A near fatal stabbing incident has left Lamar Mortis, a third form student of Wesley College, in a serious but stable condition after being assaulted by a fellow schoolmate on campus. Both young men got into an altercation around seven-thirty this morning before classes began. Mortis was stabbed on the left side of the chest. […]
A spate of burglaries has been sweeping the Ladyville area. For the past couple of weeks a number of homeowners have reported break-ins, mostly occurring during the day. The victims of the burglaries have lost thousands of dollars in items that range from jewelry to footwear, electronics and clothing. But on Tuesday, the couple was […]
The song says ‘Marijuana pan di Corner’ but it certainly doesn’t make anyone smarter as the chorus indicates. The police have busted two men with seventeen thousand five hundred and five grams of cannabis. At eleven-thirty this morning, members of the VICAP Section of the Crimes Investigations Branch conducted a search at a house on […]
The gang truce was agreed upon by Belize City gangsters and the prime minister on September fourth. There has been a drop in gang related murders, but there were still gang related shootings. During the press conference, the PM asserted that no gang related murders occurred since the truce was sealed. And though the families […]
Turning to crime, another innocent resident became a victim of the violent Belize City streets on Tuesday night. Thirty-five year old Chalonie Craig was inside her house at the corner of Iguana and Seagull Streets when she was hit by a stray bullet. Reports are that Craig was in her kitchen along with her two […]
So far this year, one hundred and nine persons have been murdered; all victims of crime and violence. Of that number, the vicious cycle of homicides has been felt mostly in the City where age no longer figures and minors have become a frequent target. This week a new report places Belize among the fourteen […]
With that horrible ranking, fear of crime and violence has become a real personal problem. Urban violence is quickly spreading to rural communities; citizens’ personal security is under constant threat. In the City, organized crime linked to drugs and gangs have taken over entire neighborhoods, putting youths at risk. Today we re-visit Justin Stephens; he […]
On Friday night, businessman, Fiu Sheng Li was shot on both feet during a robbery in Belmopan. Today police report that Fiu and his wife, Qion Zhen Li, were selling Boledo in front of their business, Guang Dong Restaurant on Constitution Drive when they were held up by three men; one of whom was armed […]
Ervin ‘Pecans’ McCauley, also known as Akeem Harris, has been missing since seven a.m. on October fourteenth. He has been away from home for days in other instances but he always kept contact with his family. His sisters and brothers suspect foul play but can’t prove it. The police confirm that his common law wife […]
There were no gang related murders in the City over the weekend, but the sustained urban violence was felt in Belmopan. At around seven on Friday night in the capital, three gunmen targeted a popular restaurant. The owner was robbed and shot; he was rushed to the Western Regional Hospital and then transferred to the […]
A Belize City man is spending his first of many nights in a prison cell after he was today sentenced to a year and a half behind bars for a brutal attack on his female roommate. Jesus Ayuso appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith and pleaded guilty to a charge of Wounding. The victim […]
Cruz Anthony Allen, a Belize City resident, was recently granted bail for burglary. And almost like dejavu, Allen was back in court on a similar charge today. Chief Magistrate, Ann Marie Smith told Allen that because he has several previous convictions for crimes of dishonesty and other burglary charges pending before the court, she will […]
Belizean, Ian Alamilla, who is living in Westmont, Chicago turned himself in six days after he strangled his estranged wife, Tara, in April 2010. Over a year later, Alamilla pleaded guilty on Thursday to the charge of Murder. In exchange for his guilty plea, Alamilla will be sentenced to no more than fifty years in […]
Leon Hinds was stabbed three times on Wednesday night in an area near 88 Shopping Center on Central American Boulevard. The blade caught him in the neck, chest and lung. His family says they know he is far from perfect, but he is their brother and he didn’t deserve the vicious wounds that almost took […]
Tomas Antonio Moguel was murdered at his workplace at the Shell One Stop in Orange Walk on the night of October fourteenth. The watchman was executed by one of two gunmen, who simply came from behind the compound and shot him to death at about four-thirty in the morning. On Thursday, police arrested and charged […]
Police made a significant drug bust on Thursday morning. It happened in an abandoned lot on Baracat Street in Belize City where they discovered a white bucket containing twenty-two black plastic bags with cannabis. It yielded five and three-quarter pounds of weed, which is now in police custody. No one was in the area at […]
Two persons have been arrested in Dangriga for pulling a fast one on the local branch of the Belize Bank. A little over twenty-four thousand dollars were fraudulently withdrawn from the bank. The alleged scheme was busted last week Monday when the bank caught up with the last transaction and bank teller Dencil Leroy Alvarez […]
A second person was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the murder of Wendell Reimer, who was shot during a robbery at his business, Eagle One Hardware on the Northern Highway. Police today released the name of the suspect who was formally charged today with Murder and Robbery. He is twenty-one year old Ernest Staine, […]
There might have been no murder or shooting victims on the bloody streets of Belize City on Wednesday night, but there is still a victim who is clinging to life tonight. Thirty-one year old Leon Hinds was viciously stabbed three times in an area near 88 Shopping Center on Central American Boulevard. His sisters told […]
A GSU raid at a residence on Nurse White Street in Belize City earlier today has resulted in charges being brought against four people, including three women. At about three o’clock this afternoon GSU personnel executed a search warrant on the property of Deon Wright where they discovered six kilograms, the equivalent of thirteen point […]
A fire on Wednesday morning destroyed a small plycem house on Caesar Ridge Road. After putting out the blaze, fire officials told News Five that the owner of the house had not been identified. Well, today police report that the house was property of thirty-seven year old Gloria Cabanas, but she was not the most […]
The owner of Eagle One Hardware at mile four on the Northern Highway was murdered during a brutal robbery on October seventh. Thirty-five year old Wendell Reimer was gunned down after three assailants robbed the business. Reimer lay dead outside his store while the robbers ran onto the highway with the money from the cash […]
Thirty-nine year old Albert Talbert who also goes by the name of Cat was busted with a B.D.F. uniform last Wednesday when police raided his apartment on Maskall Street. Talbert claimed that he paid a BDF soldier fifty dollars for the uniform. This morning Talbert was taken to court and arraigned for a single charge […]
Also in court today, a woman took the rap on charges of possession of controlled drugs for marijuana that was found inside her neighbor’s house. But the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions rejected the guilty plea for on the lesser charge. That means that thirty-three year old Janice Lynch and John Michael Fitzgibbon, […]
There is another case of sexual abuse of a minor. A thirteen year old student from Roaring Creek claims she has been abused by a family member. The allegation is that her uncle had sexual intercourse with her back in June at his Belize City home. There have already been three other reports of sexual […]
