A member of the Belize Coast Guard has been named as the suspected getaway driver in the robbery at Puma Gas Station last Thursday. On Friday, we reported that three armed men robbed the gas station at the corner of Faber’s Road and the George Price Highway. An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen, but […]
This morning, coast guard officer Shakeem Richards appeared in court and was arraigned for two counts of robbery. Because the crime was committed with a firearm, it is an indictable offense and no bail was offered to the accused. He was instead remanded until September fifth. Late this evening, Richards was escorted to Hattieville – […]
There was an armed robbery at the Puma Gas Station on Thursday night in Belize City. It happened at the service station located at the corner of Faber’s Road and the George Price Highway. According to attendants, three gunmen came up just before closing time and relieved an employee of an undisclosed amount of cash […]
A Dangriga resident has been charged for the murder of Emerson Nunez. Earlier today, police formally arrested and charged thirty-three-year-old Kenrick Wade for the murder which occurred in the wee hours of July fourth in that southern municipality. Police believe that Wade was the gunman who opened fire on Nunez around one a.m. on Gadsby […]
A police officer is accused of physically abusing his girlfriend in an act of jealous rage. The girlfriend reported to police that following the attack he returned a second day to use a taser on her and continue his physical assault. The cop, identified as twenty-four-year-old Police Constable Harold Thompson, appeared before Senior Magistrate, Tricia […]
A Hattieville woman alleges that her neighbor assaulted her with a vehicle and a machete. Twenty- eight-year-old Kadisha Carter reported to police that forty-year-old Florith Requeña assaulted her with a vehicle and a knife. When Requeña appeared before Magistrate Khiana Gordon, she pleaded not guilty to the accusation. In her report to police, Carter said […]
Another young Belize City man is dead after he was targeted at his place of residence in the Lake Independence area of Belize City. The police have not spared much information about the incident, except to say that it happened at Eighty, twenty-two Giles Street at around nine-forty p.m., and claimed the life of Tyrone […]
A man was found guilty this afternoon of the murder of his uncle, and he will be sentenced later this month along with a friend who was also convicted of the same crime. Nineteen-year-old Raheem Budran and twenty-one-year-old Kareem Eaghan, Junior, were both found guilty today of the murder of forty-three-year-old Shane Budran. The incident […]
There was a murder in Dangriga early this morning. The victim, thirty-three-year-old Emerson Nunez, was only a short distance from his home on Gadsby Ramos Street when he was shot three times, once to the head. Nunez’s relatives who were mostly inside their homes sleeping at the time of the murder only heard gunshots in […]
According to Police, their investigation has revealed that Nunez was in the company of two other male persons sometime after midnight. A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood told reporters today that neighbors reported hearing a loud argument between the three men before hearing gunshots. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “Police visited a scene in […]
Thirty-six-year-old Allyson Major was shot and killed while being pursued by Belize City police in July 2019. The incident happened in the downtown area where officers on mobile patrol gave chase when they reportedly observed Major tossing a bag out of his vehicle in the vicinity of Southern Foreshore. The hot pursuit led them down […]
Convicted murderers, William Danny Mason, Ashton Vanegas, Terrence Fernandez, and Ernest Castillo were back inside the Belmopan Supreme Court today. They stand accused of the May thirty-first, 2016 alleged kidnapping of business man Lloyd Thiessen and his wife in the Belmopan area. The Thiessens had reported their abduction before fleeing the country in fear of […]
Rodriquez’s client, Ashton Vanegas was sentence to life in prison with the possibility of parole after serving thirty-five years in connection with the July 2016 murder of Pastor Llewelyn Lucas. Vanegas and four other men were convicted back in July of 2020. Vanegas’ attorney is appealing his client’s conviction. Today we asked him for an […]
An altercation among relatives in Aguacate Village, Toledo has ended in two of them being chopped and two others in police custody, including the First Alcalde of the village. It happened on Friday evening and when it was over, two members of the Cal family had to be hospitalized. The police department’s Communications Director, Fitzroy […]
Former U.D.P. City Council candidate and stalwart, Allan Kelly has been charged with discharging a firearm in public and aggravated assault. This is in connection with an altercation that occurred on Police Street in the Lake Independence area of Belize City that reportedly resulted in shots being fired in the presence of a child. A.S.P. […]
There was another fatal traffic accident, this time on Sunday in Carmelita, Orange Walk. And yet again, the victim is a senior citizen, as the Belize Police Department’s Communications Director, A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood shares. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “Kadie Rhaburn reported to police that he was driving his Ford Ranger […]
Eighty-year-old Santa Chun was knocked down as she walked on the Valley of Peace Road in the Cayo District on Friday night. Although the woman was immediately aided to get medical attention, she only lived for a few hours before passing away. A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood told the media today that the driver has since volunteered […]
There were a series of fatal road traffic accidents that took place over the weekend. One of the victims was Derrick Banner, a tractor operator with the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing. A release on the Ministry’s Facebook page states that Banner was on his way to San Antonio Village, Cayo early Saturday morning […]
Herman Valdez And the third senior citizen to perish in a traffic accident over the past three days was a popular employee for the San Ignacio Town Council. Herman Valdez was carrying out his daily cleaning of the streets in downtown San Ignacio this morning when a dark blue S.U.V. careened down a hill and […]
Twenty-one-year-old Damion Saldano is spending his first night on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned this afternoon for the Father’s Day murder of Benjamin Hyde Senior. He is the third suspect to be charged and taken before the Magistrate’s Court in connection with the deadly shooting on June nineteenth in Belize City. […]
A British army officer is suspected of being the orchestrator a robbery on the Price Barracks Compound in Ladyville. Reports are that the duty-free store situated inside the BATSUB base was broken into. Stolen from the store was an assortment of men’s deodorant, scotch whiskey, snickers bars, and cigarettes. Minister of State in the Ministry […]
A spate of murders in Belize City in the past few weeks has raised questions about the Briceño administration’s approach to fighting crime. Since taking office, the Minister of Home Affairs has been partnering with various organizations and government ministries in an effort to tackle crime using a multi-sectoral approach. But, with the spike in […]
Manuel Castillo, one of four men accused of the abduction and murder of seventy-one-year-old Ramon Cervantes Senior, in July 2014, is yet to be brought to justice. Despite being detained for his alleged role in the shocking crime, Castillo somehow managed to escape from lawful custody, before fleeing the jurisdiction. Since then, the family of […]
You heard it, Orange Walk North Area Representative Ramon Cervantes Junior says that the Belize Police Department and Interpol have been dormant in the hunt for Manuel Castillo. The fugitive is believed to have absconded to neighboring Mexico after escaping from police officers who detained him at his home Orange Walk Town. This afternoon, Commissioner […]
For several months, there had not been any report of a drug plane landing in Belize. That lull, however, was short-lived as local authorities were informed over the weekend that an aircraft had departed from South America en route to Belize. That track was monitored closely until the flight entered Belizean airspace several hours later. […]
