And while the Police hunt up lawbreakers on the outside, two who were already on the inside at the Belize Central Prison are looking at possible jail time. Routine Police searches at the prison over the weekend let to the arrest of two employees of that facility, a guard and a cook. Sr. Supt. […]
There was a significant heist last Friday in the capital city, and it happened in the parking lot of the Belize Bank. According to reports, two Santiago Castillo deliverymen in their work truck were in the lot when they were approached by a man with a gun who approached them and demanded the day’s take […]
There was also a string of shootings in the Old Capital over the weekend. The unrelated incidents began on Friday evening shortly after five o’clock when twenty-four-year-old Kyle Chaplin came under gunfire while inside a vehicle on Cran Street. It is reported that he was in the company of a pair of men when an […]
Twenty-four year old Juan Carlos Martinez is on the lam tonight after escaping from the San Pedro Police station on Sunday afternoon and police on the island are seeking the public’s assistance in his recapture. Martinez was transferred to the island from the Belize Central Prison for an aggravated burglary offense, but he managed to […]
A US Coast Guard Officer is reportedly in critical condition after she was stabbed three times on the beach in San Pedro. Twenty-six year old Jennifer Smith, reportedly on vacation on the island, was walking back to her room at the popular Ramon’s Reef Resort at around midnight on Thursday when she was attacked and […]
The United States Embassy in Belize is reaching out to the injured naval officer. While details of the near-fatal attack were sparse this morning, Ambassador Carlos Moreno told the media that the Military Liaison Office is looking into the incident. Carlos Moreno, U.S. Ambassador “I just learned about that this morning when you probably […]
Dangriga police, meanwhile, are reporting tonight a disturbing case of the alleged rape of a pregnant woman. The victim is a nineteen year old resident of Stann Creek District. She claims that on Thursday afternoon, at around three o’clock she was at a bus stop at mile six on the Hummingbird Highway when she was […]
There have been more arrests and charges laid in the high-profile and very brutal home invasion on December third in Burrell Boom. At around seven that night, eight men stormed the home of Lebanese Consul Sarkis Abou-Nehra. Abou-Nehra and his wife were out of the country, but the men viciously beat the caretaker, raped his […]
Notorious street figure Tyrone Meighan was charged for rape in that home invasion, following an identification parade. That brings up an issue which has plagued the prosecution in serious crimes for years – witnesses who refuse to testify because there is a legitimate risk that they will be targeted. Today Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster confirmed […]
The home invasion in Rural Belize has also brought into stark focus the reality of vulnerability in rural areas. Christmas is a time for celebration and giving, but it is also a time for taking, and some criminals are all too happy to take very forcefully. Today Broaster outlined some tips on Christmas security for […]
Three weeks ago a particularly vicious assault caught the attention of the nation. A seventy year old woman told San Pedro Police that as she walked home she was followed by a man on a bicycle and brutally beaten. That man has been at large, but tonight police believe that they have him in custody […]
While San Ignacio Police are yet to determine the identity of a man found dead in the Mennonite Beach area of Spanish Lookout, they have confirmed to News Five that he was chopped multiple times to various parts of the body. Additionally, a set of keys was found at the scene of the gruesome discovery. […]
The lifeless body of an unidentified man was discovered by San Ignacio police on Tuesday night in an area of the Spanish Lookout Community known as Mennonite Beach. Sometime before nine o’clock, officers at the precinct were alerted of a corpse roughly one mile from the Ant Trail Road which leads to the Belize Old […]
How did a dentist from the U.S. charged and convicted for gross criminal abuse of office get a license from the Belize Medical Council to open a clinic and practice in Belize? That’s one critical question. Another is how did John Roberts Hall, that North Carolina dentist who pleaded guilty to injecting semen into the […]
Hall’s license has been revoked, but it seems quite clear that the council could not have done even the most cursory due diligence since that license to practice was issued under a false name – Robert Bob Hall. Interestingly, when San Pedro Police picked up John Roberts Hall on Monday he had a temporary work […]
Police believe they have cracked an armed home invasion at a residence in Burrell Boom last Thursday night. Six of eight suspects have been arrested, charged and arraigned in court today, while police look for two other men. Three women have also been charged in connection with the armed robbery at the house of businessman […]
The group was expected in court this morning so family and friends were awaiting their arrival. They did not appear until the afternoon and it was under heavy police guard. In the drama that ensued, Meighan who was handcuffed, hit reporter Roy Davis off the veranda and down the stairs of the Supreme Court Building. […]
The house met today in Belmopan for the approval of more than forty million dollars being spent in three months but it is the curious tale of multi-millionaire fugitive David Schnitzer Nanes, caught in San Pedro and then given freedom by an even more curious judicial sleight of hand that continues to dominate centre stage. […]
But speaking on a more serious note, P.M. Barrow expressed that he greatly regrets the Nanes situation which has created some tension with our northernmost neighbour who had requested the extradition of the fugitive. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister “The advice was that the extradition treaty with Mexico had never been incorporated into our Municipal […]
After that apology of sorts to Mexico, P.M. Barrow also embarked on a variation of his infamous ‘for God’s sake stop it’ exhortation, and again…the issue is corruption in immigration and the involvement of Ministers in that corruption. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister “I tremendously regret that this has happened, it is an indictment to […]
Police are investigating a home invasion that occurred on Thursday night in Burrell Boom, Belize District. The residence of the Honorary Counsel of Lebanon and businessman Sarkis Abou Nehra was broken into by a group of men who were seen circling the area earlier in the day. The thieves cut open a safe and lifted […]
Two women who were captured on surveillance camera footage stealing more than two hundred pieces of underwear are out on bail. Donela Smith and Johny Netty Lopez were seen stealing the underwear from Siloe store in Belize City on November seventeenth. They were quickly apprehended at a bus terminal and charged with theft on November […]
The tragic death of three young girls, wards of the Princess Royal Youth Hostel, remains the subject of much scrutiny, condemnation and fiery debate. The minors, Sadisha Arnold, Ana Carlos and Elizabeth McKoy, were on lockdown for allegedly running away the day before, and authorities say that one of them started the fire as a […]
More than a month ago a plane landed at the Municipal Airstrip in Belize City at dawn and taxied into a parking spot. Whoever and whatever were on board then got into a waiting vehicle and departed the scene. To date investigators have not been able to determine who or what was in the plane, […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Lawrence Bernardez, a resident of Lakeland in Dangriga who has a long rap sheet, remains on the lam tonight after escaping from police custody on Wednesday. Police are seeking the public assistance in apprehending Bernardez, who is considered dangerous. He was being transported to the Belize Central Prison along with two other inmates, Edan […]
