A Belize City man reportedly committed suicide early this morning. Police were called to a house on Freedom Street where they saw the body of twenty-one year old Glenford Roland, hanging from a beam in the middle of the living room. His girlfriend reported to police that around ten p.m. she informed Roland she would […]
A forty-six year old resident of Isabella Bank has been arrested and charged with incest and two counts of aggravated assault. According to police, an eighteen year old student reported to her mother yesterday that her biological father who had been sexually molesting her for the past two years, raped her on Friday. When her […]
Today an Orange Walk man was charged with the murder of a child, Karen Cruz on Sunday night. But it wasn’t the man who had been buying her sweets, giving her money or even writing her love letters. It wasn’t the family friend who had been interrogated by police for days, but a member of […]
Contrary to the official statement by the government that the shooting death of a Guatemalan citizen in Arenal, at the border between Belize and Guatemala was self defense, today the Amandala newspaper reports that eyewitnesses claim Mateo Ramirez was shot while fleeing from a B.D.F. solider. Reporter Melvin Flores says witnesses told him that on […]
It’s something you may have heard about in the U.S. media: drugs that incapacitate women and make them vulnerable to rape. But the Ministry of National Security is now advising young women in Belize that they need to be careful. There have been incidents in neighboring countries where sexual offenders use drugs such as Rohypnol […]
It was one of those terrible, unexplained incidents which travelers fear and host countries dread. Yesterday morning on Orange Street, a Swedish woman was hit in the head by a man wielding a board just moments after she and two other students got off a bus from Cancun. Tourism police apprehended Leroy Dunn of East […]
The employees of Venus Photos and Records got a surprise this morning when they discovered that their store had been burglarized some time last night. According to the Manager, Leopoldo Silva around three thirty this morning the padlock on the Albert Street show window was cut and the window broken. He said that the burglars […]
It will be four days since the body of ten year old Karen Mathilda Cruz was found lying in a clump of bushes about two blocks away from her home on Stadium Street. The standard two student of San Francisco Primary School in Orange Walk was viciously raped and then murdered. Although the police have […]
An early morning attack at the corner of Faber’s Road and Central American Boulevard has left one man hospitalized in serious condition. According to police, they visited Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they saw Guadelupe Oliver, suffering from cuts to his head, elbows and ribs. Oliver claims that he is familiar with his attacker but […]
With the rape and murder of yet another child this week, this time in Orange Walk, everyone is on edge and on the lookout for possible cases of abuse. But today, Belize City police discovered that one young lady was making a false claim against her stepfather and she herself was charged with committing a […]
Orange Walk police have still not made any arrest in the rape and murder of ten year old Karen Mathilda Cruz. The young girl’s body was found Monday afternoon, just two blocks away from where she lived on Stadium Street. The police have two suspects in custody but are focusing on their prime suspect, forty […]
On Sunday afternoon, ten year old Karen Cruz went to a party with one of her friends; by eight p.m. she was dead. Who killed this child who lived on Stadium Street in Orange Walk? Was it a stranger who saw her coming home, or did she leave her house to meet someone she knew? […]
A young man’s attempts to get friendly with a young lady apparently sent him to the hospital today. A sixteen year old boy says he was walking on Coffin Street and began a conversation with a young woman who asked him to change some money at a shop. As he was leaving the store, he […]
The Guatemalan Ambassador Rafael Salazar met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials today to express concern over the shooting death of a Guatemalan evangelist by a B.D.F. patrol on Saturday. Guatemala is asking for a full report on the incident, an indication of whether charges will be filed against the soldier, and results of the […]
A man has been arrested and charged with the attempted rape of a San Pedro resident. According to San Pedro police, a twenty year old woman reported that Marlon Blease visited her room at Captain Morgan’s Retreat, where she also works, at around nine o’clock last night. She claimed that Blease attempted to rape her […]
Here is a correction of a name reported in Monday’s newscast. According to Corozal police, the man found dead in a house on Fourth Avenue is popularly known by the same name as his father: Clarence Turner. However, investigations at the registry revealed that the deceased’s name is actually Alfred Herbert Gillett. The forty-two year […]
A missing ten year old girl was found dead in the Stadium Area of Orange Walk Town this afternoon. Although she disappeared yesterday, her mother did not make any report to police until this morning. Police say Melina Cruz, told them her ten year old daughter Karen returned home from a party around five p.m. […]
Violence erupted at a nightclub in Orange Walk early Sunday morning when a man and his girlfriend were stabbed and guests stampeded towards the doors, injuring two others. Orange Walk police say around three a.m. a fifteen year old girl was dancing with her boyfriend, twenty-three year old Marlon Henderson at Mi Amor Nite Club […]
A Guatemalan was shot by a joint police/B.D.F. patrol after he reportedly threatened members of the patrol with a machete. According to the B.D.F., on Saturday 32 year old Mateo Paiz crossed from Guatemala into Belize near Arenal and refused to let police search his knapsack. The B.D.F. says as Paiz and his ten year […]
While Orange Walk police question the mother of a ten year old girl found dead today, the mother of another murdered child led police to the grave of her daughter Sherilee Nicholas on Friday night. The officers weren’t there to pay last respects, but to dig up the body, whose identity is now being questioned […]
Another Chinese businessman was shot early this morning in Belize City, but this time the victim was not in his shop, but on a bike when the attack occurred. Thirty-five year old Wu Bao Hua of Cemetary Road told police he was on Johnson Street around two thirty and as he passed the Constitution Park […]
Twenty-two year old mechanic, George Waight was arrested and charged with rape today. Waight, who was released from prison on April twentieth was captured and brought into police headquarters this morning by the husband of his alleged victim. According to police on June second a Salvadoran woman was washing clothes in her yard when a […]
As the police forensics unit deliberate over the decision to exhume the remains of Sherilee Nicholas, the Special Unit of the Criminal Investigation Branch is working hard to solve the most baffling series of murders they have ever come across. Since October of 1998 two primary school girls were brutally murdered while a third remains […]
Four Guatemalans have been caught with a truck full of stolen goods and ammunition. According to San Ignacio Police Pedro Osorio, Jose Donado, Elda Moralez and Jose Rodriguez were heading for the Guatemalan border around seven o’clock last night when the Toyota Land Cruiser and Truck they were travelling in was stopped in the La […]
Two persons have been detained pending police investigations into the cause of a fire that destroyed three houses in San Miguel Village. Punta Gorda police are questioning Sepriano Sho and Mariano Kuz, both residents of San Miguel. According to reports at around eleven o’clock on Tuesday night a fire started in the kitchen of a […]
