Police are swiftly enforcing state of emergency regulations. In San Pedro where a mother and daughter have the virus, three persons were charged with “Breach of Curfew Conditions.” This is [...]
Attorney Arthur Saldivar is the second person to be charged for spreading false information in relation to COVID-19. The charge comes after Saldivar made a Facebook post on Saturday, claiming [...]
Police say that they have arrested a group of men for failing to comply with the social distancing act in light of COVID-19. The arrest was made at a bar [...]
Police are coming down hard on persons who do not observe quarantine measures in place. Over the weekend, three persons were charged for public drinking in the south. Police say [...]
And in a separate case – but related to the issue of public drinking – we turn to an incident that allegedly involves a senior police officer. A video was [...]
On Saturday morning, around eight o’clock, police conducted a search at a residence in San Ignacio where they found unlicensed ammunition. Three persons, who were at the residence at the [...]
Forty-one-year-old Kenrick Reneau was shot in the foot this morning. The resident of Consuelo Street was shot by police when he attempted to flee the scene of an attempted burglary. [...]
Twenty-five-year-old Erika Vargas, a resident of Orange Walk Town, is the first person on record to be charged with spreading false news. The arraignment follows a stern warning from Attorney [...]
In other news, an Orange Walk man was found dead in a pond. Police say that no injuries were observed on the body and it is suspected that Nolasco Gonzalez, [...]
Police are looking for four men who committed a robbery and shooting in Bella Vista Village earlier this week. On Monday, the assailants held up a security guard and robbed [...]
An argument between in-laws has left one person hospitalized and another facing an attempted murder charge. Police say that during the early hours of Tuesday morning, a family was socializing [...]
Since the round-up of gang members in Belize City, the gun violence has subsided. But there was a murder recorded over the weekend in southern Belize. Around midday on March [...]
It’s been almost a week since five-year-old Kia Herbert was senselessly murdered inside her house on Pitter Street in Belize City; she was with her mother, Frances Herbert when shots [...]
As the crackdown of suspected gang members continues, police today hoarded away a first group of affiliates. The men were picked up at different times and places and kept in [...]
The full force of the law to crack down on crime came down as early as three o’clock on Wednesday morning when the round up began in neighbourhoods in the [...]
Several persons were arraigned this evening in the lower courts after being charged for crimes ranging from attempted murder to murder. On Tuesday afternoon, twenty-two-year-old Derrick King, an employee of [...]
At a press conference this evening, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams provided an update on operations being conducted under the existing state of emergency, beginning with an increase in the [...]
Investigators are closer to making arrests in at least three of the murders that occurred earlier this week. According to Commissioner Williams, they have made significant inroads in cracking the [...]
ComPol Chester Williams stopped short of divulging operational details of police activities that are scheduled for this weekend, suffice to say that the ramped up presence of officers in the [...]
The recent spike in gun violence in the Old Capital claimed the lives of two innocent children in two separate incidents. Five-year-old Kia Herbert was fatally shot on Tuesday as [...]
Also speaking on the topic was Minister of Education, Youth, and Sport Patrick Faber. Kia Herbert was a constituent in the Collet Division which is, Faber’s constituency. The Minister says [...]
The coronavirus, crime and the recent crash of a B.D.F. helicopter, in which four soldiers perished; are heavy and hugely critical issues facing the nation. First on the matter of [...]
While police conducted an early morning raid today, it is believed that a number of persons, who are wanted for involvement in gang activity, may have given them the slip [...]
It is expected that of the eighty-two persons, who are presently in custody and are headed to the Belize Central Prison for the next thirty days, a number of them—through [...]
Equally challenging for the Belize Police Department, in its attempt to put away known gang members, is the fact that the lower courts continue to impose fines and grant subsequent [...]
