There have been two murders in the past two days in the City and this morning, those homicides were followed by a shooting near the Wesley Church in the downtown area. The victim is thirty-seven year old Marlon Budran who was heading to work when he came under fire. Records show that Budran has a […]
As we said, two men murdered earlier this week. In the case of twenty-nine year old Herbert Bowden, who was gunned down on Cedar Street, one man is in police detention. That’s the information coming out from police today following Bowden’s mid afternoon execution on Thursday. The Tibruce Street resident was shot multiple times to […]
The city has been relatively peaceful for some time as police beef up their presence on the streets. But in less than twenty-four hours, two persons have been murdered in south side of Belize City. In the latest murder, police have two persons detained following a broad daylight execution. One of them, a fifteen year […]
We say two murders in less than twenty-four hours because Wednesday morning’s shooting victim, twenty-one year old Ian Adolphus Jr., succumbed to his injuries just before five a.m. today. Adolphus was walking on Freedom Street in the Jane Usher Boulevard Area when police say a lone gunman rode by and shot him. He received injuries […]
In the wake of the gruesome murder of baby Daniel Espat in San Pedro on Tuesday morning, police have detained several individuals for questioning. Initially, in the hours immediately following the deadly shooting, a sixteen-year-old minor was picked up. By Wednesday two other men had been held in custody pending the outcome of the investigation. […]
This morning, at least six gunshots rang out on Freedom Street, Belize City and when the echoes died away, twenty-one year old Ian Adolphus lay on the ground bleeding. The resident of the Yarborough Area was apparently the target of a lone gunman who stalked him and took advantage of an opportunity when Adolphus was […]
Two year old Daniel Espat was shot twice to the head at two o’clock on Tuesday morning as he slept in his small family apartment. His mother, Aleyda Espat, who was lying beside him, remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a punctured lung. They are casualties of a drug war being staged […]
Allegations of police brutality in Belize City are commonplace. Every so often victims would come to our studios to vent their frustration with the manner in which officers go about doing their jobs. This morning, we were called out to the Ombudsman’s Office where the mother of Isaiah Middleton had filed a complaint against members […]
Bloodshed in the area known as Precinct Two was not so long ago almost a daily occurrence. But as we told you, thing have calmed down in the city while violence in the districts has escalated. So what’s the reason behind the sudden calm in the city? Today, Dawson told us that it’s a combination […]
Family members and the community on San Pedro Ambergris Caye are tonight mourning the terrible loss of two year old Daniel Espat, who was shot and killed as he slept. The toddler is the youngest victim of the unending violence that has spread its tentacles throughout the island. The fatal shooting happened just after two […]
Thirty-two-year-old Kareem Eagan, who is a person of interest in this morning’s bloodbath, was shot in the right foot in San Pedrito on February second, as he sat inside his apartment. He told police on the island that he was assaulted by a pair of young men dressed in dark clothing and hooded jackets. The […]
A well-known Belize City businessman, Joseph Meighan of JB’s Security Firm, was hauled to court today for failure to pay three months of Social Security for his workers. This morning, Meighan appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith to answer to a single charge of failure to pay Social Security for workers employed in September, […]
There is very disturbing news tonight about a father who molested his twelve year old daughter. The minor who lives in San Pedro told police that while she was at her father’s house on February eighteenth, her father sexually assaulted her. A subsequent medical examination confirmed that the child had been carnally known. San Pedro […]
An Orange Walk man has been charged with drug trafficking after he was discovered with eight hundred and sixty four grams of cannabis. On Monday around six thirty in the morning, police escorted Nerum Richards, of number twenty six Humming Bird Street in Trial Farm, to an area that they had cleared in the back […]
A near-fatal shooting in San Pedrito on February eleventh preceded this morning’s deadly attack at the Espat apartment in which two year old Daniel was killed. It is firmly believed that the gunmen may have mistaken the unit numbers when they let loose a salvo of rounds into the room. The gunfire injured thirteen-year-old Meredith […]
Still on the issue of stolen artifacts, which globally represents a billion-dollar industry in the parallel market. Over the weekend, the San Pedro House of Culture was burglarized and stolen from within the building on Angel Coral Drive was an assortment of invaluable artifacts. The break-in was discovered by manager, Guillermo Paz, on Sunday morning. […]
The San Pedro House of Culture, which was inaugurated last November, is reporting a break-in at the building located on Angel Coral Drive. Thieves made away with an assortment of valuable artefacts. According to the police, a long list of items were stolen including two conch shell rings, three stone axes, one ink pot, a […]
In Orange Walk Town, a robbery was averted at La Popular Bakery and indications are it was an inside job and the watchman was reportedly held at gunpoint. Thirty year old Danny Gonzalez says that just after midnight on Saturday, he heard a knock on the window of the security booth. He further reports that […]
In its fresh approach to tackle crime, the top brass of eastern division was out in the city last Friday night. But instead of hauling in persons who were breaching the law albeit for petty offenses, police officers were playing good cops. Duane Moody joined the police operation which caught many folks by surprise. […]
Steven Buckley – he’s the man who became the poster boy of police brutality in 2010 after he was shot to the head by a cop while he was sitting inside a parked vehicle off Fabers Road. That incident left him with limited use of some of his limbs, and his long legal battles to […]
Earlier this week we told you about a drug bust in Placencia. The drugs were discovered in a package sent from Maria Chan in Corozal to one Diego Moralez in a box of vegetables on a domestic flight from Tropic Air. Well tonight, there is yet another drug bust to report from the peninsula. Between […]
A man who was in the custody of Ladyville Police pending charges of rape was allegedly found dead in his cell at around seven-thirty on Wednesday night. The version given by Ladyville Police is that eighteen year old Otto Palma was alone in his cell when he hung himself with his white t-shirt. Official News […]
There is another police investigation ongoing…Two men from the Corozal District who relocated to the island of San Pedro in search of a better life were found murdered on Wednesday morning. Their bodies were buried in a shallow grave, eleven miles north of the town, which has become a hot bed for narco-trafficking. When police […]
Northern Ambergris Caye, despite a handful of high-end, luxury resorts, has become the stomping grounds for beach combers who roam the largely uninhabited expanse in search of drug deposits. Criminal activity in the vicinity is being attributed to an ongoing turf war among playadores who are reportedly feuding over territory believed to be the drop-off […]
There is a grisly double homicide making headlines tonight, following the discovery of a pair of bodies inside a shallow grave eleven miles north of San Pedro Town. The bodies were found sometime before midday today in an overgrown area. While a motive for the murders remains unknown, authorities on the island strongly believe that […]
