The man believed to be the prime suspect in the murder of Geneive Robinson last month in La Democracia was allegedly sighted on Tuesday in Belize City. Police report that a citizen phoned to report that a man closely resembling Eddie Orlandus Lee, known locally as “Dawood,” was seen on Regent Street accompanied by a […]
While Belize City police continue their search for the perpetrator of the ghastly murder in La Democracia, in the Stann Creek District a nineteen year old man is in custody for a crime that many people believe is even worse. Kenworth Augustine has been detained by police for the rape of a four year old […]
But the roads were not the only place where death was visited this weekend. Shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, police in Belize City retrieved the body of an elderly man from the sea near the old Custom’s House near Fort Point. It has been identified as that of seventy three year old Patricio Lopez […]
There is another shooting incident in Belize City to report this evening; only this time it does not involve young boys fighting over drugs or firearms. Around eight o’clock last night, the relative peace and tranquility of Louise Bevans Street in the Port Loyola Area of the City was shattered by the single gunshot, which […]
Police have still not been able to track down the suspect in last week’s gruesome murder of twenty one year old Geneive Robinson and her unborn son in the village of La Democracia in the Belize District. But they believe they have made a positive step in the right direction. Forty two year old Ellis […]
While Taibo claims he has no knowledge of the whereabouts of the suspect and his wife, police say they are certain that the couple was in touch with Taibo shortly after the day they were seen together. And the police have now drawn up a behavioral profile of the suspect and his wife. A.I.P. Simeon […]
As police continue their vigorous efforts to rid city streets of illegal firearms and ammunition, certain members of the force have come under fire for the way they are going about doing their job. In our newscast yesterday, we brought you the story of a young man, who is claiming he was the victim of […]
A nineteen year old Belize City man is back home from the United States, but there was no red carpet rolled out for him at the airport this afternoon. Orin Arnold, who also goes by the name Arthur Shabir Martin was deported from Chicago after he was picked up for the possession of illegal documents. […]
A number of young men from the Dog Pound area of Central American Boulevard were taken into custody by police on Wednesday evening following the burial of their close friend Alden Quilter. Quilter, you will recall, was killed by a single gunshot to his chest last week. According to Elwein Pollard, he and his friends […]
Belize City police have arrested and charged three people in connection with the discovery of a large amount of ammunition, including explosives. It’s not the biggest cache to be taken in by police, but the amount of bullets and expended shells which turned up in a raid of a house in Belize City this morning […]
Police are still trying to identify and locate the suspect in last Friday’s brutal slaying of a young mother and her unborn child in the village of La Democracia. The only information police have to go on so far is that the man goes by the name of “Dawood”. They also believe that he has […]
There’s one less person on death row tonight. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council today upheld the appeal of Pascual Bull against his 1994 murder conviction and subsequent mandatory sentence of death by hanging. According to the oral judgement, the murder conviction and sentence was overturned and replaced with a charge of manslaughter. Simeon […]
It sounded just like a scene from one of those movies you see on TV, two young men dumped in the trunk of a car and taken on a ride of a lifetime. Only this was no movie. But according to Belize City resident, Darrington Lauriano, that’s exactly what happened to him and a friend […]
The number of people on Belize’s list of most wanted fugitives is again up to three, the latest addition being the person who brutally stabbed to death Geneive Robinson in the village of La Democracia last Friday. The police spent most of today desperately trying to put a name to the face of the alleged […]
It’s the kind of senseless crime that is no stranger to this newscast. And this latest incident has left an entire community in shock. Residents of La Democracia Village in the Belize District are tonight still trying to figure out why a pregnant woman was brutally stabbed to death in their village over the weekend. […]
In other crime news, police have charged five people, including three minors in connection with the shooting death of twenty one year old Alden Quilter. Initially police reported that last Thursday morning, the youths were in a house on Iguana Street extension, playing with a firearm when it accidentally went off hitting Quilter in his […]
And in a follow up to another big story we reported last week, police have charged three men in connection with the disappearance of Alfonso Williams earlier this month. The nineteen year old man vanished from his work place on Amara Avenue on the morning of March eleventh and has not been seen or heard […]
It was a press conference that members of the press had expected to attend on Monday, in the wake of the Sunday killing of Wensworth Mangar, perhaps the most wanted fugitive in modern Belizean history. That it came four days later, with nothing but official silence in between, led much of the public to suspect […]
In other crime news police are now saying that Thursday’s shooting of Alden “Jam” Quilter is not related to the kidnapping and suspected murder of his best friend, Alfonso “Cat” Williams. According to a police release Quilter was killed when a shotgun accidentally dropped and went off while Quilter was sitting around with a bunch […]
Two crimes merged into one today as a Belize City youth, Allen “Jam” Quilter, has been shot dead and his best friend, Alfonso “Cat” Williams, is missing and believed murdered. According to Assistant Inspector Simeon Alvarez the drama unfolded Wednesday morning when they were called in to investigate the disappearance of Williams. Williams’ sister Laurita, […]
Eleven people, including two women, were today taken to Magistrate’s Court by C.I.B. officers to answer to a range of charges in connection with the Logwood Street shooting on Monday night. According to Assistant Inspector Simeon Alvarez, they believe the shoot-out was a result of an order given by a Belize City drug kingpin to […]
A get-rich-quick scheme was turned into a go-to-jail quick scheme for two Honduran youths, as police on Wednesday evening foiled an attempted kidnapping in San Pedro. According to the officer in charge of the town’s police station, Assistant Superintendent Michael Gutierrez, it was an elaborate plan, but one that apparently had some unanticipated glitches. Thirty […]
And finally, with the entire police department suffering from chronic laryngitis, we couldn’t resist the chance to ask the Minister of National Security about the deafening silence on the subject of Wensworth Mangar. Dean Barrow, Minister of National Security “I should think that they do not want to go into additional details because the manhunt […]
Over forty-eight hours after the death of fugitive Wensworth Mangar police are still stonewalling on critical details surrounding the shooting. In conversation with police officers ranging from Commissioner Ornel Brooks to constables on the beat, the tune is the same: “It’s all in the press release.” The release in question, however, issued Sunday afternoon, raises […]
Almost a month after a long drive-by shooting on Faber’s and Kraal Road the police were once again called out to investigate a similar incident in Belize City. Although this time the mayhem did not cover as much ground as the February episode, the motive is believed to be the same and some of the […]
