A twenty-one year old B.D.F. volunteer is tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital awaiting surgery after he was shot multiple times on Friday night in La Democracia Village. Joshua Martinez got off a bus from Belize City and was sheltering under a bus shed at the corner of the George Price Highway and the […]
There were at least three other shootings over the weekend; one on Neal’s Penn Road, another in the vicinity of B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks, and a third on Curassow Street in south side Belize City. Four persons have since been detained in connection with these shootings: two minors, a seventeen year old and a […]
Intimidation, violence, brutality, excessive force – it seems that almost every week these words are used where the Police Department’s most elite unit is concerned. The Gang Suppression Unit is supposed to be well trained and aggressive, but you’d also assume it means disciplined. On that last part, auto-shop owner Allan McCoy would strongly disagree. […]
According to McCoy after Flowers hit him a regular Police Officer arrived on thescene and that’s when things immediately quieted down. That officer allegedly verified his claim that he was inside the club when the accident occurred. From there, he was taken to the Queen Street Police Station. Allan McCoy, Alleged GSU Brutality “When […]
In addition to the shootings, there was other crime over the weekend. Just before one o’clock on Saturday afternoon, the proprietor of Malboro Shop located on Freetown Road, was robbed at gunpoint and hit in the head with a weapon. Four men entered his store and proceeded to rob him of a laptop, an I-pod […]
Tonight, there is national outrage over the murder of Tourism Police Officer, Danny Conorquie. In this newscast, we look at his callous slaying from all angles starting with the ongoing investigations. At midday on Thursday, twenty year old Tourism Police Officer Danny Conorquie was gunned down while on duty at the Caracol Mayan Site in […]
Twenty-four hours after they received the news of his murder, the family of twenty year old Conorquie are reeling from the grief. The vibrant young man known as ‘Bobotch’ lived with his grandfather Eustace in front of the family home in Georgeville. His family last spent time with him over the weekend as he prepared […]
There is unity in outrage over the senseless execution of Danny Conorquie. But there are also questions about the rationale behind having only two Special Constables providing security at such a remote location. Today we asked Reyes if the tragedy might serve as a wake-up call that there needs to be an urgent revision of […]
There is also a report of a heinous act. A twelve year old girl is claiming that she was sexually abused by her own father. The alleged rape, according to the young girl, occurred after six o’clock on Independence Eve. She claims that her thirty three year old Salvadoran father took her to his house […]
A nineteen year old Tourism Police Officer has been gunned down near the Mayan site of Caracol, located in the Cayo District. Danny Conorquie was assigned to the San Ignacio Station, but was on rotational duties in Caracol along with one other officer. The incident is already sending shockwaves through the community, since it is […]
The story of an alleged rape of a five year old Infant One student in Belmopan has aroused public sentiment. The incident allegedly happened last week, and the child’s mother has gone on the airwaves to bring attention to the matter. Naturally any allusion to such a heinous and unnatural crime has caused outrage in […]
Orange Police have issued a bulletin for assistance in locating twenty-seven year old Alexander Tillett. Tillett, as seen in this photograph, is wanted for two robberies which occurred earlier this month. He is the suspect of the September eleventh robbery at Darvis Store in Belize City. Tillett is also wanted for a robbery at Hung […]
There is a report coming out of Hattieville tonight on a case of alleged police brutality against a resident of the village. Lloyd Usher Junior was alleged taken by police officers sometime last week and beaten badly by officers attached to the Hattieville Police station. According to information gathered, Usher Junior was taken as he […]
A post mortem examination was conducted this afternoon on the body of twenty-seven year old Guatemalan national, Manuel Ramos, who was killed over the weekend at his home in Los Tambos in the Cayo District. San Ignacio Police say that they are still unable to determine a motive behind this recent homicide in the village, […]
There were three murders that marred the Independence weekend. At the start of the holidays, Leslie Logan Junior was murdered in Orange Walk Town on Friday at the start of the holiday weekend. His murder was followed by another in the City on Saturday night which we will have coming up. And on Independence Day […]
There was an unplanned power interruption that plunged the entire country into darkness on Independence eve. It occurred sometime after eight p.m. when in some municipalities celebrations were ongoing. But just prior to the blackout, there was a murder in south side Belize City. Thirty-eight-year-old Glenmore Stevens was shot and killed on Raleigh Street off […]
In addition to the murders in Cayo and Belize City, on Friday, one of two robbers at a Chinese store in Orange Walk Town was killed. The robbers held up the attendant inside the store and stole five hundred dollars in cash and two cell phones. But as they fled the scene, the proprietor of […]
Aside from the murders, there were also burglaries and robberies over the weekend. Police are investigating a brazen broad-daylight robbery that occurred today inside the parking lot of Pink Boutique on North Front Street. The driver was reportedly robbed of an undisclosed amount of money believed to be the proceeds of two days of sales. […]
Belmopan Police are currently investigating a distasteful and disturbing allegation of sexual assault of a student. The report was made at the police station last Tuesday by the alleged victim, a five year old boy, in the company of his mother. According to the mother, she noticed blood on her son’s underwear, and when she […]
Belmopan Police are also looking for one man after a shooting incident on Friday night. According to the report, at around eleven fifteen that night Police were called to a nightclub on Hummingbird Avenue where they found thirty-nine year old Belmopan resident Daniel Castillo suffering from a gunshot wound to the chin. Castillo told Police […]
A man who robbed a store in Orange Walk at gunpoint is tonight at the Northern Regional Hospital morgue after he was fatally shot by the proprietor. That man, Leslie Logan Jr., is a former Police Constable and the son of highly decorated retired Police Inspector Leslie Logan Sr. It happened at around two forty-five […]
Reeling from an explosive surge of gangland violence which resulted in three murders and multiple casualties in a matter of hours, Prime Minister Dean Barrow on Thursday announced that Police will now be enforcing anti-gang laws. The laws aren’t new by any means – but they’ve just gotten obscure from lack of use. Government has […]
Preventative Detention – the proposed amendment to the constitution was the cause of fiery debate, controversy and contention. So much so that Prime Minister Dean Barrow backed down from the law which would have made it legal for police to detain persons before the commission of any crime. While the amendment never materialized, at least […]
This morning, the leader of the Opposition, Francis Fonseca, was asked about the current crisis as it relates to crime. While Fonseca says the opposition is ready to work with the government in efforts to fight crime, he does not believe that throwing money at problem is the way to stop the mayhem. Francis […]
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is severely backlogged with a number of criminal cases. In fact, the bottleneck has seen files proceed through to the courts at a snail’s pace. That constriction is directly affecting the ability of the police department to charge suspects for individual offences since it appears that criminals […]
