There is one more incident of crime to report. A Belize Electricity Limited Supervisor says that last Wednesday afternoon at around three o’clock when he checked the Belmopan compound of the Belize Electricity Limited, he detected that an assortment of copper wire and copper cable wire were either missing or damaged. The value of the […]
There was a horrific aggravated burglary on July thirtieth at the Crooked Tree home of Pastor Maurice Westby. His wife, fifty-one year old Betty, her mother, Vilma Wade and their fourteen year old son were held up by two burglars, one brandishing a knife. The men, who demanded money before escaping with Westby’s licensed firearm, […]
Belize Defence Force soldiers are back on city streets, thanks to a surge in violent crime. They were taken off in May when things calmed down somewhat…and deployed to the border which is the primary priority area of the force. But it was the calm before the storm, and they’ve had to be called back […]
The Gang Suppression Unit is reporting a significant drug and ammo bust. The Unit carried out an operation in a bushy area near mile twelve on the George Price Highway. They found a red sack with the markings “El Quetzal Guatemala, Centro America Zona La Terminal.” The sack contained twenty-three point five kilos of suspected […]
The gruesome murder of a sixteen year old at the Lord Ridge Cemetery has dominated the newscast since the beginning of the week. Chryslin Gladden, a promising Wesley High School student, was stabbed multiple times; her body was found inside the cemetery on Saturday morning. Immediately following the murder, reports surfaced that a […]
Over the weekend the C-NET+ office on Calle Al Mar Street, Belize City was vandalized. On Monday morning when the program coordinator arrived at work, he found that the office was broken into and various office computers and laptops were stolen. Police were called in and further checks revealed that the burglar or burglars gained […]
Today, while attention was on the BML workers in front of court, there was another small protest taking place in Central Park. Small protest – but big motive and big message! The men and women were speaking out against the killing of men, women and children in Palestine caused by the unrest between Palestine and […]
Chryslin Gladden was murdered at the Lord Ridge cemetery on Friday night in a most vicious fashion and tonight there is a sensational arrest to report. This morning, police confirmed that the motive behind the murder is hatred and jealousy. And after releasing a police officer held for questioning, late this afternoon investigators charged Ashley […]
The fugitive status of Errol Elrington has come under much scrutiny lately. The doctor is wanted in the US for racketeering and medical fraud. He is accused of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid almost half a million US dollars. And he ran to Belize just ahead of an arrest warrant. Now if he was a normal […]
The driver for the Foreign Minister Sedi Elrington was busted at the U.D.P. Convention on Sunday by police who allegedly found him to be in possession of marijuana. This morning, thirty-six year old Dorain Avilez was before the court to answer to a single charge of Possession of a Controlled Drug. Avilez was arraigned and he quickly […]
Also in court today was Belize City businessman, fifty-seven year old Dennis Gabourel. The tour guide of Antelope Street Extension is facing a charge of Attempting to Suppress Evidence in respect of a rape charge against him. Gabourel is accused of offering his alleged victim five thousand dollars to drop the rape charge against him. […]
On the August first, 2014 at about three-thirty a.m. Andrew Augustine was shot in the foot on Holy Emmanuel Street in the Lake Independence area of Belize City. The altercation had apparently started earlier that day when Augustine and two other men had a misunderstanding over a bag of mangoes. As trivial as it seems, […]
As we told you, a seventeen year old Wesley High School graduate has been charged with the murder of sixteen year old Chryslin Gladden. That has sparked a vigil for the fallen youth. This morning, a group of former Wesley College students was also at the Raccoon Street police station. Their purpose was to acquire […]
The news spread early on Saturday morning that a young woman had been killed at the Lord Ridge Cemetery. She was soon identified as sixteen year old Chryslin Gladden who had left home Friday night to visit a friend. The vivacious and young graduate of Wesley College was brutally stabbed multiple times; the murder weapon, […]
The weekend’s other murder victim is an eighteen year old Corozal resident who was killed execution style early Sunday morning in Orange Walk Town. At around five forty-five Roy Bayliss sat down with a friend to eat tacos at a popular vendor at the Fort Cairns Market Plaza in Orange Walk Town. He didn’t get […]
A twenty-one year old Belize City man has been charged for the gun rampage on Mopan Street which caused the death of two tacos vendors. Fifty-two year old Carlos Mayorga died instantly after he was shot in the back of the neck. Forty-two year old Alida Ascencio was shot twice, and died two days after […]
Orange Walk Police and even the National Crimes Investigation Branch have come under scrutiny for what persons say is a stagnating investigation. On July fifth, the body of seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes Sr. was dug from a shallow grave, one week after he was reported missing. Just days after, the body of forty-six year […]
A San Ignacio resident is tonight in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was attacked on Sunday night by a group of four men. Felix Romero was leaving his mother-in-law’s house when the group pounced on him. The incident happened on Flamingo Street near Kenny’s Store in San Ignacio. Romero was […]
In San Pedro, a fifteen year old is claiming that she was raped by a man she knew. Her account is that on Saturday afternoon at about three thirty she left home on her bicycle to shop at a store in the Boca del Rio area of the island. The fifteen year old girl claims […]
There are new developments to report on tonight in a mysterious case involving the disappearance of forty-three-year-old Kevin Carcamo. The Hattieville chairman, a linesman employed with Discoverseis, went missing on July twentieth in a densely forested area behind Freetown Sibun. Despite a massive search and rescue effort in the days that followed, no signs of […]
A victim of domestic violence was stabbed at her workplace this morning. Suzette Pavon is an employee of Bowen and Bowen; she was cut at least once to the neck inside the company’s Slaughterhouse Road compound. It happened just before nine this morning when Pavon was talking to Santiago Ricardo Palma, her common-law husband of […]
The harrowing experience of fighting for dear life in a desperate attempt to ward off a knife-wielding intruder is a memory that will forever remain etched in the consciousness of fifty-one year old Betty Westby and her family. On Wednesday night, someone she knew forcibly entered her Crooked Tree home and attempted to kill her […]
Charlys Nunez, who also goes by the name Ninja, is known for his dancing skills having competed in many of Channel Five’s entertainment shows such as Duets, Superstar and Masters of the Floor. Today, Nunez came to our studio on Coney Drive claiming he was wrongfully detained at the Raccoon Street Police Station for forty-eight […]
An Orange Walk couple who owns a bakery in Ladyville were today in the Belize Magistrate’s Court where they were read a single charge of handling stolen goods. Fifty-four year old Ernesto Cruz and fifty-two year old Anna Christina Cruz were charged in relation to an I-pad belonging to attorney and politician Arthur Saldivar. […]
The San Ignacio police formation on Wednesday conducted a search at the home of Rojelio Hernandez who is a caretaker of Upper Barton Creek. In the ceiling of the upper flat of his house, police found a sixteen gauge shotgun with and three cartridges. Hernandez could not produce licenses and was escorted to the police […]
