A young man is hospitalized after being hit by a car on Monday night on Plues Street. Police say two officers, Assistant Inspector Eli Salazar and Corporal Fitzroy Yearwood observed four youths on Church Street approach another youth and demand money. When they were refused, one of the men hit the youth, later identified as […]
Stann Creek police are looking for a man they believe was involved in the murder of a Guatemalan woman in San Juan Village on Boxing Day. Luis Roches is wanted in connection with the death of Norma Juarez whose body was found on the night of the twenty-sixth just yards from her home with a […]
Police have made another arrest in connection with the series of robberies that occurred over the Christmas Holiday. According to A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez, Head of C.I.B., fifteen year old Anthony Crawford, a student of C.E.T., will be charged along with Steven Terry for two counts of robbery committed upon Dawn Sampson and Erwin Jones on […]
A youth from the King’s Park area is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he received several chop wounds to his body. According to police Paul Anthony Jex was walking down Euphrates Avenue around six Monday evening when Anthony Peña and two other men began to pursue him. Jex is reported to have run […]
Immigration and customs violations are not the only concerns for law enforcement officials at Belize’s borders, nor are they the sole focus of officials on the other side, in neighboring countries. Today the Police Chief from Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala and the Sub-Commissioner for the department of the Peten paid a special visit to Belize. […]
A new group of artists are in town… Jade. The six members of the band all hailing from San Ignacio and Benque Viejo have just brought out their first compact disc entitled, “La Tierra Llora” or in English, “The earth cries.” Iliana Moreno told us more about how the group got together and the meaning […]
While police decline to report recent incidents of serious crime, except twice a week, at the same time they have little to say regarding a number of unsolved murders. Chief among them is the killing of thirteen year old Sherilee Nicholas. The Belize City girl, missing since September, was found stabbed to death on October […]
