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 extensions when they cannot meet their payment schedules. This allows known criminals to remain on the streets to wreak havoc. According to the Commissioner of […]
Minister of State Elodio Aragon Junior, himself a former ranking police officer, is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Ministry of National Security which includes the Belize Police Department. While additional men and women have been deployed into the streets of the city, more boots on the ground will not solve the issues of […]
Eight areas across the city are on lockdown tonight as a state of emergency is in effect. The crime that swept through the Old Capital at the start of the week left seven persons dead. Derrick King, an employee of Bowen and Bowen, was shot and killed on Tuesday afternoon on West Street while he […]
As we’ve said, the security measures put in place by the Ministry of National Security was triggered by the bloodbath in the Old Capital. Within less than forty-eight hours, seven persons were killed and nine others injured in as many as nine shooting incidents between Sunday night and Tuesday morning. The north side of Belize […]
Another innocent infant was senselessly killed in the spate of violence in the city. Five-year-old Kia Herbert was sleeping with her mother inside their bedroom when a gunman aimed his gun at the house on Pitter House. Frances Herbert was struck once to the shoulder, but baby Kia took three bullets to the abdomen and […]
The Lake Independence area is in lockdown, having been identified as a hotspot for gang activity. B.D.F. soldiers and police officers are stationed at all streets and access to that community. On Monday night, the gun violence in the Old Capital ended up on Gladden Street where a father of one was executed. Collet Morter […]
In the face of an imminent threat from the coronavirus, a crime wave is sweeping across the city. There is word tonight that B.D.F. soldiers will be deployed to the streets of the Old Capital to stem the violence. The past forty-eight hours have been one of the deadliest; seven persons have been murdered, including […]
The lives of two innocent children were taken following separate shooting incidents on Sunday night and Tuesday morning. As the city reeled from the crime wave since Sunday, the nation woke up this morning to the shocking and painful news of the murder of five-year-old Kia Herbert. The child was murdered as she slept with […]
Among the seven persons to be senselessly killed in the past forty-eight hours, is another infant, four-year-old Dominic Rhamdas. The young child was at home when his mother Shakira White and her boyfriend Philip Leslie were both murdered on Sunday night. A crazed gunman unleashed as many as twenty shots on Leslie; Shakira took seventeen […]
Before Kia Herbert, was gunned down in her house, a father of one was shot and killed in Belize City. Collet Morter was hanging out with friends when the killer reportedly approached the house and called him out. Morter went to the door to check who it was, but before he stepped outside, he was […]
Aside from the seven murders, nine persons have been injured in shootings in the violence that ash erupted in the past two days. On Jane Usher Boulevard this morning around nine o’clock, two persons, including an elderly man, were injured in gun violence. A group of men were targeted as they stood near a residence […]
There was another shooting earlier in the morning. Several shots were fired at a house on the south side of Belize City, fortunately no one was injured. Police were called out to Antelope Street Extension around one a.m. where forty-two-year-old security guard Brian Smith reported to police that he, his wife and two children were […]
In less than forty-eight hours, gun violence has claimed the lives of as many as seven persons, including two children ages four and five. Nine others, including an elderly man and a two-year-old girl, were also injured in the rash of senseless violence that started around eight p.m. on Sunday and continued up to this […]
Kareem Musa says that like COVID-19, there needs to be a bipartisan approach to solving the crime spree that has the city under siege. The inequality in the system, the lack of access to education, land and jobs are among the root causes of crime, which Musa says must be addressed in an effort to […]
Gun and firearms are known to be illegally pouring from across the borders and smuggled into the country in many ways, all contributing to the mad state of affairs on the streets. While that problem also needs urgent attention, Musa says that the possible implementation of a curfew given the spike in crime should be […]
The bloodbath in the streets, including the murder of young children, is prompting condemnation. Earlier today, the National Committee for Families and Children in collaboration with the Office of the Special Envoy and the Ministry of Human Development as well as the National Women’s Commission issued a joint release, alarmed at the increase in the […]
Four persons were murdered between Friday and Sunday nights; three of the murders were committed in Belize City. We start with the shocking killing of a couple. Philip Leslie and Shakira White were inside their home in the Kings Park area when they came under attack from a gunman. Leslie perished immediately, while White died […]
The weekend gun violence started as early as Friday night. Eighteen-year-old Frederick Williams was targeted at his home on Partridge Street Extension. Williams was released from police custody that same night after being in custody for forty-eight hours. Minutes later, he was dead, shot many times. Police believe the murder was gang related. Here is […]
There is further loss of life. On Sunday afternoon, the body of a Hattieville resident was discovered near the bridge at the Belize/Mexico border in Corozal. It was identified as that of Ryan Lucas. He had been stabbed multiple times and his body discarded in the area. At this time, it is not known what […]
In another act of violence, Stephen Ferguson was shot on Sunday night and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. It happened just before eight o’clock in front of his family’s home. Ferguson, an employee of Great Belize Productions, was inside his black Ford Edge SUV on West Street when he heard gunshots. Within seconds, […]
Eighteen-year-old Earl Baptist is recovering from a gunshot wound. Baptist was released from the Queen Street Police Station in Belize City this afternoon and was making his way down Pink’s Alley when he was targeted. Reports are that Baptist and another person were heading to catch a cab when the gunman approached from the rear […]
A man was robbed, tied up and dumped in a river, but he survived the ordeal. Police say that they have two of the men responsible for the crime. San Narciso resident told Corozal police that five persons attacked him on the morning of March twelfth and after the criminals got what they wanted, they […]
A San Ignacio resident was shot just after ten on Saturday night in San Ignacio. Police say that Belizean Security Officer Leroy Supaul was heading home after a night of socializing when he was shot. He is now hospitalized in a stable condition. Here’s more from the police. Sr. Supt., Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, […]
A coastguard officer was shot in Punta Gorda on Thursday night while socializing at an establishment. Twenty-eight-year-old Collin Ramirez reported to police that while at Xions Den Bar which at the time was closed for business, he stepped outside to relieve himself. During that time he reportedly heard what sounded like two gunshots and thereafter […]
A wanted poster has been issued for Guatemalan farmer Mario Soto by the Belize Police Department. Soto is accused of brutally murdering seventy-nine-year-old Canadian national James Slemp. Slemp was found dead at his Belize home in Hopkins Village on Friday, February twenty-fourth. His body was found in a nearby creek and his head had been almost […]
