Former Lands Commissioner Detained
He sat in the seat of power in the so-called hotbed of corruption for ten years, as the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys, but tonight Wilbert Vallejos finds himself in [...]
He sat in the seat of power in the so-called hotbed of corruption for ten years, as the Commissioner of Lands and Surveys, but tonight Wilbert Vallejos finds himself in [...]
Twenty-five-year-old Shane Flowers was the last murder victim for 2020. The Taylor’s Alley resident was dispatched in a hail of bullets on New Year’s Eve and a female companion with [...]
The first murder for the New Year was recorded on the night of January first in Santa Cruz Village in southern Belize. The body of Placencia resident, Kelvin Lindo was [...]
Four other persons lost their lives over the extended weekend. The first includes a fourteen-year-old boy whose body was discovered in a sitting position in a bedroom at the home [...]
An investigation is underway in Belize City where a resident, who was detained by police, was discovered dead inside a holding cell at the precinct. Gregorio Bowen was taken into [...]
Two persons also died as a result of a collision on the Southern Highway between a motorcycle and a pickup truck around six p.m. on January second. Sixteen-year-old Edwin Marquez [...]
Belize’s first Governor General Doctor Dame Elmira Minita Gordon died New Year’s Day in Inglewood, California at the age of ninety. Doctor Dame Minita Gordon served as Governor General from [...]
Doctor Dame Minita Gordon was educated in Belize City at Saint John’s Girl’s School and Saint Mary’s Primary School, and later graduated to attend the Teacher’s Training College. Her first [...]
While 2020 closed with the murder of Shane Flowers, it still ended on a high note for the Belize Police Department. The murder rate is significantly down; in fact the [...]
And so, going into 2021, ComPol Chester Williams and his senior officers are already in the process of re-strategizing the department’s crime fighting efforts, with a view to realize a [...]
The Gang Suppression Unit has been dissolved and so too has the Anti-Gang Task Force. In their place is a new component of law enforcement that will specialize in hunting [...]
So what becomes of the officers that formed the erstwhile Gang Suppression Unit, will they also be part of the most recent iteration of special assignment officers? According to ComPol [...]
Police are also investigating the disappearance of an elderly man in the west. But this missing person’s case is unlike others we’ve covered and as police and family members have [...]
There was yet another weed bust on the Philip Goldson Highway. In Orange Walk on January second, police intercepted a vehicle driven at the time by Akeem Bowen; he was [...]
Intake 95 will go down as arguably the most diverse and qualified cohort of young recruits to enlist in the Belize Police Department. Only two hundred and twenty-five eligible men [...]
The government is reporting that the Guatemalan Navy illegally entered Belize’s territorial waters on Thursday, December thirty-first, in the south. A release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that [...]
Six additional COVID-19 deaths were recorded on the final day of 2020 and over the weekend two additional deaths were also reported. Seven new COVID-19 deaths were reported today, bringing [...]
The first baby of 2021 was delivered at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City. Weighing in at nine pounds four ounces, baby Bryce was born to thirty-year-old Joycelin [...]