Six murders in four days have taken some by surprise, while others were not so shocked by the spike in the homicides. And on Tuesday night, you heard the top brass in the Police Department talk about what they are going to do for the next few months to curb the gun violence, particularly in […]
Just now you heard Minister of Police Aragon speak on the short term methods they are implementing to cut the sharp increase in killings since the start of the New Year. He told us that his Ministry has undertaken a comprehensive plan which will be a national crime strategy. Aragon said that the plan is […]
2016 closed with a record number of murders, one thirty-seven persons were killed by December thirty-first. The carnage at the start of 2017 shows no signs of letting up so far; the past four days have been brutal especially in the Old Capital where of five murders, all except one occurred. Tonight, we look at […]
Prior to the murder of Randolph Johnson this afternoon, twenty-eight-year-old Robert Gillett was executed on North Front Street around midday on Monday. Police have not ruled out that it may be connected to another of the homicides over the weekend. As many as fifteen shots were fired at the former inmate who was released from […]
The discovery of a live M26 fragmentation hand grenade this morning, by personnel attached to the Gang Suppression Unit, continues to draw attention to an exceptionally violent and bloody New Year’s weekend in the Old Capital. The lethal explosive device was recovered from an area near the Cumberbatch Field at the intersections of Fabers and […]
The New Year continued with a second murder on Monday night. Thirty-one-year-old Kenneth Dobson was shot and killed while he socialized with friends on Raccoon Street Extension. The Belize City man has had a colorful history and has been acquitted of at least two murders and Police say that they will be looking at his […]
Twenty-two-year-old Colin Sutherland was shot and killed as he walked on Youth For the Future Drive on New Year’s Day. A man got out of a vehicle and fired several shots and killed Sutherland. Police say that they are looking for a possible connection with another murder of Robert Gillett who was killed one day […]
While families celebrated the holidays, others grieved as criminals took over the streets. In Ladyville, Belize District, twenty-five year old Dillon Grinage was executed at a local food stall by a lone gunman. Grinage is the last murder victim for 2016. His mother was heading to church when her son was shot and killed. News […]
The New Year is considered a time for new beginnings, mostly summarized with the appearances of babies. But one baby boy didn’t make it to 2017. Benque Viejo Police were called to the riverside near the Town Hall on New Year’s Eve afternoon and made a heart-breaking discovery. The fetus’ remains were wrapped in a […]
The US Embassy has issued a bulletin seeking information on the whereabouts of U.S. national Raymond Samuel McLeod Junior, who is wanted in connection with the murder of Krystal Mitchell in San Diego on June tenth, 2016. McLeod, who is also known as RJ, is believed to be in Belize and was last seen in […]
While shy of the record set four years ago, the count of one hundred and thirty-six murders as of this evening is still a heavy toll. Eastern Division South, according to its commander Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, is the only division to record less murder this year than in 2015, a surprise were […]
Eastern Division South police have arrested and charged twenty-year-old Frank Young for the murder of nineteen-year-old David Andrews. Andrews was shot dead on Raccoon Street a week ago tonight, after receiving a phone call and going to meet a friend around the corner from where his mother was a food vendor on Central American Boulevard. […]
The Eastern Division’s South region, long used to being the neglected step-child of the Police Department, finally got a major “come-up” with the recent distribution of vehicles to the Department a few weeks ago. Many of those vehicles have been pressed into service for patrols in both precincts under the command of ACP Chester Williams, […]
2016 is drawing to a close as one of the bloodiest years in recent times. Most murders remain unsolved as did a string of homicides that occurred between 1998 and 2000, which we revisit tonight. As many as five primary school girls from Belize City were viciously murdered. There was a common thread in the […]
Fifty-five-year-old Moises Roberto Soriano of Pescador Drive, San Pedro Town, is out on bail after being caught in possession of cocaine on the island. Soriano pleaded not guilty before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer and was released on bail of three thousand dollars by lunchtime. On Thursday, he was found by police to be going against […]
An ex-pat in San Pedro Town has been robbed by a pair of men whom he thought were his friends. Sixty-five-year-old Gary Hamilton, a retiree of Sea Grape Drive, told police that on Wednesday night he was socializing with Omar Delgado, a construction worker of the San Mateo community. The men were leaving from River […]
Forty-eight-year-old Jorge Montero, a former employee of Priority Security, appeared unrepresented this morning in the courtroom of Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer to answer to a single charge of burglary. It is alleged that on December twenty-sixth, the Lord’s Bank resident entered into the home of Stephanie Lupp on Princess Margaret Drive and stole a pink […]
He was the baby of their family, the apple of his mother’s eye. Ramona Carcamo, a vendor known as “Mama Chula,” joins the long list of grieving Belize City mothers after the untimely death of her son David Andrews on Christmas Eve night. Andrews’ family says he was shot four times – once in the […]
Last week we told you that Police have since identified the homeless woman as – Michelle Moriera- whose body was retrieved from the Belize River two weeks ago. Moriera’s badly decomposing corpse was discovered with several chop wounds to the head. Now police have one person detained. The man is said to be Moriera’s common-law […]
It has been six weeks since five families were wiped out by a fire in a hidden corner of Trio village, Toledo District. The incident appears to be linked to a land dispute involving over fifteen thousand acres of land located four miles outside of the community. So far, the company that claims the land […]
On Friday night, a man was shot and killed in the City. David Andrews was standing near the intersections of Seagull and Raccoon streets when two men rode up on a motorcycle and one of them shot and killed him. Neighbors told us that they heard at least six shots fired that night. Today, we […]
One hundred and thirty-six murders have now been recorded for 2016, following the death of David Andrews on Friday. And while it is safe to say after a quiet Christmas weekend that the record established four years ago will not be touched, homicides continue to be a significant concern for the Police Department and for […]
A shooting on Christmas Day left a Belize City student with a gunshot wound to one of his feet. He was treated and released from the hospital. Police say that they don’t know the cause of the shooting and nothing indicates that it may be gang-related. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South […]
Another man was shot in the city. On Boxing Day, Byron Jeffords was on Wagner’s Lane when he was approached by two men on bikes and one of them shot him in the hand. Police have someone in custody and are investigating this matter. ACP Chester Williams tells us more: ACP Chester Williams, Regional […]
The murder count for 2016 sits at one hundred and thirty-five with just a week to go. It is already a worse figure than 2015 and not far off from the record year of 2012 with one hundred and forty-five. So what’s driving the compulsion to kill? Police Commissioner Allen Whylie told reporters today that […]
