There are two heinous reports of a sexual nature to report tonight. In Silk Grass in the southern Belize, a young boy was sexually abused by someone he knew well, his brother-in law. The minor says that the crime occurred while he and his mother were visiting a relative in the village on Sunday. His […]
The last time Desmond Usher, a Mahogany Heights, Belize District, resident was seen alive was on Friday night. The handyman, who is the brother of Leonard “Ghost” Meyers, left his common-law-wife at her mother’s house with a promise that he would soon be back, but he never did. Usher’s body was found this morning by […]
Funeral services for taxi man, thirty-nine year old Patrick Dean Tillett was held at his home village of Hattieville earlier today. He was killed on Wednesday night as he sat on a cement block on Cairo Street in Belize City sometime after ten p.m. At least one man, brandishing a nine-millimeter firearm reportedly opened fire […]
Police have another investigation on their hand that is being upgraded to murder. Fifteen year Tarique Thompson, a second form student of Canaan High School, died on Saturday at the K.H.M.H where he had been getting treatment since Monday. Thompson was shot last week on Lakeview Street just a stone’s throw from his house on […]
But the Varela family of San Pedro is desperate and is asking for assistance in finding eighty year old businessman Leovijildo Varela, who was thrown out of a tugboat that was pulling a barge transporting butane trucks from San Pedro to the Belize City Port. The downpour on Thursday night and the heavy winds caused […]
There are also two stabbing incidents to report tonight. In Belize City, twenty-three year old Kevin Young of Boots Crescent was stabbed multiple times on the face and chest. The stabbing took place on Sunday night just before two o’clock in the morning when he was at home with friends. According to Young, a man […]
Tarique Thompson has succumbed to gunshot injuries he sustained on Monday night in Belize City. Around twelve noon today, the fifteen year old second form student of Canaan High School passed away at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after spending over three days in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. The […]
Meanwhile, in Wednesday night’s shooting of another minor, sixteen year old Reuben Leslie remains brain dead at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The student of a George Price Highway address was shot multiple times to the right leg and the center of his forehead as he headed home on bicycle from his girlfriend’s house. As […]
There have been four shootings in less than forty-eight hours in the Old Capital. And tonight, one man is dead and two others are in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The spate of violence started on Monday, but on Wednesday night, a taxi man was fatally wounded around ten o’clock while a […]
But it is likely that police will have another homicide on their hands. Sixteen year old Reuben Leslie, a student of a George Price Highway address, was shot multiple times to the right leg and the center of his forehead. According to relatives, Leslie is brain-dead and is being kept alive by a ventilator at […]
There was yet another shooting in the city in less than twenty-four hours. Just before nine p.m. on Tuesday night, shots rang out on Old Fabers Road in the Caesar Ridge area. Twenty-eight year old Jamelia Neal is tonight admitted to ward at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after she was shot multiple times to […]
On Monday night we brought you pieces of an explosive recording in which senior UDP insider and former Minister Melvin Hulse lashes out at Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Allegations made on that tape were serious enough for the PM to seek legal sanctuary, and threaten to sue if anybody dared to repeat. Apart from the […]
A fifteen year old student is hospitalized in a critical condition but stable condition. Shortly before nine on Monday night, the second form student of Caanan High School was walking on Lakeview Street heading to his home on Sibun Street when he was shot. According to reports, there were at least two men, one of […]
Tonight, thirty six year old undertaker, Sanjay Pilgrim of Belize City is on remand for the murder of his friend, forty-four year old Carrington Bodden, who was fatally stabbed once to the chest on Sunday night during a heated argument on Kelly Street. Pilgrim was taken by CIB personnel in handcuffs to the Belize City […]
On March twenty-second, 2014, Senior Superintendent of Police, Edward Broaster, accused two men who were visiting Caye Caulker of trying to bribe him so that no charges be levied against them. The two are tour guides Argyle Jex and Lewis Cal, who were jointly charged, with the offense of Attempting to Corrupt a Police Officer. […]
A citizen’s arrest effected by residents of Santa Cruz on Saturday, at the request of Village Chairman Aram Canti, has sparked controversy across the Toledo District, among members of the Maya and Garifuna communities. Rupert Myles, who has been occupying land within the village for almost two years, was bound and shackled. It happened following […]
Friend killed friend on Father’s Day? That’s what happened on Sunday night in Belize City. It is alleged that in the midst of an argument between two friends who were under the influence of alcohol, a knife was pulled out and in a matter of minutes another was stabbed in the chest and later died […]
This evening, a group of four persons, who were busted inside a Cherokee jeep, were remanded to the Belize Central Prison, after the prosecutor objected to bail due to the huge amount of drugs found in their possession. The bust netted police sixty-seven kilograms of marijuana which is equivalent to one hundred and forty eight […]
A twenty-eight year old man is tonight clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot multiple times to the body on Tuesday night. Just before nine p.m., Jorge Caceres was gunned down while he was hanging out at a house in the village of Lord’s Bank in the Belize District. […]
Up north, a housewife has given police a report of a horrifying experience she lived at the hands of her husband. Maria Pech of Santa Clara Village, Corozal claims that on Monday, she was assaulted by her husband, Joel, in her yard. While it is not known what prompted the domestic dispute, Maria claims it […]
Further up north in the village of Ranchito, the Police Anti-Drug Unit, ADU, made a sizeable bust of highly addictive and illegal drug. In operations at a house in the village on Monday, they found seven parcels of heroin, which weighed in at over sixteen pounds of the drug. The bust, in the U.S., carries […]
On Tuesday, Quick Response Team of the Police Department in Placencia conducted several searches in Seine Bight for drugs. In an abandoned lot in that community, they found what appeared to be a part of a makeshift object adopted as a handmade firearm. The homemade gun was retrieved and taken to the Placencia Police station […]
The Gang Suppression Unit also carried out operations over the weekend. On Friday afternoon, the unit conducted a search through Taylor’s Alley area and in an empty lot they found a nine millimeter Smith and Wesson pistol. No one was in the area at the time of the discovery so the firearm was kept and […]
Three persons lost their lives over the weekend in separate incidents in the west and the Old Capital. On Friday night, shots rang out on Partridge Street Extension sometime around eight-thirty p.m. When the echoes of the blasts subsided, twenty-eight-year-old Allison Williams of Rivero Street, Belize City laid dead on the street, next to his […]
Twenty-four hours after the murder of Williams, shots rang out once again in the city. Just after nine p.m., twenty-seven-year-old Jason Sutherland was shot to the left foot as he stood on Central American Boulevard. According to Sutherland, he heard several shots and later realized that he had been shot. He was rushed to the […]
