On Friday, twenty-nine-year-old Mahesh Balani, a businessman of Corozal Town, was robbed at gunpoint of two hundred and forty thousand pesos, the equivalent of forty thousand Belize dollars. The incident occurred sometime before six p.m. while he was conversing with a friend outside of an adjacent building. A pair of gunmen reportedly approached Balani from […]
A thirteen year old student of Ladyville, Belize District was reportedly sexually abused last Sunday afternoon. According to the girl, she and her friends went swimming in the sea behind Vista Del Mar, but the abuse occurred when she was not in the water. There are few details of the incident, but the minor claims […]
It made big news at the end of January when news of child predators on the prowl in the north spread like wildfire. Schools were on alert and so were the Police, hunting for signs of a white SUV allegedly linked to a kidnapping attempt. Things have quieted down somewhat, but today Officer commanding Corozal […]
A Corozal businessman of Indian extraction was robbed of a significant sum of money on Friday evening. While the incident has flown below the radar, twenty-nine-year-old Mahesh Balani was relieved of two hundred and forty thousand pesos at gunpoint. That is the monetary equivalent of forty thousand Belize dollars. Balani reported to police that while […]
In news from the south…Placencia Police intercepted a package containing weed at the airstrip in that municipality. Based on Special Branch intelligence, officers searched a package that arrived this morning on a domestic flight from Tropic Air. Inside a cartoon box filled with vegetables, the officers discovered in a bunch of cilantro, a wrapped parcel […]
A former B.D.F. soldier was likely lured to his death on Valentine’s Day. Denver Jones was murdered after nine o’clock on Saturday night in an area that he was known to frequent in Ladyville, Belize District. Jones, who was once linked to a missing firearm from the B.D.F. armory, was shot once to the face. […]
In Belize City, nine year student, Davian Sanchez, and fifty-six year old fisherman, Charles Guy, were shot while they were in front of Zen’s Shop on Faber’s Road. Guy is said to be a regular in front of the shop and the minor was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s alleged […]
Also in Dangriga, forty-three-year-old Gregory Williams is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds to the legs after being injured by a police officer at the start of the weekend. On Friday afternoon, sometime before one o’clock, Williams accosted twenty-seven-year old Elroy Quiñonez who was seated outside a bike shop on George Price Drive. According to Quiñonez, […]
The Hattieville community on the George Price Highway has recorded its first murder for this year leaving a mother to mourn the death of her only son. The Hattieville resident had just left the K.H.M.H., but had to turn back at about six-thirty on Thursday evening when she was notified of the demise of twenty-three […]
The captain of a boat belonging to Thunderbolt Water Taxi in Corozal was arraigned and he pleaded guilty to two counts of Possession of a Controlled Drug with Intent to Supply. On Thursday afternoon, thirty-five year old Miguel Dominguez, a resident of Corozal Town, was caught red-handed with four point four pounds of compressed hydro-grade […]
The gang suppression unit is currently conducting countrywide operations including in the west and the Old Capital. The success of the drug bust in Corozal was followed by the discovery of twenty-seven pounds of marijuana in Belize City. Via Phone: Insp. Mark Flowers, Commander, GSU “There were operations conducted in other parts of the […]
The Gang Suppression Unit, as we told you earlier, is busy conducting anti-drug operations. Following information received, on Thursday, the GSU conducted a search in an abandoned lot on Neal’s Pen Road in the city. That search led to the discovery of a black plastic bag in the bushes with twenty parcels, each containing one […]
A thirteen year old student of the Ambergris Caye Elementary School has been shot at her home while she prepared for dinner. Tonight, Meredith Escalante is lucky to be alive but has been left traumatized. Two shots hit her; one on her chest and the other on her face. A duo of young men was […]
There was another shooting, but in the city. Thirty-year-old Mark Alamilla, known to friends and family as Chabo, remains hospitalized tonight, following a near-fatal shooting a stone’s throw away from his home in Majestic Alley. It is the second armed assault on Alamilla since last September when he, along with three other men, came under […]
A boat belonging to the water taxi, Thunderbolt, and carrying a number of passengers, was intercepted this morning at the Corozal pier before its scheduled departure to San Pedro. Unofficially, we are told that the Gang Suppression Unit seized marijuana and an assortment of suspected contraband liquor. The GSU has since released the water taxi […]
Today a man who was the subject of an intense manhunt is on remand at the Belize Central Prison. Jermaine Sanker went on a mini-crime spree in Corozal late last year and has been eluding Police since then. On December ninth, 2014, a warrant in the first instance was issued for his detention on suspicion […]
In Monday’s newscast, we broke the news of the second murder in twenty days in Roaring Creek, just outside Belmopan. The details tonight are that an elderly man, John Smith, was shot once in the head by a gunman who simply walked up to him and fired the fatal shot. While Smith grasped for his […]
There was another shooting on Monday night. It happened in San Pedro where a well-known alleged drug peddler, was shot to the foot. Kareem Eagan is no stranger to the police on the island, in fact, less than a month ago he was the intended target of another shooting at his apartment. San Pedro Police […]
There is breaking news: a few minutes ago, a Roaring Creek resident was murdered in the Hattieville area of the village. At this time, we cannot reveal the name because family members have not been notified. But we can say that he was found with a gunshot wound. We’ll have more on this murder in […]
Business owners and vendors are being asked to exercise vigilance for counterfeit currency. According to the Belize City police, around eleven o’clock on Friday morning, they visited the Michael Finnegan Market where several fruit vendors handed over seven-twenty dollar bills with six notes having the same serial number: DL-two-eight-seven-six-five-five and one with serial number: DL-one-eight-three-one-five-six. […]
Two Belizeans were attacked by three unidentified persons in Playa del Carmen over the weekend. According to Police reports from that area, authorities were called to downtown Playa del Carmen at around two-thirty Saturday morning where they discovered twenty-five year old Abner Torres with a wound to the left side of his face. Torres, who […]
Will there be any justice for the families of twenty-four year old Emerson Daly or sixty-year old Feliciano Richard Noralez? Daly was initially reported missing and his body found two days later when it was pulled out from the river behind Banana Bank on January twenty-first. He had been shot to the face and then […]
The Gang Suppression Unit has been on various operations in the city over the past three days. The unit is reporting the seizure of a substantive amount of cannabis and a firearm from various hotspots within the city. On Tuesday, in the Nurse Findley Crescent area, a search in an empty lot led to the […]
There is a very credible report into our newsroom tonight and it is that another passport fiasco is swirling around the Minister of Immigration, Godwin Hulse. It involves the illegal issuance of a Belizean passport and nationality to a national who claims to have citizenships from many countries. The new passport was recently issued to […]
Belize City resident Godswell Flores was today acquitted of Failure to Produce a License for Possession of Antiquities. Magistrate Dale Cayetano dismissed the charge against Flores because the prosecution failed to prove the case against the accused beyond a reasonable doubt. Several witnesses were called to the stand including two law enforcement officers and archaeologist […]
