Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for an escaped prisoner. He is twenty-nine year old Shane Bennett, who is described as armed and dangerous and known to carry a firearm. Bennett escaped from the holding cell at the Intermediate Southern Formation police station in Stann Creek just after midnight on January […]
The Rural Eastern Division today received a very significant donation from the Princess Hotel and Casino. There are thirty-two communities in that zone, spread over many miles. It’s a challenge to not only physically cover that wide an area, but also to maintain effective, real time communications between officers assigned to police the division. That’s […]
A father of two from Caledonia, Corozal is at the center of a police investigation that could be related to an Orange Walk drug bust late last week in which eighty-three kilos of compressed marijuana were seized by police. But this is just an allegation. Now, thirty-one-year old Luis Alcoser went missing on Tuesday when […]
Canadian film-maker Matthiew Klinck was murdered at his home near Spanish Lookout sometime over the weekend. He was last seen alive on Saturday at around four, and on Monday night his decomposing body was discovered by two friends, accompanied by the property’s caretaker. He had been stabbed fourteen times in the face, neck and upper […]
On December twenty-nine, Police Constable Luke Moreira, assigned to the San Ignacio Police Formation, was arraigned on two counts of rape. He was accused of taking a woman prisoner out of her cell and sexually assaulting her. Even as Police reeled from that scandal, two days after Police Constable Kyle Serrano, attached to the San […]
More than two months ago on election night, a close affiliate and supporter of Minister of Police John Saldivar allegedly fired his weapon into the air in celebration. The man was immediately detained by police officers on the scene. His detention was short-lived, however, as Saldivar and a crowd of supporters descended on them. As […]
The Police Department is generally reticent with statistics and only too happy to keep the media in the relative dark. Of course that’s only when crime statistics don’t look good for the department, not when things are looking much better than they did in 2014. And they are, according to the police, in all categories […]
There has been a constant cry from Police formations countrywide for resources. It’s no closely held secret that the Department is strapped for vehicles and equipment and even financial resources. But the statistics that crime is down released seem to bear out a theory that the police have what they need, even if they may […]
Much attention has been given to the efficacy of community policing – not only today when statistics were released, but through the second half of 2015. Traditionally when crime has spiralled out of control the department has favoured a paramilitary approach, like the GSU for example. But that is a different approach to community policing. […]
Thirty-seven year old film-maker Matthiew Klinck is well known in Belize for the first-ever telenovela, La Isla Bonita, set in San Pedro as well as for the Curse of Ixtabai. But sometime over the weekend, in the peaceful community of Selena behind Spanish Lookout, the Canadian actor, cinematographer, producer and director was stabbed to death. […]
The Belize Audio Visual Industry Association, BAVIA, of which Matthiew Klinck was a founding board member, is tonight reeling from the murder of a colleague. Klinck rose to prominence in the burgeoning local film industry with the feature film Curse of the Xtabai in 2012. While the attention-grabbing movie did not win an award at […]
Klinck, the brain behind Make-Belize Films, also dedicated countless hours training and mentoring young film students and aspiring producers. Toombs gives a professional reflection of his slain colleague. Isani Cayetano “What does this loss mean for the audio visual industry in Belize in terms of what his potentials were, realizing some of the dreams […]
There is an update to the murder investigation…When we left the scene just after two this afternoon, forensic personnel and Police were still in Selena at the scene of the murder. Tonight it’s official though, the Klinck was murdered. Late this evening we contacted investigating officer Inspector Reymundo Reyes who gave us an update via […]
A Belizean businessman was arrested today in Honduras; August Henry Tabony was detained while he was at the Juan Manuel Gálvez Roatan International Airport. According to reports from La Prensa Honduras, he had not declared more than sixteen thousand four hundred and ninety U.S. dollars in cash he was carrying on him. The sixty-five year […]
The girlfriend of a prison inmate is in trouble with the law tonight. That’s because she tried to smuggle weed for him to take back to prison. Meagan Leslie was nabbed when she went to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court requesting permission to give Ryan Alvarez a medication. While the request was refused, authorities saw […]
Fifty-eight year old Charles Davison, a US livestock exporter and importer of Ontario Village, Cayo District has suffered significant financial losses. Davison was overseas during the Christmas holiday when thieves got busy at his farm. He returned on December twenty-eighth to find that he had been robbed. Among the missing items are a horse cart, […]
The first murder for the year took place minutes after five o’clock on New Year’s Day. A young man was accompanying two females from the neighborhood on Jane Usher Boulevard in the old capital when he was accosted. One of two men opened fire hitting him multiple times. Kieron Shaquille Moss of a Freedom Street […]
We’ve told you about the shooting death of Kieron Moss, but there was another shooting that happened prior to his murder on New Year’s Day. Just minutes after the clock struck midnight, thirty-one year old Ryne McKenzie and twenty-one year old Ryan Foster were riding on separate bicycles on McKay Boulevard, in the Saint Martin […]
An eighteen-year-old woman was sexually assaulted a little over a month ago in Ladyville. A report of the incident was not filed until New Year’s Day. According to Rural Eastern Division Commander, Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster, the suspect is believed to be a Guatemalan national. While he could not explain the delay in reporting the […]
The Orange Walk’s Quick Response Team made a very large drug bust on Sunday, and it is believed that it was part of a cartel shipment. That’s because the marijuana, all one hundred and eighty pounds of it, was tightly compressed, neatly packaged and all those packages were labelled with a ‘J.’ The surprising and […]
Just a few hours after the Quick Response Team, acting on information received, made another discovery – this time a weapon. No ammunition was found with that weapon, but it is still one more gun off the streets of Orange Walk. Supt. Selvyn Tillett, Officer Commanding, Orange Walk Police Formation “At about four p.m. […]
An Asian couple, proprietors of Amy’s Restaurant in Ladyville, came under attack by a pair of armed robbers on New Year’s Day. According to Xiao Zheng Lo, she was inside her place of business when the duo stormed in. During the invasion the thieves made off with seven thousand dollars in cash and other items. […]
A special constable attached to the Orange Walk Formation of the Police Department is tonight in a stable condition at the Northern Regional Hospital after he accidentally shot himself in the foot, while in hot pursuit of an escaping prisoner. Just after six this morning, Special Constable and Prisoner Warden Lenardo Bol and several other […]
Two men were arraigned this morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer after they were busted with over eleven kilos of alleged heroin on December twenty-ninth. According to reports, tour guide Richard McDonald and fisherman Giovanni Requeña were in a taxi on the BelChina Bridge when elements of the Anti-Drug Unit swooped down on them. The […]
As we approach the final few hours of 2015, it is with the news that at least at this hour there have been no murders reported on the Southside of Belize City for the month of December, and only eight in the last six months. Those are unprecedented statistics, and a stark contrast to early […]
