A grab-and-run thief made off with a bag full of cash this morning in downtown Belize City. Carmina Baeza, an employee of Delta Store on Albert Street, was walking towards Atlantic Bank with the store’s deposit bag when she was attacked in front of Community Drug Store. Her assailant, a tall dark-skinned man wearing a […]
A twenty-eight year-old Banak Street man clings to life at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot twice over the weekend. Ellis Meighan told police that he was riding his bicycle on Cemetery Road around 9:40 p.m. on Friday. On approaching First Choice Pharmacy two men on foot asked him what he was doing in the […]
An armed robbery reported to police last week was in fact a hoax perpetrated by the alleged victims. On Thursday twenty-three year old Rene Miranda, a truck driver for Femagra Industries, told authorities that two dark complexioned men held him up at gunpoint while he was driving down Police Street in Belize City. They relieved […]
Reports from Belmopan indicate that sometime over the weekend a vandal or vandals invaded the capital city’s graveyard and caused damage to a number of gravestones. Police have apparently detained a large number of teenagers said to be involved in the desecration, but it is not clear at this point what, if any charges, will […]
If you’re a cashier who takes cheques or purchase orders, you might want to give Messer Belize Limited a call if someone shows up with a piece of paper with their stamp on it. Manager Andre King says someone obtained a blank Belize Bank cheque book, made a Messer stamp and went on a shopping […]
They say that lightning never strikes twice in the same place… but for the second time in as many weeks there has been a major theft from the Police Department in Belmopan. The latest embarrassment occurred Monday evening when the security of the police exhibit room was breached and a number of items stolen. Among […]
Even while they are busy looking for criminals within their own ranks, the police high command has released statistics showing a significant drop in major crimes. Figures comparing the last month of 2000 and the first of 2001 with the same months a year earlier, show a twelve percent drop in December and a twenty-four […]
This latest robbery in Belize City will no doubt be reflected in the February crime statistics. Around nine Monday night three men wearing masks and carrying guns held up Sen Sen Grocery on Daly Street. Proprietor Wu Sio Yai handed over two hundred dollars and the robbers escaped. In other crime news, two brothers, Juan […]
Temptation Island turned deadly over the weekend as a San Pedro man stabbed and killed his ex-lover. Around 8:00 Saturday night twenty-one year old Consuelo Pinelo, of Caribena Street took her child to use the latrine when she was confronted by her twenty-six year old ex-boyfriend Edgar Chan. Chan, apparently angry over the broken romance, […]
It took a while, but a man who escaped from prison almost eight years ago, is finally back behind bars. Roy Gordon Junior was arrested by police for possession of a crack pipe, but gave his name only as “Noche”. Suspicious officers ran a quick fingerprint check, which revealed that he was the same man […]
Police have arrested and charged Maurice Usher and Hubert Sterling, both eighteen, of Belize City with theft and damage to property. The charges arose out of an incident Wednesday around 6:30 p.m. in which the two men, who were on bicycles, allegedly grabbed Alicia Marsden, an eighteen year old U.B. student by the neck, in […]
On this newscast we regularly report school burglaries and lament that the cruel hearted thieves are never caught. This morning was a little different. Police nabbed Elvis Gideon, of a Jasmine Street address, as he was scaling St. Joseph School’s fence around 2:00 a.m….and he wasn’t empty handed. Police found school supplies in his pockets […]
The two men who allegedly jacked the Belmopan City Council’s payroll on Friday had their day in court today… and they were joined by three others who are said to be in on the heist. Frank Elijio, a twenty-year-old student and Lionel Henry, an eighteen year-old labourer, both of Belize City have been jointly charged […]
Police in Belmopan have detained two men they believe highjacked the capital city’s payroll last week. The pair, as yet unidentified, will be taken to Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday where they are expected to be read charges of armed robbery. Police say they have recovered a sawed off shotgun and three thousand of the more […]
The Belmopan City Council found themselves strapped for cash today when three of their workers were held up and robbed of the weekly payroll. Around 10:30 this morning, City Council employees Sebastian Morales, Andy Avila and Wilhelm Coye, left the Belize Bank in a truck with the payroll of nine thousand, five hundred and fifty […]
There’s an old saying that a thief can steal more money with a pen than he can with a gun. That may be true… but only if you don’t get caught. According to police, one Ermino Martin used his pen to write a string of cheques to local nightspots over the last month, all of […]
On Thursday’s newscast we reported that a student of Wesley college shot one Daniel Faber, near his home on Dickenson Street in Belize City. Although police have arrested seventeen year old Leslie Rogers Jr. and charged him with grievous harm and use of deadly means of harm, the matter apparently didn’t end there. Rogers’ friends […]
A seventeen year-old student of Wesley College this afternoon opened fire on an eighteen year-old putting him in the hospital with a wounded leg. Police say the male student shot Daniel Faber of Fisher Waterside in the left thigh with a nine millimetre pistol around 3:30 this afternoon, just after leaving classes for the day. […]
A Haitian security guard was a little luckier last night when instead of being shot, he only suffered the indignity of having his shotgun stolen. Police say thirty-one year old Benjamin Ageymang, was on duty at Chon Saan Restaurant on Euphrates Avenue around 9:45, when three dark-complexioned men attacked him with knives and stole his […]
The latest daylight attack by criminal elements did not happen on Albert Street, in Yabra or St. Martin de Porres. Instead the information superhighway also known as the World Wide Web was the victim. Over the weekend, some mischievous computer users hacked into a portion of Belize Telecommunication Limited’s Internet system, just to prove they […]
Last week it was the police, this week it’s the Belize Defence Force that faces some tough questions on its weapons policy. According to a police report, the BDF is missing three M-16 rifles, which were supposed to be secured in the ammunition compound at Price Barracks in Ladyville. A number of soldiers have been […]
Police have arrested and charged a man in connection with last month’s robbery and shooting of a Dangriga shopkeeper. Eighteen year-old Alvin Sabal has been accused in the January twenty-sixth assault on businessman Kyu Huan, based on the testimony of an eyewitness who picked Sabal out of an I.D. parade. Police are still looking for […]
While crime often dominates the local news, by no means do we, or other news outlets anywhere in the world, report every single infraction of the law. For example, numerous houses and vehicles are broken into every day around the country that are not considered important enough to mention. But when the same place is […]
The gunfire which reverberated through the St. Martin’s area on Monday was still echoing through the city today, as two innocent children were buried long before their time. In one solemn ceremony, the students of St. Luke Methodist School this afternoon laid to rest one of their own. The hour-long service conducted by lay minister […]
Police have one man detained and are looking for another in connection with a daring mid-afternoon robbery on Albert Street. Just minutes before two o’ clock, two masked men entered Juanita’s store and pulled a gun and a knife on the store’s employees. Two women employees were ordered to turn around and face the wall […]
