Four officers have been placed on interdiction following the shooting death of former teacher, Allyson Major Junior. Major was shot by one of the cops during a police chase that ended in the area of the Swing Bridge on Tuesday evening and caused his death hours later. The incident has sparked public outrage bringing the […]
This evening the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams met the media, he has been tasked by the Minister of National Security with putting together a special team of investigators to ascertain definitively what transpired on Tuesday evening that resulted in Major’s demise. According to the ComPol, the team will consist of seasoned officers whose background […]
As part of the ongoing investigation, Commissioner Williams outlined the steps that will be taken, including a forensic analysis of the bullets fired, to determine who shot and killed Allyson Major Junior. According to the ComPol, the unnecessary use of lethal force is a factor in the probe. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “There […]
So, with the spate of unrelated murders that gripped Belize City on Tuesday evening, Commissioner Williams has decided to, with immediate effect, reinstitute a curfew for children which was met with resistance sometime ago when it was introduced for the first time. The catch, he says, is that the police department will now be going […]
An arrest has been made three and a half months after a murder in Armenia Village, Cayo District; at the time, B.D.F. volunteer soldier Hermelindo Ical was killed. Police now have enough evidence and today arrested and charged Maximino Chiac, a farmer of Springfield, for the March thirty-first murder of Ical. The body of the […]
In a recent statement made on social media, Minister of National Security John Saldivar spoke on crime and perception. The minister said that murder, burglary, theft, and robbery all declined between January and June of this year when compared to last year. The violence in the past days, however, has added to the growing number […]
Four persons were killed in the mayhem of a very violent Tuesday evening. In a span of five hours, two were killed and died on the spot, while two others succumbed hours after they were injured and there is nothing to indicate any connection in the violent spree. The violence started in the crowded downtown […]
Allyson Major was a very close friend of Caribbean Shores Area Representative Kareem Musa and a lifelong friend of former COLA President Giovanni Brackett. Like Major’s immediate family, both men are also reeling from his senseless death. This afternoon, they shared fond memories of the teacher, from personal accounts of having spent time with him. […]
A Belize City vendor was shot and killed on Tuesday evening shortly after the shooting of Allyson Major Junior. Naturalized Belizean Jose Diaz, a clothing vendor, was inside his small shop on Cemetery Road when he was murdered. At this time, police are looking for two persons of interest in connection with this homicide. Police […]
One of the murders in Tuesday night’s madness that is baffling police involves Ghanaian Emmanuel Ampomah. The fifty-two-year-old cabbie was fatally stabbed inside his taxi by his fare after eight o’clock. He lost consciousness and crashed on Seashore Drive dying instantly. Ampomah has no family in Belize; he is well known in this area of […]
A feud between rival groups in the area of Antelope Street Extension has resulted in the stabbing death of nineteen-year-old Nixon Pinto. Sometime around six o’clock on Tuesday evening, Pinto and another man, identified as nineteen-year-old Jovi Hernandez, got into an altercation at the Lord Ridge Cemetery in the vicinity of Western Avenue. Hernandez, a […]
The Mayor of San Ignacio Earl Trapp and his wife were victims on Tuesday night of the violence that is sweeping across the country and spares no one. The Trapp’s were inside their house when armed thieves, who were posing as police officers, targeted them. The mayor’s wife was held at gunpoint when the fake […]
Police have formally arrested and charged Lynroy Longsworth and Kenosha Beaton for the crime of possession of control drugs with the intent to supply. The duo was busted with many parcels of high-grade weed and more than ten thousand Belize dollars. The anti-drug operation took place on Tuesday morning at a residence around mile-four on […]
Police are moving quickly to defuse a feud between two rival groups in Sandhill Village, Belize District. That feud led to the shooting of Ivan Hyde who was injured while at his home in the village on Tuesday morning. Hyde was shot multiple times and luckily for the victim, the injuries were not life-threatening. He […]
On Saturday morning, thirty-six-year-old Fidel Edilberto Bardalez was found brutally murdered in Alta Vista Village in the Stann Creek District. He had been beaten and chopped to death by a seventeen-year-old minor with whom he was socializing before his demise. Investigators say that the two got into a fight, which resulted in the minor producing […]
Belize City residents are at the mercy of criminals. Following the string of major crimes that occurred on Tuesday evening and the recent murders over the past weeks, the Belize Police Department is revamping its strategy to address the sudden spike in crime. Commander of Operations, ACP Marco Vidal told the media today that the […]
Mayhem in the city, where two late evening shootings have left one man dead and another injured. But tonight, we go first to a major drug bust early this morning near the Haulover Bridge; it netted drugs and cash, as well as the apprehension of the big fish. The Financial Intelligence Unit has been called […]
Police are currently at the corner of Mosul Street and Cemetery Road processing the scene of a late evening murder in the Old Capital. News Five has confirmed that a forty-four-year-old businessman of Vernon Street was shot and quickly rushed to the K.H.M.H. for treatment, but soon after succumbed. In the mayhem in the city, […]
There was also gun violence in Sand Hill, Belize District, where a resident was injured and recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot inside his bathroom. Around ten o’clock this morning, Ivan Hyde, who is a labourer of mile nineteen on the Phillip Goldson Highway, was shot multiple times to the […]
But there is a spike of violence in the village that the police are trying to mitigate. It appears outside of rivalry in the area; there is a person of interest, who ComPol Chester Williams says is the ringleader. That person was recently released from prison and he is believed to be involved in the […]
While it is believed that the lower half of a young male body, discovered on Monday morning in the river behind Sand Hill Village, is believed to be that of sixteen-year-old Doren Grinage, police maintain that until the results of a DNA test, will they be able to positively identify the body. Denise Grinage and […]
Attorney Oscar Selgado made headlines on Monday evening after being arraigned for the crime of abetment to commit murder. It is alleged that the well-known criminal lawyer contracted the services of a so-called hired gun to do away with a woman who reportedly filed a complaint against him before the Judicial and Legal Services Commission […]
While it is the second time Selgado has been pursued by law enforcement, the ComPol says that the attorney is not being targeted. In fact, he says that there is sufficient proof that Selgado ordered and conspired to have Barnes murdered. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “It is not a matter, as some people […]
Tonight, we pick up the Sanctuary Bay story and show you images of what has been billed as a multi-million dollar development in southern Belize, which ended up as the biggest scam to be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission. The project goes by many names, has many angles and has exposed serious allegations against […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Joseph Budna is a free man after being released from police custody in Belmopan on Saturday evening. His release comes after Budna was grabbed on Thursday by a team of officers in Camalote Village after escaping from a Guatemalan prison a few weeks earlier. In his own detailed defense on Monday, Budna explains why […]
