Commander of Eastern Division South Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett would normally appear on the news for the community policing work he continues to do, but tonight the senior police officer is in the hot seat, facing tremendous scrutiny. Gillett was involved in a road traffic accident over the weekend. The incident occurred in the wee […]
Two officers have been suspended pending further investigation into a suspected drug plane in southern Belize. Police Constables Peter Graham and John Ordonez are in trouble with the law tonight because of their alleged involvement in the illegal landing of a single engine aircraft in Barranco Village, Toledo District. During today’s police press brief, Deputy […]
News Five has been reliably informed that the aircraft was not making a drop, but was in fact carrying out a pickup. As has been seen in previous suspected drug plane landings, the aircrafts are normally gutted to make space for the illicit cargo. But this case was different. As the evidence has shown thus […]
A joint operation on Saturday resulted in police discovering more than seventy pounds of marijuana. Police say that the operation was conducted near the Casa Maya Road of the Shawville area of San Ignacio Town. The operation led to the discovery of seventy-one point seven-five pounds of marijuana. ASP Alejandro Cowo shared more details. […]
Police are investigating the savage beating and stabbing of Paul Moro. Moro and his wife were at a wedding on Saturday in Burrell Boom Village when he got into an altercation with another person. As the couple left the event, a group of men attacked and stabbed Moro. Police shared more details. ASP Alejandro […]
Thirty-six-year-old Ernie Miranda was fatally stabbed on Thursday night sometime before twelve a.m. His lifeless body was not discovered until Friday morning by sanitation workers collecting garbage on Morning Glory Street in the vicinity of Sadie Vernon High School. But the man we’ve all reported on as Ernie Miranda is actually Earl Abraham Hyatt. That’s […]
A young man was shot on Sunday evening and investigators believe that it may be gang related. The victim is twenty-two-year-old David Diaz and it is reported that he is associated with the Back-a-Town Crips Gang of Orange Walk Town. He was shot while he was near a barber shop, known to be a hub […]
The most recent suspected drug plane landing was in southern Belize. Previous landings were occurring frequently up north where the narco-traffickers were generally outsmarting police in their modus operandi. The plane that landed overnight is a Centurion single engine, similar to one that was found in Tres Leguas community in Orange Walk with one thousand […]
There have been two more murder victims this week, which brings the murder count so far in 2018 to one hundred and forty-two. That is dead even with the total number for the entire 2017 and there is still ten more days to go. This morning, sanitation workers made a gruesome discovery. In a drain […]
Eleven persons who occupied a two storey building on Cleghorn Street, Belize City, are left to pick up the pieces just before the Christmas. This morning one of the tenants on the upper flat set a mattress on fire in an attempt to take his life. Though he barricaded himself inside the apartment as the […]
Station Manager Orin Smith provided details of the firefighting effort to extinguish the blaze, however, he was not able to confirm the suggestion that the tenant who started the fire was attempting to take his own life in the process. Orin Smith, Station Officer, National Fire Service “Earlier today, Friday, December 21st, 2018, at […]
Police Constable Modesto Cucul lost his life on Thursday morning when he was ambushed by a pair of gunmen who opened fire on him and his common-law while they were en route to Crique Jute. He’s the second murder victim for this week. The thirty-five-year-old officer, who was stationed in Belmopan, was returning to his […]
Its four days until Christmas and people are busy with their preparations for their own version of a Christmas dinner. Downtown Belize City was extra busy today with shoppers from across the country, taking advantage of the deals at the popular stores. Christmas is a time for family reunions, bonding, renewing friendships, exchanging gifts and […]
Golden Tree, the newly renovated hotel here on Coney Drive, is back in business. Earlier this week, the Belize Tourism Board closed it down for infractions to hotel regulations contained in the Hotel and Tourists Accommodation Act. Golden Tree reportedly had not been making the mandatory hotel tax payments to the B.T.B. and after several […]
On November second, PC Osbourne Martinez was murdered in the line of duty in Belize City when robbers shot at him on Regent Street West. This morning, in southern Belize, another cop was shot and killed. Police Constable Modesto Cucul was ambushed inside his vehicle a mile from the San Antonio and Crique Jute junction […]
Another futile attempt at locating the remains of twenty-three-year-old Anisha Young, despite investigators following all leads forwarded to the C.I.B. office in Belize City. On Wednesday, officers combed an area in northern Belize District where they were told her body may have been buried. That effort, after raking through a swath of land, was fruitless. […]
There is also very little progress to report on the disappearance of Ivor “Iverson” Neal. The whereabouts of the KBH security guard is unknown since he was last seen a little over a week ago, near the outskirts of Belmopan. Speculation is widespread and the family of the missing twenty-three-year-old has its own theory as […]
Fifty-three-year-old Benson Jerry Butler is also missing. The resident of West Lake Area of Western Paradise Village left home en route to Belize City to run some errands around eight on the morning of December second and has not been seen or heard from since. The family says that this is the first time Butler […]
There are at least seven other persons reported as missing across the country. In respect of an ostensible increase, the police department has come forward to inform the public that a report can be filed at any time, without having to wait for a forty-eight-hour period to elapse before doing so. ASP Alejandro Cowo, […]
Golden Tree Hotel on Coney Drive, a popular getaway in Belize City, has been shut down by the Belize Tourism Board. Officials from B.T.B., accompanied by officers from the police department, visited the location earlier and proceeded to halt its operations. The closure of the business comes after its proprietors recently invested substantially in expanding […]
In the months before Guatemala’s referendum in April this year, a number of non-governmental agencies took the lead in a “YES” vote campaign. One private sector group, however, had to seek legal opinion for them to be allowed to campaign for a “YES” vote. This is because of the laws in Guatemala. Earlier this week, […]
In twelve days, 2018 will come to a close. Today, we went through the archives to see how the country has fared off as it relates to the crippling issue of crime. The stats of the Belize Crime Observatory show that in comparison to the same period in 2017, the murder count has edged up […]
Twenty-six-year-old Hubert Taylor, a resident of Dangriga, has been charged for murder. His arrest and arraignment follows a deadly attack on the Southern Highway on Monday morning when he reportedly stabbed a motorist with a knife to the right side of the chest. Sometime around nine o’clock, Marcos Ack, who was headed towards Independence Village, […]
There was an attempt made on the life of a Benque Viejo resident on Tuesday night. Just before ten p.m. as forty-three-year-old Roberto Galvez arrived at his Church Hill Street house in that western town, a gunman targeted him. Residents say at least ten blasts echoed in the distance and Galvez was hit up to […]
Police Constable Kenyon Pandy is dead following a fatal traffic accident in southern Belize. Just after three-thirty on Tuesday evening, Pandy was driving a vehicle when he lost control at the junction of the Southern Highway and San Antonio Road. The vehicle flipped several times, killing the twenty-seven-year-old on the spot. Pandy suffered massive head […]
