It may be election eve but as usual in Belize, life goes on… and so does death. Five maximum-security prisoners attempted to escape from the Hattieville Prison Tuesday evening, and one did not live to tell the tale. According to prison officials at around five o’clock the men, all of whom were residents of cell […]
In the south of the country hundreds of volunteers and security personnel are combing the area around Red Bank Village in search of a British woman missing since Monday. Twenty-seven year old Anna Lightfoot is a volunteer with the British based charitable organization Raleigh International, who was working on the construction of a new school. […]
In crime news it was a busy weekend for police in Belize City. Early Sunday morning, shots rang out on the southside, leaving four men and one young woman injured in three separate incidents. According to police, all the victims had just left the Punta Rebels concert at the City Centre and were walking home, […]
A drive by shooting in Pink’s Alley early Saturday morning, has left a twenty-eight year old woman hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the right side of her back. According to police, Michelle Gabourel was standing in the alley with a group of young men, when she was shot. According to eyewitnesses, a car sped […]
Another high profile police prosecution has ended with the case being dropped for lack of evidence. Brothers Salvador and David Lazaro were charged with the hit and run murder of police constable Levi Spain as he rode his bicycle down East Collet Canal in the wee hours of December fourteenth. Although police claimed that forensic […]
He was flown in from Honduras in handcuffs on Tuesday and today he was formally arraigned in Magistrate’s Court. Norman “Butch” Martin was charged with murder, theft and nine counts of robbery in connection with the killing of tourist Raymond Kirk at Singing Sands Resort on July fifth. He will reappear for the preliminary inquiry […]
Three days after the gruesome discovery of the body of Isias Franco, a farm hand at Polak’s Farm at mile fifty on the Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan police are still trying to find out who chopped the man to death. According to reports, about eighty thirty Monday morning, sixty five year old Elisandro Guzman, the farm’s […]
Belize City police are on the look out for two men whom they believe will be able to assist them in solving a case of forgery that took place between the first and eighteenth of August. According to C.I.B. officials, sometime during that time, one Max Tillett and Ervin Reneau walked into the Scotia Bank, […]
In crime news, a dispute between two co-workers has left one in the hospital and another behind bars. According to a police press release, at about four o’clock Monday morning, twenty-three year old Carmela Flores threw boiling water on the back of twenty-two year old Hazel Arana while they were both working at Dario’s Meat […]
A twenty year old Roaring Creek man has been arrested and charged with rape. A twenty-two year old domestic reported to police that while she was asleep at her home in Roaring Creek Village early Monday morning, she was awakened by a masked intruder. The assailant placed a gun to her head and a knife […]
It was a killing that shattered the laid back peace of the Placencia Peninsula, not to mention the entire nation. But today, less than a month after being captured in Honduras, the prime suspect in the murder of a U.S. tourist has been returned to Belize to face his accusers. Patrick Jones was on hand […]
In other crime news, Melvin Young, a fisherman who police believe is one of the bigger fish in the sea of Belizean crime, was this morning acquitted on a charge of abetment of murder. Young was arrested in December for allegedly assisting in the killing of Liston “Big Crip” McField. The charge was withdrawn when […]
In crime news police in Belmopan have determined that two men who claimed they were robbed were in fact the robbers themselves. On Saturday night, twenty nine year old Guatemalan Obidio Gudiel, a watchman for Belize Western Energy in Belmopan, told police that four armed men held up his father, Feliciano Gudiel, and escaped with […]
In crime news, the four suspects detained in the beating of a P.U.P. campaign worker in the Mesopotamia division were today formally charged in Magistrate’s Court. Twenty-one year old Dean Jones, twenty-five year old Raymond Codd, thirty-one year old Darrington Lauriano and thirty-two year old Michelle Cattouse were each charged with one count of grievous […]
Police have moved quickly following media reports of the politically inspired beating of a P.U.P. campaign worker on Tuesday. Three men and a woman have been detained by police in connection with the brutal assault of forty-two year old Dennis Flowers which occurred near the headquarters of P.U.P. Mesopotamia candidate Ray Lightburn. The four are […]
An inmate at Hattieville Prison has died. The body of Raphael Bermudez, a thirty-four year old Nicaraguan, was found lying in his cell on Wednesday morning. A guard reported that at a cell check around seven thirty a.m. Bermudez was found to be fine but a subsequent visit at eleven fifty found him to be […]
Although by all accounts the political activities surrounding yesterday’s nomination day were peaceful, it now appears that in the aftermath of the excitement the 1998 campaign has experienced its first act of serious violence. Patrick Jones has the story. From his hospital bed at Karl Heusner Memorial, Dennis Flowers recalls what was for him a […]
Another act of violence, this one without any political overtones, has also left a Belize City man in the hospital. Twenty- two year old Raymond Williams, a resident of Supal Street, told police that he was sitting in front of his house a few minutes before midnight on Tuesday night, when a white car drove […]
A tragic accident in the waters off Toledo has resulted in the death of a nine year old girl. Lilia Ramirez of Punta Gorda was one of two passengers in a fifteen-foot skiff captained by her twenty-two year old brother, Oscar Lira. Lira and Ramirez, accompanied by the captain’s stepfather, were heading out to do […]
Another man named Lamb is in the news tonight, not as a crime victim but as an alleged perpetrator. According to police reports seventeen year old Kirk Lamb was attending a wedding reception Sunday night at the Ex-Servicemen’s League in Belize City when he became involved in an argument with one Marlon Blades. The controversy […]
Another Belize City man has been arrested, in this case for robbery. Police have charged Kelvin Francis, a twenty-five year old mechanic of Pink’s Alley, in connection with an incident which occurred Saturday morning on East Collet Canal. Nineteen year old fisherman Linford Ramclam told police that two men approached him around eleven a.m., one […]
And while we’re on the subject of follow-ups, Orange Walk police have reported the arrest of another suspect in the chopping death of Marco Cruz last week. Forty-two year old Mexican national Arturo De La Cruz Hernandez now joins thirty-two year old Guatemalan Rene Trochez charged with the crimes of murder and conspiracy. These charges […]
In Corozal, police have ruled the death of a twenty-four year old man a suicide. Anselmo Pook was hospitalized around seven o’clock on Friday evening after he drank an unknown quantity of the poisonous herbicide gramaxone. According to the officer in charge of the Corozal police station, Crispin Jeffries, Pook died on Saturday morning and […]
The quick thinking of a security guard in the Corozal Free Zone Compound has foiled what appears to have been an attempted robbery. According to police, the security guard observed three men trying to enter a warehouse on the compound, after they had cut through the wire fence. The incident happened sometime between eight and […]
It was the kind of crime that, although no longer surprising, is no less disturbing. More details of Thursday’s cold blooded murder and robbery on the Old Northern Highway are slowly emerging from police, the surviving victim and officials of the company the two delivery men were working for. Today in the aftermath of the […]
