And all the rage and volatility in the Mayflower Community is because of the murder of Kendis Flowers. His family believes he was killed by the GSU and now they are saying that the Police Department is preventing them from viewing a critical piece of surveillance footage that shows the killer. But OC Gillett says […]
Senators also touched significantly on the issue of crime during Tuesday’s budget debate, and the funding being put toward fighting it and keeping the streets safe. There was a cross-section of opinions from the P.U.P. to the social partners to the government. Whether the cause is poor parenting, lack of police funding or simply societal […]
Have you seen this man? Allen Russel Felix is wanted in connection for the murder of sixty-four-year-old Mario Guerrero Senior. Police have since issued a wanted poster for forty-four-year-old Allen Felix better known as “Dhadi” of number sixty Sunset Park Area, Western Paradise Village. Felix has short black hair, stands at five feet five inches […]
Crime was not far from the minds of senators during today’s budget debate. Indeed, much was proposed, including focusing on social reform and reining in both the police and the would-be gangsters. But the police department, according to N.G.O. Senator Osmany Salas, needs more sophisticated training to confront modern challenges. Osmany Salas, N.G.O. Senator […]
There are more boots on the ground from the police department and the Belize Defense Force, following an eruption of gun violence among rival gangs on the south side of the city. But over the weekend that didn’t bring any security or peace, instead all hell broke loose on Mayflower Street where the Gang Suppression […]
Deputy Commissioner Chester Williams, whose instructions were to deploy the Gang Suppression Unit into Mayflower Street, has deferred an official comment on the incident. In the aftermath of the madness, however, he took to social media to explain his decision for unleashing the GSU on Ghost Town. According to the Operations Commander, several events involving […]
Just before the mayhem on Mayflower, there was another shooting that could have had dire consequences and could have been catastrophic. The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is in crisis undergoing works for a damaged roof and is offering only fifty percent of its usual services, but it has not been spared of pervasive gun violence. […]
There were a total of three murders recorded over the weekend; two in rural Belize District and one in the south. In Lord Bank’s, Ladyville, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Emmanuel Orellana was found by a family member shot dead on Sunday morning inside his home. Residents say they heard shots being fired in the wee hours of […]
A sixty-four-year-old businessman was beaten to death with a barstool in the Sunset Park Community on the George Price Highway. According to police, they were called out to the murder scene after nine on Sunday night where they found Guerrero dead outside in the yard. Unconfirmed reports are that there was a woman along with […]
A Guatemalan national was the third murder victim for the weekend. Thirty-six-year-old Mario Oddulio’s body was discovered in Trio Village, about four miles from the junction with the Southern Highway. Around five on Sunday evening, police were called out to the scene where they found Oddulio’s body dressed in only boxer shorts. The already decomposing […]
The violence over the weekend was not confined to Mayflower Street or the murders. Five persons were injured in three separate shootings in the city, for which three victims have been treated and discharged and another remains in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. A few hours after the pandemonium in Ghost Town, […]
Berkeley Street resident, Fabio Paredes remains in a critical condition inside the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital receiving treatment for gunshot injuries to both of his legs following a shooting at the corner of Kelly Street and Hunter’s Lane on the north side of Belize City. Police believe that the shooting is a result […]
Two hours before the shooting of Paredes, police were processing the scene of yet another incident on Central American Boulevard. An argument between a Lebanese businessman and his employee did not end well when he took out his licensed firearm and shot the truck driver. But although Felicito Cho was injured to his wrist and […]
Belize City police, despite having arrested and charged Alejandro Lauriano for the murders of Theresita Flowers and Delcia Blanco, are in pursuit of another person believed to have been an accomplice in the deadly shootings. Blanco and Flowers were dispatched in a hail of bullets on March seventeenth inside their mobile home on Tibruce Street. […]
Turning to crime…thirty-one-year-old Kearny Thompson lost his fight to survive injuries received during an armed attack on March third in Belize City. He succumbed to gunshot wounds on Wednesday at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after two and a half weeks of treatment. The shooting, now upgraded to murder, has not yielded any fruit for […]
A father and his two sons are recovering from gunshot wounds after being fired upon by a farmer in the Stann Creek District on Sunday night. Forty-four-year-old Raphael Choj, along with fourteen-year-old Ernesto Choj and his younger brother Raphael Junior, received multiple injuries when they were shot at inside a cornfield. According to Santo Cucul, […]
The once and current Minister of National Security, John Saldivar, reviewed the performance of his Ministry of Defense before the merger announced earlier this week and also spent some time on what his Police portfolio will be doing to address the burgeoning crime situation. In addition to the new legislation that will be debated in […]
Investigators are probing yet another murder in Roaring Creek Village where the decomposing body of Alvin Montero surfaced in the nearby river on Tuesday morning. The corpse was fished out of the waterway after residents alerted police that they had discovered what appeared to be human remains floating downstream. It was later found that the […]
The predawn shooting that saw twenty-six-year-old street figure Kendis Flowers being cut down on Mahogany Street, is a step closer to being solved. That is if police are able to track down a suspect whom they believe is involved in the murder of the Ghost Town underboss. Notwithstanding the questionable circumstances surrounding Flowers’ death, C.I.B. […]
Late this evening, police confirmed that a shooting victim has succumbed to injuries. Two and a half weeks ago, on March third, Kearny Thompson was shot on Vernon Street in Belize City. Just before seven o’clock he was hit to the lower right side of the back and abdomen by a gunman who emerged from […]
Tonight, a Mexican news outlet is providing details of a wet drop purportedly from a suspected drug plane that crash landed in Cuatro Leguas, outside of Blue Creek, Orange Walk last Tuesday. According to the reports, while military and police authorities deployed a large security operation in the Río Hondo, a group of six boats […]
It has been a while since the media was invited to cover a meet and greet session in Belize City. But this afternoon, our cameras were once again recording, as three of law enforcement’s top commanders visited residents of the embattled Tibruce Street neighborhood. The area has been plagued by homicidal mayhem during the past […]
This afternoon, new south side commander Howell Gillett received a donation of twenty thousand dollars worth of communications equipment from Belize Water Services Limited. The handheld radios will be used by officers on the beat to communicate with each other and headquarters. The generous contribution follows a call made by the Senior Superintendent after noticing […]
The seventh murder since Friday evening occurred in Roaring Creek, Cayo District. A body was retrieved from the river in the village this morning after it was spotted by women heading to the river bank. It is now confirmed that twenty-four-year-old Alvin Montero was murdered and his body dumped in the water. There were cut […]
Two grieving families torn apart by the relentless gunfire are tonight looking for answers as well as for justice. Theresita Flowers and Bernadine Lauriano were both murdered in the recent spate of urban warfare. Family members are left behind to cope with the pain of the abrupt violent loss of life made worse by the […]
