While the merits or demerits of the police case against Eluterio Vasquez and Alfonso Teul continue to be played out in the court of public opinion, the real test of the evidence against the accused will come at their Supreme Court trial. While that may take upwards of a year to happen, today we sought […]
It was announced with all the fanfare and drama the press and public have come to expect every time the police want to make a point. Reeling from charges of ineptitude and brutality on the part of law enforcement authorities, the Minister of National Security and his Commissioner of Police on Friday assured the nation […]
While Trujillo, Davis and West have no doubt as to the innocence of Teul and Vasquez, police Commissioner Ornel Brooks remained defiantly unconvinced. At a press briefing this afternoon in Belmopan, he called into question the motive behind the weekend’s stunning eyewitness testimonies. Brooks told reporters that when officers went to H.T.A. Bowman Limited situated […]
As crimes go it may not compare to the mayhem on the Hummingbird, but by Belize City standards it was a major stickup. Shortly after one this morning, twenty five year old Santiago Zaiden, security guard at the Fiesta Inn reported that he went to investigate a noise coming from the south part of the […]
Having reached rock bottom with the disastrous failure to intercept a band of foreign murderers and prevent them from leaving the country, the roller coaster known as police public relations took a turn upward today as authorities announced a major break in the case that stands as perhaps the most brazen crime ever committed on […]
A post mortem examination has suggested that the death of an inmate at Hattieville Prison was the result of natural causes and not foul play. According to police pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran, his autopsy conducted this afternoon on the body of nineteen year old Mike Fabro, revealed that the young prisoner died of suffocation brought […]
According to police they are working swiftly to crack the shocking case of murder and robbery on the Hummingbird Highway. But residents from the villages surrounding Belmopan have another view. Patrick Jones reports from National Police Headquarters. It was a testy crowd of close to two hundred residents of the refugee communities of Salvapan and […]
A young inmate has been found dead at Hattieville Prison. The body of nineteen year old Mike Fabro was reportedly found at around six thirty this morning at the correctional facility, but details surrounding the death, including where and how the body was discovered, remain unclear. Prison authorities declined to answer questions, saying that the […]
Less than a week after the dramatic armed holdup of hundreds of people on the Hummingbird Highway near Roaring River, authorities have made a significant breakthrough in the case. Two people have been detained by police in connection with the incident, along with a sizeable amount of items, including money, suspected of being taken in […]
Authorities on both sides of the Belize-Guatemala border continue their search for a group of armed bandits who terrorized motorists along the Hummingbird Highway last Saturday. Local intelligence gathering mechanisms are operating at maximum overdrive, and authorities say it is only a matter of time before the suspects are hauled in. Earlier this week, a […]
Belize City police have detained three people, one of whom is highly suspected of being the point man in a plot to get more guns on the streets. News Five’s Patrick Jones reports. According to Inspector Edward Broaster, police intelligence information led them to this house on East Collet Canal in Belize City where illegal […]
Authorities are investigating a mid-morning armed robbery of a taxi driver in Belize City. Fifty one year old Theodore Henry reported to police that shortly after ten o’clock this morning he was stopped by a young man at the corner of Vernon Street and Lindo’s Alley requesting taxi service. Although he had a passenger in […]
It was billed as a press conference to discuss ministerial issues and to report on recent achievements by the Ministry of National Security. And while he attempted to, Deputy Prime Minister Dean Barrow only briefly addressed certain aspects of his portfolio as the hot topic of the day was the mid-Saturday morning hold up on […]
After months of anticipation, Minister of National Security Dean Barrow has finally made good on a promise to implement a parole system. A statutory Instrument providing for the new initiative to start by the middle of the month was signed today by the Minister. A key component of the system is that an inmate will […]
An afternoon outing with family and friends on Sunday ended in tragedy for one Belize City teenager. Shortly after two o’clock Sunday afternoon, fifteen year old student Ji Pang Zhoa, was bathing in the Sibun River near the Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at mile thirty one on the Western Highway, when he disappeared under the […]
The Hummingbird Highway was abuzz with activity on Saturday morning, but none of the action had anything to do with the normal behavior of rational people. A group of bandidos went on a rampage near Roaring River, just outside Belmopan, and when it was all over, one man was dead, several others were injured and […]
The politically sensitive case involving the rape of Freetown standard bearer for the U.D.P. Marisa Quan took an abrupt turn today. Eighteen year old Barry Robinson confessed to the crime last week, but what police did not say when they issued their press release making the announcement was that a second man was named in […]
If the old adage “no news is good news,” holds any merit, then you’ll love the bulletin from the police tonight. The only incident noted in the daily sitrep from Belmopan is the detention of a forty one year old man from Toledo, apparently for the possession of an unlicensed sixteen gauge shotgun. It’s not […]
Two Belize City men thought they could make some easy cash up north but have found out that crime has its disadvantages. Police report that Monday evening twenty three year old money changer Marvin Flores was heading back from the border to Orange Walk, but when he reached the junction of Libertad Village he saw […]
A nineteen month old baby girl has died suddenly and mysteriously in Belize City. The child, Ishella Menjivar, of Cemetery Road, was playing in the park Monday evening under the supervision of her mother, twenty eight year old Petrona Cruz. Cruz told police that around five thirty Ishella suddenly fell to the ground gasping for […]
Two Belize City men charged with the crime of robbery have been rewarded with a stiff prison sentence faster than they could say “show me the money”. Twenty year old Charles Brown and twenty eight year old Michael Arnold were sentenced to seven years in prison when they appeared before the Quick Trial Court on […]
A seventeen year old Belize City fisherman has been arrested and charged for the crimes of damage to property, aggravated assault and attempted murder. Deon Cadle of an Ebony Street address was arrested by police following a report made by twenty seven year old Stanley Herrera. Herrera told police that while he was driving a […]
Two other teenagers have also been arrested and charged for the crime of attempted murder in connection with an incident which happened last month. They have been identified as sixteen year old Eric Pitts and seventeen year old Cleveland May. The two are accused of wounding eighteen year old student Luis Contreras and another youth, […]
The police in Belize City were not the only ones catching up with suspected criminals. In Dangriga a two-week investigation has resulted in the arrest of a twenty two year old man in connection with an incident which happened on April fourteenth. A Danriga woman told police that shortly after midnight she came home and […]
A break in at the posh home of a Belize City businessman has left him and his wife considerably poorer. Sometime Sunday night while Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hotchandani slept peacefully at their house on the Newtown Barracks thieves entered through a second story window. After helping themselves to cold drinks from the refrigerator the […]
