A female tourist was robbed and sexually assaulted while in the Village of Seine Bight in Southern Belize. Reports are that the tourist was jogging when she came under attack by a young man. Her attacker reportedly dragged her into the bushes and attempted to rape her. Fortunately, she managed to fight off her attacker […]
A seventeen-year-old minor and two adults have been freed of conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of Lynford Baldwin. The trio appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser and saw the case dismissed due to lack of evidence against them. On May twentieth, eighteen-year-old Denver Bevans, twenty-two-year-old Joshua Gillett and the minor were arraigned […]
The Chan family in San Narciso Village is tonight making final preparations to put to rest two of its most senior members. Married for more than fifty years, on Wednesday afternoon Audomaro and Ramona Chan were killed after a Freightliner truck crashed into them as they were crossing the Philip Goldson Highway in their white […]
Sixty-seven-year-old Frank Arnold is fighting for his life at the K.H.M.H., after he was stabbed multiple times by Ronald Flowers, who is known in the neighbourhood to be suffering from a mental health condition. The elderly man was exiting an unnamed alley off Neal’s Penn Road Extension in Belize City when he was attacked. Today, […]
Also in the courts today, PC Leon Bradley was freed from the charge of harm. This was after his estranged girlfriend twenty-year-old Ashley Pate told the court that she does not want to proceed with legal actions against the twenty-four-year-old police officer. In April, PC Bradley was arraigned before Magistrate Emmerson Banner after he was […]
Who wants Guatemalan national Edin Garcia Perez dead and why, is still up in the air tonight as police officers continue to investigate a shooting incident that occurred on Tuesday night Armenia Village, Cayo. Perez remains hospitalized after he was shot multiple times by a gunman. Around eight-thirty p.m., four persons arrived at Perez’s home […]
Earlier this week, we reported on a shooting incident in Placencia in which Francis Eiley was shot in the leg during an altercation with his neighbour. Initial reports were that the two had a dispute over land and it came to a head on Monday night in the village. Today, police confirmed that Terrence Lopez […]
On Wednesday night, we showed you surveillance footage that captured the armed robbery of a store on Zericote Street, in the Louisiana area of Orange Walk Town. Just after seven p.m. on Tuesday night, a pair of thieves targeted Sun Luck Store and rode off with nine hundred dollars, but not before pistol whipping the […]
Meanwhile, in the south, police have detained one of three persons reportedly involved in an armed robbery. Also on Tuesday, Punta Gorda Police responded to a report of a robbery at the Cattle Landing Palace in Cattle Landing. The thieves, who wielded firearms, stole an undisclosed amount of money before firing a single shot inside […]
An elderly couple perished in a deadly collision earlier today in the Corozal District. Sometime around 1:30 pm, a white Ford Ranger pickup crashed into Freightliner truck in the vicinity of San Narciso Village. According to police, thirty-five-year-old Erik Ermoff was driving along the Phillip Goldson Highway towards Orange Walk. Between miles seventy-two and seventy-three, […]
Attorney Andrew Bennett was back in court today where he continued to defend against an extradition request by the U.S. government. In the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning, Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl Lyn Vidal and attorney Anthony Sylvestre, who is representing Bennett, went back and forth over legal documents that were […]
Despite Sylvestre’s objection that the document ought not to be entered into the proceeding, the Chief Magistrate ultimately decided on its admission. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney for Andrew Bennett “We did make strenuous submissions as it relates to why we believe that that ought not to be, but at the end of the day the […]
Twenty-four-year-old Felipe Guzman and twenty-eight-year-old Rasheed Hyde, both of a Santa Elena address, have been arrested and charged for aggravated burglary, following an incident near mile forty-four on the George Price Highway on May fourteenth. It is alleged that both men acted in concert with Justin Banner and Luis Castellanos in carrying out an armed […]
Twenty-nine-year-old John Chessman Junior has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, a lesser charge from the count of murder which he was read in August 2012 for the shooting death of Chinese businessman Jiantao Yang in Ladyville. Today, during mitigation plea the disturbing footage, captured on surveillance camera, was replayed in the courtroom of Justice Marilyn Williams. […]
Police in Orange Walk are investigating a robbery which occurred on Tuesday night. Sun Luck Store on Zericote Street was targeted by a pair of armed thieves after seven o’clock. The men rode off with nine hundred dollars from the day’s proceeds. Before escaping, one of the robbers fired a single shot from a point […]
An elderly man remains hospitalized tonight after he was attacked by a mentally ill person. Sixty-seven-year-old Frank Arnold was stabbed three times to the body by Ronald Flowers, aka “Jack,” as he exited an unnamed alley off Neal’s Penn Road Extension in Belize City. Arnold was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and has […]
A Belize City youth was brutally murdered over the weekend. Twenty-one-year-old Alejandro Lauriano was chopped, stabbed and shot to death on Monday night while in Lucky Strike Village, rural Belize. Lauriano was in the company of a relative with whom he had recently been staying. The two men were in the yard socializing when the […]
Up north, a family in Calcutta Village is coming to terms with the sudden passing of their loved one. Fifty-two-year-old Jesus Mossiah was reportedly stoned with a piece of cement which caused him to bleed out and eventually die. It happened on Saturday night on Seventh Avenue in Corozal Town. Police say that Mossiah, a […]
There was mayhem in Belize City on Saturday morning when shoppers in the vicinity of the Northern Shops, Courts and the nearby Uno Gas Station were startled by the sound of gunshots. A team of policemen was responding to a robbery in progress at A&R store when they were met with gunfire. Additional reinforcements were […]
There was a heavy police presence at Holy Redeemer Primary School this morning where officers, including a B.D.F. bomb expert, were combing the grounds for a grenade or a suspected explosive. That’s because someone had posted a threat on social media on Monday that a live grenade would have been planted on the compound today. […]
According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, they are actively looking for one person whom they believe can assist with information on the false alarm. He says that charges can be brought against that individual for causing public terror. Holy Redeemer has a population of one thousand, thirty-nine students. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police […]
Thirty-eight-year-old Joseph Budna, a Belizean inmate who is serving a thirty year sentence in a Guatemalan prison for kidnapping and escape, has once again escaped from lawful custody. His flight from a regional hospital in San Benito is the second time he has absconded from authorities in that country. In 2014, the former freelance reporter […]
A teenager drowned over the weekend in the Valley of Peace Community out west. On Saturday afternoon, a group of friends was socializing near the bank of the Belize River when Carlos Reyes leapt into the river. He did not resurface and minutes later a friend went diving for him. His body was retrieved and […]
A road traffic accident last night claimed the life of immigration officer Jessica Heusner. It happened at around ten-thirty between miles eleven and twelve on the George Price Highway. Heusner had left Belize City and was headed home to Belmopan in her SUV. Fire officials say that she was attempting to overtake a vehicle when […]
The official police report, has Jessica Heusner labeled as ‘Jane Doe’ until DNA testing can confirm that it was her in the SUV that crashed and burned. A post mortem examination is expected to reveal if Heusner died as a result of the impact, from smoke inhalation or the flames. Station Supervisor at the National […]
