A special constable attached to the Orange Walk Formation of the Police Department is tonight in a stable condition at the Northern Regional Hospital after he accidentally shot himself in the foot, while in hot pursuit of an escaping prisoner. Just after six this morning, Special Constable and Prisoner Warden Lenardo Bol and several other […]
Two men were arraigned this morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer after they were busted with over eleven kilos of alleged heroin on December twenty-ninth. According to reports, tour guide Richard McDonald and fisherman Giovanni Requeña were in a taxi on the BelChina Bridge when elements of the Anti-Drug Unit swooped down on them. The […]
Another police officer is tonight accused of sexually assaulting a minor. Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Hubert Serrano, an officer attached to San Pedro Police, appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser earlier today. PC Serrano was arraigned on three counts of sexual assault upon a thirteen-year-old girl on the island. The charges stem from at least three […]
In his New Year’s Address, released on Wednesday, Prime Minister Barrow acknowledged that the landscape in 2016 will be different than that of 2015, and a significant feature of that change will surely be spending. At least where government expenditure is concerned, 2015 was a time of plenty because there were four elections, including the […]
Don’t go all melancholy just yet though. Government has successfully campaigned on massive infrastructure works, and Prime Minister Barrow says that for the most part, that will continue in 2016 and beyond. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “There is enough that we have set aside from the PetroCaribe days of plenty, to complete the countrywide […]
An investment agreement between Belize Electricity Limited and the Social Security Board concludes today, ending a three-year preference share purchase. In 2012, S.S.B. infused much needed capital into the cash-strapped utility company by purchasing ten million dollars in stocks. As part of the agreement, S.S.B. was also able to acquire five million dollars in debentures […]
On Sunday, a ninety-three-year-old man was brutally beaten at his home on Fern Lane in Belize City. The vicious attack had the earmarks of a burglary, since Patrick Grant’s twenty-one inch television was stolen. But it is a miracle that the elderly man survived after being hit in the head with a cement block. The […]
In Toledo, charges have been brought against a trio of men, as well as a sixteen-year-old minor, in connection with the murder of fifty-five-year-old Luciano Evaristo Bul. The farmer was brutally slain on Saturday night while walking along the stretch of road between the villages of San Pedro, Columbia and San Miguel. The homicide is […]
There were shots fired on Curassow Street in Belize City on Monday night, and quick response from Belize City police has led to the arrest of a man who is not one of the usual suspects, and isn’t even from the Old Capital. Today, police told us that they got reports of gunfire in the […]
But don’t take Williams’ word for it, or be impressed by a title bestowed by a random media house. He says that the statistics don’t lie, across the board, and are testimony to the effectiveness of the new style of policing he brought to the previously violent Southside. Sr. Supt. Chester Williams, Commander, Eastern […]
At midnight on Sunday, the pump prices of fuel spiked, thanks largely to G.O.B. increasing import duties on Premium, Regular and Diesel. That import duty increase, tacked on to an increase in acquisition costs, led to Regular fuel going up to a controlled price of eight dollars and fifty-two cents in the city. But even […]
A fire on Antelope Street Extension has left a single mother and her two children without a roof over their heads. On Monday night in Belize City, a pair of unsupervised children playing with matches started a fire inside the room of Geneve Armstrong. The inferno damaged most of her household items and the mother […]
The Rural Eastern Division’s Rapid Response Team has been maintaining operations in the two thousand square miles of the Belize District, targeting narcotics and illegal firearms. They got lucky this morning after intelligence led them to an unlicensed shotgun and ammunition in a home on the Phillip Goldson Highway. You may think that a sixteen […]
A conspiracy to rob a business in Ladyville, Belize District has been thwarted and a very powerful submachine gun was recovered in the process. Police pursued fugitives in a high speed chase along the Phillip Goldson Highway, sometime after ten o’clock on Monday night, but they were able to escape the long arms of the […]
Twenty-one year old Police Constable Luke Moreira was charged late Monday evening with two counts of rape, and formally arraigned this afternoon at the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court. Moreira is accused of raping twenty-five year old Bullet Tree resident Vanessa Evans while she was detained at the San Ignacio Police Station on December nineteenth. Because […]
While there was no question that Moreira would be charged today, there was some question as to whether he would be granted bail. This afternoon, the young police constable appeared before the Magistrate, in the company of his attorney Leroy Banner. We spoke to Banner via phone following the arraignment. Leroy Banner, Attorney for […]
Ninety-three-year-old Patrick Grant is recovering tonight, following a brutal attack over the weekend in which he was badly beaten by his neighbor during a home invasion. The elderly man regained consciousness earlier today and is undergoing a battery of tests, including a CT scan, to determine the extent of his injuries. On Sunday morning, around […]
A sixth form student is on remand tonight at the Belize Central Prison, following an arraignment for the weekend murder of eighteen-year-old Lennox Pierez Flowers. The fatal stabbing incident occurred during an event in Burrell Boom Village which succeeded the Boxing Day horserace. Flowers, it is reported, got into an altercation with an ex-girlfriend at […]
The issue of gang involvement was raised yet again, despite Flowers’ mother vehemently denying any affiliation between her son and any of the various rival groups in Belize City. Sr. Supt. Edward Broaster, Commander, Rural Eastern Division “Like I said yesterday, Lennox Flowers is an associate of Ghost Town Crips. There was a separate […]
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Following an identification parade at midday today, Cayo Police are preparing the charge sheet for one of their own accused of a terrible and disturbing crime. Police Constable Luke Moreira is accused of removing a detainee from a cell at the San Ignacio Police Station at gunpoint, taking her into a dark room and then […]
In a sickening home invasion a Belize City elderly man is left in a coma and hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. Patrick Grant was violently attacked over the weekend and robbed of personal items. Grant was found outside his house, but he was brutally beaten inside his house in the Lake Independence area. Family members say […]
There are other reports of sexual assaults coming out of the Orange Walk District tonight. A fifteen year old minor claims that on two occasions, Christmas Eve and on November twenty-fourth, she was raped by two men. Her parents detected signs of sexual abuse and took her to the police station to file a report […]
In Burrell Boom in the Belize District, a teenager was stabbed multiple times as many persons watched. Eighteen year old Lennox Pierez Flowers, a Belize City resident, travelled to the village with friends for the annual horse races and never made it back alive to the City. There he was attacked at the track by […]
In the Toledo District…Was a bitter land dispute in San Pedro, Columbia the motive behind a grisly weekend murder? The lifeless body of fifty-five-year-old Evaristo Bul was discovered by Punta Gorda police sometime after nine p.m. on Saturday night between the communities of San Pedro, Columbia and San Miguel. Bul’s corpse had what appeared to […]
