Those violent forces referred to by Espat were hard at work, both before and after his speech in Belmopan. Details are still sketchy, but it appears that the Maya site of Cahal Pech was the scene of a particularly brutal murder this afternoon. Between 4:00 and 4:30, two men, apparently with black paint on their […]
A young man who was found early Sunday morning bleeding from several stab wounds to the body died shortly after he was rushed to the Belmopan Hospital. Police say at about 7:45 that morning they were called out to an area between Maya Mopan and Salvapan Villages behind Belmopan. There they found nineteen year old […]
An altercation involving two men and a woman in the Stann Creek District has left both guys wounded and arrested. According to police reports, on Friday afternoon twenty-year old Honduran Lazaro Salinas of Mayan King Village went looking for his former common law wife, Noelia Diaz. Reports are that he tracked her down at the […]
They tried to getaway from the police, but were not quick enough for the long arm of the law. Late Wednesday evening, the police conducted a checkpoint in front of the police station in Roaring Creek Village. Things were going smoothly until the cops spotted a green car. The driver of the Toyota Celica also […]
There’s good news and bad news in the case of missing teenager Delene Loria. The good news–at least for the Loria family–is that two men have been arrested and charged in the case. They are thirty-one year old Adelito Canul and twenty-nine year old Rangel Canul, both of Santa Clara Village in Corozal. The pair, […]
One month after fifty-six year old James Lemott Sr., founder of JL’s Quick Loan was found unconscious at his home, the man who coined the phrase, “Money in Minutes” has died. Lemott was found on June nineteenth unconscious in the downstairs of his split level home on Benbow Street in Belize City. His daughter Gayle […]
There are still no leads in the case of an unidentified corpse discovered Monday morning near mile six and a half on the Western Highway. A post mortem done on the spot revealed only that the body is that of a dark skinned man, forty to fifty years old, who died as a result of […]
An argument between two brothers ended in one of them being shot last night. According to police, Earl and Deshawn Nunez got into a misunderstanding at their house on Lakeview Street when Deshawn took out a gun and shot his brother, Earl in the knee. Earl was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where […]
When News Five got word this morning of a dead body found off the Western Highway outside of Belize City, we immediately feared that another young girl had been murdered. That was not the case, however, as the corpse turned out to be a man. Sometime after 11:00 this morning, the police were called out […]
Seven days after twenty-six year old Dean Bowden dodged a bullet that was apparently intended for him, the young man’s luck ran out. Bowden lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot in the neck around 1:15, Saturday morning. Police say Bowden was riding his bicycle toward the Belcan Roundabout when three […]
A man missing since July eleventh, who was last seen carrying a container of poison, has been found dead. The decomposed body of John Mess was found Saturday four miles from Frank’s Eddy Village by his brother Hilario. A quart of Tamaron insecticide was found by the dead man’s side. No post mortem was conducted […]
Police say they do not believe that a fifteen-year old girl who is being reported in the media as kidnapped was forcibly taken against her will. Instead police say their investigation has revealed that the girl knows the eighteen-year old Jacoba Correa, the man whom the family is alleging abducted the minor. Initial reports are […]
For the last few weeks life has been nothing if not exciting for convicted burglar John Bartley. On July fourth he was severely wounded in the head when three attackers entered his jail cell at Hattieville Prison. His roommate, Glenford Gillett, was killed in the assault and Bartley’s status as the only witness to the […]
Sixteen-year old Keon Joseph has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and dangerous harm. The young man on Tuesday evening allegedly stabbed his co-worker, twenty-seven year old Arton Bowen on Cleghorn Street. The two apparently had an ongoing personal feud, which resulted in Joseph stabbing Bowen in his arm, shoulder and upper chest. Bowen […]
Police have made an arrest in Monday’s stabbing death of Richard Cattouse on Kelly Street. Twenty-five year old Steven Anthony Smith was picked up by police on Wednesday in the same Belize City neighbourhood where the crime was committed. Smith has been charged with murder.
He was one of the prisoners apparently victimized on July fourth when three inmates entered cell number forty-one at Hattieville Prison. Glenford Gillett was killed in that attack, while cellmate John Bartley received a large cut wound to his forehead. Bartley was treated at the KHMH and sent back to Hattieville, but is in the […]
There were persistent rumours of large numbers of Spanish speaking strangers hanging around a quiet Corozal neighborhood. And after several days of surveillance, on Monday police made their move on an abandoned house in Santa Rita. What they found was twenty-eight Salvadorans, all of whom had entered Belize illegally and appeared to be awaiting transport […]
They say that familiarity breeds contempt and in the case of two employees of a Belize City business establishment, it also bred violence. Twenty-seven year old Arton Bowen, a sales representative of Mala’s store on New Road was stabbed with a knife four times by his co-worker. According to sources, Bowen and the messenger, Keon […]
He cried wolf. That’s the story of eighteen-year old Myron Harris who reported to police on Monday that at about 9:20 on Saturday night he was attacked by an unknown individual and innocently stabbed. Harris, a resident of number forty-eight South Street initially told police that he was walking in the Conch Shell Bay area […]
In the recent history of crime in Belize we have seen people kill for run of the mill reasons like jealousy and rage. We have also chronicled some unusual homicides resulting from quarrels over a bike, fried chicken and even an ideal. Tonight we add a new reason for a victim’s untimely death: the defence […]
It was initially reported as a suicide but family members are having second thoughts. Last Thursday, police reported that the lifeless body of thirty-four year old Kevin Coleman was found hanging from a rope in his girlfriend’s house in Forest Home village. A post mortem revealed that Coleman died from asphyxia due to hanging and […]
It was a big weekend for Belize’s emergency rooms as a number of shootings and stabbings kept doctors and nurses working late into the night. In the most serious incident one Belize City victim is clinging to life with a bullet still stuck inside his skull. Earlier I visited his family at the KHMH. Sixteen-year […]
As the Martinez family pray that their son recovers from his wound, police are looking into several other shooting incidents that took place in Belize City over the weekend. Around 4:00 Saturday morning residents of Nargusta Street were awakened by the sounds of gunshots. When the firing stopped, fifty-five year old Norris Leslie lay wounded […]
A long standing dispute between neighbours has left a mother and son hospitalized in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to San Pedro police, at about 11:00 a.m. on Friday morning, Dolores Uk was having a heated argument with one Michelle Pineda. Uk’s son, Orlando, seeing the dispute taking place apparently intervened but as he […]
Police are investigating two suicides, which occurred Thursday at opposite ends of the country. In Toledo, police found the lifeless body of thirty-four year old Steven Kevin Coleman hanging from a nylon rope wrapped around his neck and tied to a wooden beam on the verandah of his house in Forest Home Village. A post […]
