Is there financial hanky-panky going on at the Belize Fisheries Department? Senior fisheries officer Mauro Gongora is under fire for allegedly persuading a cane farmer from Corozal Town into paying sixty-four thousand dollars for a Fish Exporters License and over three thousand pounds of sea cucumber which he is yet to receive. In March of […]
A well known Belmopan business was targeted by brazen thieves sometime after they closed for business on Tuesday evening. Thirty two year old Vishal Sabnani, businessman and owner of Cellular World, Belmopan Branch, closed the business at five. This morning he discovered that thieves had broken into the store located in the Caladium Building and […]
Two men claim they were badly beaten today at a house on Periwinkle Street in Lake Independence Area. The Gang Suppression unit was looking for drugs and firearm. They didn’t find any, but Jeon Peebles and Kareem Grant hit numerous times with a metal pipe. The ordeal lasted an hour when the GSU finally left […]
In the very early hours of Saturday morning, Valley of Peace resident Donatilo Canales was shot dead in his yard in the village. His wife heard multiple gunshots minutes after the fifty-four year old family man went outside with a lamp to check why his dogs were barking. When he didn’t return to the house […]
A Roaring Creek man is tonight in big trouble with the law and his two wives. Thirty-six year old John Chimilio has said “I Do” twice in four years. This came to light on Monday when one of his wives, twenty-seven-year-old Merkitia Castillo Chimilio of Belmopan City discovered a marriage certificate which states that Chimilio […]
A well known resident was murdered in the Valley of Peace area, Cayo, just after midnight on Saturday. The wife of Donatilo Canales and a neighbor found him dead in a bushy area after gun shots were heard. Following the murder, the Canales family moved out of the village in fear of their lives since […]
Forty-three-year-old Jose Miguel Abrego, a caretaker on a citrus farm near St. Margaret’s Village was shot and killed sometime after eleven o’clock on Sunday night. According to his wife, Abrego was on the property when she heard a volley of shots being fired. She was reportedly upstairs of their residence and took cover. When the […]
A pair of Guatemalan men found hunting in Belizean territory illegally is spending the first night of a five-year sentence at the Belize Central Prison. Thirty-five-year-old Emilio Chub and twenty-five-year-old Erasmo Vasquez were poaching near Machakilha when they were busted by a team of law enforcement officers on patrol in the area. The men were […]
A young mother remains behind bars tonight along with her two siblings, but sadly her two month old baby boy is at home being deprived of breast milk. The case of the Usher Family who was dragged to court on Wednesday of this week, on a charge of Kept Ammunition without being granted a Gun […]
Two men, including a cop, who are facing criminal offenses, are out on bail tonight. First, there is PC Rupert Thomas, who is attached to the Independence Police Formation in the Stann Creek District, and was accused on November fourteenth, of having sex with a fourteen-year old girl. He is facing a charge of carnal […]
A James Bus en route to Punta Gorda Town on Thursday night was held up by a trio of armed gunmen who boarded the vehicle near San Isidro Village as passengers. According to thirty-one-year-old Joe Romero, the conductor on duty at the time of the incident, the masked men stopped the bus and entered. One […]
As we said, Carlos Najera is the Good Samaritan who almost became a dead Samaritan after he was shot by a robber in San Pedro. At around one-twenty this afternoon four young men attempted to rob the World Class Fashion Store located on Pescador Drive. Two women about to enter the store allegedly noticed what […]
Following the directive of Director of Public Prosecutions on Wednesday, this afternoon Belmopan Police charged eighteen year old Wilser Echevarria for the crime of murder. Echevarria was on remand at the Belize Central Prison while the D.P.P. reviewed the file. According to the Criminal Code, where the suspect claims self-defence in any murder, Police cannot […]
A pair of coastguard officers who reportedly have had a history of enmity with each other is heading to court to resolve a criminal matter resulting from a physical assault at the headquarters a few days ago. Seaman James Stephenson was reportedly inside his quarters when he got into a verbal exchange with an ensign. […]
On Wednesday morning, twenty-eight-year-old Robert Tracy, a resident of Holy Emmanuel Street, was gunned down as he sat on a stool inside a yard on Wagner’s Lane. A single shot by a lone gunman had claimed the life of a young man whose history of run-ins with the law was rather lengthy. In the wake […]
The trial for a family of four, Olympia King, her son, Tyron King, daughter, Sherin King and family friend, Harrison Smith, who is now deceased, concluded today before the Senior Magistrate, Sharon Fraser. Of the four persons, one was convicted for the offenses of Cultivation of Marijuana and Possession of a Pipe adapted to smoke […]
Blood spilled again this morning in Belize City. So far there have been three execution style murders in six days; the most recent occurred at ten this morning on Wagner’s Lane where twenty-eight year old Robert Tracy was targeted. A single gunshot hit him on the head as he sat on a stool in a […]
The life of a Panamanian diplomat was snuffed out on Sunday, November twenty-third; his body was found by a church goer in an area called La Choza in the capital. Jose Rodrigo de la Rosa Stanford’s had cut wounds to the neck and head. One man, eighteen year old Wilser Echevarria, was arrested the following […]
At noon today a family, including a sixteen year old minor, was dragged to court on a single charge of possession of a round of a nine-millimeter ammunition, but the Chief Magistrate threatened to dismiss the charge if the police evidence is not strong against the family. Shantel Monique Usher, her cousin, Danika Usher who is a […]
No one has been charged in connection with the execution of twenty-five year old Kenroy Parham. That’s the latest coming out of police today as investigations continue into the murder of the Western Paradise resident on Friday night. According to relatives, Parham left his house en route to Mahogany Heights last Friday to visit his […]
News Five understands that at least four police officers in the south are under intense scrutiny because it is believed they are part of a ring of lumber thieves. According to an investigation carried out by the Professional Standards Bureau, the officers were used by a businessman from Deep River, Toledo to steal lumber near […]
A Belize City businessman, who back in April 2013 assaulted his wife with his licensed firearm, was found guilty of one count of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm upon Bernadette Reyes. The incident occurred at the couple’s King Street house where they lived at the time. Ensfield Reyes, who was unrepresented, was found guilty on Monday […]
With Christmas just three weeks away, robberies and burglaries are likely to peak. On Monday around mid afternoon, a thirty-six year-old driver for Bowen and Bowen and two of his co-workers were held at gunpoint and robbed. The Bowen employees were on a delivery run at the store of a Chinese businessman in Cotton Tree […]
There was an execution style murder sometime on Friday night on the heels of the murder of Emerson Arnold that occurred earlier that morning. But it is not known if the murder of Kenroy Parham has any bearing to Arnold’s homicide. Gunshot blasts were heard on Friday night in the quiet community, and early on […]
Two firearms and live rounds were found in gang territory over the weekend by the Gang Suppression Unit. The GSU moved in on Flamboyant Street, Belize City, where in a lot with overgrown bushes they found two M-sixteen rifles and sixty rounds of ammunition in a plastic bag and wrapped in a shirt. The firearm […]
