Family and friends are grieving the untimely death of twenty-nine year old Edwin Ixpatac, a Cayo resident who was brutally beaten to the head and abdomen while in police detention. And as they cope with their loss, they search for answers as to how and why the waiter, who had moved to San Pedro merely […]
An all points bulletin has been issued by the Belize Police Department for two men who are on the run, following the weekend murder of a Mango Creek businessman. Independence police are looking for twenty-nine-year-old Shane Bennett, an escaped prisoner, whom they believe is one of two men who robbed and killed forty-eight-year-old Glen Logan […]
In the prime tourism destination of San Pedro Ambergris Caye, two persons were murdered adding to the list of homicide statistics since the beginning of the year. A Cayo resident was brutally beaten allegedly by three police officers on Friday and passed away on Monday morning after slipping into a coma and undergoing two rounds […]
Domestic violence reared its ugly head again in a murder in San Pedro Ambergris Caye. Last Thursday, a woman from the Salvapan community in Belmopan was killed due to domestic violence. Over the weekend on the island, a man lost his life when he was attacked by his wife of thirteen years. She is a […]
The third murder involved the fatal weekend shooting of an Independence resident following a home invasion on Saturday night. Police in that southern community are trying to ascertain, if it is drug related. Forty-eight-year-old Glen Logan was accosted by a pair of armed intruders as he entered his home that evening. The duo reportedly demanded […]
There is a confirmed report tonight of a Guatemalan national being shot in an area south of the Chiquibul known as Cebada. Brigadier General David Jones told News Five earlier this evening that a B.D.F. patrol came into contact with civilians in the vicinity. There was a brief exchange of gunfire which resulted in the […]
Domestic violence has been the cause of several murders in 2015. Tonight, there is a report of a femicide in which the life of a forty-five year old woman of Salvapan was taken by her common-law husband. Candy Reymundo, an entrepreneur and mother of seven children, sold plantain chips in the area and had been […]
There’s another bust to report tonight and it involves conch. The Fisheries Department seized a large quantity of illegally harvested seafood, following a search conducted on a vessel south of Belize City on Wednesday. Five fishermen have been arrested as a result of the bust. They were found in possession of over one thousand undersized […]
Two alleged smugglers from Belize were arrested in Chetumal after they were caught along the bank of the Rio Hondo with multiple packages of clothing, tightly compressed in black plastic bags. According to a news post from Chetumal, during a routine check by Mexican authorities along the border with the Commercial Free Zone, a minivan […]
Police report tonight another case of sexual assault of a minor from Bella Vista Village, Toledo. A young girl, who was allegedly violated at the age of fifteen, has only now reported the rape to the police. She claims that she was sexually abused twice last August by a member of her family, that being […]
Around five o’clock this afternoon, there was a shooting on Central American Boulevard. Two gunmen attempted to rob a salesman from Vega’s Distributors of Benque Viejo del Carmen, Cayo. The salesman was exiting his vehicle on Central American Boulevard when two would-be robbers approached him. The salesman opened fire on the duo, who fled the […]
A long and traumatic journey which began on New Year’s Eve 2008 and included a conviction for money laundering, jail time, countless trips to Court and even a death is finally over. In 2014 the Coye family was vindicated after the Court of Appeal found that they were not money launderers. But since then the […]
As we told you, the journey has been a painful one. In 2013 then accused money launderer Michael Coye passed away from a heart attack. He suffered from a diabetic condition in prison and five days after receiving bail he was dead. So while the victory for the family is complete, it is also bittersweet. […]
The Belize Coastguard made a bust today up north which ended in the detention of forty-three-year-old Waldo Bernal Pol, a Cuban national. Pol is in police custody tonight, for almost twenty pounds of marijuana found on him near the Belize/Mexico Border. A joint operation involving customs, coastguard and B.D.F. personnel on Tuesday night, near the […]
Orange Walk Police are reporting a drug bust of five kilos of marijuana in town this afternoon. Acting on intelligence Police stopped a Cadillac Escalade and found the stash of compressed marijuana, neatly packaged. The operation is significant because the drugs are believed to be part of a regular movement of from the Mexican side. […]
Thirty-one-year old Jamal Jackson, one of two suspects in an attempted robbery of a Nova Scotia Bank night deposit, made two trips to the court today. This morning he was in the court room of the Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith for charges of Kept Firearm and Ammunition without a License. When Jackson, a resident […]
While police and the Belize Coastguard made drug busts up north, the Fisheries Department also successfully conducted a bust at sea. Illegal fishing continues in Belizean waters despite all efforts by relevant agencies to stem the activity. On Tuesday, three men, none of them in possession of valid fishing licenses, were caught in the vicinity […]
This afternoon, officers assigned to Eastern Division North were in the area of Freetown Road near Douglas Jones Street where they were pressing flesh with residents and business owners in that community. The weekly meet and greet initiative continued today as the men and women of the Belize Police Department made the rounds on the […]
Woman Police Constable Sheneah Caliz is alive tonight after being shot in the head by a robber caught in the act. Caliz and two other officers were on routine patrol on Albert Street Monday at around seven-thirty P.M. when they interrupted a robbery in progress. It was a brazen attempt to grab a cash bag […]
Jamal Jackson is no stranger to the Police. He was charged for the 2010 stabbing murder of a security guard at the Belize Biltmore Plaza but was acquitted in 2015 after the witness recanted his statement to Police. According to a release issued by the G.S.U. today officers responded to reports of the shooting and […]
Jackson is only one of many persons who have been charged for murder and then acquitted. While the conviction rate in Belize is not a matter of public record, the reality is that it is far more common to see somebody walk free from murder than it is to see a conviction. Assistant Commissioner of […]
A criminal investigation conducted by Dangriga police, following the gruesome discovery of a fetus on Thursday, will likely give rise to charges being levied against a minor, as well as a possible accomplice. The discarded stillborn was retrieved by dogs from an overgrown lot in the Benguche area. Residents say that it was found a […]
One week ago three persons were detained by Police on suspicion of being involved in a fake cop racket. Perpetrators actually managed to get guns off two security guards in Belize City approaching them under disguise. It’s a situation the Police took seriously since in both instances the attackers were armed and there was the […]
There were three cases of sexual abuse, one ended in a conviction. A resident of Biscayne, Belize District, is serving his first night of a three-year sentence imposed upon him today for two counts of sexual assault against an eight-year-old girl. Twenty-five-year old Randy Dominguez was surprised by the girl’s mother; she found him and […]
A resident of Silk Grass Village has been indicted for murder after initially being arraigned last week on charges stemming from a brutal attack on fifty-two-year-old Harrison Bowers. According to Dangriga police, Bowers was stabbed multiple times to the hands, chest and abdomen. The incident took place sometime around nine-thirty P.M. on February twenty-first. While […]
