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Alyon Domingo is Charged for Alleged Gang Membership

Twenty-one-year-old Alyon Domingo, the younger sibling of Jasmine Domingo who was shot and killed while she slept inside her Plues Street home on July seventeenth, has been arrested and charged for being a member of the George Street Gang.  This morning, he appeared unrepresented before a Senior Magistrate in the lower courts where he was […]

Selvin Linarez Pleads Guilty to Burglary of Victor L. Bryant

In February 2019, two Belize City men were charged for burglarizing Victor L. Bryant on Lake Independence Boulevard and making off with a cache of weapons and ammunition.  This afternoon, Selvin Linarez pleaded guilty to the offense when he appeared before a Senior Magistrate.  His alleged accomplice, Randy Chambers, maintains his innocence.  When Linarez was […]

ComPol Discusses Narco Shootings in the North

On July twentieth, the home of Sergio Hall in Chan Chen Village was riddled with bullets from a high-power rifle.  Surprisingly, there was no loss of life during the heavy shower of led on the residence.  Hall, however, was injured in the shoulder.  The incident is the latest in a rash of targeted shootings in […]

Murder in Belmopan; Deceased was Not the Intended Target

Two murders were recorded in approximately six hours – one in Belize City and the other in Belmopan. We’ll have official details from the execution of Steven Moss later, but we begin tonight’s newscast with the shooting death of Brodam Santos in the Cohune Walk area of the capital. The thirty-year-old was shot multiple times […]

ComPol Williams, “Steven Moss Murder is Gang-related.”

Our headline story on Tuesday evening was the gangland execution of Steven Moss, by a pair of gunmen who hopped out of a vehicle on Caesar Ridge Road and opened fire on him multiple times.  The twenty-nine-year-old died on the scene of the shooting and the men who accosted him made good their escape in […]

Chester Williams on Alex Underwood’s So-called Reform, “I don’t buy that.”

Thirty-one-year-old Alexander Underwood was remanded to the Belize Central Prison on Tuesday after being arraigned for the offence of being a member of a gang.  It is the second time he has been brought up on that charge before the lower courts.  In Underwood’s defense, his loved ones argue that he has reformed and is […]

Phozaun Lewis’ Murder Likely the Result of Internal Gang Conflict

The badly decomposed remains of an individual believed to be twenty-three-year-old Phozaun Lewis, was discovered in the Maxboro neighborhood of Sand Hill Village on July twenty-first.  The body was found behind the steering wheel of a BMW vehicle.  But who would have killed Phozaun and why?  Police say that his murder may have been the […]

Perpetrators of Recent Crimes aren’t Members of L.I.U.

Going back to the work of the Leadership Intervention Unit, ComPol Williams reiterated that the individuals, who are mixed up in the rash of gun violence in Belize City lately, are not members of the L.I.U.  In fact, he’s gone a step further to say that even if they were, those persons aren’t above the […]

No SOE for Recent Spate of Gang Violence

What about a State of Emergency, is it an option that law enforcement is contemplating?  According to Commissioner of Police, it is not a solution favored by the present administration.  The preferred approach, he says, is to identify and pursue individual perpetrators of crime and violence.   Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “The law does […]

Treasury Clerk Accused of Misappropriating Funds

A treasury clerk is tonight in hot water after being charged with three counts of theft. A police investigation into forty-three-year-old Rona “Ronnie” Ireland revealed that she allegedly misappropriated a total of four thousand, five hundred and one dollars from the Treasury Department. According to police, Ireland dishonestly appropriated nine hundred and ninety-three dollars on […]

Elmer Martinez Back Before the Court, This Time for Theft

This morning, Belama resident Elmer Martinez, who also goes by the name Jovanni Bardalez, appeared before a Senior Magistrate in Belize City and was read a single charge of theft. It is the third strike for the thirty-one-year-old Dolphin Drive resident, who is accused of dishonestly appropriating a black trek brand bicycle on July seventeenth […]

Steven Moss Gunned Down in Belize City

Four Belize City residents have been murdered in the last nine days. The latest victim to lose his life is twenty-nine-year-old Steven Moss, a resident of Queen Charlotte Street. If the name sounds familiar that is because Moss was charged in connection with a murder in 2017, in front of what is now Club Bizzo. […]

Alleged Leader of Southside Gang Arraigned

Today, thirty-one-year-old Alexander Underwood was arraigned inside the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a single charge of being a member of a gang. Allegations against Underwood are that he is a member of the Southside Gang (SSG) and has engaged in committing serious offenses. Underwood appeared before a Senior Magistrate where he pled not guilty.  […]

Amancia Martinez Opens Up About Paguada Brothers Murder Convictions

Brothers Delson and Tionne Paguada were convicted of the murder of Paul Jex in the High Court on Monday.  Another suspect, Timothy Carcamo, was set free because he could not have been positively identified as the third person at the scene of the deadly shooting in San Pedro on the evening of January twenty-third, 2018.  […]

Distraught Mother Says Her Son, Tionne Paguada, Attempted Suicide

According to Amancia Martinez, the attempt that one of her sons made while in detention yesterday was not to escape from police custody, but to take his own life.  The distraught mother says that Tionne Paguada has tried on previous occasions to commit suicide.   On the phone: Amancia Martinez, Mother of Paguada Brothers “So […]

Paguada Brothers Found Guilty of Murder; A Third Suspect is Acquitted

Chaos erupted inside the courtroom of Justice Nigel Pilgrim this morning when brothers Delson and Tionne Paguada were found guilty of murder and a third suspect was freed of the same charge.  We’ve been covering the trial of the siblings since they were arrested along with Timothy Carcamo for the murder of Paul Jex in […]

Gunman Targets Tyler Lewis at his Hattieville Home

Hattieville resident Tyler Lewis remains in a critical, but stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being shot on Sunday night at his home in the East Windmill area of the village.  Reports are that someone called out for Lewis and when he opened the front door, he came face-to-face with a gunman […]

Man Shot on Ordonez Avenue; Discharges Himself from K.H.M.H.

A man was shot late on Sunday night in the Lake Independence area in Belize City. The victim, twenty-three-year-old Jordan Waight, who also goes by the name Jordan Burns, was reportedly walking on Ordonez Avenue sometime around eleven p.m., when a gunman shot him in the foot. The attacker then fled. It is not known […]

Decomposing Body Discovered Off Philip Goldson Highway

The lifeless body of a man was discovered off the Phillip Goldson Highway this afternoon. Police have been unable to confirm the identity of the individual. But, the family of twenty-three-year-old Phozaun Lewis believes it is him. Lewis went missing on Tuesday, though the family did not make any official report of his disappearance according […]

Nicholi Rhys is Gunned Down on Neal Pen Road

There was a daring attack shortly after one p.m. today on Neal Pen Road that claimed the life of thirty-two-year-old Nicholi Rhys.  The deadly shooting also injured Jervis Samuels who, police say, was in the company of Rhys when a lone gunman approached them.  The unnamed assailant pursued both men and opened fire on them […]

Police Move To Detain Known Street Figures Following Plues Street Murder

Over the past few days, we have been reporting on the tragic murder of Jasmine Domingo, a young mother who was shot and killed while sleeping inside her home on Plues Street. Her four-year-old daughter was also struck in the thigh by a bullet. Since then, it has been revealed that the deadly incident stemmed […]

Commissioner of Police Says Major Crimes Are Down

There has been a noticeable reduction in violent crimes being recorded across the country.  The Belize Police Department has been employing a crime fighting strategy that has yielded results in the number of murders and related offenses being committed.  According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, it is the result of a concerted effort being […]

Police Attempt to Prevent Reprisal in Plues Street Murder

Belize City police have ramped up their presence in the Plues Street area, following the deadly predawn shooting of Jasmine Domingo and her four-year-old daughter.  The incident, according to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, may have been precipitated by an internal feud within the George Street gang.  Officers have been on patrol in the vicinity […]

Teen Arraigned for Stabbing Policeman on Duty at a Grocery Store

Nineteen-year-old Kijahe Molina, charged with wounding twenty-eight-year-old Zani Savala, a police constable, was today offered bail of a thousand dollars when he appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to face the charge. Molina gave his occupation as a call center agent of Elston Kerr Street, Belize City. That is just two blocks from where […]

Murder Trial of Jared Ranguy Languishes in High Court

The family of Karen and Teena Skeen, as well as Robert Vellos Senior is demanding justice, ten years after their loved ones were brutally murdered, allegedly at the hands of a son.  Jared Ranguy is believed to be the person who viciously dispatched his mother, sister and stepfather inside their home in Ladyville back in […]