But will there be a return of the method of mediation with gang members as was employed by ACP Chester Williams alongside Dianne Finnegan and Nuri Mohammed? That initiative was put on hold for months, despite data indicating that the intervention worked in the reduction of violent crimes. Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett says that he’ll […]
Twenty-year-old Esmir Garrido has been charged with grievous harm and use of deadly means of harm on taxi driver Reginald Garoy. Garoy was shot and injured in the right side of the cheek and right ring finger on February eleventh on East Canal, near the Rocky Road Bridge. Garoy was along with another man hanging […]
The third suspected drug plane in two weeks was found deep in the farmlands of Blue Creek, Orange Walk around midnight on Wednesday. The area where the plane crash landed is called “Cuatros Lenguas.” It is believed its cargo had been removed and was transported across the Rio Hondo River to Mexico. Three vehicles were […]
Twenty-nine year old Emil Audinett was a marked man and on Wednesday night he ran out of luck. He was sitting inside his home on Ordonez Street, Belize City, with his common-law-wife when a gunman entered the house and opened fire. Audinett was shot multiple times on the chest and head and died instantly in […]
Fifty-two-year-old Bernadine Lauriano was shot and killed inside her home last Friday, as she sat in the living room with her two children. The mother of seven was injured multiple times when a lone assailant entered their yard on Aloe Vera Street and opened fire on them. Her daughter nine-year-old Bernadine Lauriano was injured while […]
Mark Anthony Clarke, an I.T. technician, was stabbed as many as seventy-one times and dumped near a slaughterhouse along the San Jomal Road in the Corozal District. His body was later discovered on Saturday afternoon. The brutal slaying of the forty-one-year-old resulted in the detention of several persons, all of whom have been released due […]
His attacker misfired, but thirty-three year old businessman Derrol Vernon did not, and a twenty-one year old Belize City resident is now charged with aggravated assault. Kevaughn Staine was read his charges before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford this morning. According to Vernon, he was driving his black S.U.V. on Lacroix Boulevard on March eleventh. As […]
Officially, thirty-six year old James Crawford of Ladyville is charged with stealing a gold chain during a fight and causing harm to Kenneth Arthurs. But it came out in the Magistrate’s Court that it was a “weed stash” going missing which caused the men to come to blows. According to Arthurs he was raking up […]
Police discovered seven sixteen gauge cartridges in an abandoned lot in Prince Alley, Belize City. Around nine-thirty on Wednesday night, police searched the lot where they discovered the bag with the ammunition. No one was in the area at the time and the cartridges were labeled as found property.
A teacher of Independence Village is being accused of sexual assault of a sixteen-year-old girl. Lennox Mejia, known as “Namule,” was read the charge before Magistrate Deborah Rogers in the Independence Magistrate’s Court and remanded until June eighteenth. On March eighth, the minor reported that she caught a vehicle to go to school around seven-fifteen […]
The Belize Movement for Peace and Reconciliation says that it is strategizing and implementing change to address the cycle of violence that seems to have a grip on the country – and they will check their report card after a hundred days. According to the organization’s leader, Cynthia Ellis-Topsey, the movement will bring together people […]
Public condemnation of violence against children has been fast and furious on the heels of the killing of Allyssa Nunez and murder of Treshawn Goff. Today, it escalated when it came to light that yet another minor, this time an eleven-year-old girl from Bella Vista Village, is the latest victim of sexual abuse to be […]
In further violence against children, a young girl and her brother, who lives with disabilities, were both victims of gunfire on Friday night; their mother, however, did not survive and succumbed to multiple injuries. Fifty-two-year-old Bernadine Lauriano, a sanitation worker in the city, was senselessly shot and killed at the start of the extended weekend. […]
A pair of farmers made a gruesome discovery over the weekend off the Phillip Goldson Highway in the outskirts of the village of Paraiso, Corozal. Forty-one-year-old Mark Anthony Clarke was last seen alive at a casino. It is suspected he was stabbed multiple times on his chest, abdomen and neck on Friday night and his […]
A fifteen-year-old boy went missing from his family in San Jose Nuevo Palmar, Orange Walk, on March third. As the days went by, the Cisneros family became concerned then grew alarmed. For eight days, Angel Gabriel was not seen or heard from despite search parties scouring the area. But on Monday morning, he was found […]
Four-year-old Treshawn Goff was laid to rest on Monday afternoon, following a funeral service at All Saints Church in Belize City. The preschooler is the youngest victim of gun violence so far in 2018. He was fatally injured during a drive-by shooting on Nurse Findley Crescent a week ago. The child was with his grandfather, […]
Another child has been sexually abused in a disturbing incident involving a four-year-old little girl in the south. On Thursday, a fifty-two-year-old mother reported to police in Bella Vista, Toledo, that her daughter had fallen ill. When she was taken to a doctor for medical attention, it was found that the infant had been raped. […]
In another case of sexual abuse, but in the north, a sixty-six-year-old man has been charged for the sexual assault of a seven year old girl, who she knew as her grandfather. The incident occurred back on February eighteenth, but the man was only just arrested over the weekend. On Tuesday, he appeared in the […]
The Budget was not the only major news coming out of today’s meeting in Belmopan. Three amendments to substantive legislation and a new bill were introduced which had to do with crime issues. The Firearms Act is being amended to, among other things, increase and update fines and fees relating to firearm misuse. The Police […]
The Barrow administration has been fairly quiet on the relentless issue of crime and violence that has been plaguing Belize City. The Belize Police Department has rolled out its two-year national crime fighting strategy; however, government had been noticeably silent on the matter even while four children were injured and killed going into the municipal […]
A near-fatal stabbing incident on Tuesday night has left one person hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. and friends with whom he was socializing, in earnest fear of their lives. Raheem Ellington was called out of an apartment where he was visiting at the corners of Tibruce Street and Marigold Lane, brutally attacked and left for dead […]
Meanwhile, a Belize City resident remains in custody tonight pending further investigation into an attempt on the lives of a couple on the eve of municipal elections. Police say car dealer, twenty-seven-year-old Kadeem Myers and teacher Jerilin Flowers were injured in a shooting just after eight o’clock on Tuesday night on Rhaburn’s Alley in north […]
A young boy, a student of the Port Loyola Pre-school, did not live to see his fifth birthday. Before eight o’clock on Monday night he became the latest victim of the relentless gun violence in the City in which mothers have been left to grapple with the pain of innocent lives lost. Young Treshawn Goff […]
It has been a deadly child Stimulation Month so far in which two children lost their young lives in violent and despicable circumstances. Before that, two others perished in gun violence. Today, at a City pre-school, teachers had to explain to young children why one of their own would no longer be at school. At […]
While freshly outraged by the death of Treshawn Goff, Belizeans are still thinking and talking about the tragedy of Allyssa Nunez of Maskall Village. She was sexually assaulted and sustained severe injuries which led to her death on Sunday morning. As of news time tonight, police say no additional charges have been filed against twenty-one […]
