At news time, there are at least twenty-four prisoners on the lam; one has been killed and three have been recaptured in an operation in which police and the B.D.F. have pulled out all stops to get them back. The biggest prison break took place on Monday, a public and bank holiday. It started after […]
The police and B.D.F. search stretched miles away from the Hattieville prison extending to the Coastal Road where there was an exchange of gunfire between a group of the escapees and law enforcement. But back at the prison, the situation remained tenuous giving way to an uprising this morning. More than one hundred prisoners in […]
So far we are told that at least one prisoner was shot and killed and two others captured during an operation on the Coastal Road. Police and B.D.F. are still in the area trying to locate the escapees. The first prisoner to be recaptured was Mark Pelayo. He was detained near a checkpoint on the […]
The circumstances of the largest jailbreak in recent history are puzzling given the fact that three prison guards were held hostage for five hours by a prison trustee who was allowed certain privileges one week ago before the prison break. So was it an inside job? Did prison guards assist the escapees? Prison C.E.O. Virgilio Murillo […]
Three prison officers were held hostage during the brazen jailbreak. One of them is Wendell Coc, a Basic Grade Prisoner Officer. He was on the first floor of the Administration Segregation building feeding prisoners along with inmate trustee Carlos Montejo when Montejo turned on him and held him at knifepoint. Coc recounted his ordeal outside […]
The twenty-eight prisoners escaped through the rear of the prison compound near the Administration Segregation building. There are no cameras in that area and so there are no images of the actual jailbreak. This morning, Murillo explained the absence of cameras in the rear area of the prison compound. Virgilio Murillo, C.E.O., Kolbe Foundation […]
Police had their hands full on the extended weekend. Aside from the unprecedented jail break, there was a narco-plane landing and three persons were murdered over the weekend. The first murder occurred in Belize City outside a popular shop in the King’s Park area. Leon Peyrefitte is believed to have been lured to his death […]
The second person to die in a hail of bullets over the weekend is Shakeem Dennison. The twenty-six-year-old was brazenly murdered on Monday afternoon when he was playing basketball, the sport he loved. The gunman rode up to the court on Yabra and opened fire on Dennison. He was rushed to the hospital, but succumbed. […]
The victims of both Belize City murders, according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, were persons who were in violation of the Quarantine Regulations, as one was socializing in the open where public drinking is not allowed and the other was playing basketball. Contact sports, including basketball, are presently prohibited. In the context of the […]
The third murder for the weekend took place in San Pedro Town. Marisela Gonzalez was executed; shot to the head and her body discarded near the dump site on the island. The twenty-eight-year-old was the mother of a young daughter and residents on the island are asking for justice. On Sunday morning, police went out […]
A suspected drug plane landed in a remote area between Shipyard and Crooked Tree Village early on Sunday morning. When police arrived on scene, the crew had already offloaded the cargo, destroyed and buried the aircraft and departed from the area. Today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told the press that they had received tracking […]
As you heard just now, Commissioner Chester Williams said that three pieces of heavy equipment were found at the scene. The police have since seized the equipment and are working to verify who owns them. Williams also told the press today that they are also working to determine who owns the land where they found […]
There were twenty three less murders this year when compared to the same time last year. In 2019, one hundred and thirty-four murders were recorded and so far this year seventy-four murders have been recorded. It is expected, and surely hoped, that the murder count remains low as we near the end of the year. […]
The police department is actively following a lead that can result in another heroin bust. On Tuesday four men were caught with almost eight pounds of the highly addictive illegal drug while they were parked at a gas station near Belmopan. Forty-two-year-old Guatemalan Jaime Galvez and Belizeans twenty-two-year-old Wilson Morales, thirty-six-year-old Leeson Evelyn, and forty-seven-year-old […]
Today, the body of popular artist Gilbert Alamilla, known as Mister Program, was interned at the Lord Ridge Cemetery in Belize City. As the funeral was making it way to the cemetery, a second suspect, who was wanted by police for almost a week, was arraigned at the Magistrate Court for his murder. Raheem Marsden […]
A family in the border village of San Victor, Corozal, is outraged claiming they were physically abused by a team of police officers. On Friday the police officers received information of contraband goods being kept at a house in the village. An anti-contraband operation was conducted and eight persons were arrested and charged. According to police, […]
Commissioner of Police says that the family should be lucky that they were able to make it to the court. Chester Williams told the press today that the family attempted to hold the officers hostage and take control of their firearms. He says that the officers responded in a manner that ensured their safety against […]
Today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams was asked about the allegations of domestic abuse made against the Prime Minister’s son, Shyne Barrow. Barrow’s wife, twenty-seven-year-old Catherine Barrow, first accused him of violence against her, but later retracted the statement saying that the information was exaggerated. The incident reportedly happened on October third when Catherine wanted […]
Attorney-at-law Audrey Matura has also weighed in on the matter, pointing out that despite Catherine Barrow’s attempt to retract her statement, there is a medico-legal form that shows that there is a case of harm. Matura says that the complaint against Shyne Barrow doesn’t auger well for his political career. Matura also told reporters on […]
The south side State of Emergency came to an end on Tuesday. More than one hundred residents of Southside Belize City were arrested and bussed to the Belize Central Prison where they were kept away from committing any crime. Over the past weeks, thirty gang members were slowly released. And while these persons are back […]
On Wednesday, Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers appeared in court to answer for forcing a woman to perform oral sex on a man. He was charged with “procuring defilement of a person by threat” for which he pleaded not guilty. He was denied bail and remanded until December third. During his arraignment, Flowers told the senior […]
The family of George Murphy is up in arms tonight because nine days after he was killed, they still have not been able to lay the remains of their loved one to rest. On September twenty-ninth, the twenty-one-year-old fisherman was executed near the main pier in Placencia. Preparations were made to bury Murphy, but the […]
The family is also crying out for justice for the murder of George Murphy. So far police have been unable to crack the case and no one has been arrested or charged for the killing. Orie Burgess says that the family has also been unable to get information on the case from the police. […]
Police have made a bust of a highly addictive illegal drug. Three Belizeans and a Guatemalan on Tuesday were busted with close to eight pounds of heroin which is not a drug commonly peddled in Belize and was likely being moved through the country. The men were in a Ford Ranger pickup truck parked at […]
Two men have been arrested and charged for separate murders. Wanted man Raheem Marsden was taken into custody tonight and charged for the murder of Mister Program, Gilbert Alamilla. Alamilla was stabbed to death in the wee hours of October second on Simon Lamb Street. Reports are that Marsden instructed Clayton White to kill Alamilla. […]
