A soldier, by the nature of his profession, is always prepared to die… but when death comes by accident and by his own hand that event is doubly tragic. Today the Belize Defence Force confirmed that Private Erasimo Bol died early Sunday morning at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. At around one a.m. on Friday he […]
One man is dead and another has been injured in a freak accident in Ladyville. On Tuesday afternoon Wilfred Aranda and Omar Acosta, both employees of Caribbean Shrimp Limited, were repairing a machine which generates air bubbles for the shrimp ponds. At the time, according to the company’s owner, Charles Mackintosh, B.E.L. had turned off […]
Another death, this time in Belize City, was reported in the early hours of this morning. At around two-thirty police discovered the body of thirty-eight year old David Mejia, a fisherman of number one-twelve Eve Street. He was found in front of the Cuello Brothers depot on Pickstock Street and pronounced dead on arrival at […]
A young man is dead after drowning in a pond eight miles outside of Belize City. According to thirty nine year old Patrick Garbutt of Belize City, he along with family members accompanied by their neighbor’s son, fourteen year old Lionel Anthony Peyrefitte went swimming in a pond, near mile eight on the Western highway. […]
It’s been a festering sore point in relations between the United States and Belize… that is, the perception that local law enforcement authorities were not as tough as they should be in the war against narcotics. But aside from criticism, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is also offering a helping hand. A two-day seminar on […]
In crime news police have released the results of a postmortem conducted on the body of naturalized Belizean Rosanne Orrizzi. It shows that she died of gunshot wounds to the head. Orrizzi’s partially decomposed body was discovered last Thursday in the yard of her farm in upper Barton Creek in the Cayo District. Police have […]
In the Toledo District a farmer from San Antonio has died, apparently the result of an accident. Police report that on Saturday afternoon 44 year old Francisco Sho was repairing the roof of his house when he slipped and fell to the ground head first. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Punta Gorda Hospital.
In a death that appeared to be anything but accidental police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a body found floating in the Belize River. On Saturday morning authorities were called to the village of Flower’s Bank where they retrieved the decomposing corpse, which displayed a number of severe cut wounds. The body, […]
A crime wave that seems to be sweeping the once peaceful rural areas of Belize has now engulfed the Cayo District. On Thursday evening police discovered the decomposing body of forty-four year old Rosanne Orizzi at her farm in upper Barton Creek. Orizzi, a U.S. born naturalized Belizean citizen, has lived on her own in […]
Intensive investigations are becoming commonplace these days as citizens throughout the country are beginning to wonder just what has gone wrong in the jewel. Three men are still being sought in Sunday’s murder of a tourist in Maya Beach, a gang of men who shot up a car carrying three Mennonite girls is still on […]
In related news the Belize Tourism Industry Association along with affiliated hotel, tour operator and ecotourism bodies, has issued a press release expressing outrage at what they call the recent crime wave against both citizens and visitors. To do something about it B.T.I.A. says that, with the support of the Tourist Board, it is exploring […]
It comes four days after the outrageous hold up and murder at the Singing Sands Inn on the Placencia Peninsula, but police have announced a major breakthrough in their investigation. They have made a positive I.D. of at least two suspects and have released the photograph of a boat, believed to have been used as […]
Three Caye Caulker fishermen set out on a fishing trip to Turneffe three days ago, but what they hauled in was not what they expected. It was big, blue and had two three hundred fifty horse power diesel engines. According to B.D.F. Maritime Wing officials, they suspect that the boat, which was towed into Belize […]
Since their arrival in Belize in the fifties, the Mennonites have over the years kept a low profile. But in the last couple of months, they’ve exploded onto the news scene in dramatic fashion, being implicated in everything from drug busts to phony gun licenses. Today’s news, however, is more tragic. Orange Walk police say […]
No arrests have yet been made but police tonight are a little bit closer to discovering the identities of three men who murdered a U.S. tourist Sunday night in Maya Beach. Interviews with robbery victims and investigations in the villages of Seine Bight and Placencia have led police to conclude that the three assailants were […]
In a follow-up to another major crime, this one just across the Guatemalan border, authorities in Melchor say wounded police chief Carlos Sanchez remains hospitalized but his condition has been upgraded to stable. The wounded driver of his patrol car, however, is listed in critical condition. Both men were injured when two teenagers went on […]
A thirteen-year-old Belize City girl was wounded on Saturday by a bullet that was meant for someone else. According to police, the girl, who they declined to identify, was sitting on her fence on Central American Boulevard, when her father, twenty-seven year old Windell Neal came running into the yard. Following close behind was twenty-five […]
It is the type of crime we like to say doesn’t happen in Belize…. But on Sunday night in the usually peaceful resort community of Maya Beach it happened with a vengeance. Shortly after nine three men entered the bar at Singing Sands, a popular resort in a fast growing area of the Placencia Peninsula […]
San Pedro police have arrested two Honduran nationals in connection with a stabbing incident that took place on the island last Thursday. Police say that shortly after two Thursday morning, thirty nine year old Eulogio Nuñez, was driving a taxi down Coconut Drive when he was attacked by two passengers who stabbed him several times, […]
Justice was swift today for Luis Westby, a Guatemalan from Belmopan, as he was sentenced to five years in prison. His crime: the rape and robbery of a seventeen-year-old woman. According to police the young resident of the nation’s capital was walking from work along the middle walkway shortly after nine Saturday night. When she […]
It’s technically part of Guatemala but the area just over the border in Melchor de Mencos is pretty loose as far as official formalities go. It also seems pretty loose when it comes to observance of the law, and there are three dead bodies at the morgue to prove it. Patrick Jones is just back […]
A Dangriga youth was killed Thursday evening when he grabbed a high voltage electrical wire. Fourteen year old Michael MacKenzie was playing with his two cousins on the third story rooftop veranda of his grandfather’s house on St. Vincent Street around five when the accident occurred. He was apparently walking on a concrete railing when […]
A young man has been arrested and two minors detained in connection with a brutal kidnapping and rape in Orange Walk. Nineteen year old Mark Vega was charged today with murder, conspiracy to murder, rape and abduction. According to Orange Walk police the deceased, Roberto Herbert, had an altercation with Vega sometime on Sunday. Vega […]
A twenty-three year old Belize City man who is apparently in the habit of “stronging” bicycles is behind bars on a number of charges. Mark Middleton was picked up by police following a report made by twenty-one year old Bernard Bahadur that he was attacked on Friday night by two men. Bahadur identified Middleton as […]
One suspect has been arrested and the charge will likely be murder… as the man he allegedly attacked has died in a Chetumal hospital. According to Orange Walk police one of a group of men who allegedly raped a twenty-one year old woman and killed her eighteen year old friend, Salvadoran Roberto Herbert, was arrested […]
