There was another tragic death. Sometime after six on Saturday, police were called out to the Krooman Lagoon area at the entrance on mile one and half on the George Price Highway where a one-year-eleven-month old boy was found in a vat situated next to the house. The baby, Kelvin Sanchez, was last seen inside […]
The official ceremonies on Independence Day took place in Belmopan. Since Prime Minister Dean Barrow was not available for the event and still in recovery, Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber was named as the PM’s representative. Faber is one of the few that have given the official G.O.B. statement on Independence Day. He spoke on […]
The three arms of the Ministry of National Security have taken a collective position as it relates to the International Court of Justice. Appearing in uniforms this morning on Open Your Eyes, were Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, Rear Admiral John Borland of the Belize Coastguard and Brigadier General Steven Ortega from the Belize […]
The Belize Defence and the Belize Coastguard are charged with protecting the sovereignty of Belize and its internal security. The B.D.F. and the Coastguard are both active in the Sarstoon where the Guatemalans have been turning Belizeans back from traversing the river. This morning, the B.D.F.’s Steven Ortega said that it was his view that […]
A Santa Elena resident is tonight fighting for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting on Saturday night in Santa Elena. Harvey Trapp was shot in the head just before nine p.m. as he and several friends socialized at a house on Santa Teresita Street in that western town. The twenty-seven-year-old […]
There was a shootout between police and a gunman in the vicinity of the Swing Bridge on Saturday morning just before five o’clock. A senior officer travelling along with a sergeant of police and a B.D.F. soldier were in an unmarked pickup truck, assigned to the Police Department, when they were alerted of a gunman […]
There was yet another shooting in the Neal’s Pen Road area of Belize City; the fourth in the past two weeks. But today, police say that the shooting of thirty-seven-year-old Leroy Waller is unrelated and that he was simply at the wrong place at the time. On the night of Independence Day, Waller was walking […]
On the twentieth night as Belizeans were in a celebratory mood, an attack was made on the San Joaquin house of a Corporal of Police attached to the Corozal Police Station. According to his common-law-wife, around ten p.m., she heard several blasts outside their home, but thought it involved fireworks from the festivities. It was […]
One man has been charged in connection with the brawl at the Pier One Bar at Digi Park two weeks ago. That person is Dwayne Michael Leslie and not Wayne Leslie as the police had first said. Dwayne has been charged and arraigned for dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm in connection […]
Traffic accidents in the north, west and south claimed the lives of three persons. On Thursday night at about nine-thirty when Belizeans were getting ready to celebrate, a hit and run accident happened at mile forty-one on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Twenty-two-year-old Caroline Riverol from Carmelita was knocked down by a truck. Riverol was walking […]
There was also a fatal road traffic accident in southern Belize. It occurred in the village of Buena Vista on the Southern Highway and it was also a hit and run where the victim was left on the highway. Sixty-two-year-old Guatemalan farmer, Juan Pop was knocked down and killed between miles forty-four and forty-five. […]
And in the west, there was a third victim of a traffic accident. Carlos Jimenez, a twenty-four-year-old Honduran national, leapt to his death from a moving passenger bus on around three-thirty p.m. last Thursday. It is not known why he tried to evade the police checkpoint, but it cost him his life. Assistant Commissioner of […]
While those road traffic incidents were fatal, a police officer is lucky to be alive after a speeding pickup truck hit him during a routine check point in the Red Creek area of Santa Elena. The incident occurred on Friday night around seven o’clock; Police Constable Cruz Garcia was injured by the pickup. It is […]
Two Guatemalan nationals are in trouble with immigration tonight after they were detained over the weekend in the Calla Creek area in western Belize. Humberto Munroy and Ervin Garcia, both residents of Melchor De Mencos, Guatemala were found travelling in a Toyota pickup truck carrying forty cases of uncustomed insecticide. Police say they were nabbed […]
This morning, shortly after nine, Intermediate Southern Formation officers were called to an apartment building in Bella Vista Village. There, they made a shocking discovery of a thirty-year-old man who had apparently ingested a pesticide. Police have linked his death to the case of a fifteen-year-old girl, also of San Isidro Village who was rushed […]
A coastguard officer finds himself on the other side of the law tonight after he was arraigned today for the crime of possession of a controlled drug. Just before seven p.m. on Thursday, twenty-five-year-old Lenard Flores was searched during a routine preventative patrol, also known as a stop and search. Inside a bag he was […]
Twenty-two-year-old Nishal Sankat, the son of the University of Belize President Clement Sankat, is being held in detention tonight in Orlando, Florida. Late last week, the young Sankat attempted to steal a commercial plane that was sitting at tarmac of the Orlando Melbourne International Airport. He was denied bail on Friday because he is considered […]
An official memorial service was held at Saint John’s Cathedral this afternoon for the late Dean Russel Lindo. Family, U.D.P. supporters, the Bar Association, as well as friends from all walks of life gathered to say goodbye to the first leader of the United Democratic Party. The sermon inside the packed cathedral was delivered by […]
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There are two major developments on the illegal landing of a drug plane with fourteen million dollars worth of cocaine. The drug, one thousand two hundred and twenty-six pounds of it, packed in bales, was destroyed today in western Belize in an operation mounted by the police. The other very significant event happened here in […]
Tests confirm that more than one thousand two hundred twenty-six pounds of cocaine were inside bales discharged from a CESSNA aircraft on September ninth. Today, a convoy of heavily armed police transported the drug to a site in Georgeville, Cayo, for its destruction. On arrival, the parcels of cocaine were removed from the transporting vehicle […]
On Wednesday, P.U.P. Leader and Orange Walk Town Central Area, Representative John Briceño expressed shock when he learned that Orange Walk Commanding Officer, David Chi, had been implicated in the cocaine bust. Prior to the seizure on September ninth in Tres Leguas, near Blue Creek, Briceño spoke candidly about previous drug plane landings up north, […]
Ten days after he was shot, a Chinese businessman, Jing Wu, succumbed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Wu was along with his sideman, who is believed to have been the intended target. A gunman surprised the duo on Lovely Lane where they were making a delivery. Rogelio Selgado from a Majestic Alley address was […]
A Belize City resident is the latest victim of gun violence. Twenty-five-year-old Michael Arnold was shot this morning sometime around ten-forty as he was riding his bike on York Street in Belize City. He received one injury to the buttocks and is now hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. in a stable condition. According to neighbors in […]
Prior to this morning’s shooting on York Street, at about seven p.m. on Wednesday night, shots rang out—some say up to nine blasts—on Neal Pen Road Extension. As the echoes from the blasts subsided, two brothers had been hit. Thirty-five-year-old moneylender, Jermaine Garbutt and forty-year-old deliveryman Everal Neal were hit to the feet. The siblings […]
