An early morning robbery on Sunday left two persons wounded. Around eight-thirty a.m. two thieves targeted the tacos stand at the corner of Banak Street and Central American Boulevard and attempted to rob the vendor of his earnings. It is attempted because the robbery turned into a shooting leaving one of the robbers injured. Twenty […]
Tuesday night’s murder was followed today by another and residents in the West Landivar area of Belize City are shocked over the bloody murder of a businessman who set up shop about fifteen years ago and opened Bachelor’s Inn Hotel on Bachelor Avenue. Reports are that sometime around three this afternoon four men entered the […]
In Belize City’s deadly and dangerous streets, a third grenade exploded on Tuesday night. This time, the target was the Comptroller of Customs’ residence on Signa Yorke Street in the Belama Phase One area. The Comptroller, fifty-two year old Gregory Gibson told police that he was inside his home with his wife and sixteen year […]
There was a murder on the south side of Belize City on Tuesday night at about the same time the grenade exploded. It happened around eight o’clock and claimed the life of twenty-nine year old Windell Zelaya of four Allan Pitts Crescent. Zelaya was gunned down near a bus shed on Caesar Ridge Road right […]
One of the first murder victims for this year was Bowen and Bowen employee Josiah Thompson, who was with co-worker Millard Tun, when they were attacked and robbed. Thompson was fatally shot in front of the Belize Bank in San Ignacio. Three suspects were detained soon after and released but tonight the news is that […]
Robbers targeted a 2008 Isuzu D-Max at the parking lot of Friendship Restaurant on the Northern Highway. John Flowers, the owner of the vehicle, was inside the restaurant when the robbers struck and when he returned, his rear passenger window was shattered and his company laptop and case containing his UN passport was missing. Today, […]
The number of robberies and thefts continues to increase and one of the most recent cases is of a four wheel trailer stolen from a Belize City businessman. Eighty-one year old Karl H. Menzies reported that the thirty-five foot galvanized trailer, valued at five thousand dollars, went missing from his yard on the Northern Highway […]
A sixteen year old youth is dead after he was stabbed in front of several friends in Orange Walk Town on Thursday evening. The fatal stabbing place while a group of friends were hanging out. This latest killing is the second in that municipality in as many weeks. Marion Ali has the story in the […]
A house was broken into on the Northern Highway on Thursday night, but the thieves never got too far from the scene and had to abandon their get-away vehicle and loot. News Five visited the house near mile eight on the Northern Highway and spoke with the caretaker, Eugene Henderson who said it was the […]
In the island of Caye Caulker, a visiting twenty-seven year old Texan woman claims she was raped last night. According to the victim, she went out for a late dinner with friends and as she headed back to her room she was accosted by two men on the beach. One of the men chased her […]
The latest business to become a victim of the robbery spree in the city is Enrique Martinez and Sons Limited on the Northern Highway. At around ten on Wednesday night AAA security guard, thirty-five year old Jean Ovelt Choune who was stationed at the business, was ambushed by four armed men who came from behind […]
There has been no shortage of burglaries and robberies lately, and with each passing day the criminals are becoming more inventive and daring. The critical Harold Crooks report made it clear that the police department was lacking in many areas including investigations. Well, the department has been working on improving its investigative techniques by adapting […]
Just before midday this past Tuesday two men robbed Prosser Fertilizer located on North Front Street of cash and items valued at over two thousand dollars. Manager, Henario Bolon, says that the robbery occurred in the blink of an eye. Around eleven-thirty, he and two other employees were held up at gunpoint by two dark […]
An agent of Courts Belize Limited in San Pedro has unwittingly deprived the furniture and electronics store of over sixteen thousand dollars. Thirty-nine year old Jose Paz, of Milo’s Center located on Pescador Drive reported to police that his accountant Jerome Shal made the discovery of the missing monies. After making checks at the bank, […]
An Albert Street businessman was robbed near the entrance of his home. At about two o’clock Monday morning, fifty-three year old Madhu Babani, the proprietor of Swamy’s Boutique, arrived at the entrance of his Albert Street home. Near the entrance of the nearby alley, three male persons came up to him, one of them armed […]
Perhaps it was just bad luck, but Madhu Babani was not the only Albert Street businessman who suffered losses yesterday. A store owned by his brother, Danny Babani was burglarized last night across the street from where Madhu was robbed. The store “A Fashion” sits next door to Belize Global Travel Services Limited. Early this […]
Also targeted over the course of the weekend was the office of the Director of Public Prosecution, Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt. According to the secretary, forty-six year old Estelle Mossiah, when she left work Friday evening at five p.m. everything was in order and on Monday morning around seven-thirty she was shocked to find that the office […]
San Ignacio police have detained a man in connection with a burglary and fire that reportedly occurred on Monday night in the Mountain Pine Ridge area. Police report that around nine-thirty on Monday night they got a tip of a suspicious grey van in the area. When police intercepted the van upon their arrival they […]
A prime piece of property at the Farmer’s Market has sparked controversy between two parties. The building, located at number one Farmer’s Market, was owned by fifty-eight year old Laura Leonardo, who either bought the building from the Development Finance Corporation or got a loan from them to buy it. According to reports, Leonardo began […]
A fourteen year old minor appears to be a victim of sexual exploitation. On Friday, the minor told police that on three different occasions last year her mother took her to meet a male person, known to her only as Zabaneh, with whom she had sexual intercourse. According to the girl, she and her mother […]
A Belizean laborer of Teakettle Village in the Cayo District was nabbed by police in the area of the Mopan River. On Friday night, police spotted a suspicious looking thirty-five year old Ernesto Jackson along the banks of the river as they patrolled the area. A search conducted on Jackson led to the discovery of […]
In the north, Orange Walk police have detained a man pending an investigation of Theft… the amount is a whopping twenty-three thousand dollars. Details are sketchy, but reports are that between July and August 2008 Dr. Marco Deville went to the United States and left a man to take care of his home in the […]
Brazen thieves continue to target schools across the country, the latest is the Toledo Community College. The incident happened around eleven on Wednesday night when two masked men attacked the watchman, sixty-two year old Toribio Parchu, who was concluding duties for the night. The gunmen tied up Parchu and when the security guard, Victor Chun […]
A Belize City taxi driver is in the hot seat tonight, facing charges of Arson. This follows a fire at the home of a social worker on Thursday night. Police say they were summoned to Mex Avenue around ten-thirty p.m. and saw smoke coming from the lower flat of the two-storey wooden structure. Thirty-one year […]
And in the west, San Ignacio police are looking for a man in connection with a report of rape that allegedly happened after eleven o’clock on Wednesday night. The victim, a thirty-six year old woman told police that the culprit went to her house that night and invited her out to a bar in Santa […]
