A pair of masked men entered Belize Medical Associates on St. Thomas Street shortly before dawn today and attempted to make off with two strongboxes containing thousands of dollars in cash and phone cards. Sometime around four-forty a.m., police received reports of a burglary in progress at the hospital. Upon responding to the location they […]
Seventy-two hours after businessman and farmer Ramon Cervantes Sr. was reported missing, his family is saying nothing and the police are being very cautious about what they do say. The seventy-one-year-old Orange Walk resident allegedly disappeared on Tuesday from his farm located on the San Roman Road, just a few miles from town. His family […]
Orange Walk businessman Ramon Cervantes Sr. has been missing for over forty-eight hours. Cervantes was last seen as he headed to his farm on the San Roman Road early Tuesday morning. He did not come home for lunch, and calls made to him by family during the day suggested that something was wrong. His vehicle, […]
Former Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya and her family are grieving the death of her brother whom she believes was viciously attacked a week ago near the Conch Shell Bay Fish Market. Michael ‘Spam’ Moya passed away on Saturday, after reportedly receiving injuries to the chest, following an alleged altercation with a fisherman in the […]
Seventy-one-year-old Ramon Cervantes Sr. has been missing since Tuesday. Early that morning, the Orange Walk Town businessman, cane-farmer, former senator and mayor left home for his farm, located on the San Roman road in the Mamayal Area. His family hasn’t seen him since, and his vehicle was found abandoned on the cane-field. Today, Orange Walk […]
While the Cervantes family is convinced that Ramon Cervantes Sr. was taken against his will, the police are treating the matter as a missing person report – but not just any ordinary missing person report. By ten this morning, there were checkpoints set up in at least three different locations, a call for reinforcements and […]
The concern over the disappearance of Ramon Cervantes Sr. has been overwhelming. As we told you, the family believes that the elderly man was overpowered at his cane-field and then taken away by unknown persons. Cervantes is a prominent businessman in Orange Walk Town, and also served as Mayor of that municipality from 1989-1991 and […]
Corozal police are seeking public assistance in identifying the body of a middle-aged man who succumbed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Tuesday morning from injuries he received almost one month ago. The individual of Hispanic descent was found along the Xaibe Road on June ninth in an unconscious state and was subsequently transported […]
On Friday night a resident of Independence was savagely mauled by vicious dogs while coming home at around eleven thirty from a fishing trip. The attack happened on a deserted stretch of road which connects the lagoon to a residential area known as Malacate. Twenty-three year old Jeffery O’Brien was bitten all over his body. […]
Three days, three murders in the city…The killing of Malcolm Wagner and Samuel Miguel was followed by another homicide in the dangerous streets of south side Belize City. Shortly after eight on Monday night, a minor, Myron Smith, was gunned down on Brown Street in the Lake Independence. Smith was riding along with two other […]
Police are reporting another loss of life to violence. Lloyd Augustus was attacked back on April sixteenth in Belize City. He was badly beaten and sustained numerous injuries and had to be hospitalized. His attacker, Sherman Rodney, who is no stranger to the law, was charged with Attempted Murder a few days after the incident […]
There was a frightening home invasion a few days ago. Just before nine o’clock on Sunday night, a thirty year old woman was held up at gun point at her house on Faber’s Road Extension. The woman was with her six-month old baby when an unidentified masked man entered her house. Scared and fearing for […]
Vanessa Paris Champagne is causing another quandary, but this time, she is behind bars. And it is because it is not clear if the transgender woman should be placed in the female or the male block of the Belize Central Prison. Champagne, who has been attacked more than once, was today before the court to […]
Thirty-one year old taxi driver, Albert Castro remains hospitalized in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting in the wee hours of Monday. As we reported, Castro was shot on Fabers Road as he approached its junction with Watermelon Street. At least one shooter rode up to his taxi and […]
An unsuspecting forty year old Belize City clerk has been badly deceived. She reports to the police that a man she knew conned her with rent money. The woman says that on June nineteenth, she paid six hundred dollars to him toward rent for a house located at the corner of Sixth and Saint Thomas […]
In December 2013 three cops – Special Constable Joslyn Gill, Corporal Reymundo Requeña and Constable Edgar Teul – were arraigned for a now infamous ATM shakedown of Tyrell Hyde. The matter was heard before Magistrate Dale Cayetano and adjourned to April seventeenth. On April seventeenth it was adjourned to Monday, June thirtieth, and on Monday, […]
On January thirty-first a Canadian national living in Benque Viejo was attacked by a man wielding an axe and a machete. Steven Reichert was carrying his two year old daughter in his arms at the time, and in trying to protect her he received deep chop wounds to the neck and arm. The perpetrator, Genaro […]
Tonight there is a significant drug bust to report in the village of Teakettle in the Cayo district. Belmopan Police say that on Monday afternoon at around four-thirty, officers staged a surprise search in an area near the home of a known drug dealer in Teakettle. They found two plastic bags carrying eight hundred and […]
There were two murders over the weekend and by any account both were senseless. Early on Saturday morning, the body of Samuel Miguel was found in a parking lot on Cemetery Road. Weeks ago, the twenty-two year old landed his first job at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and had just received his pay check. […]
Approximately twelve hours after the lifeless body of Samuel Miguel was found, several shots rang out on Flamboyant Street in the Lake Independence Area. Malcolm “Frisky” Wagner was targeted by a gunman in a car. His family believes he was lured to his murder because he interrupted viewing the World Cup and headed out of […]
The gun-violence continued through to the wee hours of this morning. Thirty-one year old Albert Castro is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the head on Fabers Road around three-thirty this morning. The taxi operator was in the company of a female friend in his taxi when […]
There is another shooting to report; twenty-three year old Carlton Augustine, a B.D.F. soldier, is recovering from gunshot wounds he sustained over the weekend. On Saturday night, shortly before eight o’clock, Augustine was returning from dropping home his girlfriend when he visited a residence on Curl Thompson Street. Reports are that he had only just […]
There are details available of a late evening robbery on Thursday. Three persons were robbed after five o’clock in the evening of their cell phones and keys by an armed man riding a bicycle. It happened in the outskirts of the City on the George Price Highway where police were on mobile patrol. The cops […]
There was a shooting a few minutes ago on Fabers Road and Whistling Duck Street. According to an unconfirmed report, police were in hot pursuit of two burglars who had broken into a home in the vicinity. From a witness account, the officers detained one of the burglars and were in search of another when […]
US Ambassador Carlos Moreno has hit the ground running. The US head of mission arrived on Saturday and on Tuesday; he was greeted with an anti-homosexual protest as he presented credentials in Belmopan. Another issue that surfaced early this week was the downgrade of Belize by the State Department for human trafficking. The State Department […]
