It’s been a week since the ruthless murder of thirty year old Jeffrey Eiley on San Pedro. Eiley, a well-known tour guide, ran from his killer but could not escape the multiple shots that hit him on both hands. Eiley collapsed on Barrier Reef Drive…a short distance from his home on Marina Drive in San […]
The long weekend was filled with tragedy but no murders. Unfortunately, the inadvertent moratorium on murders did not last, and just after eight this morning Police Detectives from Precinct Two were opening a case file on a body found off the Western Highway in the foam factory compound. While the investigation is in its early […]
San Ignacio Police remain on the lookout for Gabino Garnett Jr., the man they believe is responsible for the fatal stabbing of twenty-year-old Earl Baizar on Friday morning. The Dangriga resident, who frequented the municipality, was injured multiple times after being accosted outside of Blue Angels Nightclub where the two were reportedly engaged in an […]
Over the years, viewers have come to expect that behavior in the national assembly has generally been unbecoming and unruly. But earlier today that spill outside the national assembly where supporters from both political parties got physical and police had to intervene to stop the violence. As tempers flared, Minister of Human Development, Anthony “Boots” […]
San Ignacio police are tonight looking for Gabino Garnett Jr., whom they believe can assist with their investigation into the overnight murder of twenty year old Earl Baizar. Reports are that Baizar, a resident of Dangriga, was involved in an altercation inside Blue Angels Night Club shortly after midnight. It is believed that the misunderstanding […]
Superintendent of Police, Linden Flowers is the new commander of the Gang Suppression Unit. The news broke this past Tuesday that the career officer was bumped up the chain of command to replace Assistant Superintendent Marco Vidal as head of the GSU; Vidal retains Special Branch. Considered both affable and outspoken, the forty-seven year old […]
In San Pedro tonight, there is a sense of numbness at the brutal murder of Jeffery Eiley. The homicide of the well-loved tour guide who comes from a very prominent family in the island, took place at about two o’clock this morning less than two hundred yards from his family home. Thirty year old Jeffrey […]
And in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, El Heraldo newspaper, is reporting that a Belizean is among a group of four persons murdered in a massacre this morning in the Rivera Hernandez area of the city. The Belizean has been identified as Mario Roberto Cocon, but there are no further particulars on him. The other victims […]
An allegation of theft against a female cop is being reported tonight. News Five has confirmed that the police department is currently investigating a report that a female police officer stole an item from the Dibary Store on Church Street in Belize City. Sources close to News Five say that the proprietors have surveillance video […]
In Punta Gorda, nine months after the theft of one hundred and ten thousand dollars was reported, an arrest has been made. Forty year old David Duncan has been charged for nine counts of theft which took place over a period of fifteen months at the offices of SATIIM, the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous […]
Two Belize City men are tonight fighting for their lives at the K.H.M.H. following late evening shootings in the Old Capital. The shootings occurred within ten minutes of each other around six-thirty p.m. on Tuesday. In both instances, an Isuzu Rodeo with at least two armed men drove up and opened fire…first on Holy Emmanuel […]
The shooting of a Belize City resident in Burrell Boom is drawing criticism in the village. Giovanni Berry was shot by a group of villagers who were reportedly accompanied by Burrell Boom police. The incident was sparked by the burglary of the house of Chad Gillett in which a licensed nine millimeter pistol was stolen […]
A San Ignacio police officer was stabbed as many as eighteen times over the weekend. The stabbing took place in Orange Walk Town where the cop had reportedly gone to visit his mother-in-law. PC Abimael Romero was found in a pool of blood by a resident of the area and it is believed he was […]
While PC Romero remains hospitalized at the Northern Regional Hospital with multiple stab wounds, in Burrell Boom, a Belize City man was more fortunate despite a volley of bullets unleashed in his direction. Giovanni Berry was asleep inside a newly built house in a remote area of the village when a group of villagers looking […]
Ongoing enmity between two rival Belize City groups has resulted in yet another brazen shooting, this time at a residence on Curassow Street. On Saturday night, a group of young men socializing inside a yard came under fire when an assailant reportedly rode up to the mouth of the alley and let loose a barrage […]
Moses Williams was shot and killed on February seventeenth, on his farm in Big Falls in the Toledo District. Police say they went for the mentally challenged young man to take him to the hospital and he attacked them with a machete. They claim that he chopped one officer before he was shot in the […]
The Ladyville Police had their hands busy over the weekend with traffic fatalities and shootings, but they are also investigating a very serious reported case of gang rape. A teenager claims that as she was heading home from work when she was assault by a group of men early Sunday morning. ASP Christopher Noble, […]
Four persons have been charged in connection with the daring robbery at the Corozal Free Zone. The crime happened in the parking lot of the Fabrica de Mayoreo this past Tuesday and within minutes, two men escaped with one point two five million pesos, which comes out to approximately two hundred and eight thousand Belize […]
A wanted American fugitive, who is believed to have skipped out of the United States while being on parole in Hawaii, was caught in Belize on Thursday. The wanted man has been identified as forty-two year old Cody Safadago, who is from the Washington State. Safadago was detained at a home on Ben Bow Street. […]
An illegal logging operation in South Stann Creek, carried out by a group of five men, has been uncovered by Independence police. On Wednesday, shortly after eleven p.m., officers visited an area in the Maya Mountain Forest Reserve where they busted thirty-eight-year-old Pablo Ramirez, Guatemalan national twenty-five year old Ernesto Choc, thirty-four-year-old Martin Coc, eighteen […]
Two men were shot on Tuesday night as a surge in urban warfare grips the City. On Tuesday night following the funeral of Supal Street’s Tarique Cadle who was murdered last week, a spray of bullets was unleashed at seven men hanging out at Armadillo Street, not far from where Cadle once lived. When the […]
Just before news time this evening, several shots rang out in the Queen Square area, approximately a block away from the Raccoon Street Police Station. Two Belize City youths were hit by what is described as a barrage of bullets, as they stood in a yard near the Wesley Upper Primary School. Details are sketchy […]
Corozal Police are investigating a broad daylight robbery which occurred in the Commercial Free Zone on Monday morning. It happened in the parking lot of the Fabrica de Mayoreo, and when it was over, two men had escaped with just over two hundred thousand dollars, or one point two five million pesos. The money was […]
A post mortem examination on the body of Thomas Ferguson Sr., who succumbed over the weekend to an injury received on December seventh, 2013, confirms that he died of complications resulting from the stab wound. Ferguson was stabbed once to the chest by his nephew Oliver Peters, following a bitter dispute over title to a […]
Forty-four year old Thomas Ferguson Senior was stabbed in the chest by his nephew on December seventh, 2013, following a bitter land dispute in which the two were engaged in for a number of years. The enmity stemmed from a property on Arlington Drive which had been developed by Ferguson and his family. His nephew, […]
