He was killed 6 days ago, and tonight police have charged two persons for the murder of Dr Naum Bonilla. Shockingly, one of them is a medical professional and the doctor's former business partner.
This evening police formally arrested and charged 26-year-old Hannah Foreman, a laboratory scientist, and 37-year-old Edwin Bethran Jr., an electrician jointly with the crime of murder.
Foreman allegedly arranged the hit and hired Bethran to carry it out. That is what investigators believe. But why would a 26-year-old woman do such a thing?
Tonight we can tell you that it was likely the product of a business dispute.
Foreman was Dr Bonilla's former 50/50 business partner in Insights Medical Clinic and Belmopan Medical Laboratory Services, which the duo established under a joint agreement in November 2023.
They had a bitter ownership dispute shortly after the business successfully secured a lucrative National Health Insurance (NHI) laboratory services tender in January 2026. In court filings, Foreman claims that following the successful bid, Dr. Bonilla orchestrated a de facto expulsion to push her out of the company. She alleges that Dr. Bonilla locked her out of the facilities, cut off her digital administrative access, and put her on "Administrative Suspension".
Dr. Bonilla had also leveled severe accusations against Foreman accusing her of diverting patient payments to personal accounts and destroying official receipts and testing logs. And of attempting to secretly register the business under her sole name using a allegedly forged signature.
The court found that the dispute required a full trial, and both sides were waiting on that when the murder was allegedly orchestrated.
Police picked up Foreman hours after the shooting and investigators believe that she hired Edwin Bethran to carry out the hit. He allegedly did so while the doctor was taking his 5-year-old to school last Friday morning, resulting in one of the most shocking murders Belmopan has ever seen, leaving a wide imprint of grief across the community.
