Pastor Louis Wade and his wife have since contacted the police department, expressing concerns over the social media comment made by Jumoke Castro. Knowing that the comment was made by a public officer, the Wades have been advised to make a formal complaint to the Public Services Commission since its regulations speak to the conduct […]
Today, a press release surfaced on social media on Cyber Crime Legislation. According to the release, the Office of the Special Envoy in collaboration with the Office of the Speaker of the House, Ministry of Human Development, the Attorney General’s Ministry, the Central Information Technology Office, the Ministry of National Security and the Public Utilities […]
The leaders of both parties today also spoke on the recent case of domestic abuse that led to police charging Kenzle Hulse with harm upon his ex-girlfriend, Nicole Usher. Usher alleges that Hulse physically assaulted her and threatened her with a weapon. Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño says such barbaric behavior cannot be countenanced. […]
But how does ComPol Williams ensure that investigations centred on the children of politically appointed persons are not tainted? It is often speculated that those highly connected to government ministers are immune to criminal liability. In the most recent assault case involving Kenzle Hulse, the son of Minister Godwin Hulse, many questioned why firearm charges […]
According to our records, the murder count so far for 2019 is at one hundred and thirty-one homicides; it is dangerously close to 2018’s figures of a hundred and forty-four cases. The 2019 stats show that there were several incidents of multiple killings, including the five men murdered near Mapp Caye, among other double and […]
There have been eight murders in one week. The most recent is Guatemalan national who was chopped to death inside his house in Frank’s Eddy, Belize District, on Wednesday night. And his seventeen-year-old common-law-wife believes it was triggered by jealousy. Two men showed up at the house of the victim, Efrain Coc after ten o’clock. […]
Thirty-two-year-old Mario Huezo has been charged with two counts of murder. Huezo stands accused of callously killing his parents, Rafael and Nanny Huezo, whose bodies were discovered on Monday morning. They lay dead inside their Orange Walk Town house on Stadium Street. The thirty-year-old appeared before Magistrate Patricia Arana today where he was arraigned for […]
Shooting victim Richard O’Neil from Ordonez Street, Belize City, succumbs while undergoing treatment at the K.H.M.H. O’Neil was abducted on November twenty-sixth in Belize City and taken to an area along the Boom/Hattieville Road where he was shot multiple times. The gunman left him for death, but O’Neil survived, getting assistance from residents in the […]
Seventeen-year-old Belmopan native Damion Bregal was chopped to death and his body dumped along the Young Gyal Road in Teakettle Village, Cayo. The teen went missing last week without a trace and his family embarked on a fruitless search for days until Tuesday evening when police received reports of a decomposing body on a feeder […]
The murder investigation into the brutal slaying of thirty-four-year-old Densmore Bowman remains open. His decomposing body was discovered on Monday along mile twenty-four on the George Price Highway. The Belmopan resident went missing for more than two weeks and was last seen socializing with some friends in Roaring Creek Village. Surveillance cameras captured Bowman getting […]
Thirty-two-year-old Bart Lucas has been charged for the attempted murder of thirty-four-year-old Christopher Guild who remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. On Monday night, just before midnight, Guild was walking on Barrack Road when a gunman rode up on a bicycle, pointed a firearm at his head and blasted several […]
Twenty-five-year-old Sylvestre Thompson was stabbed by his friend on Wednesday afternoon. He was on Reggae Street hanging out with some friends when an argument ensued. One of his friends produced a knife and during the altercation, Thompson was stabbed in the face and neck. Thompson was admitted to the hospital in a stable condition. According […]
In the Belmopan Magistrate Court, Kenzle Hulse, the son of Minister Godwin Hulse, made an appearance and was charged with harm. It follows a report of domestic violence made by Kenzle’s ex, the mother of his one-year-old daughter. The couple is estranged and Nicole Usher is providing graphic details alleging that Kenzle choked her in […]
Present for the arraignment was Godwin Hulse, the Minister of Agriculture who is the father of Kenzle Hulse. The Minister signed bail for Kenzle, who has a previous charge for a similar offense. In March 2017, Kenzle was charged with one count of harm committed upon Alberto Santos Lopez. His indictment came several months after […]
The mother of Nicole Usher was heard early this morning on the airwaves with the complaint. She placed a call to Vibes radio complaining of the physical assault on her daughter and granddaughter. The mother alleged the accused individual had displayed a pattern of abusive behaviour but operates above the law due to his high […]
A second missing person was found dead this week. On Monday, the remains of Densmore Bowman from Belmopan were found in a shallow grave between miles twenty-three and twenty-four on the George Price Highway. On Tuesday afternoon, the body of another Belmopan resident, seventeen year old Damion Bregal, was found. He had vanished last week […]
The workplace of the financial officer of the Belize Defense Force at Price Barracks, Ladyville was broken into recently and stolen from his office was an assortment of liquor, as well as an undisclosed sum of cash. The burglary, from all indications, appears to be an inside job as the FO’s office space which is […]
The number of missing persons: youths, men and women, is on an upward trend. In some cases they are found safely but in a number of instances, missing persons are found lifeless. Often they are last seen alive with persons known to them. This week alone, two missing persons from Belmopan were found murdered. Suffering […]
This morning twenty-one-year-old Mark Waight was found not guilty for the second time and the judgment came six months apart from each other. Waight was on trial for the attempted murder of Jamelia Neal. In arriving at his decision, Justice Colin Williams said that he did not find the testimony of the accused sister, Desiree […]
A husband and wife were savagely stabbed to death inside their house in Orange Walk Town. The bodies of Rafael and Mario Huezo were found on Monday morning sending shock waves throughout the community. Today police detained one of their sons, Mario, for the gruesome murder. He was captured near Independence in the south and […]
Tragedy struck a family in Silk Grass, Stann Creek District, on Monday afternoon. Omar and Efijenia Lobos lost their three-year old son in a fire that totally gutted their small wooden house in the village. Inside the house on a bunk bed was Isaias. The fire swept quickly and the young boy could not be […]
There was a shooting in the dead of the night in Belize City on Monday. A thirty-six year old resident, Christopher Guild, was heading to Freetown Road when he came under attack and it was all caught on surveillance camera. The gunman was monitoring Guild, employee at B.P.O., and opened fire when he saw the […]
A post mortem examination conducted on the remains of thirty-four year old Densmore Bowman show he died a horrible death; he was hacked to death. The death certificate states that the Belmopan resident died as result of traumatic shock due to multiple chop wounds to the head, neck and limbs. His body was discovered on […]
A police constable is in plenty trouble with the law. Twenty-two-year-old constable of Esperanza Village, Nadir Rayon Mendoza, was charged for theft when he appeared in court today. He was arrested on Monday after police issued a warrant post on Thursday. He is accused of stealing three firearms from the Queen Street Police Station in […]
There are some in-roads being made in respect of the eventual ban of gillnets. As you know, the government has endorsed the continued use of the fish gear on the basis that more than eighty fisher folks need to secure their livelihood before a ban is imposed. Oceana and the Coalition had committed two million […]
