Crime
GoB and JUNT make headway in negotiations
Photo: Hon. Cordel Hyde, Deputy Prime Minister
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 2, 2024
The...
Another successful Agric weekend concludes
Photo: Musical Entertainment
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 1, 2024
The National Agriculture and Trade...
Remembering Hon. Michael “Mike” Espat
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 25, 2024
Belize has lost one of its longest-serving...
Belizean teen nets Yale scholarship
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 25, 2024
Seventeen-year-old Douglas Langford, Jr. from Belize has...
Police crime stats say rapes up a whopping 62%. Murders up 22%, but burglaries down 7.8%
BELIZE CITY--Belize was reportedly the only country in Central America which experienced a decline in murders in 2013, but the preliminary statistical report released...
Famous footballer, 34, charged with carnal knowledge of girl, 15
BELMOPAN--A well-known football star was granted bail today at the Belmopan Supreme Court after being on remand since Tuesday of this week due to...
Kraal Road violence: 1 man stabbed, 1 man shot, in separate incidents
BELIZE CITY--Two men are being treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) after one was shot multiple times and the other seriously stabbed.
The...
Honduran caretaker, 27, charged for murder of Harmonyville farmer
MORE TOMORROW, Cayo District--A 27-year-old Honduran farm caretaker of a More Tomorrow Village Road address was charged by police late this evening for the...
Burglary on the rise during Christmas season
BELIZE CITY--Over $90,000 in cash and properties have been stolen by thieves from property owners since the beginning of the police response to the...
4 thieves escape after police high-speed chase
ORANGE WALK TOWN--A Mazda 4-door car has been impounded by Orange Walk police after it was abandoned by four robbers during a high-speed chase...
Epileptic charged with attempted murder for Mahogany Heights shooting
BELIZE CITY--A Mahogany Heights man who suffers from epilepsy was remanded to the Belize Central Prison when he was arraigned on charges of attempted...
Boy, 4, killed while running across the highway after getting off bus
SOUTHERN HIGHWAY--Kiwan Awardo, 4, of Sittee River, was killed on the Southern Highway at about 4:45 Saturday evening as he was crossing the road....
Man busted with .38 Special revolver on Sibun Street
BELIZE CITY--Jose David Funez, 33, of a Sibun Street address, has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison until February 12, 2015, on charges...
Boat attendant remanded to prison for allegedly sexually assaulting 7-year-old girl
BELIZE CITY--A Biscayne resident was arraigned on two counts of sexual assault upon a 7-year-old girl and was remanded to the Belize Central Prison...
Crazy chopping in Paraiso!
PARAISO, Corozal District-- A jealous relationship that went terribly wrong has led to the death of a man and a woman who were...
Sexual misbehavior in office by cop gets him 2 months in jail
BELIZE CITY--An interdicted police constable who was facing charges of harm and aggravated assault of an indecent nature upon a woman police constable was...
Former KREM Radio deejay murdered in Esperanza
ESPERANZA, Cayo District--Samir Fernandez, 22, of Santa Elena Town, Cayo District, well-known as DJ Kidd, a former KREM Radio deejay and winner of KREM...
Former gang member tells court he is a born-again Christian
BELIZE CITY--A Belize City former gang member, who was arrested for displaying gang insignia tattoos in public, told Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning...
