The other victim did not die from gun violence, he succumbed to stab wounds. Forty-one year old Elvis Rhamdas, who was viciously knifed on Holy Thursday whilst standing at the corners of Victoria Street and New Road, passed away after a weeklong battle for his life in the intensive care unit at the K.H.M.H. On […]
In a late afternoon session in court, Customs personnel filed a complaint against the owner of a Plymouth Voyager Van that was found with contraband vegetables on Monday night. The vehicle was pursued on the Northern Highway and shots were fired when the driver sped off, but the occupants abandoned the van and escaped in […]
On November fourteenth, 2010 a team of law enforcement personnel including four police officers and a customs boatman was nabbed near the entrance of San Juan Village. The men, it is suspected, were the masterminds behind the landing of an executive jet, laden with eighty bales of Colombian cocaine, along the Southern Highway in the […]
Two Belizeans are safely behind bars in Mexico. Wilton Osvaldo Lopez and Walter Antonio Lopez were arraigned in the Fifth District Court in Cancun on Friday after they were captured a week earlier. They are facing charges along with Mexican nationals Moisés Martínez Sánchez and Ana Isabel Rodriguez Zetina for carrying a firearm and possession […]
In Magistrates Court today, a K.H.M.H. employee was slapped with five charges after he had a few too many drinks on Sunday and assaulted his wife and two police officers. Twenty-eight year old Dwight Herrera pleaded guilty to one count each of Harm and Common Assault upon his wife, two counts of Aggravated Assault upon […]
An ex-B.D.F. soldier, Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez” was convicted of the murder of his wife on Wednesday and today his brother was in court for threatening jurors. Thirty-seven year old Glenston Bermudez, a current B.D.F. soldier, pleaded guilty to two counts of Threat of Death and one count of Common Assault against two of the jurors […]
There was an accident on the Northern Highway in the Corozal District on Thursday night. When police arrived on the scene they found the body of man which appeared mangled from a recent traffic mishap. The details are still sketchy and the victim has only been identified by his surname which is Canto. News Five […]
The gang war that is being fought in quiet and productive communities is racking up unapologetic collateral damage. Innocent bystanders are no longer being spared but targeted by gunmen who can’t find their opponents in rival neighborhoods. A minor, sixteen year old Trevor Neal, who was shot on Wednesday, died early this morning. And this […]
The north of the country has not experienced the violent crimes that have spread from Belize City to Cayo. However, the Corozal Police Formation has been hot on the trail of criminals in surrounding villages as well as in the town. In this past month alone, officers have returned three American fugitives that were hiding […]
The trickle of blood on West Street near its intersection with Cemetery Road where sixteen year old Trevor Neal was discovered this morning adds to the ongoing bloodbath in Belize City. While the minor was riding his bicycle to work shortly after seven this morning he was accosted from behind by two armed men who […]
A Belize City man was the target of two thieves who ambushed him on Monday night as he rode his bicycle on Dolphin Street. One of the attackers snatched a gold chain, valued at one thousand five hundred dollars from Wilbert Frazer’s neck, while the second man took him off his bicycle. While he was […]
We usually hear about the Belize Coastguard in search and rescue missions, but the unit also helps to keep the waters safe from illegal activities such as narco-trafficking. During their operations over the past four day holiday weekend, the coastguard managed to nab contraband from Mexico and a vessel that was going equipped to commit […]
A forty year old woman, Lucilla Bartley, a single mother of two, is at the Central Prison tonight. She is among a small number of women to be charged with murder. The only other woman charged recently, is Lavern Longsworth, also known as Antichrist, who is awaiting trial for the murder of her common-law-husband. Bartley […]
There was another stabbing and it involved forty-one year old Elvis Rhamdas, a Belize City fisherman of a Central American Boulevard Address. Sometime around nine o’clock p.m. on Holy Thursday, Rhamdas, who was standing at the corner of New Road and Victoria Street, got involved in an altercation with a group of men. One of […]
While two families grieve the deaths of their loved ones, it didn’t turn out as tragic for a mother and son in Orange Walk Town. Two armed robbers burst into a store belonging to Chinese nationals at the start of the Easter holidays. They held up the store owner and fired indiscriminately in the air. […]
A recent victim of robbery passed away and now the crime has been upgraded to murder. He is murder victim number forty. On April twelfth, two salesmen were robbed at Belize Food Supply on the Northern Highway. After nine p.m. a truck driven by Carlos Alvarado and his sideman Armando Castellanos entered the compound of […]
Three men and a woman believed to be linked to the ruthless Los Pelones cartel have been arrested in Cancun and according to the Mexican media; two of the suspects are Belizeans. On Thursday afternoon, the Mexican Police received an anonymous tip that a group of suspicious persons were at a house in the area […]
Forty-four year old Kirk Belisle was shot and killed in Belize City while repairing a rented black Chevy Nova near Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church on La Croix Street off Central America Boulevard on April tenth. Today a fisherman was charged with his murder. Belisle had retired for the night but left home when his […]
The Gang Suppression Unit was busy over the Easter holidays; they did not pull in any high powered weapons, but they found a whole lot of marijuana when they conducted searches in the Hattieville area. The biggest bust came on Sunday morning when the G.S.U. executed a search warrant at the Dollar Bank Road residence […]
Gas stations continue to be a source of quick cash for thieves. The latest target is the Esso Superstation in the Pound Yard Bridge area of Belize City. On Sunday at two p.m., twenty year old Stephen Teck was on duty along with his coworkers Earl Hamilton and Norise Santos. The three attendants were accosted […]
The biggest drug bust in Belize was recorded in November last year when a twin-engine Beechcraft Super King Air 200 plane landed on the Southern highway laden with Colombian cocaine; all of two point six tons of the white stuff with a value of a whopping one hundred and forty million Belize dollars. The plane […]
This morning the police department conducted a city wide raid long before the crack of dawn. From four o’clock until ten this morning, personnel from Special Branch, Crimes Investigation Branch, Crimes Intelligence Unit, Anti-Drug Unit, Patrol Branch, Traffic, Violent Criminal Apprehension Program and the Belize Defense Force carried out a concerted joint operation in Old […]
The body of an elderly cab driver was found this morning at his home on Central American Boulevard. The sixty-eight year old was last seen on Sunday. Randall Bradley was found dead by his son who had gone to give him a haircut at about nine o’clock this morning. The discovery caused quite a stir […]
Belize is well known as the country that globally has the second highest fugitive returns to the United States. Recently, the U.S. State Department honored three officers for their work in arresting an American national wanted for murder. There have been three American predators caught in Belize over the past few weeks. On April eleventh, […]
A Hattieville woman says her life is in danger and she pointing fingers at her ex. The woman and her children were asleep on Monday night when a volley of bullets hit her house in Hattieville. The bullets penetrated the walls and one came eerily close to a sleeping child. According to the woman, she […]
