The Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie issued a directive, dated October thirteenth, to all formations of the Belize Police Department on Tuesday to remove checkpoints across the country. While the brass of that arm of law enforcement has gone on record to say that the easing of random checkpoints is to ensure the free flow […]
No explanation was provided as to the reason why it is now seen fit to call off established checkpoints. But that decision is not going down well and speculation is rampant that that it is a political move to favor the government. This morning, we asked the veteran politician and area representative for Orange Walk […]
This morning, just after ten, there was a shooting down the street from the St. Martin’s de Porres School in Lake Independence. Nobody was hurt but two vehicles were hit by flying bullets. It was a scary moment and students were locked down in their classrooms for safety, after which parents were called to come […]
If you’re in the type of business which requires moving items or persons from point A to point B without interference from those pesky police at checkpoints…then have we got good news for you. That won’t be a problem anymore – well, at least until after elections. Today, an internal memo dated October thirteenth from […]
The curious memo has given rise to all kinds of speculation which will certainly be fuelled by the Prime Minister’s confirmation that those checkpoints will be back up after elections. Social media has been afire with claims that the move has been put in place to facilitate the movement of brand new voters from across […]
Aggravated burglaries, also known as home invasions, are experiences that often times leave victims traumatized and in some cases hospitalized for days. It has been some time since we’ve reported on an incident like this, but on Tuesday morning, a home invasion in Camalote Village, Cayo turned ugly when a minor was raped in front […]
Here’s a story you don’t hear everyday…Hopkins Police are investigating a burglary in which two nine millimeter guns were stolen. The good news is that they don’t have to go very far to conduct that investigation. The bad news is that the burglary happened right at the Hopkins Police Station. The bold burglar somehow made […]
Twenty-five-year-old Ervin Franklyn was stabbed and killed in Lord’s Bank Village over the weekend. The fatal incident happened sometime around two o‘clock on Saturday morning. According to Ladyville police, they responded to an area off Edwin Park Street where they saw the young man suffering from multiple stab wounds to various parts of the body, […]
A B.D.F. soldier was killed over the weekend in Orange Walk Town. By all accounts, Rafael Rivas was socializing at Panda’s Bar next to the Central Park when he got into an altercation which resulted in him being viciously stabbed. Today, Superintendent Selvyn Tillett told us via phone that officers got the call at about […]
A teenager was injured during one of two shooting incidents that occurred in other parts of the country over the long weekend. The sixteen-year-old came under gunfire in Roaring Creek Village on Saturday evening. When police visited the cemetery near West Star Gas Station they observed the minor suffering from injuries to the right hip. […]
Turning to crime…Tonight, two of three suspects in a brazen daylight robbery at the premises of Southern Choice Butane Ltd., located at mile four on the Phillip Goldson Highway, are behind bars. This morning, Kevin Faber and Warren Davis were escorted in handcuffs to court for arraignment before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. They are […]
Tonight, forty-four year old Honduran driver, a naturalized Belizean, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court and was slapped with three traffic offenses in relation to a fatal traffic accident on October fifth, 2015 in which eleven year old Tezzrah Diamond Thompson was killed. This morning, after two nights in custody, John Rodriguez was […]
Reports on the number of persons involved in unlawful sex continue to balloon, while the victims are getting younger. Today, twenty-nine year old Hattieville resident, Akeem Alexander Allen, was arraigned for two counts of Unlawful Sexual Intercourse with a young female, only eleven years old. Allen was also charged for one count of Grievous Harm. […]
A gas station was robbed in broad daylight, on Monday morning for which three men have been detained. The brazen robbery occurred at Southern Choice Butane Limited located at Mile four on the Philip Goldson Highway. The gas attendant on duty was conversing with the company secretary when two men walked into the compound saying […]
Thirty-one year old Errol Haynes appeared briefly in court today before the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. He is suing the Commissioner of Police, Superintendent of Prison and the Attorney General for wrongful imprisonment. Prior to his court appearance, Haynes was in a Mexican jail, but was brought to Belize on a committal warrant to serve a […]
Tonight, another Belize City youth is free of murder. At the conclusion of a trial by judge without jury before Justice Troadio Gonzalez, twenty-two year old Ronald Bradley, a resident of Mahogany Heights, was acquitted of the October fifteenth, 2010 murder of female Prison Officer, Miriam Gillett. At a ruling handed down by Judge Gonzalez, a no case […]
An ex-eighteen street gang member from El Salvador was nabbed in Belize two Sundays ago by Orange Walk Police. Twenty-three year old Carlos Enrique Alvarado Lopez is wanted by Interpol for a string of offenses including extortion and belonging to a criminal gang and has been living in Belize since 2013. But Alvarado Lopez was […]
On Monday’s newscast we showed you the telling surveillance video of two brazen robbers, who entered a grocery store in Trial Farm, Orange Walk barefaced and robbed the proprietors of over four thousand dollars in cash and cell phones. The crime occurred just before ten p.m. last Friday and while the ordeal lasted only about […]
According to our records, since the start of the year, there have been five murders in the northern municipality of Orange Walk. On Friday night, that count went up by one after a sixty-three year old man died at the K.H.M.H. Carlos Griffiths was badly beaten last Monday night in front of Monica’s Pawn Store […]
There is another case of murder that the police will have to crack. Over the weekend, the remains of man were found stuffed in a sack in a community on the Hummingbird Highway. The sack was placed between two rocks in an area about six miles south of the Amish community of Springfield. At this […]
But back to Orange Walk where twenty-four year old Jose Antonio Zepeda Junior of Guinea Grass Village was chopped to the forehead last Friday. Zepeda Junior claims that after nine p.m., while having a few drinks at a restaurant in the village, he was assaulted by Adan Meza after he refused to loan him some […]
Just before ten on Friday night, two thieves, believed to be Belize City residents pounced on a Chinese Grocery Shop in Trial Farm, Orange Walk. While the robbers have not been detained, there is video image of the duo as they assaulted the owner of Mister Yan Supermarket. Luckily the proprietors and patrons at the […]
Police have arrested the brother of an alleged Guatemalan rape victim as well as their cousin for the rape of the under aged victim. The young girl says her cousin raped her on two occasions and that her brother aided him by taking her to his room in the house they lived at in Santa […]
The Gang Suppression Unit was today seen giving back to the elderly in celebration of International Day of Older Persons….we’ll have that later in the newscast. But even before that community service initiative, you would know that the unit has been at the center of numerous allegations of brutality and use of excessive force on […]
Community outreach are often services provided by social workers and missionaries alike. It isn’t an initiative that is synonymous with policing. Nonetheless, one branch of law enforcement, particularly the Belmopan formation of the Belize Police Department has been making its rounds. On Thursday, a team of officers visited patients at the Western Regional Hospital, as […]
