For some time now, community policing is a strategy that has been advanced by the Eastern Division of the Belize Police Department throughout the city. On Sunday, the South Regional Commander joined residents, primarily the youth, of the Mayflower to Ebony Street area at the Berger Field in Belize City for sporting activities. Well since […]
The details of the latest murder in Belize City are all-too-familiar and tragic. The life of a young woman, a mother of a four year old son, was taken in a most vicious way in another case of domestic violence. The lifeless body of Merlin Elizabeth Herrera Mejia was found with her throat slit inside […]
Belize has been downgraded to Tier Three on the Human Trafficking watch-list, based on a stinging assessment by the U.S. The report states that, “The Government of Belize does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so. Authorities did not initiate any […]
While the Committee absolutely disagreed with the downgrade, it is what it is. As far as Alpuche is concerned, they can only do what they’ve been doing because in the end it is about human rights, not about a classification by the U.S. On the Phone: Judith Alpuche, Chair, Belize Anti-Trafficking Committee “There is work […]
On Monday night, we told you about an initiative organized by Regional South Commander for the Eastern Division of the Police Department in the Mayflower Street area. That area, which includes Ebony Street, Lakeview, Mayflower Street and Banak, has quickly become a problem area in the south side of Belize City due to internal gang […]
The Rural Eastern Division is reporting three deaths in its jurisdiction; the first is a murder. A forty-eight year old caretaker was shot and killed at about nine o’clock on Sunday night inside a small house where he lived alone. But the body of Prudencio Gonzalez was found hours later by his cousin, who also […]
For the past couple weeks, the Ghost Town, Mayflower Street area has become a most dangerous area in the south side of Belize City. At least six persons have been killed in the past three weeks including journalist Kareem Clarke. The incidents, say the police, are as a result of an internal rift between rivaling […]
Jacqueline Carmen Calderon, a Belize City minor who was reported missing on Thursday has been found. The thirteen year old is now in the custody of the Human Services Department after she was found in Lucky Strike Village in Rural Belize by the Eastern Division Strike Team. After the missing report aired on this station, […]
Minister of National Security John Saldivar and six senior officers of the Police Department conducted a mid-year review succeeded by a release issued earlier this week. There has been a change in the Eastern Division where there are currently three commanders for the wider Belize District and two new police jurisdictions will be opened in […]
The shift in violent crimes, particularly murder, has changed to domestic instances and personal conflict. So what is the police department’s strategy to address this issue? John Saldivar, Minister of National Security “Well first of all, one of the things we’ve already done is to initiate contact with the Chief Magistrate and the Chief […]
Months after she was allegedly raped, a seventeen year old girl has made a report to the police. The teenager from Belize City claims that her stepfather raped her last November. According to the report she made to police, the heinous crime took place when her mother was not at home. The girl told police […]
Also in Belize City, there is a report of a missing thirteen year old girl. The minor, Jacqueline Carmen Calderon, a student who resides in the Southern Foreshore area of the city reportedly went to a restaurant on Albert Street to purchase phone credit on Tuesday. Calderon has not been seen or heard from since […]
The charred remains of a man were found about four hundred feet from the Bermudian Landing Bridge since last Saturday. But are the remains that of Kelvin Usher, a Ladyville resident who went missing last Thursday? While the family of Usher believes it is, they have not been able to have closure because police have […]
It’s been almost two weeks since Hope Creek resident, Leopold Myvette, was shot and killed in the south by police officers attached to the Dangriga Police Formation. Police say that construction worker pointed a gun at them and they responded with gunfire. Myvette was shot to the shoulder, abdomen and thigh and collapsed behind a […]
Mexican newspapers are reporting that a Belizean minor was found in the nude and in a drunken stupor in a bushy area of Cancun where she has reportedly been in a relationship with Mexican national. Residents of the area did not respond to screams and later on Sunday morning, the fourteen year old girl was […]
Also in the south, a Guatemalan national is in custody tonight for a most disturbing report made last week. He is thirty-eight year old Selvin Giovanni Castro who has been charged with Unlawful Sexual Intercourse. He is accused of sexually abusing a young girl who is now more than twenty weeks with child. The abuse […]
By our count there are up to seventy-eight murders since the start of 2015. Most of the homicides are in the Belize District with murder count in the city at the highest. In fact, Belize has the dubious distinction of being the fourth most murderous city in the world. On Monday morning, Belize City Mayor, […]
An idyllic hang-out with friends, drinks and food on Saturday turned into a bloody tragedy when a domestic attack elicited a deadly response. Thytis James Blancaneaux, thirty, was at the residence he shared with Keyren Tzib, twenty-four, in the Spanish Town Area of Lord’s Bank. They were having some drinks with friends and preparing some […]
Aside from the killing of Thytis Blancaneaux, there are two murders to report. Hattieville resident, thirty-one Hugh Dyer, was today charged with murder of forty-seven year old Steve Munnings, a handyman from the village. Dyer is the ex of twenty-six year old Michelle Brakeman for whom Munnings was building a bathroom. She claims that on […]
While the Police have been able to readily identify the deceased in those two deaths, they have not done so in a third, which was actually the first of the weekend. That’s because the body, discovered about four hundred feet from the Bermudian Landing Bridge by someone passing by, was burnt beyond recognition. Police received […]
In addition to the stabbing death of Thytis Blancaneaux and the two murders, the weekend’s crime blotter is overflowing with more acts of violence. In Orange Walk, police are investigating the attempted murder of twenty-one year old Herson Adiel Diaz and nineteen year old Fernando Enrique Carrillo both of San Lazaro. The duo was reportedly […]
A twenty-three year old Belize City resident is tonight in a critical, but stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting on Sunday morning. Before two a.m., Sheldon Grinage was shot twice to the back as he stood on Police Street in Lake Independence. According to reports, Grinage was hit as a […]
An eighteen year old female, Victoria Garnett and two minors were today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the offense of Burglary. One of the minors is a thirteen year old student from Saint Luke’s Primary School and the other is a sixteen year student from Gwen Lizarraga High School. When the issue […]
Turning to crime; the discovery of a badly decomposed body on Wednesday morning in a shallow grave several miles outside the Mennonite community of Springfield, has resulted in the detention of at least two persons. Sometime around five a.m., a taskforce comprised of various units of the police department was deployed into an area off […]
A constant trickle of illegal Cuban immigrants into Belize, presumably with aid from a local human trafficking ring, has resulted in yet another bust in the Cayo District, this time near Roaring Creek. A predawn spot check conducted by Belmopan police has led to the arrest of eleven individuals, including their handlers, during separate operations. […]
