According to ACP Williams, who has had extensive experience as an investigator, the shots that were fired came from inside the vehicle. WPC Brown was Ahmad’s only passenger at the time of the incident. On Thursday morning, several members of the Special Assignment Team returned to the scene of the shooting and stood guard over […]
The killing of Fareed Ahmad brings the murder count for 2017 to one hundred and forty-three, which is the deadliest year since 2012 when one hundred and forty-five homicides were recorded. Social media has been flooded with words of dismay, as well as condolences to the family at the untimely death of the thirty-eight-year-old. News […]
The murder of secondary school teacher Desmond Lewis continues to ripple across the southern communities of Dangriga and Independence Village. The thirty-five-year-old high school educator was butchered inside a residence near Antelope Street Extension in Belize City on Thursday morning. Lewis had just traveled to Belize City from his hometown of Dangriga earlier that day […]
There is a suspect in police custody tonight, believed to be the triggerman in the execution-style murder of Errol Gabourel. On Wednesday morning, a body was discovered floating in the river near Roaring Creek Village. When it was retrieved from the water, a single bullet wound was observed on the individual’s head. An autopsy would […]
Forty-six year old Andrew Bennett is said to be wanted by U.S. authorities in connection with money laundering charges in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte told News Five that he is in possession of documents supporting and requesting extradition of a Belizean national, whom he did not identify as he […]
In Belize City, where a majority of the outdoor festivities will be concentrated, additional measures are being put into place to mitigate instances of crime and violence. Not only will officers on patrol be wearing reflective vests, they will also be conducting body searches on persons attending alfresco activities. Assistant Commissioner of Police Dezerie Magdaleno […]
Father of two, twenty-four-year old Eugenio Rodriguez, was last seen two weeks ago when he came home from work as a security guard at Good Care Pharmacy on Cemetery Road. The Maskall villager resident at Dolphin Street in Belize City is employed with a security company and had not recently complained of any problems with […]
The families of Jamal Humes and Eugenio Rodriguez continue desperate searches for their loved ones who have been reported missing in separate disappearance over the past few days. This morning, the police department gave an update on the missing persons, as well as preliminary information on the discovery of a body in the vicinity of […]
Overnight, there has been a pair of unrelated homicides to add to the mounting body count going into the final days of 2017. A well-known and respected high school teacher has lost his life in a predawn act of butchery in Belize City, while a popular barber and businessman was gunned down inside his vehicle […]
Early this morning, news spread like wildfire that well-known barber Fareed Ahmad was dead; initially due to a traffic accident that occurred a block from the Hattieville Police Station. But later into the day, it would be learned that he had been shot to the head, allegedly by a woman police officer, who was inside […]
The chilling death of Kimberley Stephens in Placencia Village has left the peninsula in shock. The American national owned a home in Maya Beach and visited Belize regularly. She resided in Washington where she worked in the seismic field. Stephens arrived in Placencia on December sixteenth but no one saw or heard from her in […]
On Wednesday we reported on the killing of twenty-year-old Carlos Jackson. The prep cook who was out socializing on Christmas Eve when he was cut to the throat in front of a nightclub. Jackson’s family alleged that he may have been killed by someone over a work promotion. Today, the owner of the Rumfish, who […]
On the heels of an exceptionally bloody Christmas weekend, considering the number of fatal traffic accidents recorded, the Belize Police Department has reassessed its various crime fighting and operational strategies to mitigate these incidents heading into the New Year’s weekend. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett reviewed the events of the four-day weekend and also […]
The lifeless body of twenty-six-year-old Errol Gabourel Junior was found floating face-up along the river in Roaring Creek Village on Wednesday morning. He had been executed with a single gunshot to the head. When police retrieved his body from the banks of the waterway the discovered that Gabourel had been shot in the right temple. […]
A first class clerk employed with the Belize City Magistrate’s Court is out on bail tonight after being arraigned before Magistrate Hurl Hamilton on a single charge of theft. Twenty-nine-year-old Sean Lord was visited by CIB personnel this morning when he arrived at work. He was then escorted from his desk to San Ignacio where […]
Twenty-year-old Jose Najera is lucky to be alive tonight, following a shooting incident in Belmopan on December twenty-first. Najera was seated inside his vehicle in the vicinity of the Ring Road when he was accosted by an unknown individual who opened fire on him. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett shared what police have been […]
Gunshots rang out in Orange Walk Town on Tuesday night leaving one man injured with wounds to the right foot. Juan Cabrera came under attack by a gun-toting duo as his stood in front of his house sometime before eight o’clock. During the robbery, he was relieved of several items and in the process he […]
The Christmas weekend also had a pair of murders to report, though neither was in Belize City. The village of Roaring Creek was shocked by a discovery of a body in the Belize River this morning, later identified as Errol Gabourel Smith. Twenty-six year old Gabourel, also known as “Rabbit,” was recently out of prison. […]
The proprietor of a business establishment in Ranchito Village was relieved of a significant sum of money and other personal belongings, including a Toyota Tacoma truck, during an armed robbery in the Corozal District on Friday morning. Twenty-one-year-old Jaxi Tan reported to police that while inside his store a few minutes before eleven a.m., three […]
The second robbery in the Corozal District took place in the heart of town on Tuesday morning when two men entered Shanti’s Store and held up its owner. That stickup netted a pair of thieves an undisclosed sum of money. The frequency of robberies has also raised serious concerns among residents of the northern municipality. […]
Meanwhile, in Belize City over the weekend, there were two incidents reported where Chinese businessmen in the Lake Independence and King’s Park areas were accosted by thieves. In a brazen attempt on Saturday night near Lopez Mateo Park, a pair of would-be robbers fled the scene of a shooting when the grocer opened fire on […]
A twenty-year-old man was slashed to the throat over the holiday weekend in Placencia as he partied with friends outside a night-club. The prep-cook was out enjoying the festivities after work when he was attacked and killed. His family believes that he may have been killed due to jealousy because of a work promotion. But […]
Fifty-five-year-old Kimberley Lin Stephens was strangled to death. The American national’s decomposing body was discovered outside of her rental SUV on December twenty-third. We understand that Stephens arrived in country on December sixteenth and received a vehicle from the rental company in Placencia – they say this is not the first time she has rented […]
A Belize City family remains hopeless tonight as the search continues to locate Jamal Humes. The twenty-eight-year-old mechanic was last seen alive on Wednesday morning when he went to his mother’s house in the Jane Usher Boulevard area. Friends, however, say that they last socialized with him on the night of December twentieth. Today his […]
Jamal Humes remains missing…so is twenty-four-year-old Eugenio Rodriguez. Both men are residents of Belize City and haven’t been seen for the past several days. Earlier today, the Belize Police Department spoke on both, unrelated disappearances. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize City “We have two missing persons, the first one was reported on Saturday, […]
