Tonight Caye Caulker police are patting themselves on the back after they successfully shut down a burglary ring that has been haunting the island for more than a month. According to the cops, beginning in September, three houses in the South Point area–fully furnished vacation homes owned by foreigners living abroad–were robbed of more than […]
Thirteen year old Rodney Borland remains on a ventilator, paralysed from the waist down, at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The teenager was shot in his chest Friday night during an attempted hold-up at the family’s store in Punta Gorda. The bullet went through his spine and is lodged somewhere in the lower back. Today […]
A teenager from Punta Gorda is clinging to life at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot in the chest by a robber. Thirteen year old Rodney Borland was behind the counter at his family’s shop around 8:00 on Friday night when a masked man, armed with a handgun came in and demanded money. When Borland […]
Chinese owned businesses in Cayo and Stann Creek were also hit by armed robbers over the weekend. On Friday night twenty-four year old Tom Wu had his nine millimetre pistol, cell phone and an undisclosed quantity of cash stolen by a pair of men described as Hispanic in appearance. One of the jackers hit Wu […]
Fifteen-year-old Teddy Reyes is recovering at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot while caught trespassing Saturday night. Jose Antonio Nunez, who owns Bel Taco and Chi Chi’s Night Club on Hyde’s Lane, says his dogs alerted him to something unusual and he went outside to investigate. Jose Antonio Nunez, Owner, Chi Chi’s Night Club “I […]
The epidemic of violent shootings continues to rage across Belize City. On Thursday night twenty-two year old Dennis Gladden became the latest casualty when he took a bullet in the face. Gladden was standing on Tigris Street near King around 7:30 when a young man rode up on a bicycle and opened fire. Gladden is […]
In other crime news, a U.S. couple residing in the beautiful seaside village of Hopkins has discovered that paradise is not without problems. Sixty-eight year old Katherine Cormier told police that around 7:00 on Thursday morning she answered a knock on her door only to find a pair of robbers. The men forced their way […]
While police have received well deserved praise for their quick arrests in the Paslow fire and several recent shootings, their record is much less impressive when it comes to non violent–so called “white collar”–crime. After almost three months of investigating this summer’s immigration scandal, not a single arrest has been made. The case is now […]
In just under three months since police began their investigation into the affairs of the Ministry of Immigration, officers have discovered enough information to substantiate the allegation that a significant number of people who had never set foot in Belize, obtained Belizean citizenship and passports through deception and corruption. And while that seemingly endless probe […]
A Belize City man has been charged in connection with a shooting death on Tuesday night. This evening, twenty-four year old Darren Bank of an Oleander Street address was charged with the murder of Ryan Alford. Alford was shot several times on Tuesday night while he was standing at the corner of Jasmine and Hibiscus […]
A man already charged with murder will likely be charged with a second count as one of his alleged victims has died of her wounds. Dorla Martin passed away last night in the K.H.M.H. where she had been receiving treatment since being shot on August seventh. U.S. National Robert Moore is accused of shooting Martin […]
It was a Tuesday night of mayhem in Belize City as it appears that a group of young men went on a crime spree that included car theft, wounding and ultimately murder. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods picked up the story this morning. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Witnesses who did not wish to appear on camera say […]
As Belize City police look for suspects in the latest killing, the police departments of Guatemala and Belize are working together to solve a murder that took place about a quarter mile inside Belizean territory. According to police, around 9:30 on Tuesday morning, a contingent of Belize and Melchor police visited the area. There, they […]
Bernard Smith, an inmate at the Hattieville Correctional Facility, was shot in the leg by prison officers after he allegedly tried to escape. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Smith, who was inside his cell at the isolation section of the institution, was engaged in a fistfight with fellow prisoner, Keith Sambula. When the […]
One week ago city residents watched in disbelief as flames destroyed the top floor of the Paslow building at the corner of Queen and North Front streets. Within hours, the fire department managed to contain the blaze and since then, have been sifting through the charred, waterlogged debris for clues as to what started it […]
Tonight, Corozal police are investigating an early morning shooting that has left one man dead. According to the authorities, just after 1:00 this morning, residents living in the South End area of Corozal town heard the blast of gunshots and called the cops. When the police patrolled the vicinity they found a man lying on […]
A Belize City man is lucky to be alive tonight after he was shot point-blank in the face. Reports are that on Saturday night, twenty-two year old Renicle Hemmans was at the corner of Raccoon and Sea Gull Streets when a man on a beach cruiser bicycle rode up to him, pulled out a small […]
Meanwhile in the west, a woman who caught a thief in the act remains in serious condition after the man shot her. Police say that on Saturday morning, forty-nine year old Lynn Routhe arrived at her house in the Pilgrim Valley Community of the Cayo District only to find someone she knew trying to break […]
The Paslow fire may or may not have been the product of a criminal act…but there is no uncertainty surrounding another less famous building in Belize City. On Thursday police entered an abandoned house on Jane Usher Boulevard which was known as a hot spot for drug dealing. What the cops found, however, was a […]
It’s a crime that until recently was covered by a curtain of silence, but rape in Belize has become too common and too big a problem to be hidden or ignored. Yesterday afternoon three fourteen year old boys became the latest to answer for their alleged transgressions as they were charged with rape in San […]
Her name, along with that of hospital C.E.O. Alvaro Rosado, was forged on a number of cheques that added up to the massive theft of over two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars from the K.H.M.H.. At the time the scam was made public, Joan Anderson-Lord, the hospital’s former accountant, was no longer living in Belize. […]
Colombian cocaine may be the international drug runner’s narcotic of choice, but that hasn’t discouraged Belize’s law enforcement authorities from busting an occasional marijuana plantation. On Wednesday a police operation in the Stann Creek District resulted in the discovery of a pot patch two miles south of Red Bank Village. Don’t ask us how they […]
In crime news, a man detained by police for the alleged rape of a fifteen year old Belize City girl has been charged with that crime. He is twenty-six year old Rudolph Smith of West Street in Hattieville. The girl told police that early Monday morning a man she knew as a friend of her […]
A Corozal man, twenty-six year old Pedro Gongora, accused of abducting his former girlfriend, has been charged with kidnapping and rape. Also charged, for harbouring a criminal, were Oscar Briceño, Elena Briceño, Waldo Tapia and Claridalma Narvaez, all of Corozal Town, while Tapia and Narvaez were additionally charged with abetment to kidnapping. The kidnap victim […]
In crime news a fifteen-year-old Belize City girl has reported that she was raped. The minor told police that around 6:00 Monday morning she was sleeping at home when she was woken up by a man she recognized as a friend of her step-father. He allegedly put a knife to her neck and forced her […]
