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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While police foiled a robbery in Ladyville on Monday night, the Anti Drug Unit also made a major bust in the city. There is a report tonight that around ten p.m. on Monday, ADU officers intercepted a taxi on BelChina Bridge in which eleven kilos of packaged heroin were found. The unit is yet to […]
A fifteen year old youth was shot on Monday afternoon on Pickstock Street in the City by two men who rode up to him and opened fire. The student remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. and his condition has stabilized. Family remembers believe that the tensions between rival gangs may have triggered the shooting and claim […]
In San Estevan Village, Orange Walk, one year old Genesis Teresa Medina was killed in a fatal hit and run on Sunday afternoon. The alleged driver who knocked down the toddler was soon nabbed by police and today, he was arraigned in the Orange Walk Magistrate Court. Police believe that twenty-eight year old Eliseo Israel […]
Also on Monday, we reported that a five year old boy from Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk Town had been sexually abused over the weekend at his home. While we won’t mention his name to protect his identity, we can report that one person has been arrested for molesting the child and that is the […]
On December tenth, 2015, a jury of twelve deliberated for over five hours, found Rafael Mencias not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of Phillip Hall which occurred on July twenty-sixth, 2010. In mitigation, Judge Herbert Lord heard from five character witnesses who spoke well of Mencias asking the court for leniency on […]
The vicious attack of ninety-three year old Patrick Grant over the Christmas holiday weekend has sparked outrage. Several organizations including HelpAge Belize along with its sister N.G.O.s under the National Council on Ageing, today condemned the acts of violence against elderly persons. The NCA release says that, “since October of this year there have been […]
According to Bulwer, only a small percentage of the elderly population in Belize currently receives direct support services from organizations such as HelpAge; the others, in most cases, have been left neglected. Bulwer asserts that violence against older persons is underreported and there is need for government to put in place policies to protect this […]
There is tentatively good news for Cuban migrants stuck in Costa Rica following a SICA meeting held in Guatemala on Monday. According to reports, an agreement has been reached for an undisclosed number of Cubans to be flown out of Costa Rica to El Salvador, and bussed from there to Mexico, and then on to […]
For years, there have been efforts to preserve all aspects of the Garifuna culture. In 2010, a trio of Garifuna activists, including Roy Cayetano, Canon Jerris Valentine and Cassian Nuñez, decided to initiate an annual competition as a way of motivating the formation of wanaragua camps and improving the quality of performance. This resulted in […]
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 […]
Back to the city where a late afternoon shooting took place. A fifteen year old boy of a Pickstock Street address is tonight in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot at least once to the chest just after four p.m. Kurk Broaster and another minor were standing at the corner of […]
At midnight on Sunday, officially, pump prices for diesel, regular and premium fuel increased – diesel by eighty-one cents a gallon, regular by ninety-seven cents a gallon and premium by seventy-two cents a gallon. The thing is…world oil prices continue to trend downwards, resulting in lower fuel costs worldwide…but not in Belize. So what’s the […]
The release from government states that acquisition costs are expected to decline significantly in the coming weeks, in line with declining world oil prices. Pump prices are, consequently, expected to stabilize – below nine dollars for premium, below eight dollars for regular and below six-fifty for diesel fuel. In a fuel aside, we note that […]
According to G.O.B.’s Financial Secretary, the increase in import duties has become necessary to stabilize government’s fiscal position which suddenly seems distinctly shaky. But why are consumers taking the hit? Just months ago there didn’t seem to be a problem Petrocaribe couldn’t fix. But that seems to be a thing of the past. According to […]
