A mega drug cocaine drug bust last week involving a boat moored at the Princess Hotel, a single engine plane and two S.U.V.s won’t result in any drug charges. The operation started on Sunday and involved the B.D.F., the Police Department and the Coastguard, but something went awfully wrong. First, a group of twelve Guatemalan […]
Around ten a.m., five of the seven Guatemalans appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner for the cache of ammo found on them at a checkpoint in Hattieville and at a hotel in Belize City. They are: forty-one-year-olds Marco Palencia and Mario Moreira Lopez, forty-year-old Gilberto Jimenez, forty-six-year-old Bernardo Carillas de la Franco and fifty-four-year-old Sergio Morales […]
This afternoon, the two remaining Guatemalan nationals were also hauled before the courts and charged along with the first group for having entered the country illegally. Jorge Martinez Pinto and Luis Martinez Diaz were joined by Sergio Morales and arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for having entered the country through the western border in […]
On Friday morning, the fatal shooting of Police Constable Osbourne Martinez and a robbery at the Belcove Hotel in the downtown area as well as the arrest of three perpetrators were all caught on camera. Three PIV youths were charged for the chilling murder of PC Martinez and this morning, Rayford Mejia and Glen Lopez, […]
It was a busy day in court…Brothers, forty-one-year-old Orlando and thirty-seven-year-old Kareem Staine were found not guilty of the murder of twenty-three-year-old B.D.F. volunteer soldier Denver Villafranco. The ruling was delivered by Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas in a trial without a jury. A third brother, forty-six-year-old Phil Staine, did not share the same luck; […]
Armed robbers also hit a business in the Cayo District. Two Hispanic men, one armed with a handgun, held up the owner of Lily’s Store in San Ignacio Town at around eleven o’clock this morning. Surveillance video shows the men ordering the storeowner to place the cash inside a knapsack, while the armed robber held […]
Ryan Cole from Tibruce Street, in the Saint Martin De Porres area has been arrested and charged for the armed robbery at Freetown Drug Store. He along with another suspect, who police believe they have in their custody, entered the drug store on Thursday night and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the proprietor. […]
With the alarming number of robberies across the south and north sides of Belize City, the police is threatening to reinstate a state of emergency. Numerous businesses have been hit at day time and at night by armed robbers who are believed to be working in a ring. Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says […]
Port Loyola opened up the convention season for the United Democratic Party. The four-man race was hotly contested with at least two of the candidates getting major support and endorsement from the very top of the U.D.P. Phillip Willoughby, who has been in the trenches for decades, shored up support from Patrick Faber and John […]
As we said, the sitting area rep mouthed early support for Michael Peyrefitte, as leader of the party, but first the attorney general had to secure the Port. Now that Martinez’s blessings went nowhere to persuade voters, would he consider retiring early? At a press event this morning, Martinez says he was not fazed by […]
Shots were fired as the convention was being held on Sunday. In an effort to intervene in an altercation between two rival gangs, a police officer fired warning shots in the air. No one was injured, but tensions were diffused. Here is how the Deputy Commissioner Chester Williams explained what transpired. Chester Williams, Commissioner […]
In July, Prime Minister Dean Barrow met with representatives of the diaspora to discuss the two-month residency requirement to re-register to vote in the April 2019 referendum. Belizeans living overseas say it is a requirement that they can’t satisfy and up to now, there has been no ‘common ground’ solution to disenfranchisement of the diaspora. […]
Samuel August Senior, who is accused of killing his five-year-old son, Samir, and his mother-in-law, Louise Young, remains hospitalized under police guard at the K.H.M.H. August Senior is accused of taking a backhoe and ramming it into Young’s house causing her death and that of his son; two other houses were also damaged last Wednesday. […]
Three months ago, rehabilitation works commenced at the Supreme Court building in downtown Belize City. The works are part of a much larger infrastructural revitalization mission to rejuvenate the Belize City House of Culture and the heart of the Old Capital. The court’s rehabilitation works included roof repairs, ceiling and electrical works—totaling a cost of […]
Police also reported today on the electrocution of a resident of Spanish Lookout area. On Friday, November second police were called to a farm in Greenhill where they discovered the body of Jose Barrera. Barrera was walking along with a co-worker when he was struck by lightning. ACP Joseph Myvett says a post-mortem on his […]
Back in May, the Belize Police Department launched its second annual Youth Mentorship Programme, which culminated today with a certification ceremony for the youths who made it through to the end. The programme looks at positively impacting the lives of at-risk youths by teaching them life lesson skills and equipping them with values. The overall […]
