Aside from the robbery at Farm Center today, on Monday night the owners of another well known establishment, Astar Hyde Supermarket, were also targeted by thieves. When we caught up with them today, both Alvin Hyde Junior and his wife, Angela, were shaken and frustrated. The couple was planning to lock up early when around […]
The Hyde’s are still tallying up the loss and Alvin says they have been targeted by thieves several times since opening their supermarket and meat shot near the Michael Finnegan Market. This time, he says he recognized the gunman, who had visited the business before the robbery. Angela’s advice to the thieves is to go […]
After nine o’clock on Monday night, the Gang Suppression Unit searched a Toyota car near the junction of the Airport Camp in Ladyville. Levi Cadle, a taxi driver, was behind the steering wheel. He was accompanied by Akeem Harris of San Pedro. The GSU found what amounts to one point eighty-one kilos of cannabis in […]
On the heels of the rape of a four year old girl, there is a new report of a sexual attack on an innocent child. Early Sunday morning, another man allegedly destroyed the trust of his own family. In the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City, a woman found a disturbing situation involving her […]
There have been countless stories on persons caught trying to smuggling marijuana into the Central Prison and today a prison officer has been added to list. After he was busted inside the prison with almost four ounces of weed on Sunday, thirty-two year old Dean Crawford is now on interdiction pending the outcome of the […]
Also in the west, we reported on Thursday that authorities stumbled on an illegal oil refinery about a mile from the Western Highway in the vicinity of the Belize Christian Academy two weeks ago. A Cuban national who came to Belize on a tourist visa was at the site; he is in custody tonight and […]
A watchman of Middle Island Caye has been behind bars for the past three days for guns and ammunition that he claims belong to his employer. Fifty-seven year old Sebastian Cocom was arraigned this past Tuesday on two counts of Kept Firearm without a Gun License for a sixteen gauge shotgun and a rifle that […]
Roberto Igarza Velasquez, a Cuban national and a mechanic of Calle de Las Americas, Belmopan, is in police custody following the discovery of what is described as an illegal oil refinery on the Western highway. The refinery was discovered on September eighteenth near Belize Christian Academy, about a mile from Belmopan. Igarza was present during […]
The recent rape of a four year old pre-school girl has left the community numb. The sexual abuse was reported since last Friday when the mother of the child went to the police and up until tonight, no charges have been brought. The child herself has given a statement in which she has reportedly named […]
We reported on Tuesday night on the brazen shooting of a sixteen-year-old minor near one of the busiest arteries in the city. One bullet penetrated his head and exited on his temple. Justin Stephens, also known as Justin Teck, is on life support at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight, where he was rushed after […]
Nineteen year old Maritza Janet Santos of San Ignacio was killed on Friday night at the home of twenty six year old Michael Silva. It is believed that Silva took her life in what amounts to a crime of passion. Reports are that Santos and Silva were at his house in the Kontiki Area when […]
The Venezuelan Embassy located in Belmopan was broken into last Thursday and a large assortment of items was stolen. It is the second embassy to be burglarized in the past months; the other is the embassy of El Salvador. On Tuesday, police searched a house on Thyrel Hyde on Bladden Street, Belmopan where Kayla Nunez […]
Rape is one of the most heinous crimes that can be committed and tonight there is growing public outrage over the sexual abuse of a four year old girl and it is devastating the entire community. On September twenty-second the child’s mother found out that her daughter was taken from school; the child also named […]
And while the mother feels alone and is calling on the authorities to do everything in their power, the police say they are not sitting back idly. The Police Department has admitted that their main suspect has been released because there is not enough evidence to charge him. But they are collecting biological specimens that […]
Another minor was shot in the city; it happened in the height of the rush hour near the traffic lights on Freetown Road. Police won’t confirm, but word on the street is that Justin Teck, referred to by police as Justin Stevens, is a victim of the ongoing violence between the Kelly and Victoria Streets […]
While Justin Teck is holding on to life, two other persons were murdered over the weekend. Forty-six year old Floyd Ifield Davis was expected to appear in court on charges of Preparing to Commit Murder and firearm offences for an incident in August 2010 when he and three other men were busted in his Crown […]
The other murder, a crime of passion, occurred in the west at the start of the weekend. On Friday night, a young woman was murdered and the alleged killer attempted suicide. There are more questions than answers on what transpired since the couple was alone. Nineteen year old Maritza Janet Santos was with her boyfriend […]
A Lucky Strike resident is making serious allegations against a group of police officers. Frank Elijio claims that he had to be hospitalized after he was kidnapped and brutalized by cops who picked him up while he was visiting family and friends in the St. Martin De Pores area. According to Elijio, he was with […]
Police officers Constable Leonardo Yama and Sergeant Jose Ortega have been charged following an altercation which left a Magistrate’s Court bailiff toothless. According to the victim, he was socializing at a bar on September sixteenth when he encountered both uniformed officers drinking. He commented to Yama and Ortega that it was a disgrace to be […]
Tonight there is a disturbing story of a vicious crime committed on a four year old child. The mother, whose identity will not be revealed to protect the child, has reported that the young girl was sexually abused and the suspect is someone the family knows. According to the mother, on Thursday evening the little […]
Sixteen-year-old Freddy Amir Blanco, a laborer of August Pine Ridge was formally arrested and charged for the shooting death of twenty five year old Nelsi Chuc. On Thursday night we told you that Chuc was killed by an obsessed teen who pulled a gun on her on Tuesday, September twentieth after she ignored his advances. […]
Shortly after that statement was made in Belmopan, a nine year old school boy became a victim of the bad blood between two gangs in the city after viewing the formal parade on Independence Day in Belize City. Joshua Abraham was fatally shot on Victoria Street; he is also the son of a reputed George […]
There is another grieving family. In the village of August Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk District, a seventeen year old allegedly pulled the trigger on a married woman, with whom he appeared to be obsessed. It happened on Independence Day eve. News Five’s Andrea Polanco has that story. Andrea Polanco, Reporting Twenty-five year old […]
If you’re an avid television viewer and watch the one hour crime dramas like Law and Order, then the Prime Minister spoke directly to you when he announced that Belize will soon acquire its own CSI or Crime Scene Investigation unit, complete with a DNA lab. Barrow said that the funding to set up the […]
A number of shootings took place over the weekend. This morning four people were shot on Flamboyant Street. Shortly after nine-thirty, residents of the area were working on the street when three men rode up on bikes and fired several shots. Twenty-four year old Emmeth Baptist was shot to the right ankle, twenty year old […]
