A first class clerk employed with the Belize City Magistrate’s Court is out on bail tonight after being arraigned before Magistrate Hurl Hamilton on a single charge of theft. Twenty-nine-year-old Sean Lord was visited by CIB personnel this morning when he arrived at work. He was then escorted from his desk to San Ignacio where […]
The three surviving sisters of thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon went home to the U.S. for Christmas last week, now in the custody of their adoptive father, David Cannon. On December twentieth, according to the San Pedro Sun, Cannon won the high profile custody battle against the children’s adoptive mother Anke Doehm. The Family Court decided […]
The Food and Agricultural Authority undertook a project with the Government of Belize to promote entrepreneurship in agriculture among rural youth. The project called ‘Learning Route’ took a group of youth to different parts of the country to learn from locals about agriculture with the hope that it would inspire youth in Belize to continue […]
It has been another deadly holiday weekend countrywide. As many as seven persons lost their lives by misadventure; whether, murder or in road traffic accidents. We start with the most deadly of the mishaps, along the George Price Highway. Thirty-three-year-old Linda Carolina Hernandez and twenty-four-year-old Oscar Rene Alvarado of Cotton Tree were leaving the village […]
The Christmas season in Belize is regularly marked by traffic mishaps and this year has been no exception. Since Friday, no less than seven road traffic accidents have been reported countrywide, with four fatalities recorded. Five of those accidents spanned nearly the entire length of the George Price Highway, from just outside of Western Paradise to […]
He was on his way home to Belize City from Gales Point where his family celebrated Christmas Day, but sometime around eight o’clock that night, Albert Garnett would perish in a traffic accident between miles twenty-four and twenty-five on the George Price Highway. Police were called out to the scene of an accident in which […]
Road traffic mishaps are also a concern for the Ministry of Health, which does keep a running tally as part of its mortality statistics for Belize. While the figure was not available as of news time, Director of Health Services Dr. Marvin Manzanero made reference to some of the key factors behind crashes, such as […]
Twenty-year-old Jose Najera is lucky to be alive tonight, following a shooting incident in Belmopan on December twenty-first. Najera was seated inside his vehicle in the vicinity of the Ring Road when he was accosted by an unknown individual who opened fire on him. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett shared what police have been […]
Gunshots rang out in Orange Walk Town on Tuesday night leaving one man injured with wounds to the right foot. Juan Cabrera came under attack by a gun-toting duo as his stood in front of his house sometime before eight o’clock. During the robbery, he was relieved of several items and in the process he […]
The Christmas weekend also had a pair of murders to report, though neither was in Belize City. The village of Roaring Creek was shocked by a discovery of a body in the Belize River this morning, later identified as Errol Gabourel Smith. Twenty-six year old Gabourel, also known as “Rabbit,” was recently out of prison. […]
The proprietor of a business establishment in Ranchito Village was relieved of a significant sum of money and other personal belongings, including a Toyota Tacoma truck, during an armed robbery in the Corozal District on Friday morning. Twenty-one-year-old Jaxi Tan reported to police that while inside his store a few minutes before eleven a.m., three […]
The second robbery in the Corozal District took place in the heart of town on Tuesday morning when two men entered Shanti’s Store and held up its owner. That stickup netted a pair of thieves an undisclosed sum of money. The frequency of robberies has also raised serious concerns among residents of the northern municipality. […]
Meanwhile, in Belize City over the weekend, there were two incidents reported where Chinese businessmen in the Lake Independence and King’s Park areas were accosted by thieves. In a brazen attempt on Saturday night near Lopez Mateo Park, a pair of would-be robbers fled the scene of a shooting when the grocer opened fire on […]
A twenty-year-old man was slashed to the throat over the holiday weekend in Placencia as he partied with friends outside a night-club. The prep-cook was out enjoying the festivities after work when he was attacked and killed. His family believes that he may have been killed due to jealousy because of a work promotion. But […]
Fifty-five-year-old Kimberley Lin Stephens was strangled to death. The American national’s decomposing body was discovered outside of her rental SUV on December twenty-third. We understand that Stephens arrived in country on December sixteenth and received a vehicle from the rental company in Placencia – they say this is not the first time she has rented […]
Eighteen-year-old Brandon Portillo of San Pedro Town is headed to jail for six years after pleading guilty to two home burglaries on Ambergris Caye that took place last week. Portillo, a fisherman from the San Juan section of the town, admitted to breaking into the home of Joshua Carballo on December twenty-first and stealing items […]
A Belize City family remains hopeless tonight as the search continues to locate Jamal Humes. The twenty-eight-year-old mechanic was last seen alive on Wednesday morning when he went to his mother’s house in the Jane Usher Boulevard area. Friends, however, say that they last socialized with him on the night of December twentieth. Today his […]
Jamal Humes remains missing…so is twenty-four-year-old Eugenio Rodriguez. Both men are residents of Belize City and haven’t been seen for the past several days. Earlier today, the Belize Police Department spoke on both, unrelated disappearances. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City “We have two missing persons, the first one was reported on Saturday, […]
Are you feeling a little funny in your stomach? It may not be the extra ham, turkey, soft drink or black cake you ate this weekend, according to the Ministry of Health. Since the start of December, the Ministry’s information system for public hospitals and reports by private clinics have noticed an increase in the […]
Starting today and for the remainder of the week, the Kidney Association of Belize has embarked on a sensitization and education campaign entitled “Empowering the Kidneys through Healthy Lifestyles.” The goal is to create awareness on the various kidney diseases and other illnesses that continue to plaque the Belizean society. At today’s clinic at the […]
With only nine days to go in 2017, crime statistics for the past twelve months indicate that there are equal numbers of homicides recorded between this year and 2016. That figure stands at one hundred and thirty-eight murders. The paring down of the body count in Belize City can be attributed to effective crime fighting […]
The introduction of Operation ACT, a direct law enforcement response to the spike in violent crimes during the months of September and October, has, to a certain extent, stemmed the flow of blood in the streets of Belize City. One can’t help but wonder, however, that had these measures been put in place much earlier […]
The feud among inner city gangs, particularly during the aftermath of ACP Chester Williams’ departure from his previous post as Commander of Eastern Division South, is responsible for the upsurge in violent crimes. While those incidents have since been tapered, the work of the Gang Suppression Unit remains arduous. Not only is the GSU the […]
The Belize Police Department, despite its many internal challenges this year, is beating its chest proudly and basking in the success of Operation ACT. Much of that achievement was made by the men and women of law enforcement who continue to work steadfastly in keeping the citizenry safe. The brass of the department, while acknowledging […]
And finally from ComPol Whylie, is a projection of what can be expected of the department come January 2018. While many of its challenges are ever-present, the agency is armed with several crime fighting resources to tackle those obstacles head-on. The boots-on-the-ground approach to policing is also being bolstered an internal review of existing laws, […]
