Thirty-six-year-old Habib Hajjara was ruthlessly done away with inside his taxicab on Sunday morning when someone shot him at point-blank multiple times while driving his vehicle along Mahogany Street. The execution-style murder took place sometime around four a.m. when the Honduran national had just finished dropping off a female passenger he reportedly picked up from […]
In Belize City, the murder count went up by two over the weekend and now stands at more than thirty. According to police an alarming sixty-six homicides have been recorded countrywide since the start of the year, which means that as much as fifty percent has taken place in the Old Capital. Two residents, a […]
The second murder victim in the city is a taxi driver who was murdered at the corner of Mahogany Street and Western Avenue not far from where mechanic, Daniel Guardado, was killed hours earlier. Honduran National, thirty-six year old Sbiero Habib Hajjara was shot three times on the chest and once to his forehead. The […]
In the wee hours of Sunday, the third murder in a period of twenty-four hours was recorded, this time in Saint Matthews Village in the Cayo District. Nineteen-year-old Roni Casasola was shot to the chest shortly after midnight and died before he could get to the Western Regional Hospital. His mother was with him when […]
The family of Jason Sutherland is still coming to terms with his murder which occurred last week Thursday. A gunman discharged as many as nine shots killing the twenty-nine-year-old Belize City resident instantly in a city neighbourhood that has become a hotbed for gangs. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Voice of: Sister of Deceased […]
A man was shot on the corner of Central American and Jane Usher Boulevards on Sunday morning around eight-thirty. Thirty-eight-year-old security guard Tyrone Stevens was outside a nearby grocery store when several shots were fired in his direction. While he was hit to the foot, the injuries were not fatal. Assistant Superintendent Alejandro Cowo shares […]
The question everybody is asking now is, what’s driving all these violent crimes, and what can police in Belize City do to contain it? A few weeks ago, the headlines concentrated on the rivalry between Mayflower Street “Ghost Town” and the ‘Back-A-Town’/P.I.V. gangs in Lake Independence. That area has now calmed down some, but further […]
This coming Thursday, there will be a peaceful demonstration in the evening in Dangriga. There were two murders and a shooting incident in a week’s span, sparking action from concerned residents and stakeholders. The decision to hold a demonstration came from a town meeting featuring participation from police, political offices, youth and community organizations and […]
Late on Thursday evening into Friday morning, robbers stole two buses from Romero’s Charter Service in Forest Home village, Toledo District. The thieves took a forty-eight seater and a fifty-two seater Blue Bird bus, driving them as far as Independence village, but one of them was overturned near Bladen village. The residence where the vehicles […]
Gun violence in Belize City appears to be on the rise once again, particularly in Port Loyola where two separate shooting incidents have been recorded within a twenty-four-hour period. On Thursday night, a killer stalked Jason Sutherland outside of his home and waited for an opportunity to open fire on him. When the moment presented […]
News of a shooting incident on Faber’s Road spread quickly across Belize City on Wednesday night, when it was discovered that three men had been injured while standing in front of a Chinese grocery store. Footage of the brazen attempt on the lives of Sylvester Bahadur, Michael and Emerson Requena and Tricia Benguche mushroomed even […]
Just a few minutes before the daring assault on a group of men at Win Kee Saloon, Belize City police were busy securing a crime scene on Cemetery Road. A preliminary investigation has revealed that Hugh Thomas was driving a vehicle in the area of Pregnant Alley when he was ambushed. A shooter reportedly emerged […]
The rash of shootings overnight was not limited to the Old Capital, as gun violence also found its way to Burrell Boom Village. This time, however, the intended target was a police officer who came under fire when a masked gunman struck the police station. PC Chris Staine narrowly avoided injury after being shot at […]
A criminal investigation into the Labour Day murder of Owen McFoy, in the Windmill community of Hattieville, continues tonight, despite police not being able to make an arrest. The thirty-year-old was in the company of family and friends, socializing and watching a basketball game on television outside in his neighbor’s yard when gunfire erupted. The […]
Thirty-five-year-old Ricardo Mendoza remains in police custody, following the vicious stabbing of his father-in-law in San Pedro on Monday afternoon. The pair had been known to have a troubled relationship as in-laws. Both men, along with a third, unnamed individual who left moments earlier, were socializing at the family home in the San Mateo community […]
Jason Williams, a resident of Dangriga, was lucky to have escaped with his life on Tuesday night when a gunman let loose a hail of bullets at him. He did not get away unscathed, but his injury is not considered life-threatening. Williams, according to police, was with two other men when they were attacked. During […]
A San Pedro resident remains in police custody tonight, pending charges for the murder of his father-in-law in the San Mateo area of the island town. Gaspar Vargas was ran though with a knife and disemboweled on Monday afternoon inside his house. He was rushed to the San Pedro Polyclinic but died shortly after, while […]
Shortly after nine p.m. on Tuesday, a succession of gunshots rang out in the Windmill neighborhood of Hattieville. When the shooting subsided, Owen McFoy would lay mortally wounded inside a yard where he was socializing with relatives. He was injured multiple times to the body during the attack. Despite an attempt to rush him to […]
There was also a non-fatal shooting on Labour Day in Dangriga. Around seven-thirty p.m., police responded to a report of gun violence on Isla Road and found thirty-two-year-old Jason Williams suffering from a gunshot wound to the left shoulder. The investigation has since revealed that Williams was socializing with some friends inside a yard when […]
A teenager was stabbed and killed over the weekend just around the corner from his house. Fifteen-year-old Arkel August was seriously injured on Saturday evening and by Sunday night he was dead. He was reportedly killed by a young boy he knew from around his neighborhood. August and his friends were on a basketball court […]
There was also a mid-afternoon stabbing murder in San Pedro today which claimed the life of a fifty-seven-year-old construction worker of the San Mateo area of the island. Around two- p.m., Gaspar Vargas stabbed once to the abdomen as he socialized at his home. Police initial reports are that Vargas got into an argument with […]
One person is dead and three others were severely injured in a traffic mishap which police say was apparently caused when they tried to avoid a vehicular checkpoint. At the intersection of the Philip Goldson Highway and the Burrell Boom Road on Friday night, police were checking a blue Volkswagen Jetta when they observed a […]
Twenty-one-year-old Jefferson Jacobo, a Salvadoran national, is behind bars after an altercation with his girlfriend and her ex-partner. Jacobo was this morning read charges of one count of attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm upon Manuel Acosta. He was additionally charged with attempted murder, wounding, and use of deadly means of […]
You’ve probably noticed, but there haven’t been that many murders in Belize City since Regional Commander Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett took over in Region One in March. He has put in a lot of work with his officers and his community policing style has paid off some dividends. But in a case of progress bringing […]
Police are still puzzling over Friday morning’s murder of Gabriel Tex Laurie Junior in the Wagierale area of Dangriga Town. The forty-two-year-old was found seated inside the living room of his house with a gunshot wound to the center of the neck. Police are actively searching for one person of interest who is said to […]
