Another aggravated burglary was reported over the weekend, this time on Friday night. The victim is thirty-nine year old Xiao Hua Zhu, proprietor of Jenny’s Shop on Meighan Avenue. Zhu reported to police that she was closing up the shutter when she was approached by two men; one of them was armed with a silver […]
While police search for those two culprits, another burglary victim assisted them by nabbing his own. Around three-fifteen a.m. on Saturday, seventy-five year old Lawrence Matute was asleep at his Baymen Avenue home when he was awakened by a noise coming from his bedroom window. Instead of cowering in a corner, Matute reached under his […]
It’s among the most prevalent causes of deaths within the country of Belize and today, the Ministries of National Security and Education started a three-day workshop to curb gang violence and its causes. The workshop at the Bliss is being conducted by renowned gang violence expert, Dr. Herbert Gayle, and will focus on monitoring and […]
Also in court, a B.D.F. soldier from Big Falls, Toledo who was on duty providing security to flood victims tonight finds himself charged with Manslaughter for causing the death of a civilian on November twenty-second. Orange Walk police have arrested and charged twenty year old Private Paulino Assi for shooting Douglas Villager, nineteen year old […]
The shooting at the foot of the swing bridge on November twenty-eighth appeared at first glance to be a clear cut case of attempted robbery of a former police officer by two men on bicycles. But the story is now changing. Thirty-five year Javier Castellanos, now a security guard, claimed that one robber attempted to […]
In other news, forty-two year old fudge vendor, Bernard Pratt was charged with Unlawful Carnal Knowledge of a twelve year old girl. Today, Pratt appeared in front of Magistrate Aretha Ford who remanded him in custody until January ninth. No plea was taken from Pratt and due to the nature of his alleged offense, he […]
And a Chinese businesswoman of the Western Highway was robbed at gunpoint at her restaurant. At around seven last night, forty-eight year old Kun Mei Hung reported that she and her daughter, Yan Fen Su, were at Fuhua Restaurant serving two customers when three armed men entered and demanded money. After she was hit with […]
No one seems to have the right recipe to curb crime. And today, students from Belize’s foremost tertiary level institutions gathered at the University of Belize Belmopan campus to attend a symposium on the different aspects of this plague, including its root causes and measures to deal with this crippling issue. The event, organised by […]
His family says that his friends called him out to go and buy fonto but a few minutes later, the twenty-nine year old man was lying dead in a pool of his own blood. Four of five gunshots found their way into the body of Steven James. He received one shot to the middle of […]
And a Belize City woman who has had various run-ins with the law fell victim to gunfire this past Wednesday evening. She is thirty-two year old Joeth Pratt, A.K.A. China. Just after four-thirty p.m. on Wednesday Pratt went to a neighbour’s house at the corner of Faber’s Road and Nurse Findley Crescent and seconds after […]
Sixty year old Rudolph Arnold, the messenger for Belize Industrial Agencies on the Western Highway is behind bars tonight for allegedly stealing thirty-seven thousand dollars from his boss. Manager of Belize Industrial Agencies Limited at Mile one and a half on the Western Highway, twenty-six year old Glen Kornelsen, told police that he on Wednesday […]
There is an update to report tonight in the recent robbery of the Atlantic Bank Branch at the corner of Cemetery and Magazine Roads. Just after six p.m. Wednesday night the police department recovered the busted but empty safe as well as three empty gun cases. The suspect charged with the burglary of the Atlantic […]
Pay up or spend six months behind bars. That was the option that forty-two year old American National, Juan Marcos Alba, received when he appeared in front of Magistrate Sharon Frazer in court today. Frazer found Alba guilty of Failure to Comply with the Conditions of a Visitor’s Permit and ordered him to pay a […]
The family of a young Douglas villager who was shot and killed by a Belize Defence Force soldier on the night of November twenty-second will have their day in court. While the initial report appeared to be that nineteen year old George Cortez White was unruly with the B.D.F., the Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn […]
A computer technician was charged for presumably wanting to preserve his life. Today, twenty-five year old Paul Gibson of Nurse Seay Street was charged with possession of a prohibited material. Gibson pleaded not guilty to the charge, but admitted that he wore a bullet-proof vest for protection because he had been robbed four times this […]
In other news, two incidents involving Spanish speaking bandits near the Belize/Guatemala Border are creating fear among the residents of Arenal Village. In the first incident, two men from Benque Viejo were robbed by a farm near Arenal last Friday morning around eight thirty. Uvildo Howe, a taxi driver of E Street Benque Viejo Town […]
The gun amnesty programme closed with a bang. In its last days in November, a bullet at least six inches long was handed in to the cops in Belize City and there was both surprise and relief. The final figures of the firearms and ammunition that were delivered to cops around the country have still […]
And a burglar in Ladyville was caught in the act as he was about to leave the home he had just robbed and now he will spend the holidays behind bars. Thirty-five year old Leopold Stevens, a farmer of Lords Bank Village, appeared in court of Magistrate Tracy Sosa today and was charged with the […]
Also coming up in court, is a case of extortion in which a policeman who felt that he had used the system to benefit himself finds that he is instead the subject of prosecution for the offense. The incident in question occurred on Sunday at the Northern Highway checkpoint. Police say they stopped and checked […]
Last Friday we reported on a shooting incident that occurred at the foot of the Swing Bridge in Belize City at about five p.m. In update to that story, Javier Castellanos, a thirty-five year old security guard, was walking over the bridge when two men on bicycles coming from Regent Street West darted towards him […]
Javier Castellanos was not the only person attacked by robbers but in the following incident the culprits got away. At about three-thirty p.m. this past Friday, thirty-four year old Arthur Rosales was walking on Dolphin Street towards Banak Street when he was accosted by two men. One of the culprits, a slim built man wearing […]
There is a third murder to report this week. Shortly before ten last night, forty year old Egbert Broaster of Mohammed Ali Street in Belize City was pronounced dead at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after a single stab wound to the right side of his chest turned fatal. According to a report from the […]
And in news from the courts, twenty-four year old Kareem “Homes” Williams of Supal Street is currently behind bars for robbing a man of his cell phone and money. The incident occurred sometime after seven Wednesday night when twenty-nine year old Bernard Timmons was driving on Supal Street and Williams stopped him and offered to […]
And at news time, a youth is receiving medical treatment in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight after he was shot by an ex-police constable shortly after five this evening. Kareem Barona was reportedly shot in the leg in the height of the traffic rush hour on the Belize City Swing Bridge after he tried […]
Two grenades, one in September and another as recent as a few days ago, have surfaced in the streets of Belize City. The matter has landed a black eye on the British Army Training Support Unit Belize, BATSUB. Tonight its Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Peter Germain, admits he cannot explain how British-issued grenades found their way […]
