On Monday afternoon, an armed man jacked four thousand dollars from the Belmopan City Council Office while they were paying workers. A man dressed in jeans pants, t-shirt and wearing a cap and sunglasses, joined the line of employees and shortly after held up the pay mistress and stole close to four thousand dollars. Hearing […]
Last week Tuesday night, aspiring U.D.P. Town Councilor, Severo Guerrero was caught at the Elections and Boundaries office in San Pedro going through election data. The officer in charge, Merilee Squires, has since been suspended for allowing Guerrero access to the computer. On Friday morning, at about four-thirty the alarms were sounded that the Elections […]
The Gang Suppression Unit busted a fellow police officer early Saturday morning at his house. Thirty nine year old Gino Peck is a police corporal of Curassow Street, Belize City and up to news time this evening he had not been arraigned in court. Initially Peck declared his service Glock nine-millimeter pistol and loaded magazine, […]
The report that a four year old had been sexually abused spread over the airwaves in September and the sickening crime outraged residents countrywide. But it was even more upsetting when months passed and the suspect named by the young victim had not been charged. Well, that changed today as thirty-three year old Curl Thompson […]
Twenty-six year old Karl Heusner, who bears the namesake of the hospital he was admitted to last night, remains in a stable condition after being shot at his Berkeley Street address on Wednesday. Heusner, who has appeared before the courts on a number of charges in the past, was hit twice to the chest and […]
Twenty year old Kevin Martinez survived a fight during which he was hit with a blunt object a few times in the head. Martinez was hit with a hammer on Friday and his condition was uncertain after the weekend surgery but he has pulled off a speedy recovery. With his head bandaged, he read the […]
There has been a dip in the number of murders, but just after seven o’clock on Monday night, a young man lost his life for no reason. It is a senseless murder for which there was no provocation or altercation. Elvis Cowo had just stepped outside his house when a group of young men rode […]
It was shocking news back in September 2011, when the allegation was made that a four year old girl had allegedly been raped by someone she knew who had picked her up at school. The mother of the victim took the unprecedented step, asking to appear on camera hoping for justice for the despicable crime […]
It hasn’t been reported by police, but the Microbiology Department at Central Medical Lab in Belize City was reportedly targeted by thieves on Monday night. It’s a strange incident because the department has several computers and valuable electronics, but the culprits only made off with a UPS battery, a radio and other small items. The […]
In the Rural North, minor took matters in his own hands to defend his family. The fifteen year second form student from Maskall pulled out a machete on a group of men that had threatened family members. One of the assailants, who climbed over the fence and into the yard, claiming to have a gun, […]
According to a report in Prensa Libre, this past Saturday, Guatemalan police confiscated a sizeable amount of contraband sugar. The police stopped the vehicle, shown in this photograph, transporting one hundred and forty sacks of contraband sugar originating from Belize. The bust took place at a check point near the village of Paxcaman; the vehicle […]
The driver that hit and killed a man who was riding on the sidewalk of Central American Boulevard also appeared before Chief Magistrate, Ann Marie Smith today. Twenty-eight year old Solemni Chun is facing a slew of charges in connection with the death of forty-four year old construction worker, Roberto Thomas Rivero who succumbed to […]
For the third time in as many months Wesley Church on Albert Street has been targeted by thieves. Sometime overnight the building was burglarized and an array of electronic items was stolen. To make matters worse the church had only just installed an organ a few weeks ago and a pricey piece of that equipment […]
The Orange Walk Police Station was packed today with suspects in the brutal murder of businessman, Rodulfo Pererra. Nineteen year old Leonardo Ayuso was the first to be formally arraigned this morning for Abetment to Commit Murder. Ayuso is believed to have been driving the getaway vehicle on Saturday night when Pererra was ambushed. At […]
The home of Zoe Oliver, the principal of the Burrell Boom Primary School, was burglarized on Monday. Police have since arrested another Boom resident, twenty-two year old Ryan Gillett, who was found in possession of a two thousand dollar laptop that was stolen from Oliver’s home. Today, Gillett appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and was […]
There’s an update to the murder of businessman, Rodulfo Pererra of Orange Walk Town. Pererra was ambushed last Saturday night when he arrived home after closing his store, New Chitos. The father of two was shot multiple times and as many as twelve bullets riddled his body. Four persons have been apprehended. The Orange Walk […]
A Belize City School has suffered a recent unexpected loss. It should have taken a fire or a flood for Ebenezer Methodist Primary School to lose valuable equipment in one day, but it took thieves to displace the school at the beginning of second term. According to teachers of the school on Barrack Road, thieves […]
After he was treated and released from the K.H.M.H, the minor who was stabbed during an attempted robbery of Arcade World on Freetown Road, was handed over to the police last week. The boy was charged with Attempted Robbery but during court proceedings today, he was unable to furnish basic personal information, and as a […]
A shocking murder took place on Saturday night in Orange Walk Town. Thirty-seven year old Rodulfo Pererra aka “Boxie”, a businessman, was ambushed as he arrived home to his wife and children. He had just closed his business for the night and had headed home. Two men appeared to have been waiting to pounce on […]
U.D.P. town councilor Willie Cruz remains the subject of a scandal involving the alleged rape of a teenager in the Corozal District on December twenty-ninth. The father of the girl came forward last week accusing the politician of forcefully intoxicating and carnally knowing the sixteen year old after offering her a ride home. Upon nearing […]
In court today, a Belize City man was charged for allegedly breaking into the Ordonez Street residence of his brother and stealing over a thousand dollars in items. According to Alvaro Avilez he became aware of the burglary when he saw forty-seven year old Andy Avilez, walking on Orange Street dressed in his stolen clothes. […]
While one man was remanded for stealing from his brother, another is prison tonight for robbing his friend at knife point. The victim, fifty year old Lloyd Griffith says that on December twenty-eighth, he was playing dominoes with friends, including Henry Lauriano, who he has known for nine years. As Griffith was leaving after the […]
The Gang Suppression Unit carried out an operation in the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena on Sunday morning; their targets were gang members and reputed drug traffickers operating in the Cayo District. At six o’clock in the morning, the GSU searched a house occupied by a reputed drug peddler on Flamboyant Street, […]
A Corozal minor has made serious allegations against town councilor, Willie Cruz, who she claims got her drunk and raped her after she passed out. The incident reportedly occurred on December twenty-ninth and a doctor has certified that the sixteen year old girl was carnally known, but no charges have yet been brought against Cruz, […]
On Thursday, nineteen year old Dale Tillett succumbed to gunshot wounds he sustained during an altercation on New Year’s Eve. He is the first murder victim recorded for 2012 and today charges against his alleged shooter, thirty-two year old Renan Briceño Junior, were formally upgraded by Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer. Briceño was initially charged on […]
