A grisly discovery of two nude bodies on a remote road in the Toledo District has left the southern community in shock. The bodies are that of two sisters – sixteen-year-old Josephine Oh and nineteen-year-old Cricencia Oh. The girls received huge chop wounds – and photos of the scene shows a chopped off part of […]
A trio of Mexican nationals was arraigned this afternoon before Magistrate Sharon Frazer for scamming the Atlantic Bank of a substantive amount of cash. The trio comprises of a couple and a resident from Cancun who were charged with the sophisticated theft of various Atlantic Bank ATM’s up north, but police are investigating more than […]
A week after killing his mother with a crowbar, wanted Carmelita resident, Andy Rhaburn was captured by Orange Walk Police in the vicinity of Rhaburn Ridge on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Rhaburn was on the lam for the past six days and was considered armed and dangerous after he attacked and killed fifty-four-year-old Braulia Pech […]
On Friday, thirty-six-year-old William Godoy of San Pedro was charged for the murder of twenty-eight-year-old Alfredo Cowo, who had foretold his demise a week before. Cowo claimed that his life had been threatened as two officers were on trial for a shooting incident on the island involving him and five others. Officers Norman Coye and […]
There were two separate shootings on Sunday night on the south side of Belize City. Around six-thirty p.m., a data entry clerk was shot to the right arm as she spoke with a man on Casaurina Street. Twenty-six-year-old Ajesha Humes is tonight hospitalized in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. The duo was talking when […]
Minutes later, gunshots rang out again; this time on Antelope Street Extension. Eleck McKoy was shot to the face by a lone gunman who came up to him at close range and opened fire. Police say that they have not been able to gather much information as McKoy discharged himself from the hospital minutes after […]
Over in San Pedro Town, a couple was targeted by a gunman in the San Juan area. Gilberto Lara and Catherine Torres were on their way home, traveling on a golf cart sometime after three o’clock on Saturday morning when someone opened fire on the unsuspecting couple. The bullets grazed Torres, while Lara was hit […]
Western Paradise labourer Shakeem Humes was charged with possession of five hundred and eleven grams or one point one pounds of cannabis with intent to supply for drug trafficking today before Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer. Police say that on Friday night, a vehicle coming from Central American Boulevard onto Mopan Street refused to stop when […]
Last May, Director of the Government’s Press Office, Dorian Pakeman, walked out of the Magistrate’s Court a free man. Then-Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer upheld a no-case submission for lack of evidence against Pakeman, who was accused of causing the death, by careless conduct, of Gardenia resident Dean Dawson on the Phillip Goldson Highway the previous […]
A retrial is pending in the case of Tyrone Meighan, Orel Leslie and Brandon Baptist, who were acquitted in 2015 of the November 2012 murder of Belize Defence Force soldier James Noralez. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions successfully appealed the decision of then-Supreme Court Justice Troadio Gonzalez in the Court of Appeal, […]
Separate busts of marijuana were made in Camalote village and in Western Paradise village on Sunday. Belmopan police recovered five parcels containing a total of four and a half pounds of cannabis on a feeder road which was deposited as found property. Around five in the evening, the Gang Suppression Unit was on operations in […]
When you do the right thing, it pays off. Just ask Johana Ramos – the fourteen-year-old student of Maud Williams High School was recognized today with an award for her commitment to the Police Department’s ‘Du Di Rait Ting’ program. The award is for October 2017 but the first former is not slowing down with […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
