A young woman was stabbed repeatedly at her home on Victoria Street on Saturday morning. A witness, Roland Small told police he was awakened around three a.m. and saw a man of East Indian descent creeping across the room towards Desiree Flowers bed and then stab her over and over. She was rushed to the […]
A chopping incident on Thursday night has left two men in the Belmopan hospital. According to Sebastian Moralez, he and Eckert Gutierrez were playing dominoes on Caracol Street in Belmopan when John Ical pulled a machete and chopped Moralez on his leg and Gutierrez on his right hand. The victims claim the attack was without […]
All too often we hear of shops being robbed, but schools? On Wednesday Nazarene high school employees were robbed at gunpoint and almost four thousand dollars taken. According to the school’s office manager Gilroy Audinett and secretary Gayle Gordon, a masked, barefoot man entered the main building around three forty-five in the afternoon through an […]
While there is still no official word about kidnapped Mennonite Menno Penner, another member of the Mennonite community and his family were threatened with bodily harm on Wednesday. Police arrested a Guatemalan Umberto Arevalo Hernandez and Belize David Landero of Billy White Village in the Cayo District after they allegedly took a letter, written in […]
Two men from the Stann Creek district have been charged with having sex with minors, and one of the girls was only eleven years old. On Tuesday a woman in red bank village took her eleven-year-old daughter to a medical officer after she saw vamp marks on the child’s neck. He confirmed she had been […]
Following the handing over ceremony, News Five asked Minister of National Security Jorge Espat about the removal of A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez as the officer in charge of the Criminal Investigation Branch at Eastern Division. Espat said the decision to reassign Alvarez was based on a report into the theft of seven guns from the evidence […]
To paraphrase William Shakespeare, there is something rotten in the state of Belize… and tonight that stench appears to be strongest in the police department. The latest controversy involves Monday’s reassignment of Eastern Division C.I.B. Chief Simeon Alvarez. A police press release held Alvarez responsible for failing to properly handle a number of firearms allegedly […]
Before the now famous incident in Arenal near the Guatemalan border in which a Guatemalan was killed by a BDF soldier back in June, two businessmen from Guatemala reported being tortured by members of the Police and Dragon Unit. The brothers claimed they crossed the border on April 26 with a temporary permit to do […]
Today the atmosphere at the Criminal Investigation Branch was gloomy as that departments’ Head of Command was relieved of duty. Although Assistant Inspector Simeon Alvarez understandably would not comment to the media about his removal as officer in charge of CIB, a press release issued by the police department says the decision was made as […]
What appeared to be a suicide in Silk Grass Village turned out to be a case of murder. Two months later Dangriga police have made an arrest. The body of Honduran Luis Alfonso Hernandez Alcantara was found on May 8th at Polack Farm in a kneeling position with a rope around the neck. The other […]
By any standard it was a rush to judgement. When a dead infant was found in the village of Lord’s Bank, police immediately concluded that he drowned in a bucket of water after his mother left him in the unreliable care of an eleven year old sister. Not so. Today I visited the Zelaya home […]
While police will likely conclude that the death of a baby in Lord’s Bank was a tragic accident such cannot be said for a killing in Cayo which still remains unsolved. One year ago the lifeless body of 44 year old Rosanne Orizzi was discovered on her farm in upper Barton Creek. She had been […]
In Police news, acting on a tip a police operation went to the home of Joyce Bainton at 8041 Mahogany Street extension around six in the evening on Wednesday and found 43 grams of marijuana, 18 grams of cocaine, two unlicensed firearms: a 22 caliber revolver with 4 rounds of ammunition and a 38 caliber […]
Hattieville police discovered over twelve thousand dollars cash and stolen items during a search at the home of Dean Gillett on Tuesday. Almost five hundred dollars was found on Dean Gillett while Eric Flowers of Punta Gorda had almost seven thousand in cash. Leonard Gillett of Hattieville had seven hundred dollars and Travis Andrews also […]
A man from Santa Martha Village in the Orange Walk District has been charged after allegedly impregnating his 13 year old daughter. The girl’s mother took her to the hospital after she began complaining of stomach pains and it was discovered that she was four months pregnant. The girl then admitted that her 34 year […]
It sounded like a pretty straight forward case of a baby drowning, but the postmortem on one year old William Cuellar from Lord’s Bank shows he didn’t die from water in his lungs. Instead the cause of death is being listed as suffocation because the medical examiner Dr. Mario Estradabran has determined the child choked […]
A one year old baby lost his life in Lord’s Bank this afternoon. According to Ladyville Police, the baby and a three year old sibling were left in the care of their eleven year old sister when their mother went to Belize City for the day. Around three o’clock, the baby wandered into the front […]
A senior police constable reportedly killed himself in front of his common-law wife early this morning on Rivero Street. Avril Hererra told police that around 1 a.m. Aloysius Guzman was preparing to go to work and told her he had a persistent pain in his hip and that he was tired of living. She says […]
A young woman has reported being raped and assaulted after she and a friend accepted a ride on Sunday morning. Orange Walk police say a nineteen year old woman and her friend were walking in the rain on the Northern Highway around three a.m. on July fourth when twenty-two year old Lance Pelayo and three […]
A Belizean money-changer was held up at gunpoint near the Guatemalan border this morning. Around 8 a.m. Edgar Contreras was on his way to Guatemala from Benque when he says a man stopped his truck and held him up. The robber made off with four thousand quetzales or about one thousand Belizean dollars and fled […]
A fight on Curasow Street in Belize City resulted in a twenty year old man being stabbed to death. Edward Figueroa and Miguel Heredia were in the company of three young women when they were attacked by three men around 3:30 Saturday morning. Figueroa, who was stabbed in the abdomen, was rushed to the K.H.M.H. […]
It took a while but a semi-alert bartender in the Cayo District finally realized the hundred dollar bills his customers kept spending were too good to be true. Six young men have been arrested for possessing counterfeit money after Beong Giou Chow of Dynasty Club on the Western Highway reported that between 11 p.m. Friday […]
San Ignacio police have charged a Salvadoran with rape and indecent assault following a report by a 23 year old woman. She told police that on Friday night she was on her way to the outside latrine at her home in Santa Elena when a man she knew only as “Edwin” grabbed her. She says […]
It wasn’t a big theft as jewelry store heists go, but the Independence police didn’t let this thief slip through their fingers. On Saturday morning Glenda Pantin was in her store on Prince Street when Rene Ortiz entered and asked to see some jewelry. Pantin says she placed a gold chain, esclavas and a ring […]
The 210 children of the Caye Caulker Roman Catholic School have had the information super highway stolen out from under them, before they even got a chance to log on. On Thursday night thieves broke into the school and stole the brand new computer, printer and scanner donated three weeks ago by the British High […]
