The Gang Suppression Unit, with all the flak that it has received since being established, is completely off the hook in the Kelvin Usher debacle. Prime Minister Barrow made that point absolutely clear during his address. While the matter has been resolved without incident, the alleged involvement of the GSU in Kelvin’s disappearance has once […]
But even as Prime Minister Dean Barrow was addressing the nation and promising reformation of the Gang Suppression Unit, members of the police department were menacing residents of south side Belize City. Video obtained by News Five shows officers putting the screws to several young men in an alleyway next to Queen’s Square Anglican School […]
Rogue officers continue to make headlines after a number of cases involving law-breaking policemen have been reported. Three members of the Special Patrol Unit are under investigation tonight and it is expected that charges will be brought against them by Friday for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of a quantity of cocaine. The drugs […]
A wild night on the town on Tuesday will result in criminal charges being brought against two police officers who were involved in an incident inside a Chinese restaurant. During the altercation one of the policemen brandished a firearm and pointed it in the direction of the proprietor and a woman. It is alleged that […]
While the commander of the Professional Standards Branch is busy with internal investigations, there is one more incident that’s presently being looked into. A pair of off-duty officers were involved in a bar fight in San Pedro which left one man injured. Those officers, during the altercation, also discharged their firearm when patrons of the […]
The disappearance of a young Belize City student since Sunday has gripped the nation and galvanized persons from every walk of life. A massive search and rescue operation to locate seventeen-year-old SJCJC student Kelvin Usher continues in the wilderness of Lucky Strike in northern Belize District. It is day four and counting. The search started […]
In the face of specific details being provided by the GSU Commander, there are a number of inconsistencies. Firstly, Superintendent Makin states that his men fired only three to four rounds when entering the marijuana plantation. That account is being refuted by Cameron Usher Senior. He was apprehended at the location, while his son Kelvin […]
One person we haven’t heard from is the Prime Minister, but that will change when he addresses the press on Thursday, according to the Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Elrington. Elrington says an internal investigation has already commenced through the Professional Standards Branch. While Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams was in attendance, he was […]
For the fourth day, the bushes of Lucky Strike were scoured by family and friends looking for Kelvin Usher. The family holds hope alive, but every passing minute is critical to locate the minor. The search parties were joined today by Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, the head of the Professional Standards Branch of […]
Back to this afternoon’s press conference. Home Affairs Minister Wilfred Elrington has gone on record to say that neither Cameron Usher Senior nor Kelvin is known for run-ins with the law. We asked whether the marijuana bust on Sarstoon Street and the subsequent recovery of firearms within that area on Saturday night may in any […]
From all accounts, fingers are pointing in one direction in the disappearance of the bright and well-liked Kelvin Usher, the SJC JC student who has not been seen by his family for three nights. P.U.P. Deputy Leader Cordel Hyde agrees that there are more questions than answers as this ordeal continues to develop. The initial […]
A team of four officers attached to the Special Patrol Unit is under investigation tonight for reportedly taking a quantity of cocaine from evidence during an operation in the Cayo District almost one month ago. It was a sizeable haul of narcotics, but police are remaining tightlipped about the actual quantity. According to ACP Noel […]
A trio of police officer, each from a different part of the country, is in detention in Belize City tonight after a wild night on the town on Tuesday. The cops are in the city participating in the Gang Resistance and Education Training, also known as GREAT. Their actions, however, emulated the very gangs that […]
A desperate search continues for missing seventeen-year-old Kelvin Usher. Family, friends, students as well as the police searched an area in Lucky Strike off the old Northern Highway for hours where the young student was last seen with his father, Cameron Usher Senior. But a number of questions are baffling the family. Strangely, in an […]
In Belize City, attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley, who is defending Cameron Usher Senior and considers him a close friend, says the bigger tragedy than the discovery and burning of the marijuana plantation is how the Gang Suppression Unit handled the matter. Family members of Cameron and Kelvin Usher say G.S.U. officers fired shots as they […]
Police are not providing details on the deadly shooting of a Chinese grocer in Belize City. Shortly before eight o’clock on Monday night, a robbery attempt turned fatal for Bainan Wu, the store owner of Xi He Ii Store located at the corner of Vernon Street and Santa Barbara Streets. Wu was inside his shop […]
Earlier today, a group of four illegal loggers appeared in the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court where each man was formally charged for unlawfully harvesting as many as thirty-two pieces of mahogany logs. Catalino Copo, Nelson Mosa, Pablo Valladarez and Aurelio Mai were busted in the vicinity of the Old Northern Highway on Sunday afternoon. The […]
Was an elderly resident of Hattieville murdered or did he die of natural causes? The family of Karl Leslie believes that their loved one may have been killed by someone he knew very well. They also believe that he may have been robbed, before being brutally attacked and his vehicle stolen. But police are stumped […]
Police making a routine traffic stop in Belize City on Saturday encountered twenty-seven-year-old Shayanne Castro, a Port Authority clerk, and her husband Wasani, found no evidence of firearms or ammunition in their vehicle. But, spurred on by the suspicious behavior of the occupants, police were convinced that they were on to something, and that something, […]
After introducing for a first reading the bill to decriminalize possession of ten grams or less of marijuana in the House of Representatives in August, Prime Minister Dean Barrow indicated that a public education campaign would be needed to address certain beliefs and concerns floating around during the long-standing debate about marijuana in the last […]
Tonight, another member of the Castro family is in the news, this time for drug trafficking. Twenty-seven-year-old Shayanne Castro nee Rosado, wife of Wasani Castro, was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to possession of more than twenty-five pounds of marijuana in the Magistrate’s Court. She retained attorneys Marcel Cardona of Orange Walk and Richard “Dickie” […]
Back to the story involving Shayanne Castro…Police have confirmed that it recovered four high-powered weapons off the streets, along with ammunition. However, no arrests were made and the firearms were deposited as found property. It is believed that these guns were handed over in a deal with the Castros in exchange for the dropping of […]
There were other marijuana busts over the weekend. The largest one took place in Lucky Strike village off the Maskall Road in the Belize District on Sunday morning following the bust of Shayanne Castro. A G.S.U. team followed up on information of a marijuana plantation where they found Sibun Street chef and Belize City resident […]
In the other busts by the Gang Suppression Unit over the weekend, thirty-seven year old Jason Orozco was arrested and charged for drug trafficking on Saturday morning. He was captured near an alley beside New Asia Restaurant on Vernon Street after first trying to run. The Sandhill resident had three parcels containing a total of […]
An illegal logging operation in northern Belize District has resulted in the arrest of four men who were found with as many as thirty-two pieces of mahogany logs in an area off the old Northern Highway. On Sunday afternoon, sometime around three-thirty, Orange Walk police came upon the individuals in a white Isuzu freighter. The […]
