The silence in Gardenia Village was broken this afternoon by reports of gunshots. When the shooting subsided, a resident of the quiet roadside community lay mortally wounded in his driveway. Twenty-seven-year-old Nelson Zelaya had been shot at close range by someone he reportedly knew. The midday murder has Ladyville police working diligently trying to determine […]
Sometime after nine o’clock last night, someone set fire to two trucks and a work shed on the property of Ray Cattouse along the Philip Goldson Highway. The damage is estimated at somewhere around a hundred thousand dollars. A third truck would have been destroyed by the fire had it not been for Cattouse’s quick […]
A foiled robbery in Corozal Town this morning has left one would-be robber hospitalized at the Northern Regional Hospital for a gunshot wound to the abdomen. At about nine-thirty-two a.m., police were called out to Rapidito Pawnshop on Fourth Avenue in Corozal Town where a gunman had entered the business establishment in an attempt to […]
Since Monday night we’ve been telling you about the arson that destroyed five properties in Trio Village. The affected residents were trying to get a meeting with Government representatives on Tuesday but they were not successful. Seven families have suffered great loss and have reported that they are waiting for the National Emergency Management Organization […]
Four men working for a company linked to a Chinese national are believed to be behind a massive arson last Thursday night in the tiny village of Trio, in the Toledo District. The affected villagers are claiming that the fire was set because of a land dispute. A total of more than fifteen thousand acres […]
Orlando Chan is one of the arson victims who told his stories to a Southern media house. Chan and other victims explained that they lived in the area for decades, cultivating the land and building their homes on it. Successive governments had promised to regularize their situation by acquiring the land from the private landowners, […]
In the past month and a half, we’ve reported on four children murdered in Belize City. Three children, eleven year old Aaron Gabourel, six year old Empress Hamilton and four year old Ian Sambula, were all killed in an arson on Aloe Vera Street. The most recent and tragic murder is that of seven year […]
During a meeting with the press this morning in Ladyville, Belize District, reports started coming in to Police that a foreign-born couple living in Belize had been kidnapped. Police recovered a grey Patriot SUV, reported to have been stolen during the alleged attack, which was said to have been committed by several armed men who […]
An Orange Walk cop is tonight out on bail after he was charged and arraigned for the wounding of a Guinea Grass resident. In a most recent allegation of police brutality, twenty-one year old construction worker Hugo Noh accused the police officer of the village of beating him to a pulp in front of a […]
From November twentieth to the twenty-sixth, residents of Eastern Division will be CHARMed by the division’s Police contingent. In this case, it’s not just hearts and flowers, but Changing Hearts and Renewing Minds, the full acronym for CHARM Week. It’s the brainchild of the People’s Coalition Committee, which serves as liaison with the Police Department, […]
The documentaries will be produced by a local production company and run for twenty to thirty minutes in primetime. Assistant Commissioner Deziree Phillips of Eastern Division North explains some of the other chosen topics as well as other plans for CHARM Week. ACP Deziree Phillips, Regional Commander, Eastern Division North “We will also be […]
It’s a sad week when the loss of innocent children in a vicious crime wave continues to shatter families. The Hamiltons of south side Belize City have lost a third family member in a month. For Melissa Hamilton, it is her second child to perish following an arson at a house on Aloe Vera Street […]
An already bruised nation continues to reel from the double murder of seven year old Tyler Savery and twenty-one year old Porshan Pipersburgh last Friday afternoon. There is a growing movement to make a numb society alive, to create solutions rather than cast blame. That is the hope of Tyler’s mother, Shakera Young, and his […]
There is further loss of life. Up north in the village of Libertad, Sherman McFarlane, was ambushed by one of four gunmen who lay-waited him in the dark of the night on Tuesday. Twenty-two-year-old McFarlane was servicing his vehicle when his attacker opened fire on him just before ten o’clock. His trip to the village […]
Eastern Division police were back on the streets of south side Belize City this afternoon where they conducted their weekly Meet and Greet initiative. North Creek is of particular interest this time around because not only does the neighborhood fall within the Eastern Division South jurisdiction; it has also seen a spike in gun violence […]
A recent increase in firearm offenses committed by culprits on motorcycles has forced the Belize Police Department to crackdown on motorists in the Old Capital. A spike in drive-by shootings and related traffic violations will see an enforcement of regulations under the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act, as well as other anti-crime operations. These […]
With weekend Garifuna Settlement Day festivities commencing in Belize City on Thursday, additional boots on the ground are being deployed onto the streets in various hotspots. ACP Williams says it’s all part of a concerted effort to keep the country safe during the Nineteenth celebrations. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “I […]
There is an arrest in the double murder of seven-year-old Tyler Savery and twenty-one-year old Porshan Pipersburgh. Police have charged a Curassow street resident for the double murder. When Jayear Flores was arraigned today, Tyler’s mother was in court. Shakera Young looked at the alleged shooter and showed no anger or bitterness with the person […]
The murder of seven-year-old Tyler Savery and his twenty-one-year-old cousin, Porshan Pipersburgh, has broken many Belizean hearts. A simple outing to get a milkshake at a neighbourhood establishment on Friday evening ended in senseless death by drive-by. On Monday, you saw the plea made by Tyler’s mother. Today, she was joined by the Leader of […]
A report of the latest military encounter on the Sarstoon River, involving village leaders, as well as a team of and park rangers attached to SATIIM, has been filed with the Belize Defense Force. This encounter comes several weeks after B.D.F. personnel came into contact with members of the Guatemalan Armed Forces as they traversed […]
Since losing its co-management agreement in July 2013, SATIIM has been virtually on its own as far as monitoring illegal activities within the expansive broadleaf, wetland and mangrove forest. The fact that the organization is operating without official sanction leaves its rangers vulnerable to encounters with GAF soldiers. Tzalam, who took over from former Executive […]
As many as four Belizeans died violently in a sweeping crime wave while four others were shot and injured over the weekend. Belize City was hardest hit by a double murder in which the life of a young boy was snuffed in a drive-by shooting on Daly Street. The seven-year-old school boy, Tyler Savery, died […]
According to Savery’s mother, a celebration of his life will be held on Wednesday. In an extended interview with the media, Shakera Young is appealing to the community to stand up in solidarity and bring an end to the violence. Shakera Young, Mother of Tyler Savery “What I am appealing to you mothers out […]
Hours later on Friday, a Belize City man was murdered around midnight. Forty-one-year-old Andrew Williams was driving a taxi on Mahogany Street when a man fired several shots at his vehicle. Williams was hit multiple times; he lost control of the car and crashed into a zing fence and perished. By today, twenty-eight year Kareem […]
The Stann Creek District has not seen a murder for months, so news of the weekend’s gruesome murder has rocked the community. The victim and the apparent reason for her sudden and shocking end have residents reeling. A sixty-three year old housewife, fruit and food vendor and devout Christian was viciously attacked in her home, […]
