There is a most disturbing report from Punta Gorda where a thirteen year old girl has been impregnated by her stepfather. Earlier this week, police and social workers went to the minor’s house and confirmed that the girl’s stepfather had been serially abusing her sexually since last November. Doctors have confirmed that she has been carnally […]
Is infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman headed to Belize? While that is the speculation on various Mexican news outlets, there is no indication at the moment that the boss of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, who broke out of a maximum security prison in Altiplano on Saturday, is indeed traveling this way. Local […]
Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, or Shorty, as he is otherwise known, was first arrested in 1993, broke free in 2001 by reportedly taking cover inside a laundry cart and remained on the lam until 2014 when he was caught inside a Mexican beach resort. At the time of his arrest, Guzman was worth an estimated […]
Today, Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit, Eric Eusey, told News Five that his department has no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the arrests of two Americans and a Panamanian in the US for money laundering last week. The men – James Shipman, Kenneth Landgaard and Michael Dodd, were arrested in a sting operation after […]
On Saturday night, twenty-eight year old Hope Creek resident Leopold Myvette was gunned down by Police officers who fired at least eight shots at him. Their story is that when they approached a group of men in front of Fuentes Bar in the community, Myvette pulled out what appeared to be a firearm and pointed […]
The post-mortem examination, witnessed only by the Police, concluded at around four this afternoon. The family still has gotten no answers, however, and say they are prepared to do whatever it takes to get justice – justice for their family member who they say was gunned down like an animal by Policemen who had no […]
About an hour after he was shot, a thirty-nine year old Belmopan resident succumbed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he was rushed to for urgent medical treatment. As we reported on Tuesday night, the shooting took place at the Gonzalo Quinto compound in Belize City. A security guard claims he fired at Louis […]
Police are also nowhere close to determining who callously murdered Amandala’s star reporter, Kareem Clarke last Monday. Earlier this week at a police briefing, CIB’s Officer in Command, Superintendent Hilberto Romero, told the media that a minor had been detained in connection with the murder. The minor is tonight on remand at the Central Prison […]
As we have reported, twenty-eight-year-old Leopold Myvette was shot and killed by police officers in Hope Creek over the weekend, in what is being described as a case of excessive use of force. According to a police report issued on Monday, Myvette allegedly produced a firearm and trained it at the cops. The officers responded […]
Former Benque Viejo Mayor Edgar ‘Whitey’ Contreras was detained in Guatemala on Saturday after being found in possession of an unregistered firearm in that jurisdiction. While the handgun is licensed for personal use in Belize, Contreras was well within the boundaries of Melchor de Mencos when a search of his person yielded the weapon. The […]
In breaking news tonight, there has been a shooting in the compound of the Gonzalo Quinto warehouse near the Napa roundabout in Belize City. From what we have just learnt, the shooting took place a short while ago and police are currently processing the scene. We can also say that the victim has been rushed […]
Police have a number of murders to solve, but there is a new case that is baffling authorities in the north. The body of thirty-five year old Vicky Hareshlal Gyanchandani is tonight in the morgue at the Northern Regional Hospital awaiting a post-mortem examination. Police are anxiously awaiting those results to determine if indeed the […]
On Monday, the bloody footage of a man who had been viciously chopped to the face and body made its short-lived rounds on the social media. It was taken off shortly after because of its graphic nature. That footage shows twenty-seven year old Irvin Cantun bleeding profusely with multiple chop wounds to the mouth, head, […]
Tonight, another cold-blooded killer remains on the loose despite the recovery of this nine millimeter Glock pistol, believed to have been used in the murder of eighteen-year-old Anthony Smith. The teenager was gunned down on Friday night as he rode his bicycle along Central American Boulevard in the direction of Freedom Street. It is unclear […]
A man from Gardenia is spending the first night of twelve years behind bars after he took the rap for a prohibited weapon, ammunition and drugs found in his home. The items were discovered during an early morning raid and search by the Rural Rapid Response Team operating out of the Rural Eastern Division. When […]
On Monday, we reported that an intervention had been staged over the weekend by the Belize Police Department, involving feuding members of the Ghost Town Gang. The mediation saw the coming together of factions purportedly led by Ellis Meighan and Roger Anthony. Both groups have been at odds for quite some time and the fallout […]
The official murder stats for the first half of the year is yet to be released by the Police Department, but we can surely say that 2015 is one of the most murderous years and that Belize has recently been named the fourth most dangerous country in the world. On Monday, artist Katie Usher took […]
A man was shot and killed by police officers in Hope Creek over the weekend. There a questions surrounding his death. Police say that the man pointed a gun at them and they responded with bullets- to the shoulder, abdomen and thigh – which fatally wounded the construction worker. But just how much forced was […]
The relentless spate of gun violence in the Old Capital continued this weekend, leaving one person dead and another clinging to life in separate armed assaults. On Friday night, an eighteen-year-old youth was mercilessly shot and killed on Central American Boulevard. Despite the presence of police in the area, the gunman pulled off a daring […]
A Belize City minor is currently in custody for the murder of star reporter, Kareem Clarke. The minor was detained over the weekend by cops on patrol and the police strongly believe that the teenager is responsible for the cold-blooded killing of Clarke. The slain journalist was laid to rest on Saturday, almost a week […]
But the minor, who has since been detained in connection with the murder of Kareem Clarke, is also the main suspect in a shooting that occurred on Friday night in the Old Capital. Around ten-thirty p.m., Glenn Murillo was in front of a Chinese store on Vernon Street with two friends when a gunman walked […]
For quite some time now, the Ghost Town Gang has been splintered and rival factions have been waging war against each other in an internal squabble that has seen significant carnage since the beginning of the year. The blood feud on Mayflower Street has the Belize Police Department working overtime to find a suitable solution […]
There was a deadly stabbing incident earlier in the west, where a woman was impaled inside her home, allegedly by an enraged spouse. Police have already detained the suspected murderer in a vicious killing in Benque Viejo today. Just before three this afternoon, neighbours on George Price Street heard the frantic screams of twenty-five-year-old Customs […]
For several months we have reported on the continuing feud among rival factions within the Ghost Town Gang. Enmity between the Meighan siblings and Kendis Flowers has led to ongoing retaliation involving gunplay. The latest incident occurred on Thursday when Flowers and an associate came under attack by a lone gunman as the pair alighted […]
At around one Monday morning, young media personality Kareem Clarke, twenty-seven, was brutally gunned down as he rode home on Vernon Street. He was shot five times – twice to the head and three times to the body. The terribly violent end of this unassuming journalist from Amandala has shocked the community, and tonight Police […]
