Earlier in the news, you heard Commissioner Williams break down the relaxation in the COVID-19 regulations. One of the significant changes is the adjustment to the curfew hours. Now, we’ve heard before how the curfew has contributed to a reduction in crime – so will this adjustment cause a surge in criminal activities? Commissioner Williams […]
Twenty-five bales of cocaine and nine men, most of whom are law enforcement officers, have been taken into police custody following an operation overnight in northern Belize District. Regional counterparts were tracking an aircraft which departed from South America sometime earlier, and when it entered Belize’s airspace, police and B.D.F. officers wasted no time springing […]
B.D.F. Commander Brigadier General Steven Ortega says the news of one of his very own soldiers detained following the drug plane interception is very distressing. This morning, Ortega confirmed that police arrested his driver in connection with the drug plane landing. As for the total prevention of drug plane landing, that might be impossible for […]
Minister of Defence and Border Security Florencio Marin Junior was asked for comment on this year’s first drug plane bust. The joint intelligence agency tracks several many drug planes daily, but this one was the first to intercept Belizean law enforcement. Minister Marin congratulated the officers for a job well done and says that the […]
As we reported earlier, the drug plane interception and bust yielded twenty-five bales or seven hundred and fifty individual kilos of cocaine. The street value of the cocaine haul that was seized is still being calculated. While the men on board the vessel were found in possession of two bales, the remaining twenty-three were discovered […]
The involvement of police and military personnel in facilitating drug transshipment through Belize continues to be a significant concern for law enforcement. Over the past few weeks, several police officers have been arrested and charged for drug trafficking, namely marijuana. Still, it is not lost on ComPol Williams that there are rogue officers within his […]
Two weeks ago, reports surfaced that a woman in the Honduran caravan had complained that a B.D.F. soldier sexually assaulted her at the Cadenas Outpost in southern Belize. The report suggests that the Belize Defence Force had launched an internal investigation into the conduct of one of the patrols. Commander, Brigadier General Steven Ortega told […]
In 2017, we reported on parts of the findings of the Auditor General’s Report on Belize Jungle Experience Limited owned by Lieutenant Colonel Charlton Roches of the B.D.F. The B.D.F. contracted Belize Jungle Experience Limited to conduct the training of the German military. Roches was paid a large sum of money for this training in […]
A man in Belmopan was stabbed during a robbery on Thursday night. Roger Russel was reportedly robbed of his knapsack and then stabbed multiple times. He was taken to the Western Regional Hospital where he underwent surgery and is currently in a stable condition. Today, his friend Area Representative of Belmopan Oscar Mira told us […]
A man was found dead in Belmopan on Thursday, and the family says that he was murdered. Eli Chan left home on Wednesday to go to a friend’s farm but never returned that evening. According to the family, Chan would always visit the farm with his friends, and he would sometimes engage in work to […]
Gender-based violence is a serious human rights violation with major social and developmental implications from an individual to a familial level that extends wider to the community and society. Domestic violence has psychological, behavioral, physical, and sometimes deadly consequences. It is a growing problem across the world, and when we look closer at home – […]
A business owner was shot and killed this morning in Dangriga. The carwash owner was at his property with a friend when the killer struck. He tried to get away, but he was shot twice. By the time police arrived at the scene, the businessman had been rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced […]
The family of twenty-one-year-old Nigel Williams Junior is calling on the Belize Police Department to investigate an act of police brutality. The family alleges that the young man was in his home village of Roaring Creek when police detained him for improper use of a face mask on Tuesday evening. The cops took him to […]
In Cayo, a mason worker from the Santiago Juan Layout near the Bullet Tree Road in San Ignacio was found dead. His decapitated body was discovered hanging from a tree in the Kontiki area. Police information suggests that Oscar Correa killed himself by hanging, but his family believes someone killed him. The family says that […]
A well-known gang figure, Jervis Diamond Valencia, from Mayflower Street in Belize City, is in the hospital recovering from a shooting incident on Monday evening. Reports say Valencia was sitting in a yard through an alley off Mayflower Street, around three o’clock in the afternoon, when three men approached him, and one of them pulled […]
Police are still looking for Javier Choc. Choc is accused of fatally stabbing his step-son, Walter Axcel Gonzalez. The incident happened at the family’s residence in San Martin Belmopan on Sunday, January seventeenth. Choc stabbed the teen when he attempted to intervene in an altercation between his mother and Choc. Gonzalez was rushed to the […]
Police have yet to identify the body of a man found decomposing two weekends ago on the Macal Riverbank. The person is labelled as John Doe, and the only identifying clue that investigators have is a tattoo, a woman with shoulder-length hair. Forensics experts have managed to somewhat re-hydrate the tattoo, and since the release […]
La Isla Carinosa may not have been so loving to an American tourist over the weekend. A video went viral of a female American tourist arrested by two police officers in Caye Caulker Village. The video shows police arresting the tourist for not wearing her face mask properly. The woman refused to be arrested, telling […]
There was another caught-on-camera moment with police revealed over the weekend. The video shows a police officer using a chokehold on a civilian. The incident reportedly happened in Santa Elena, Cayo, and reports are that the man was drunk driving. The video was upsetting to the public because the Police Department has a policy against […]
In the north, a police officer has been charged with the crime of manslaughter. He is Police Constable Leenart Cajun. The incident happened in 2018 at the house of Ariel Audinette Salazar. Eight lawmen, PC Cajun, B.D.F. soldiers Mateo Bolon, Patrick Villagran, Patrick Diego, Elvis Cob, Edmar Petillo, Bladimir Escarraga, and Francisco Sho were charged […]
Another police officer is making the news, this time for sexually assaulting a nineteen-year-old woman three times. Police Corporal Edgar Teul stands accused of sexually violating a woman while she was bailing out her common-law-husband from the police station in San Jose Succotz Village. The nineteen-year-old told investigators that on the eighteenth of January, she […]
The criminal case against former U.D.P. Works Minister Rene Montero is active. His successor Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing Julius Espat has forwarded documentary evidence to the Commissioner of Police, the Integrity Commission, and the Attorney General Officer. Espat requested the investigation into the possible commission of criminal offences by Montero for the wanton […]
Thieves targeted another school in the Saint Martin De Porres area. Last Friday morning, the criminals broke into Sadie Vernon High School and stole ninety-six tablets. The electronic devices were recently acquired for distance learning and were to be distributed to students today. It is believed that the community members, which the school serves, were […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also spoke of the ongoing investigation concerning Wilbert Vallejos, the former Lands Commissioner. Viewers will recall that Vallejos residence in Patchakan Village was raided, and police found were over sixty thousand dollars in various currencies and denominations. Officers called in the Financial Intelligence Unit, which is now leading the investigation. […]
During news time on Wednesday night, shots rang out in the Monument Site area of Dangriga. A fisherman, Dennis Robinson, from the area had been gunned down. The family believes that this murder is retaliatory and is blaming the police for putting their family at risk. News Five’s Duane Moody finds out why. Duane […]
