Following the news of the amazing catch and release of prize fish and fugitive millionaire David Nanes, Belize certainly got a black eye on the international scene. And tonight there is another, after the US issued sanctions on a company registered in Belize and believed to be doing business with the Islamic State of Iraq […]
Three men who have been on remand for murder just over a year were today told that they could leave the courtroom free men. Daniel Caine, Bart Lucas and Oscar Flores were accused of the October 2014 murder of Harrison Smith, but one year after, Police were unable to present the court with any evidence […]
A trio of men is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being busted with an unlicensed firearm, as well as a stash of marijuana. Twenty-year-old Shakedi Baizar, proprietor of a bike shop in the West Lake area of the Mile Eight Community, along with two relatives were nabbed on Wednesday when personnel […]
What’s next for embattled vice-principal and teacher of Wesley College, Melvin Hewlett? He is accused with drug related charges after he was allegedly caught throwing suspected crack cocaine wrapped in a white paper into the school’s compound. The thirty-five career math teacher has been teaching at the church-state institution for over thirteen years during which […]
Melvin Hewlett is out on seven-thousand-dollar bail bond after appearing before Magistrate Deborah Rogers and pleading not guilty to the charge of drug trafficking. The school board did not wish to speculate on the allegation, but Right Reverend Roosevelt Papouloute says a preliminary meeting has been held with Hewlett. Rt. Rev. Roosevelt Papouloute, President […]
Late this evening, the Ministry of Education issued a statement on the developments with respect to the arrest and charge of Melvin Hewlett for drug trafficking. The ministry cites sections of the Education (Amendment) Rules, 2012 which deals with criminal proceedings. It says that a Managing Authority, in this case the Methodist Board, may start […]
A pair of Camalote men have been arrested and charged for the execution-style murder of sixteen-year-old Ivan Choc who was mercilessly shot and killed inside his home on November thirteenth in the village. Earlier today, twenty-year-old Damien Bowden of Young Bank area and eighteen-year-old Justin Banner were arraigned for the crime of murder in the […]
Where is international fugitive, David Nanes Schnitzer tonight? He is wanted in his home country of Mexico for his role in defrauding investors of millions of dollars, as much as much as forty-two million U.S. dollars. On Friday, he was granted bail by Justice Denis Hanomansingh when he appeared in Supreme Court. Nanes was being […]
After a relative calm, there were three shootings over the weekend in the city. The first was a brazen daylight shooting on Saturday afternoon on Orange Street near the entrance to Taylor’s Alley. Notorious figure in the criminal underworld, Kenneth Flowers, aka “Big Tom”, was targeted by gunmen who are reportedly affiliates of the Taylor’s […]
The vice principal and a teacher of Wesley College, thirty-five year old Melvin Newton Hewlett, is in plenty trouble with the law tonight. Last Friday morning, the Gang Suppression Unit was in the area of Yarborough Road when they spotted two men, an alleged drug peddler and another individual who turned out to be the […]
There is a report of an apparent case of human trafficking in Orange Walk Town. On Saturday, the Quick Response Team visited Dominguez Bar which is located on the Otro Benque Road where they interviewed a Guatemalan mother and her daughter. Twenty-seven Dania Marisol Paredes Contreras and her forty-eight mother Ana Maria Auralia Contreras de […]
Two shootings on Sunday occurred within minutes of each other in Belize City on the heels of the attempt on the life of Kenneth Flowers, aka Big Tom. Just after six a.m., twenty-seven year old Herman Ramsey and thirty-five year old Clive Arnold were shot close to their homes on Fabers Road by a friend […]
Meanwhile, police has one person in detention for the murder attempt on the life of Liston Myers. While it is not believed that he was the intended target, around seven Sunday morning, two gunmen aimed their rifles in the direction of Myers and another man who were walking on Antelope Street in Belize City. Several […]
Residents of Cohune Walk are tonight resting easy and are a little safer with the opening of a police substation in their neck of the woods. The housing community has been plagued by a number of burglaries recently, prompting Belmopan police to reestablish their presence in the area. Superintendent Howell Gillett has been instrumental in […]
But the Eastern Division South Region of the Police Department is not fazed by the recent shootings in its jurisdiction. As a part of its continued community policing initiatives, on Sunday, through collaboration with the Mayflower Neighborhood Watch Committee and the Yarborough Community Policing Unit, a sports day was held at the Berger Field on […]
Forty-seven year old Mexican- American national David Miguel Nanes Schnitzer is out on bail tonight. Nanes is wanted in Mexico in connection with what is known as a Ponzi scheme in which investors lost forty-two million U.S. dollars. But Nanes has been living in Belize for over two years and was able to acquire a […]
Sixteen days after he allegedly discharged his firearm in public on election night, a close affiliate and supporter of Minister of Police John Saldivar has yet to be charged, or even detained – except for one brief moment when he was in Police custody immediately after the shooting. The incident was caught on video, including […]
Two women one who resides on Palmar Road, Orange Walk, the other from Ranchito Village, Corozal Town, are on remand tonight for stealing over two hundred pieces of underwear from a store on Orange Street in Belize City on Tuesday of this week. The duo was allegedly caught on surveillance footage and was escorted to […]
According to a newspaper in Chetumal, Ernesto Alfonso de Miguel who is also known as “En Español” lived for various years at the Corozal Free zone in a bunker. The house was well secured and had a number of amenities which were used as part of Alonzo de Miguel’s lifestyle. He was executed on Saturday […]
San Pedro Police are currently investigating a particularly heinous crime on the island and are seeking one man who they believe is still on the island. It is believed that that man brutally beat and sexually assaulted a seventy year old woman and possibly raped her as she walked home alone on Monday night. The […]
On Tuesday afternoon, a post mortem exam was conducted on the body of sixteen year old Ivan Choc, who was heartlessly killed in front of his parents and siblings inside their house last Friday night in Roaring Creek Village. Pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran certified that the resident of a Young Bank Road address in Roaring […]
The Southside of Belize City, knock on wood, is calm. In fact, we’d go so far as to say that there is unprecedented calm where violent crimes are concerned. Here’s a statistic which may come as a surprise to you…since the beginning of September to present, there have been only two murders reported, and we’re […]
While the decrease in crime is significant and welcome, Williams says that if the police had the resources they needed, they would be able to do much more. Lack of resources is a constant cry in the Department, and in this case there is a sore need for vehicles to patrol the Southside. While there […]
Today, the Police continued their meet and greet efforts, just one of several initiatives which they say are reaping real benefits. We caught up with officers speaking to residents on Oleander Street just off Mahogany Street. It’s an area controlled by the PIV gang, but Eastern Division South Commander Chester Williams says the Police are […]
In Roaring Creek…a sixteen year old minor of Young Bank Road was callously killed in front of his parents and siblings just before eight o’clock on Friday night. It is a most horrific murder that has left the entire Choc family traumatized. As the family of Ivan Choc was having dinner, someone came knocking at […]
