If you’re one of B.T.L.’s thousands of voice mail users, chances are when you tried to check your messages on Thursday, you heard a strange, if not disturbing message. While some of the recordings simply said “You’ve been hacked”, others were obscene. Today News 5 spoke to people who were affected by the new announcements […]
In crime news, late findings in the case of a newborn baby found dead on Monday in a Punta Gorda latrine may result in additional charges against the baby’s mother. A post-mortem concluded that the child died of asphyxia due to drowning, meaning that the baby was born alive. Police have forwarded these findings to […]
A Toledo woman detained by police after giving birth to a baby in a toilet pit has been charged. Twenty-four year old Juliana Choc of Santa Elena Village was formally arraigned for the crime of concealment of birth. Charges of murder or manslaughter were not laid since it could not be ascertained whether the baby […]
A French tourist is dead after being run over by a boat. Fifty-six year old Josaine Fernande was snorkelling off the leeward side of Southwater Caye on Tuesday when she was struck by a skiff. The boat’s operator, sixty-two year old Samuel Martinez, a chef at the island’s Blue Marlin Lodge, has been charged with […]
In crime news, police in Punta Gorda report that on Monday the body of a newborn infant was found at the bottom of a latrine in that town. Their investigations indicate that a woman from Santa Elena Village used the toilet to give birth to the child. One person has been detained pending charges.
Another dead body was found on Monday, this one in the Belize River near Teakettle. The corpse has been identified as fifty-three year old Wilfred Rhaburn, a resident of the same village. The body awaits a post-mortem at Belmopan Hospital.
A family from the Cayo District is in mourning tonight after their young relative was found murdered on Sunday morning. According to police, twenty-year-old Aiba Luz Marquez was last seen alive on Saturday night near her place of work quarrelling with her boyfriend, identified as David Hob of Santa Elena Town. Marquez’s body was found […]
Too often, the media is forced to expose cases of police brutality, but tonight two brothers who viciously attacked an officer in Orange Walk are in police custody. According to reports, around 7:00 Friday night, P.C. Reynaldo Bruhier was on duty at the San Estevan police station when two men, armed with machetes and knives, […]
Meanwhile, Punta Gorda police are investigating a shooting incident that took place near the Belize/Guatemala border on Friday. Reports are that Pablo Chun and Santos Bo, farmers from Jalacte Village, had been selling their produce in Guatemala, and while travelling on horseback to Belize via the Santa Cruz road, the men say they were fired […]
Not all the weekend crime remains unsolved, in fact, San Ignacio police can boast that they foiled a robbery by catching the bad guys and recovering the loot. On Sunday, police, acting on a tip of a robbery going down at a local restaurant, rushed to An Sam on Third Street just as three young […]
Despite the widespread belief that Belize is in the grip of a major crime wave, one category of potential victims that seems to have enjoyed a period of relative tranquillity is that of tourists. Until this week that is, when three British visitors were held up and robbed at gunpoint on the Southern Highway. The […]
An escaped prisoner has been captured…and wounded in the process. Twenty-one year old Emerson Talbert, an inmate at Hattieville, was labouring as part of a work gang in Belize City on Thursday when he made a break for freedom. He managed to elude his guards until nightfall, when he was apprehended in the vicinity of […]
The report of an escaped prisoner and robbery of British citizens on the Southern Highway makes us recall another crime story we first reported in 1998. In August of that year, British Raleigh Venturer Anna Lightfoot was brutally murdered near the village of Red Bank by villagers Estevan Sho and Alan Cal. Lightfoot was stabbed […]
The cocaine bust may not be in the same league as last year’s ton and a half haul found in a Belize City apartment, but eleven pounds of white powder is still nothing to sneeze at. That’s how much cocaine police found on Wednesday evening near Benque Viejo. Thirty-five year old Benqueño Javier Silva and […]
The Belize Premier Football League may have taken disciplinary action against players, management and fans, but the fallout from Sunday’s post match riot is far from over. Today police announced that criminal charges have been filed against Kulture Yabra’s substitute goalkeeper Anthony Bernard. Thirty-three year old Bernard, shown here on video tape struggling with a […]
He described himself as an expert in home security…and indeed he was. Twenty-two year old John Bartley had admitted to committing one hundred and fifty-two burglaries and only recently emerged from Hattieville having served a seven year sentence for his crimes. Having seen the error of his ways, Bartley vowed to reform and told the […]
In a more successful operation, police have detained two men in the shooting death of twenty-eight year old Denver Hamilton of Pelican Street Extension in Belize City. Hamilton was shot twice in the temple around 8:30 on Sunday night while working under the hood of his car at the corner of Iguana Street and Central […]
In sheer numbers, the death toll does not begin to approach the level of bloodshed now taking place in the so-called Holy Land. But while Israelis and Palestinians can at least say they are killing and dying for a cause, the young men of Belize City can make no such claim. Over the weekend, three […]
A mid-day shooting has left two Belize City young men injured. According to police reports, just after noon today officers responded to a call reporting the sound of gunshots in the area of Vernon Street. When the cops arrived at the corner of Vernon and Lakeview streets they found twenty-four year old Kendale Robinson suffering […]
Another man is also recovering from gunshot wounds tonight, but this time the gunman is a police officer. According to Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, P.C. Felix Garcia, currently stationed at the Hattieville branch, spotted twenty-six year old Glenroy Clarke, a man with a warrant against him for theft and wanted for questioning for […]
A Belize City businessman is tonight reunited with his family after he had been reported missing since Tuesday. But rather than being a missing persons case, it turns out that the husband and father of four had been stabbed, robbed and only with the help of good samaritans, taken to the K.H.M.H. for treatment. For […]
After being hit by a plague of daring hold-ups, Southern Choice Gas Station on the Stann Creek Valley Road is now the victim of what appears to be an inside job. According to police, tonight they are looking for office supervisor of the company, Alexi Rodriguez, in connection with a report of theft. Southern Choice’s […]
Despite the strong presence of police, B.D.F. and tourism officers patrolling the streets of Belize City, it seems walking on one of the busiest streets, even in the middle of the morning, is not safe anymore. A young student from the Orange Walk District has reported being robbed while on Vernon Street at 10:00 a.m.; […]
For most Belizeans, if you say the word “Hicatee”, immediately images of the tasty turtle meat simmering in plenty of gravy on top a bed of hot white rice spring to mind. But before you get your taste buds going, remember that while the season is now open, if you’re caught with undersized specimens of […]
A Belize City businessman is recovering from stab wounds tonight after he was robbed on Wednesday. According to twenty-seven year old Waiki Cheng, he was riding his chrome bicycle on North Front Street around 7:00 that night when a stranger walked up to him and pushed him off the bike. Cheng says the man then […]
