Earlier on Monday, Bullet Tree taxi driver, forty five year old Domiciano Quixchan, was murdered. One of the passengers in the taxi, twenty-one year old Hernan Manzanero, who was hospitalized at the San Ignacio Hospital, was released but was soon detained by police as part of the ongoing investigation. Police say that Quixchan was on […]
A band of suspected thieves responsible for stealing a little over seventy-three thousand dollars in electronics from Lebanese businessman Bassem Chakaraun appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers today before being remanded to the Belize Central Prison. Sometime between seven-thirty p.m. on November twenty-sixth and one o’clock a.m. on November twenty-eighth, seven men including siblings Derrick and […]
And though the drowning remains suspect, there is no guesswork with what happened to a Cayo resident. The cab driver and Bullet Tree resident was found dead two hours after his vehicle was chartered to take a family to the North of the country. On Monday afternoon around one o’clock, San Ignacio Police discovered the […]
On Monday night we told you about the home invasion that has left sixty-eight year old Caspula Westby fighting for her life in the hospital. Since late yesterday evening Westby’s condition made a turn for the worse and the doctors at the KHMH had to induce a coma. Westby was asleep in her bed when […]
On Thursday night around ten o’clock a fatal crash near a wooded area northwest of the Belize Zoo claimed the lives of two Colombian nationals piloting a single engine turboprop airplane registered in Mexico. While the direction in which the Cessna T210 aircraft was heading remains unknown, it was later discovered that its occupants, Miguel […]
Gang related murders have decreased but not all city residents have been able to keep the peace. A blade was repeatedly thrust into the chest of a senior citizen while she should have been safely asleep in her bedroom. Why would someone stab sixty eight year old Caspula Westby? That’s what News Five Isani Cayetano […]
Home invasions otherwise known as aggravated burglaries appear to be on the rise. They are particularly violent when women are involved. Unlike Westby who was stabbed, other victims of home invasions are sometimes raped. Just weeks after thirty-five year old Rudolph Smith was released on bail for allegedly trying to rape a woman inside her […]
German national, Stephanie Lupp, was the victim of embezzlement on October eighteenth 2010 when two blank cheques were stolen from her cheque book and two thousand, eight hundred dollars went missing from her account at a local bank. But when the culprits tried to make a second withdrawal of three thousand, seven hundred dollars, the […]
Also in court, a Roaring Creek man who was caught with a small amount of marijuana got himself into big trouble with the law when he allegedly resisted arrest. Thirty-two year old Michael Broaster was approached by police on Tuesday, but he refused to be detained. Officers reported that he damaged the rear window of […]
In court news, a well known Belize City sanitation worker was convicted of an immigration offence today. Shirley Lambey Arnold claims she has been living in Belize since she was five years old when her family relocated from Honduras. But when she was detained by police for allegedly stabbing another woman, Lambey was found in […]
Twenty-seven year old Kevin Lara, a radio Disc Jockey who is known by the nickname DJ Motion, was charged along with three others for burglary and handling stolen goods that were from the house of Kevin Morris and the business of Leon Fulgham. The incident allegedly happened on November ninth, and the disc jockey and […]
Twenty year old Guatemalan illegal logger, Evelio Adelso Romero will be spending more time on this side of the border. Romero was detained over the past weekend by Friends of Conservation rangers, B.D.F. and Police who found him armed and logging illegally in the Chiquibul National Park. Earlier today he was taken to the San […]
Police Constable Delia Hyde was released today from the Southern Regional Hospital after she was stabbed twice in the back by her ex-common-law husband. Hyde was on duty at the Dangriga Police Station when forty-four year old Kent McKenzie, her baby’s father, walked in and inflicted the stab wounds. A warrant for child support was […]
While the revelry was taking place down south in celebration of Garifuna Settlement Day, in the west a teenager lost his life in a dangerous stretch along the border. The victim is sixteen year old Esvin Ernesto Reyes who along with his father Estevan and mother Teresa set out along the Mopan River heading to […]
Up north another murder has been reported. A resident of the San Victor Village in the Corozal District was killed during a hit and run incident last Thursday. The driver of the vehicle has been charged with murder rather than manslaughter. According to police reports, the death was the result of an argument between two […]
Illegal logging activities continue unabated in the Chiquibul. This past Friday, the Chiquibul Joint Enforcement Unit, comprising of Friends of Conservation and Development rangers, B.D.F. and police personnel, surprised a group of loggers well inside Belizean territory in what is called the zone of influence. According to FCD which co-manages the area the group of […]
In Dangriga this morning a police officer was stabbed while on duty. The incident happened at the station and the accused is the ex-common-law of Delia Hyde. Kent McKenzie also known as “Ninja Mac” reportedly walked into the station armed and inflicted the stab wounds on Hyde who is hospitalized in the Southern Regional Hospital. […]
Aside from the murders in the West and north, there is another heinous crime to report this time in the south. A twenty-four year old domestic of San Pedro Columbia Village, Toledo, claims that her boss raped her on three different occasions. She has just reported the incident which allegedly happened on three consecutive days; […]
A security guard became a victim of robbery early this morning. At twelve ten a.m. Monday morning, twenty nine year old Randy Rodriguez was working the night shift at Sol Belize at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway. Two men, armed with handguns, entered the compound from the direction of the river. […]
Two foreigners received a shock when they became victims of a home invasion in Ladyville. On Sunday, fifty one year old Harold Hillger, a German with Belizean nationality reported that eleven that night, he was sitting at home with his fifty seven year old friend, Werner Woehrle, a German tourist, when two assailants entered the […]
You have heard about an arsenal of weapons that went missing from the B.D.F. and earlier this week eight pieces of priceless silverware went missing from the national collection at the House of Culture. Well tonight there is another story to report of a missing item. It is not as grand as the arsenal or […]
A near fatal stabbing incident on Wednesday night in Orange Walk Town has left one woman in serious condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Shortly before nine o’clock on Wednesday night Felipe Wagner reportedly assaulted his wife Martha Alicia Wagner inside their residence on Rio Hondo Street following a domestic dispute. Police Press Officer […]
The badly decomposed body of seventy-nine year old Jose Ku, a resident of Orange Walk, was discovered on Tuesday in a grassland several miles outside of August Pine Ridge. The elderly villager was reported missing by his family over a month ago. On October eleventh, he set out on foot heading to his son’s house […]
A case of forgery has been reported at the San Pedro Magistracy where over six thousand dollars are unaccounted for. A clerk and interpreter at the court is accused of cooking the books. The alleged forgery has just been reported but the scam was first detected in October and the resident magistrate of San Pedro, […]
Dennis Ireland’s name became headline news on last October twentieth, when a late evening police press release said that Ireland is “a person of interest” in connection with the Theft of the firearms stolen from the Belize Defense Force Armory on October twelfth. Ireland turned himself in for questioning, but his name did not appear […]
