On February fifth, News Five reported a very disturbing and appalling sexual crime against a small child. The child, an eight year old female, visited the Independence Police Station with her aunt to report that on February first she went to her aunt’s house in the village of Bella Vista to get some flour tortillas […]
Belmopan Police say that they are closing in on twenty-nine year old Edwin Paula, an inmate at the Belize Central Prison who escaped while being transported to Belmopan for a court appearance. Paula and three students from the Belmopan Comprehensive School were accused of an array of charges including murder and attempted murder for the […]
The increase in the smuggling of historical artifacts worldwide has prompted a warning by UNESCO. The UN agency has written to the President of the National Institute Diane Haylock, indicating that now more than ever before, religious, sacred, indigenous, and archeological cultural objects have been appearing on the market as well as in public and […]
A resident of San Pedro is reporting that his licensed firearm was stolen from his home on Barrier Reef Drive. Thirty-five year old tour operator Eric Andrews reported to police that as he arrived home on around eight-thirty on Monday night, he found that his apartment was burglarized. A further search revealed that his licensed […]
A vicious murder, the first for this year in Orange Walk, has left the community reeling and the family of the victim in deep shock. A young and well-known custom broker, Stephen Kuylen Junior, was executed inside the yard of his house at around nine o’clock on Tuesday night. He was home alone and there […]
A formal investigation has been launched into allegations of sexual misconduct made against a primary school teacher in Dangriga. On Monday, we reported that a trio of girls, standard two students at the primary school, had been molested by their music teacher. The incident occurred last Thursday while the class was attending lessons at the […]
The Gang Suppression Unit is reporting a major bust tonight about one mile on the More Tomorrow Road off the George Price Highway. Early this morning, the GSU says it intercepted a white vehicle, driven by Danny Marin Castellanos of the Benque Viejo area. When the driver of the van spotted the unit, he sped […]
The second suspect in the highly publicized murder of Canadian missionary, Brian Townsend has been found….not alive, but dead. On Christmas Eve night, Townsend, a Valley of Peace resident, was abducted from his home in the village. He was brutally murdered and his body dumped in the Mopan River on the border with Guatemala near […]
In this newscast, we often report on armed robberies, but a brazen armed attack on a priest on Sunday night, is a new level of crime. A pair of criminals attacked the Saint Martin de Porres priest, Father Brian Christopher as he walked from the church to the rectory. The priest was carrying the collection […]
While the assault and robbery of a priest is a new low, there are unnerving allegations being made against a popular musician in Dangriga tonight. Three standard two students alleged that they were molested on Thursday morning by one of their teachers. According to the girls, the teacher escorted the class to the church where […]
From Orange Walk, we head south. The illegal logging of rosewood appeared to have cooled down that is until this week when SATIIM rangers on patrol in the Sarstoon Temash National Park detected a well organized operation along the Belize/Guatemala border near Black Creek. On Wednesday, the rangers found thirty-eight flitches of rosewood that […]
While the issues outside the House after the proceedings took center stage, there were several important matters raised inside the House. Premier among those has to be the Firearms Act, which has been the subject of prolonged and massive outcry. There have been myriad complaints and much distress expressed since 2008, when the perceived […]
There are two very disturbing cases of sexual assault involving minors to report on tonight. The first reportedly happened in Bullet Tree Falls, Cayo, on Tuesday evening where the mother of a three-year-old infant reported that her daughter was assaulted by a minor who came over to their home earlier that day. The Guatemalan mother […]
A Honduran woman is the latest international fugitive to be caught in Belize. Forty year old Blanca Garay Rodriguez was on the run since early January; she was picked up at around eleven thirty in the morning at house at the Mile eight community on the George Price Highway. Rodriguez’s detention is considered major bust […]
On June fifth, four persons were formally arraigned for murder and attempted murder after a brazen robbery attempt at a bar in Belmopan. Three of them were fourth form students at the Belmopan Comprehensive School, just days away from graduation, and the fourth was twenty-nine year old Edwin Paula. Paula is believed to have been […]
A Canadian businessman was chopped multiple times as he and his two year old daughter headed to his business in Benque Viejo del Carmen. He is the third Canadian to be a victim of violence in recent months, the two others were murdered and the weekend incident has raised alarm bells for the Canadian and […]
Forty-three-year-old Ana Foster, a domestic of Sittee River, was murdered near the outskirts of the village at the start of the weekend. On Thursday morning, Foster set out on bicycle to a residence off the Southern Highway, before proceeding to Dangriga where she was to meet her son and his wife. Her nude body was […]
There was a gruesome murder overnight in the Stann Creek District. A woman from Sittee River in the south was sexually abused and then murdered. Ana Foster left her house on Thursday morning, but did not return home. This morning, her naked body was found under an orange tree off near the entrance to the […]
The conviction of a Police Officer and his sentencing on Friday for ammunition found in his home has brought new attention to the Reynaldo Verde case. An unlicensed weapon was found in Verde’s washroom on January third during a search of his Belize City home, yet he was released that same day without charges being […]
On New Year’s Day, thirty year old Hensleigh Ryan Jones allegedly picked up a gun and shot his father three times in the head. Miraculously, Hensley ‘Nick’ Jones survived, and on January third, his son was arraigned in the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court for attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm. He was […]
The Chiquibul Forest Reserve has seen increased national exposure following a symposium which drew attention to the park, its benefits and challenges. One of the biggest challenges in recent years has been incursions by Guatemalans, who cross the border to take advantage of the natural wealth within the boundaries of the Chiquibul. While the traditional […]
A whopping amount of two hundred and seventy thousand dollars went missing from the Dangriga Branch of the Belize Bank between 2008 and 2013 for which Administrative Officer Rosalva Kotch, has been charged for theft. Kotch was taken to court on Tuesday and because she could not meet, she was kept overnight in custody until Wednesday […]
In a police sweep of a house on Victoria Street, the Quick Response Team found four hundred and fifty-five point one grams of suspected cannabis which is the equivalent to one pound of the substance. Forty year old Ernest Gladden was in the house during the search. The drugs were found in three areas, some […]
A tattoo artist from Roaring Creek was arrested on Wednesday in Ladyville. Edilberto Madrid was along with another person in a small wooden house located on Jackson Avenue when police made a surprise visit. Madrid and the other person who was dressed in a blue shirt fled the house, but police set chase and were […]
A young man who was shot on the head at about eight-thirty on Tuesday morning died as he was about to undergo emergency surgery at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Micah Williams was fired upon as he washed his car that was parked immediately in front of his house on Raccoon Street Extension. The twelve-hour […]
