denzel Flowers with the attempted murder by chopping of his fifty-two year old step-mother, Eulalia Pop, also known as Consuelo Lopez. Flowers is also charged with dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm. On Thursday at their residence on Louise Bevans Street, Flowers is accused […]
The curfew regulation put in place since April of this year has had mixed reviews among the population in the Old Capital, but police can claim some results in terms of bringing down crime and delinquency among juveniles. Police had started out with warnings to parents of minors who were brought in, and a few […]
The criminal elements kept off the streets over the weekend, but there are two separate stabbing incidents to report. On Sunday evening, a thirteen-year old minor got into an altercation with an adult male known to him in the Dolphin Street area. He wound up in hospital with two stab wounds to the abdomen. The […]
A Benque Viejo police officer is detained after he was busted with eight undocumented Salvador nationals. Around nine fifteen on Saturday night, police spotted a vehicle without a license plate and when they intercepted the vehicle they discovered on of their own, twenty three year old Police Constable Edif Sierra, at the wheels of the […]
But while a family celebrates its Gimme Five win, another is desperately in search for a loved one. It’s been a week since sixty-nine year old Gabriela Mendez, has gone missing from her house in the Spanish Town area of Maskall Village. The elderly woman, according to the family, does not suffer from any mental […]
The death of two year old Janeeka Campbell continues to baffle police. The toddler died on Tuesday night, but the motive for her death is still under review between police and the pathologist. Both parents say the child accidentally fell down a flight of stairs at her father’s house in Saint Matthew’s Village. She was […]
Initially, the mother was detained for questioning and the police were looking for the father, who was brought in to the Belmopan police custody on Thursday. Statements were recorded from the parents, which according to Senior Superintendent Gillett appear consistent. But police have received additional reports and Gillett believes that the Department of Human Services […]
A couple from San Ignacio is alleging police brutality at the hands of a former GSU officer. Shawn Gardener and her common-law husband are accusing the policeman of roughing them up while conducting a search on them last weekend. According to Gardener, the pair was seated next to a young woman near an establishment on […]
The month of December, celebrating peace on earth and goodwill to all men, has started off violently across the country. One of the latest victim of the violence, is thirty-six year old Armando Pelayo died an agonizing death early this morning at his G Street South home on the outskirts of Corozal Town. The only […]
There are still lingering questions on the death of Janeeka Campbell, a two year old toddler, who succumbed to injuries on Tuesday night under dubious circumstances. The child was visiting her father in the village of Saint Matthews, Cayo District. Her father has not been located, but according to the mother who is in police […]
The death of Janeeka Campbell has prompted reaction from the National Committee for Families and Children. The NCFC says it joins the nation in mourning the tragic loss of another innocent Belizean child due to questionable circumstances. The release says, “It is our collective responsibility to ensure that parents have all the support they need […]
Just after ten this morning screams echoed in the distance off Louise Bevans Street in south side Belize City. A most horrific chopping incident occurred which was witnessed by neighbors including her daughter, who lives next door. A fifty-two year old mother tonight clings to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial after her stepson inflicted […]
While we were up north, we got an update on the November fifteenth murder of twenty-two year old Sherman McFarlane, who was ambushed and shot dead in Libertad village after stopping in with friends late that night. Police believe it stemmed from a prior argument. Now, according to the lead officer of Corozal Police Formation, […]
The unending spate of crime and violence which continues to grip the streets of the Old Capital has given rise to a social movement where friends and families of countless victims are demanding a ceasefire. They are doing so by taking to those very streets en masse. We’ve seen a galvanization of Belizeans in the […]
