There have been new developments in the murder of sixty-one year old Agripina Coc. The mother of nine children was brutally chopped to death near her home in the village of San Pedro, Columbia on Saturday. Since then, angry residents armed with sticks and machetes have combed the surrounding bushes, convinced that the killer is […]
A Madisco employee was this morning convicted in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith for drug trafficking. He is Kent Mendez, who was jointly charged with two of his relatives, his older brother, Kevin Mendez and cousin, Jason Lewis. Allegations made by the Gang Suppression Unit are that on October seventeenth, 2013, […]
An elderly woman from San Pedro, Columbia was killed on Saturday, resulting in a manhunt for the alleged killer, who villagers feel is a resident of the community. We’ll have that story in a few, but first there are startling new development from that peaceful village in the Toledo district. Villagers have taken matters into […]
The brutal murder and probable rape of the elderly woman from the village of San Pedro, Columbia has sparked tremendous grief, outrage and fear. The nude body of sixty-one year old Agripina Coc was found at around seven-thirty on Saturday evening by family members. She had been chopped to the head, and because of the […]
The other murder victim is thirty-eight year old Michael Usher. The Fabers Road resident, who is well known to the law, was killed at about forty-twenty on Sunday morning. Usher, was shot multiple times on his upper body and head as he rode home from the George Price Highway towards Central American Boulevard. A lone […]
There was a late evening attempted robbery on Friday in Belize City, but it didn’t go quite as planned. In fact, two of the robbers actually ended up at the K.H.M.H. after they were shot. It happened at the Western Dairies outlet on Freetown Road at around four-thirty p.m. Four youths on bicycles apparently rode […]
A man who allegedly used his vehicle as a deadly weapon was today charged with maim and aggravated assault. Police believe that thirty-three year old electrician Devon Jones deliberately reversed his vehicle into forty-two year old Francis Gill. The incident happened at around twelve forty-five Saturday morning, when Gill was buying food at the Key […]
There is late breaking news. The Western Dairies, the popular ice cream shop, which is located on Freetown Road was jacked this afternoon by armed men. Police are processing the scene and there are few confirmed details available at this time. But we can report that just before five o’clock this evening, the robbers entered […]
The body of an American national, Robert Thomas, was found today in his room at a guest house in Belize City. Just after ten this morning, a taxi-man who would shuttled forty-seven year old Robert Thomas around the city, reportedly found him dead. Police was soon be called and visited a room at the Three-Star […]
This man is Lyle “Ty” Hoffman; could he be hiding in Belize? Hoffman is the alleged triggerman in a shooting incident in Arden Hills, Minnesota, U.S.A. on August eleventh. He is wanted for the murder of Kelly Phillips, who was travelling with him in a car. It is believed the two men were arguing when […]
Tonight, there is little to report in the cruel murder of a resident of Lemonal. The body of twenty-seven year old Denvo Banner was found buried in a shallow grave just behind the school in the community. He had been missing since August ninth, when he was seen celebrating a cricket championship win at the […]
The family of Denvo Banner is grieving his loss, but their grief is somewhat tempered by the comfort of closure in the tragedy. The family of missing Hattieville Chairman forty-three year old Kevin Carcamo, however, has not had the benefit of closure. He went missing on July twentieth, and on August first, search teams […]
Tonight, one man from the Gungulung area has confessed to starting the fire which completely gutted his aunt’s forty by thirty foot wooden home on Holy Emmanuel Street. The blaze was spotted just after midday, and burned bright and hot, but the destruction was contained by the swift response of the National Fire Service. Belizean […]
Urban violence continues to plague the Old Capital and tonight one of two persons injured in a late night shooting on Monday remains hospitalized. Around nine-twenty p.m., eighteen year old Rodrick Williams and nineteen Aleem Richardson were at the corner of Elston Kerr Street and Iguana Street extension when a lone gunman came from the […]
Over the weekend, a teenager found himself in big trouble with the law after he was first arraigned in the Cayo District for a murder which occurred in San Ignacio recently. Subsequently, he was transferred to Belize City to face two more criminal and indictable charges, including attempted murder and dangerous harm upon a teenager […]
Late this evening, forty-three-year-old Luis Gordon, a resident of Amara Avenue who attacked and chopped his own sister in September of last year, was this evening sentenced to five years imprisonment for grievous harm upon Janelle Gordon Gilharry. His trial for grievous harm concluded before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith where Gordon was unrepresented. The […]
And that was the good news, but now to crime…Last week, the A and R Enterprise Limited was robbed of almost thirteen thousand dollars in cash. And this morning, robbers staged a brazen heist at the Provident Bank Limited located at the corner of Barrack Road and Craig Street. There were two of them, dressed […]
The peace and quiet of a sunny afternoon in the small village of Lemonal was shattered by the gruesome discovery of a body in a shallow grave, just behind the community school. It wasn’t a random discovery, but the result of a search for missing villager, twenty-seven year old Denvo Banner. The young man, an […]
Last week, Cayo cops detained nineteen year old Unitedville resident Steven Gomez for his involvement in the murder of Victor Vargas, of that same village. Gomez was questioned, released, and detained again. But today, it was another teenager who was charged for Vargas’ murder. Nineteen year old Joseph Vacario was arraigned this morning in San […]
A spray of gunfire on Friday night has left forty-year-old Ralph Martinez, known in the streets of Belize City as Mini-man, hospitalized for multiple injuries received during the shooting incident. Shortly before ten o’clock, police visited the K.H.M.H. where they observed Martinez in a stable condition. Reports are that Mini-man, a resident of Mayflower Street, […]
It made the news in mid-July when the European Union gifted the Ministry of Health with eleven brand new, late-model Toyota Hilux pickups. The vehicles were to be immediately deployed in the districts to assist in the ministry’s surveillance and prevention activities where vector-borne diseases like dengue are concerned. Well six weeks after, the vehicles […]
There was an armed robbery in Orange Walk Town on Thursday afternoon. According to Vicente Bol, a customer service representative of Carmelita Village, shortly after one o’clock, while outside of Reimer’s Feed Mill on Lovers Lane, he was accosted by a duo of thieves. Upon entering the establishment, one of the men, armed with a […]
The Eastern Division of the Belize Police Department has a new Public Relations Unit. That unit will be staffed by current Police Press Officer Raphael Martinez, newly appointed Public Relations Coordinator Douglas Hyde and a PR assistant. It’s just the latest move in a division which has been under some fire lately after a spike […]
Today, thirty-four-year-old Angel Dorado and nineteen-year-old Shaquille Baeza appeared in the courtroom of Magistrate Herbert Panton. The men, residents of the Mile Eight community, were charged separately for gang offences. Dorado was charged for professing to be a member of a gang, while Baeza was charged for displaying gang membership. Both men pleaded not guilty. […]
There was a major drug bust in Orange Walk on Wednesday night. Police are reporting that while on an anti-drug operation in the town, the unit intercepted a black Toyota Camry with Orange Walk license plates. When the driver and his passenger caught wind of the officers, they sped off towards Liberty Avenue. As it […]
