A fifteen year old girl gave birth last Thursday; the same day the news broke that she had been having a sexual relationship with twenty-four year old Police Constable Yannic Wade. Today Wade was arraigned on six charges; two counts of carnal knowledge and four counts of unlawful carnal knowledge for allegedly having sex with […]
Two minors are tonight recovering from gunshot wounds following a shooting incident in one of the Old Capital’s gang ridden neighborhoods on Monday night. Shortly before eight o’clock police visited the trauma room at the KHMH where they saw a twelve year old boy as well as a seventeen year old suffering from injuries to […]
Trapp was not the only person to lose his life over the weekend. A store owner was gunned down on Friday night. And while many would assume it happened in a known Belize City hotspot, it actually occurred in a relatively quiet village in the Orange Walk District. By all eyewitness accounts, after the robbers […]
Violent crime is not only being committed by men. The following report has landed two female neighbors before the court. The aggressor is accused of barging into her neighbor’s home, armed with a knife and that is why thirty-three year old Lisa Elizabeth Matute isn’t at her own home tonight. Matute was arraigned before Magistrate […]
Twenty year old Brandon Paz is also behind bars tonight for aggravated assault, but with a firearm. Paz appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare this morning and was charged in connection with an attack on twenty-four year old Claude Lopez, which occurred on June twenty-eighth. He pleaded not guilty, but a firearm offense automatically lands him […]
Our western border is regularly breached by Guatemalans who extract Belize’s natural resources for profit. The incident on July thirteenth where shots were fired between Guatemalan loggers occurred more than four miles inside the dense forest of the Chiquibul National Park. The border infractions are bold since the loggers travel miles into the protected area […]
A fifteen year old girl reportedly gave birth today at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. She is a minor and that has a police officer in big trouble. The cop, whose name was released in the police blotter, is Yannic Wade and the relationship with the young girl reportedly started when she was thirteen years […]
There’s bad news coming from the Cayo District that has pitted the B.D.F. and a group of Guatemalan illegal loggers in the constant incursions by Guatemalans into Belizean territory. The incident happened one mile away from the Caracol Mayan Ruin in the Cayo District during a joint operation on Wednesday by the police, B.D.F., Forestry […]
There was commotion in Lucky Strike Village on Tuesday morning as villagers took matters in their hands and detained three men who were caught stealing flood lights at the football field. Fifty year old Brian Davis, twenty-four year old Charles Bowen and eighteen year old Minor Anastacio Soler were tied to a post in the […]
The following story involves identity theft. A Santa Elena resident went to apply for a social security card on Wednesday only to learn that she already had one. But how’s that possible? That’s what Sandra Garcia asked the registering officer and it turned out to be a case of identity theft. When she was shown […]
There’s an eighth murder victim for this year in Orange Walk. Just after midnight, a DJ was shot to death behind a supermarket at the corner of Arthur and South Mejiba Streets. Orson Cardona, who also goes by DJ Textro, had just moved back to Orange Walk Town. He was ambushed after going out to […]
Do you know twenty-three year old Lindburg Williams or recognize this picture? Well, he is a wanted man. The Police Department is asking the public for assistance in locating Williams, who is a resident of Commerce Bight Pier in Dangriga. He is wanted in connection with an ongoing forgery investigation. Anyone with information on Williams’ […]
They belong to the same party, that’s the People’s United Party and both can possibly be described as high profile soldiers. But there’s bad blood between Winston Smiling and Steve Nembhard over thousands of dollars that Nembhard reportedly owes Smiling. Despite promises to pay, Nembhard had not and so Smiling went to court. But Nembhard […]
Now to a tragic story from the community of Jalacte in the southernmost reaches of the Toledo District. It involves a family feud over the weekend that left a twenty-two year old woman dead and police are on the hunt for her brother-in-law. Rafael Ack, a Guatemalan national, became involved in a verbal altercation with […]
A party on Friday night was allegedly crashed by police. A group of young men at the party, taking place at a house on Justice Street say that police physically attacked them. The victims allege that the police were involved in an incident on Freedom Street with two other young men and shortly after they […]
Four persons were injured in a shooting spree on Wednesday night within minutes of each other; at least one of the victims is in critical condition. We start at Glenn Street where a party was interrupted by gunshots coming from a man who rode up to the area on bicycle. Two victims were rushed to […]
The other shooting took place minutes earlier. Two Belize City men ended up at the KHMH following the shooting incident in the Port Loyola area. At around seven p.m. two well known street figures; nineteen year old Keon Francis and Kareem “Robbery” Lopez, were seated inside a parked Geo Prism on Nurse Findley Crescent when […]
After discussing nationalization and the rule of law, the crime wave sweeping the country also came up at the P.U.P. conference this morning. The increasing body count and casualties became a solemn but passionate topic for the party. Attorney Anthony Sylvester rose to speak about the anti-crime initiatives, particularly preventative detention, which he believes will […]
On many polls the common concern is over crime. This year has turned out to be particular violent and murderous. At the end of 2010, there were one hundred and thirty murders on record, making it the deadliest year in the country’s history. But according to our database, the first half of 2011 has been […]
Down south, Punta Gorda police are investigating the bizarre death of an infant in the remote village of Jalacte, a Mayan community adjacent to the Belize/Guatemala border in the Toledo District. On Saturday afternoon around two-thirty, Rolando Sho encountered the grotesque sight of a dog dragging the lifeless body of a newborn in a nearby […]
There are numerous reports surfacing about corrupt land practices that involve what appears to be a well established ring. Belize City businessman Israel ‘Pie’ Marin, manager of Belize Diesel and Equipment Ltd., is one of many victims of the land scams. Marin filed a report back in May, but it has just made it to […]
A late morning hold-up took place today in the West Landivar area when two armed gunmen entered Eric’s Store on Bachelors Avenue where they proceeded to hold up the store’s attendants. According to police press officer Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood, the incident has not officially been reported; however, sometime around eleven-thirty the business which is being […]
Just before dark on Sunday, a resident of St. Matthews Village was bludgeoned to death. Orlando Rodriguez went to Frank’s Eddy Village to buy food when his troubles began. At a local restaurant, Rodriguez got into an altercation with another resident of St. Matthews and he was violently attacked. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani […]
A family of nine, including three minors, was trooped to the Magistrate’s Court today where they appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford to face ammunition related charges following the discovery of four rounds of live ammunition. A search of a residence on Neal’s Pen Road on Friday yielded the bullets which were hidden near a septic […]
The officers of the Gang Suppression Unit were in training for the past two weeks, but operations resumed over the past weekend. A search was conducted at the residence of thirty-six year old Delroy Barrow on Haynes Street. Barrow and babysitter, Carolyn Garoy were present at the time of the search and according to the […]
