Thirty-one-year-old Nicholi Rhys beat a murder charge in court earlier today, after spending almost four years on pretrial detention at the Belize Central Prison. Rhys was accused of the shooting death of Jose Moh, a cab driver who was killed near the Eight Mile community. Represented by attorney Leeroy Banner, a no case submission was […]
The House of Representatives met today in ordinary session where the issue of crime also became a matter for debate. The Leader of the Opposition, Shyne Barrow chastised the government over the current murder rate. But Minister of Home Affairs, Kareem Musa explained that fixing the crime rate is not an overnight job. Shyne […]
Police Constable Lorray Arzu remains at the K.H.M.H. as investigators try to close in on the gunman who shot her and Leonel Rowland. While she has undergone brain surgery at the K.H.M.H. and transported to the Belize Medical Associates for a CT-scan, word is that her condition remains unchanged since Thursday – that is that […]
Twenty-year-old Jahiem Joseph has been arrested and charged for a murder that took place in Hopkins Village on September thirtieth. The unemployed resident of Ladyville is alleged to have inflicted fatal stab wounds on Norman Castillo following an altercation at his residence in Hopkins. Castillo was injured in the chest and died a short while […]
A police constable is hanging on to life after she and a man were shot in Dangriga last evening. PC Lorray Arzu and forty-four-year-old Leonel Rowland were sitting in a truck on Bishop Martin Street sometime around six p.m., when they became a gunman’s target. Both victims have been transferred to the K.H.M.H. for treatment. […]
We heard Commissioner of Police Chester Williams share that the police department would consult with Doctor Pedro Arriaga on whether it would be possible to transport PC Lorray Arzu to the Belize Medical Associates where she’d receive better round-the-clock care. Williams said that a doctor at the K.H.M.H. who performed a brain surgery on the […]
Gunshots rang out in Teakettle Village in the early hours of Thursday when someone discharged a firearm not far from where a police officer was waiting to be picked up by his colleagues. It is not clear whether the officer was the intended target of the shooting, but what is known is that he returned […]
The Belize Police Department is yet to deploy body cameras for officers in the field, despite a donation of a hundred devices by the Minister of Tourism and Diaspora Relations. Those cameras will be used to record arrests, as well as evidence from crime scenes. According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, cameras are also […]
The vehicular checkpoint near the entrance to Hattieville has been done away with following a directive from Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. The decision was taken on the heels of recent allegations that officers assigned to the post had been extorting motorists. Last week, two persons came forward accusing an officer of shaking them down […]
Late this evening, police formally arrested and charged John Horace Franklin, a twenty-seven-year-old vendor of Harmonyville, for the crime of murder. Franklin is believed to be one of several persons involved in the cold-blooded attack on well-known marine biologist Celso Cawich, who was shot dead on Saturday night inside his shop at his home in […]
One man is in police custody following a murder on Saturday morning in Pomona Village. Twenty-nine-year-old Kevin Williams and his girlfriend were heading home from a night out when Williams was attacked. He was stabbed three times. He reportedly died in the arms of his girlfriend, while the alleged killer fled the scene. That suspect […]
On Friday, a team of law enforcement officers, accompanied by officials from other government agencies, descended on Caribbean International Brewing Ltd. in one fell swoop. The raid on the makers of Mine Beer just outside of Carmelita followed a lead that was provided to the Belize Police Department in which it was suspected that the […]
According to ComPol Williams, the proprietor of Caribbean Brewing Company was reportedly in possession of travel documents for at least eight individuals who are employed at the brewery, suggesting that human trafficking may be involved. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Also important to note was that it was also learned that the employer may […]
A voice recording, in which a well-known Belize City street figure is purportedly speaking about the commission of two recent murders in Ladyville, is in circulation on social media. The voice is quite distinct and while we will refrain from calling any names, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams explains the processes that would need to […]
There was a brazen attack on a food vendor at her home on Park Street in the Lake Independence area on Thursday night. It happened just after seven p.m., and the assailants were so bold that at first, the victim did not think it was a home invasion being carried out – that is until […]
For the first time in recent memory, a person who is accused of murder will be brought before the Supreme Court to be tried a second time, after having gone before all levels of the court system during her previous trial. Calaney Flowers, accused of the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Lyndon Morrison in August 2012, […]
Ten years after the horrific death of twenty-nine-year-old Lyndon Morrison, his former girlfriend, Calaney Flowers, is heading to court once again for a re-trial. Viewers would recall that on March twenty-fourth, 2017, after five years in pretrial detention, Flowers was acquitted of the charge of murder. At the time, Justice Troadio Gonzalez who presided over […]
Six Belize City men, from various neighborhoods, have been arrested and charged for the crime of being a member of a gang. Earlier today, twenty-year-old Jaheed Shamar Baptist, a baker of a Racecourse Street address, was taken into police custody where he was charged for his alleged membership in one of several criminal organizations operating […]
On Saturday night, sometime around eleven p.m., police responded to an area along the Branch Mouth Road in Cayo District where they observed thirty-four-year-old Roquelino Ortega suffering from an apparent gunshot injury to the body. Ortega was reportedly traveling on his motorcycle from Santa Familia to San Ignacio. Upon arriving at the hammock bridge, the […]
Tonight, there are additional details being shared about the deadly chopping incident that claimed the life of seventy-one-year-old Porfiria Morales. The elderly woman was hacked to death by a neighbor on Saturday morning, following a brief exchange of words while Miguel Angel Gomez was reportedly trimming the hedges outside of his home. According to Morales’ […]
Police have arrested and charged a minor with last Monday’s stabbing death of Carl Kevin Lamb, Junior on Antelope Street Extension. The seventeen-year-old is charged with murder in the presence of his mother. Lamb was attacked by a group of young men last week Monday as he walked on an unnamed street in the area. […]
Former Belize Defense Force soldier Albert Moreira was the last person to see his ex-wife alive before she went missing in October 2018. Several days later, the badly decomposed body of Felina James was discovered along the Coastal Road approximately two and a half miles from La Democracia Village. Not far from her corpse was […]
A history of bad blood between a pair of elderly neighbors has ended in murder. In Benque Viejo on Saturday morning, Porfiria Morales was walking over to her son’s house a short distance from where she resides when she was attacked by someone living nearby. She was chopped in the neck during an altercation, one […]
A family man from Hopkins Village was stabbed to death on Friday night in front of his house. The incident happened less than two months after a mass shooting and it has left the family reeling, a neighbour in disbelief, and a community wanting to stomp out crime from their otherwise peaceful village. The incident […]
There was also a murder in Silver Creek Village in Toledo. A housewife got the worst possible news she could have today when police informed her that her common-law husband who went missing on Saturday after he left home was found murdered in the same village. Here’s what the A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood had to say […]
