There’s another disturbing case of child molestation to report tonight and the victim is a ten year old girl. Thirty-eight year old Salvadoran national, Jose Cortez, is celebrating his birthday behind bars after being charged this morning with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. Cortez was detained on Sunday following a report by the minor […]
The Cayo District is trailing the Belize District when it comes to violent crime. And though murders are the hallmark of misconduct in the Belize District, assaults on United States citizens are on the increase in the Cayo District. Three disturbing incidences have gone under the radar in the past month. The first incident was […]
On Thursday night we told you about the city’s latest murder and shooting. Soon after the newscast, another city resident was shot in the face and is still hospitalized tonight. Sometime after nine o’clock, twenty-three year old stevedore Troy Bowen, was socializing with a female on Black Orchid Street in the St Martin’s De Porres […]
Belize City patrol police stopped a robbery in progress on Thursday night and apprehended the assailants, one is sixteen years old and the other is seventeen. Around eight-thirty on Thursday night, twenty-six year old Yilan Guan, owner of ‘MK Fast Food’ was inside her business when two men entered and demanded money. Guan told police […]
Elsewhere in the City, the Gang Suppression Unit removed a twelve gauge shotgun loaded with ammo. The weapon was wrapped in a cloth in the lower flat of an abandoned building at Simon’s Alley. The GSU also found an additional round of twelve gauge cartridge in a plastic bag and a ski mask which the […]
There is another murder in the City to report tonight, it’s the second for this week and it happened less than twenty-hours after the first. On Wednesday evening sometime around six, a gun man fired several shots fatally wounding twenty year old Justin Roches. He was getting ready to play a game of basketball at […]
There was another shooting in the city on Wednesday night, three hours after the murder of Justin Roches. This time the target was a minor. Shortly after nine, seventeen year old John Pascual was riding his bike when a man pulled out a gun and shot him multiple times. It happened in a St. Martins […]
Just after eight o’clock on Tuesday night, a stevedore, Sydney “Smokey” Richards Junior was shot and killed in one of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The young man was heading home but diverted to pick up food when two men approached him on bicycles. One pulled the trigger and delivered the fatal shots, one to […]
On Monday, police raided the Belize City house of radio talk show host, Glenn Tillett. They reportedly found computers that had been stolen from the Embassy of El Salvador in Belmopan. Tillett and his family were at home at the time and were detained for questioning. Tillett, however, had to be taken to the Western […]
A Belama resident succumbed to head injuries early Monday morning after being bashed on the head with a blunt object that is yet to be identified. It would follow that it is a case of murder. But the prime suspect has been charged with Manslaughter. He is twenty-eight year old Marlon Woods, who faces the […]
It was a violent weekend in the Jewel; one man was murdered while five others were injured in Belize City and Belmopan. The madness started as early as Friday afternoon, when at least nine bullets were fired at Jeffrey Flowers while he stood on Amara Avenue. He was hit on the chest, back, buttocks, abdomen […]
Two minors were also injured in Belize City on Sunday morning. The young men were riding separate bicycles on Amara Avenue when a barrage of bullets was fired in their direction. Both victims received several gunshot wounds and are currently receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Meanwhile, in the capital city, one man […]
Five Belize City men, including a pair of well-known street figures, are on remand tonight following a recent burglary at the Salvation Army School. The five were found with the stolen computers and accessories believed to have gone missing in the burglary. Nineteen year old Elmer Lenarez, twenty-four year old Cruz Allen and forty-four year […]
The Belize Coast Guard Forwarding Operating Base at Calabash Caye was on a routine patrol in the Turneffe Atolls on Saturday, when they encountered Mexican skiff. With pun intended, a search of the vessel named Forever Young led to the discovery of two ice boxes containing two hundred and fifty-five young lobster tails, four hundred […]
Only a few hours ago, the bloodshed began on the violence prone streets of Belize City. A hail of nine millimeter rounds were let loose on a City resident this afternoon as he stood near the office of Mesopotamia Area Representative Michael Finnegan on Amara Avenue. Jeffery Flowers, a known affiliate of the Taylor’s Alley […]
And while Flowers was well known to the police, another shooting incident occurred and it involved an activist who is well known to the media. Yolanda Schakron has had numerous brushes with members of the Police Department since the murder of her nephew Christopher Galvez in December 2009. The most recent altercation was on June […]
We have been reporting on the illegal loggers from Guatemala who have been invading the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. But in the Toledo District, Rosewood is also being extracted without permits and it went under the radar until a few months ago, when the increased logging caught the attention of the Maya Leaders Alliance and Toledo […]
Tragedy has struck as a trivial dispute, one that occurs in most families, did not go well for a family in Cotton Tree. Anger turned to rage, and then to murder. Before cool heads could prevail, twenty-one year old Thaddeus Castillo was murdered in Cotton Tree Village. Castillo, who is originally from Belize City, was […]
A Salvadoran laborer of Altamira, Corozal Town was murdered and is believed to have been dumped on a farm between Santa Clara and Buena Vista on the Northern Highway. Santos Alberto Ramirez was out drinking with friends on Saturday night but he never returned home. His body, bearing multiple stab wounds, was discovered on Sunday […]
A French national remains in police custody tonight after pulling a practical joke in mid-air during a flight from the United States en route to Belize. Delta Flight 4345 carrying a total of seventy-one passengers arrived at the Philip Goldson International Airport shortly after eleven o’clock this morning carrying what officials believed to be an […]
A husband and wife spent the weekend in police lockdown and today they appeared in Magistrates Court to face charges of Child Neglect. Forty-seven year old Albert Gentle and his wife, thirty-two year old Diana, were arrested for allegedly leaving their ten year old disabled daughter locked up alone inside their house on Holy Emmanuel […]
Meanwhile, in the courtroom of Magistrate Dorothy Flowers, twenty-two year old Derrick Sanchez was charged for allegedly kidnapping and robbing a man last Wednesday. Sanchez, a resident of the Ladyville area, is accused of holding Rodrick Williams hostage at gunpoint and stealing his vehicle as well as two cell phones; a total value of four […]
A man, who has been accused of molesting a fifteen year old girl twice in four months, was sent off to the Central Prison today. Forty-four year old Phillip Palacio—not to be confused with the legal aid attorney who bears the same name—is a Belize City sanitation worker. He appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare this […]
Also in Orange Walk, two residents have been charged in connection with the shooting death of twenty-three year old Orson Adman Cardona. Today Orange Walk police formally arrested and charged a sixteen year old, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor and twenty one year old Juan Carlos Quintero better known as […]
It’s also dangerous in the streets of the city and another Belize City resident was viciously mowed down in a storm of bullets just after midnight. Thirty-three year old Jermaine Arnold, also known as Yankee, was accosted by a lone gunman upon reaching the corners of South and Albert Streets. He was shot multiple times […]
