Eighteen-year-old Malik Green was shot on Sunday morning in Belize City near Kelly Street. The resident of Hunters Lane, who has refused to cooperate with investigators, simply told police that he was shot by an unknown assailant as he sat on a fence nearby. Police believe that the attempt on Green’s life may have stemmed […]
Playa Del Carmen is a choice tourist destination for Belizeans and many other visitors who travel there for sun, beach, and cuisine. But the once idyllic location has also become a hotbed for narco-traffickers. Over the weekend, as many as seven persons were killed at a bar. News reports say the violence has to do […]
Belize is named as part of the network of the Sinaloa Drug cartel. It came during the trial of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, head of the infamous drug cartel, which is underway in the United States. The elusive leader, Mexico’s top drug kingpin, escaped from a maximum-security prison in July, 2015 and was recaptured on […]
A trio of siblings, all farmers from Bladen Village in southern Belize, has been charged with the murder of Guatemalan national Marcos Chen. The forty-one-year-old was chopped to death on the evening of December fourteenth during an altercation with brothers Dario, Edres, Heraldo and Elijah Sho. Chen was reportedly walking along the Southern Highway near […]
Late this evening, the Bar Association of Belize issued a release on the beaten on a San Pedro citizen by the police. In the release, the Bar describes the incident as heinous, unjustified and possibly life-threatening on an individual that was not resisting arrest. The Bar joins other advocacy groups and public denounces this and […]
In the aftermath of the New Year’s Day incident, San Pedranos took to social media pledging to boycott Playa Bar and Grill, where the incident unfolded. The video captured the bar owner as well as PC Rowley physically assaulting twenty-year-old Jamir Leal, even as he laid unconscious on the sand. His siblings, Justin and Mario, […]
Today, twenty-seven-year-old Windell Humes was arraigned on a single charge of burglary with intent to rape when he appeared in court before Magistrate Emmerson Banner. Humes, who was unrepresented, pleaded not guilty to the charge and told the court that he wasn’t the one who was inside the woman’s room. He accused the Caye Caulker […]
Three siblings were subdued by two police officers on New Year’s night on San Pedro. They were roughed up and one was badly beaten. The chilling images captured on phone video have been met with swift condemnation. The two officers have since been placed on suspension. Tonight, we speak to Jamir Leal, the victim of […]
The body of a man was fished out of the Belize River near Blackman Eddy Village on New Year’s Day. A post-mortem examination revealed that the man had been strangled. His hands were tied behind his back and police believe that he was killed somewhere else before his body was dumped in the river. He […]
There are updates on three other murders on New Year’s Day. Twenty-six-year-old Giovanni Jones was also charged with the murder of fifty-eight-year-old Howard Coleman. Jones, a resident of the Lucky Strike Village, appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford and remanded to prison until March twentieth. The sensational killing of the Coleman was the first murder […]
Thirty-five-year-old Angel Rueben Cassasola has been arraigned for the murder of Anita Pineda, his ex-common-law wife. He was taken to court this morning in San Ignacio and was remanded to the Belize Central Prison until March fifth. Cassasola reportedly stabbed Pineda once to the chest on New Year’s night while she and her mother were […]
Twenty-year-old Joseph Babb was murdered in cold blood on New Year’s Day, pursued by his attacker on Blue Marlin Boulevard and shot multiple times. The slaying of the gang leader has prompted the police department to step up its presence in the Lake Independence area where it is anticipated that the gang will attempt to […]
Four men were busted on Cran Street, Belize City by the police on Wednesday. The foursome, who were found with a loaded firearm and thirteen live rounds of ammunitions; however, are in more trouble with the law and are presently being detained at the Queen Street Police Station pending investigations in the murder of Joseph […]
In the aftermath of a bloody New Year’s Day, two men came under gunfire in Belize City. On Wednesday afternoon, the duo was at the house of Brandon Young on Police Street when two gunmen fired at them. Luckily, Young and Kevan Slusher were both spared. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting […]
It was a bloody New Year’s Day in Belize. Five persons were brutally killed within twenty-four hours. The first murder for 2019 was recorded in a small village in rural Belize where a fifty-eight-year-old man was killed under odd circumstances. Howard Coleman celebrated the New Year with friends and then left for home in the […]
In the aftermath of the homicide, Vice-Chairman and Justice of the Peace in Lucky Strike is making an appeal to the authorities for law-enforcement support in the village. According to Allan Jones, after Howard Coleman was killed things escalated in the village when residents found out that a man from the village was the suspected […]
The Belize District had the distinction at the close of 2018 as the most murderous area in the Jewel. The New Year is not shaking off that black eye and gang warfare is threatening Belize City. Twenty-year-old Joseph Babb, the leader of the Backalands Crips, was executed on Blue Marlin Boulevard where he was hanging […]
There was another shooting elsewhere in the city. In the south side, the life of Glenford Mossiah came under threat. While a gunman fired as many as sixteen shots, Mossiah was injured, but luckily survived the attack on him at Wax House on East Canal where he was socializing. The would-be killer exited a vehicle […]
In order to thwart another wave of gun violence in the wake of Babb’s murder, the police department has rounded up a group of young men who are considered affiliates of the Backalands gang and has placed them on preventative detention. It is one of several measures being taken to address the recent spike of […]
The first twenty-four hours of 2019 was nightmarish in Belize City as the violence would not let up even as police put more boots on the ground. Twenty-two-year-old Preston Reynolds was heading home to Neal Pen Road on bicycle when he was executed within minutes of another murder on New Year’s Day. He died instantly. […]
One of the persons to be killed during the bloodbath on the first day of the New Year was a young mother of three. Anita Pineda was reportedly stabbed by her ex-common-law husband while she was in the company of her mother at a house of her former brother-in-law in San Ignacio. Pineda’s ex-common-law husband […]
Also in western Belize, the Belize Police Department is investigating the murder of an unidentified Hispanic man. The body was fished out of the Belize River near Blackman Eddy Village, Cayo, on New Year’s morning. The autopsy revealed that the person may have been dead for about three to four days. The hands of John […]
Two rogue cops have been placed on suspension. They are Samir Medina and Tyrell Rowley, who were caught on camera beating up two men in the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro. One of the officers pulled out a firearm during the violent ordeal and one of the victims is believed to be a […]
The beating of the two men by the police is facing outrage in various quarters. The People’s United Party is condemning what it calls the outrageous, criminal actions of two police officers in San Pedro. In a release, it states that it cannot be business as usual in the Belize Police Department. There are far […]
Over the past few years, the Ministry of National Security and the Belize Police Department have attempted a number of strategies to arrest crime and violence in Belize City. 2018 goes down on record as the second most murderous year in the history of the country, with just a few less homicides than 2012. But, […]
