It is the largest jailbreak in recent history and one fatality has been confirmed as a result, while several others are injured and recaptured. As many as twenty-eight inmates managed to escape the Belize Central Prison on Monday evening after holding prison guards hostage for more than five hours. We’ll get to those details in […]
At news time, there are at least twenty-four prisoners on the lam; one has been killed and three have been recaptured in an operation in which police and the B.D.F. have pulled out all stops to get them back. The biggest prison break took place on Monday, a public and bank holiday. It started after […]
The police and B.D.F. search stretched miles away from the Hattieville prison extending to the Coastal Road where there was an exchange of gunfire between a group of the escapees and law enforcement. But back at the prison, the situation remained tenuous giving way to an uprising this morning. More than one hundred prisoners in […]
So far we are told that at least one prisoner was shot and killed and two others captured during an operation on the Coastal Road. Police and B.D.F. are still in the area trying to locate the escapees. The first prisoner to be recaptured was Mark Pelayo. He was detained near a checkpoint on the […]
The circumstances of the largest jailbreak in recent history are puzzling given the fact that three prison guards were held hostage for five hours by a prison trustee who was allowed certain privileges one week ago before the prison break. So was it an inside job? Did prison guards assist the escapees? Prison C.E.O. Virgilio Murillo […]
Three prison officers were held hostage during the brazen jailbreak. One of them is Wendell Coc, a Basic Grade Prisoner Officer. He was on the first floor of the Administration Segregation building feeding prisoners along with inmate trustee Carlos Montejo when Montejo turned on him and held him at knifepoint. Coc recounted his ordeal outside […]
The twenty-eight prisoners escaped through the rear of the prison compound near the Administration Segregation building. There are no cameras in that area and so there are no images of the actual jailbreak. This morning, Murillo explained the absence of cameras in the rear area of the prison compound. Virgilio Murillo, C.E.O., Kolbe Foundation […]
Police had their hands full on the extended weekend. Aside from the unprecedented jail break, there was a narco-plane landing and three persons were murdered over the weekend. The first murder occurred in Belize City outside a popular shop in the King’s Park area. Leon Peyrefitte is believed to have been lured to his death […]
The second person to die in a hail of bullets over the weekend is Shakeem Dennison. The twenty-six-year-old was brazenly murdered on Monday afternoon when he was playing basketball, the sport he loved. The gunman rode up to the court on Yabra and opened fire on Dennison. He was rushed to the hospital, but succumbed. […]
The victims of both Belize City murders, according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, were persons who were in violation of the Quarantine Regulations, as one was socializing in the open where public drinking is not allowed and the other was playing basketball. Contact sports, including basketball, are presently prohibited. In the context of the […]
The third murder for the weekend took place in San Pedro Town. Marisela Gonzalez was executed; shot to the head and her body discarded near the dump site on the island. The twenty-eight-year-old was the mother of a young daughter and residents on the island are asking for justice. On Sunday morning, police went out […]
A suspected drug plane landed in a remote area between Shipyard and Crooked Tree Village early on Sunday morning. When police arrived on scene, the crew had already offloaded the cargo, destroyed and buried the aircraft and departed from the area. Today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told the press that they had received tracking […]
As you heard just now, Commissioner Chester Williams said that three pieces of heavy equipment were found at the scene. The police have since seized the equipment and are working to verify who owns them. Williams also told the press today that they are also working to determine who owns the land where they found […]
The number of deaths due to COVID-19 has gone up a notch. Two more persons died as a result of having contracted COVID-19 over the weekend. Those numbers were recorded earlier today to include a woman from Corozal District who died suddenly over the holiday weekend. That woman, according to Director of Health Services, Doctor […]
From recent statistics gathered by the Ministry of Health, there are indications that COVID-19 has found its way into three military camps in the north, west and south of the country. According to Doctor Marvin Manzanero, cases are also being recorded in the coastguard. The numbers up to Monday night show that there are nine […]
At the Belize Central Prison, the number of COVID-19 cases appears to be contained at sixteen thus far. According to DHS Manzanero, eight prison officers, as well as eight inmates, male and female are afflicted with the disease. Dr. Marvin Manzanero, Director of Health Services “The last note we had is that we had […]
As many as twenty persons are without roofs over their heads tonight. A fire on Friday night completely destroyed an apartment complex located on Partridge Street in Belize City. The fire started at apartment one where a four-year-old child was playing with a lighter; the blaze quickly spread throughout the building which housed eight families. […]
There was a second fire in Belize City that gutted a wooden house belonging to the Ramclam family. On Monday night, the Ramclam family was asleep when the fire broke at the house located on Mahogany Street. Fire fighters managed to contain the blaze from spreading, but the Ramclam’s lost everything. The cause of the […]
Executive members of the Belize Peace Movement today filed papers at the Belize Court General Registry seeking a Court injunction to stop the General Elections set for November eleventh. The Peace Movement, which has a pending court matter with the Belize Elections Department before the Supreme Court, is asking the court to stop the government […]
When it comes to policing COVID-19, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says his officers are issuing too many warnings and not taking enough action to charge those breaking the law. We’ve received complaints from persons who say they have observed a large number of persons in Spanish Lookout who are not adhering to the wearing […]
