Interestingly, the decline in violence was not a result of strong-arm tactics by the Police, nothing to do with the infamous GSU breaking down doors and bones. Apparently, it’s quite the opposite. According to Commander of Eastern Division South Chester Williams, community police was able to achieve what no show of paramilitary force ever did. […]
On Sunday, a ninety-three-year-old man was brutally beaten at his home on Fern Lane in Belize City. The vicious attack had the earmarks of a burglary, since Patrick Grant’s twenty-one inch television was stolen. But it is a miracle that the elderly man survived after being hit in the head with a cement block. The […]
In Toledo, charges have been brought against a trio of men, as well as a sixteen-year-old minor, in connection with the murder of fifty-five-year-old Luciano Evaristo Bul. The farmer was brutally slain on Saturday night while walking along the stretch of road between the villages of San Pedro, Columbia and San Miguel. The homicide is […]
There were shots fired on Curassow Street in Belize City on Monday night, and quick response from Belize City police has led to the arrest of a man who is not one of the usual suspects, and isn’t even from the Old Capital. Today, police told us that they got reports of gunfire in the […]
But don’t take Williams’ word for it, or be impressed by a title bestowed by a random media house. He says that the statistics don’t lie, across the board, and are testimony to the effectiveness of the new style of policing he brought to the previously violent Southside. Sr. Supt. Chester Williams, Commander, Eastern […]
The Rural Eastern Division’s Rapid Response Team has been maintaining operations in the two thousand square miles of the Belize District, targeting narcotics and illegal firearms. They got lucky this morning after intelligence led them to an unlicensed shotgun and ammunition in a home on the Phillip Goldson Highway. You may think that a sixteen […]
At end of day Tuesday, three persons were missing in the Belize District – a sixteen-year-old female from Los Lagos, a sixteen-year-old female from Ladyville and a twenty-two-year old Guatemalan female from Vista del Mar. In at least one of those cases being handled by Ladyville Police, there is some good news. Guatemalan Mindy Espino […]
Today, the officers of the Eastern Division South conducted their final meet and greet exercise for 2015. We’ve followed the Police through some of the notorious hotspots in the city as they’ve tried to get the community in an interactive frame of mind. This afternoon, we caught up with them on Albert Street and they […]
A conspiracy to rob a business in Ladyville, Belize District has been thwarted and a very powerful submachine gun was recovered in the process. Police pursued fugitives in a high speed chase along the Phillip Goldson Highway, sometime after ten o’clock on Monday night, but they were able to escape the long arms of the […]
Twenty-one year old Police Constable Luke Moreira was charged late Monday evening with two counts of rape, and formally arraigned this afternoon at the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court. Moreira is accused of raping twenty-five year old Bullet Tree resident Vanessa Evans while she was detained at the San Ignacio Police Station on December nineteenth. Because […]
Ninety-three-year-old Patrick Grant is recovering tonight, following a brutal attack over the weekend in which he was badly beaten by his neighbor during a home invasion. The elderly man regained consciousness earlier today and is undergoing a battery of tests, including a CT scan, to determine the extent of his injuries. On Sunday morning, around […]
A sixth form student is on remand tonight at the Belize Central Prison, following an arraignment for the weekend murder of eighteen-year-old Lennox Pierez Flowers. The fatal stabbing incident occurred during an event in Burrell Boom Village which succeeded the Boxing Day horserace. Flowers, it is reported, got into an altercation with an ex-girlfriend at […]
The issue of gang involvement was raised yet again, despite Flowers’ mother vehemently denying any affiliation between her son and any of the various rival groups in Belize City. Sr. Supt. Edward Broaster, Commander, Rural Eastern Division “Like I said yesterday, Lennox Flowers is an associate of Ghost Town Crips. There was a separate […]
While police foiled a robbery in Ladyville on Monday night, the Anti Drug Unit also made a major bust in the city. There is a report tonight that around ten p.m. on Monday, ADU officers intercepted a taxi on BelChina Bridge in which eleven kilos of packaged heroin were found. The unit is yet to […]
A fifteen year old youth was shot on Monday afternoon on Pickstock Street in the City by two men who rode up to him and opened fire. The student remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. and his condition has stabilized. Family remembers believe that the tensions between rival gangs may have triggered the shooting and claim […]
Also on Monday, we reported that a five year old boy from Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk Town had been sexually abused over the weekend at his home. While we won’t mention his name to protect his identity, we can report that one person has been arrested for molesting the child and that is the […]
Following an identification parade at midday today, Cayo Police are preparing the charge sheet for one of their own accused of a terrible and disturbing crime. Police Constable Luke Moreira is accused of removing a detainee from a cell at the San Ignacio Police Station at gunpoint, taking her into a dark room and then […]
In a sickening home invasion a Belize City elderly man is left in a coma and hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. Patrick Grant was violently attacked over the weekend and robbed of personal items. Grant was found outside his house, but he was brutally beaten inside his house in the Lake Independence area. Family members say […]
There are other reports of sexual assaults coming out of the Orange Walk District tonight. A fifteen year old minor claims that on two occasions, Christmas Eve and on November twenty-fourth, she was raped by two men. Her parents detected signs of sexual abuse and took her to the police station to file a report […]
In Burrell Boom in the Belize District, a teenager was stabbed multiple times as many persons watched. Eighteen year old Lennox Pierez Flowers, a Belize City resident, travelled to the village with friends for the annual horse races and never made it back alive to the City. There he was attacked at the track by […]
In the Toledo District…Was a bitter land dispute in San Pedro, Columbia the motive behind a grisly weekend murder? The lifeless body of fifty-five-year-old Evaristo Bul was discovered by Punta Gorda police sometime after nine p.m. on Saturday night between the communities of San Pedro, Columbia and San Miguel. Bul’s corpse had what appeared to […]
Back to the city where a late afternoon shooting took place. A fifteen year old boy of a Pickstock Street address is tonight in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot at least once to the chest just after four p.m. Kurk Broaster and another minor were standing at the corner of […]
On December second a man considered a dangerous criminal escaped from Police custody while he and two others were being transported to the Belize Central Prison from Dangriga. According to reports, twenty-seven year old Dangriga resident Lawrence Bernardez made his escape when the police pickup slowed down for a speed bump in Hattieville. Bernardez apparently […]
As we get set to close up shop and head into the Christmas holidays, there is no significant update in the alleged rape at the San Ignacio Police Station. Four days ago a woman who was detained at the western station told police that she was raped at gunpoint by a Police Constable who removed […]
A report remains on the desk of the C.E.O. in the Ministry of Transport and NEMO today on the misappropriation of approximately ten thousand dollars from the Post Office in Belize City. On December tenth, the supervisor of the Express Mail Section of the Post Office, while doing a routine check, detected discrepancies in the […]
