Police are also investigating a drive by hold-up reported in Belize City. According to thirty-one year old William James, around 6:30 Wednesday morning, he was walking on Vernon Street when a car with darkly tinted windows drove up alongside him. James says as he turned to look at the car, the driver’s window rolled down […]
Tonight a primary school student is still in severe pain after he was viciously beaten and left with a broken jaw more than a week ago. On March twenty-third, fourteen year old Jermaine Arnold, a student of Saint Ignatius School decided to spend his first day of the Easter holidays washing cars to earn spending […]
In an update to a strange bombing incident we reported on Tuesday, tonight police say a Belize City man has been charged. According to police, a man identified as Dennis Acosta of a Zericote Street address has been charged with committing a mischievous act. Police press officer G. Michael Reid says Acosta told them that […]
By midday on Saturday, cycling fans across the country knew that the Santino’s Jamis team had claimed victory in the most prestigious race of the year. But as the team basked in the glory of their win, little did they know what today would bring. According to team owner Santino Castillo, around nine this morning […]
An argument over a football game was the apparent motive for a murder in the Orange Walk District on Saturday. According to police, around eight that night Pedro Gonzalez Jr. and Sylvino Blanco, both residents of Douglas Village, got into a fight over a game. Blanco says he thought the incident was over when Gonzalez […]
A police officer from Valley of Peace is tonight being investigated after he shot and killed a man on Thursday. According to reports, around 6:30 Thursday evening, P.C. Valentine Uk responded to a call for help from a villager who claimed he was being threatened by a man identified as nineteen year old Erasimo Rodriguez. […]
In another maritime tragedy, a U.S. tourist was injured when he was hit by a motorboat. Fifty-one year old Larry Kelly of the state of Oregon was among a group of six people learning how to dive Wednesday afternoon in the waters off San Pedro when a skiff entered the area and ran him over. […]
A confrontation between police and two armed Guatemalans near the Benque Viejo border has resulted in the wounding of one of the visitors. According to police reports, a patrol operating about five hundred yards on the Belize side of the frontier encountered the two men, nineteen year old Jorge Gonzales Salazar and twenty-two year old […]
The decomposed body of a man found in the Port Loyola area of Belize City has been identified. Thirty-year-old Ains Gutierrez of Punta Gorda was found Tuesday evening in the mangroves near the Esso Terminal. The body was removed this morning, but due to the advanced state of decomposition, a post-mortem could not determine the […]
On Tuesday’s newscast, we reported on the discovery of a human foetus in the Cayo garbage dump. Today, following a post-mortem examination, we are informed that the body is in fact that of a full-term baby boy who was killed after birth. According to police, the cause of death was strangulation and the age of […]
Police are asking the public for help in finding a suspect in an armed robbery. Herman Morris, better known as Yaga, has been identified as one of three men who tried to hold up a shop Tuesday on Lakeview Street in Belize City. According to the proprietor, the robbers became frustrated when they could not […]
A businessman from Spanish Lookout is in serious condition tonight after he was stabbed Monday morning during an armed robbery. According to police, thirty-five year old Aaron Fehr, an employee of Western Dairies, was making a delivery on Jane Usher Boulevard around 10:30. But as he did so, a man walked up to him, stabbed […]
The body of a human foetus was found this morning in the garbage dump off the Western Highway in Cayo. Around three this afternoon an attendant at the dump, located between San Ignacio and Benque Viejo, discovered the premature baby as a bulldozer was levelling a load of refuse. The lifeless foetus, believed to be […]
He was stabbed on Saturday night by a man he had once arrested and today P.C. Nelson Nunez is slowly recovering from his injuries. Nunez had been waiting at the bus stop at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard to get a ride home to Roaring Creek, when a teenager he had […]
It was to be a weekend of reflection as Belizeans throughout the country prayed for peace, but you’d never know it by the violence that dominated Saturday and Sunday. We begin tonight with the story of a police officer who is recuperating at the K.H.M.H. after being stabbed in the stomach by a teenager he […]
Two Belize City young men are in the hospital tonight after they were shot in separate incidents over the weekend. According to police, around midnight twenty-two year old Elroy Rowley was standing at the corner of Ebony and Sarstoon streets with several others when a man rode by on a bicycle. According to Rowley, the […]
In crime news, a bank robber who has been variously described as both foolish and daring now has a new description: busted. Mervin Reyes, identified as the man who robbed the Bank of Nova Scotia in Corozal on Wednesday, was spotted today as he attempted to cross the northern border. No, he wasn’t running off […]
While police have collared one accused thief, they are still looking for another. Steve Nembhard, a man whose resume includes a major post at the University of Belize, as well as acquittal on charges of sexual assault, is being sought in connection with the theft of six thousand dollars from an Orange Walk dentist. Dr. […]
Shortly after two this afternoon, three gunmen held up Loskot Hardware and Furniture at number thirty St. Jude Street in Belize City. Manager Gaudencio Pott says when the men entered the compound, they pretended to be interested in buying lumber, but when he turned to tend to a customer, one of the men placed a […]
Another Belize City robbery, this time on Neal Pen Road, has netted a robber four hundred dollars. Around 10:30 Wednesday night twenty-six year old Xu Zhao Hua was closing his shop when he heard a knock on the window. When he opened it, he found himself staring into the business end of a sawed off […]
He was shot in a bicycle drive-by a week ago…and last night he lost the battle for his life. Nineteen-year-old Eurdene Sterling was one of two young men targeted while standing on Sarstoon Street in Belize City on the afternoon of March fourteenth. Police are still looking for the gunmen, one of whom is believed […]
We have a correction to a story we ran last night on what was described to us as an unsuccessful bank robbery. In fact, the thief who entered the Bank of Nova Scotia in Corozal Wednesday morning, was not as hapless as we made him out to be. The real story is that after handing […]
For a country supposedly in the grip of a major crime wave, things have been unusually quiet for the last week or so. Typical of the downturn in criminal fortunes was an attempt this morning to rob the Corozal branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia. According to police reports, around 9:45 this morning a […]
Not surprisingly, we open tonight’s newscast with a story on crime. But the crime we are reporting did not occur last night or this morning. It happened in March of 1999, one of five murders of young Belize City girls, all believed to have been committed by the same person or persons. At the time, […]
In crime news, a Belize City man was wounded Friday night after he was shot by an angry landlord. Forty-year-old Thomas Bowman accompanied his daughter to recover a rent deposit from her former landlord, Manuel Pacheco. An argument ensued during which Pacheco shot Bowman with a thirty-eight pistol. Pacheco has been arrested and charged with […]
