Back in early July, the Belmopan police located the weapon used to murder Roaring Creek resident Maleek Norris. It was a homemade gun, simply two pieces of metal pipe and a shotgun shell. Today, in the wake of the murder of John Williams in Ladyville, police officers attached to the Rural Eastern Division also discovered […]
Earlier today, we also checked in to find out what is happening in Belize Rural where the communities are spread out in the wide expanse. Police plan to keep an eye on the more than thirty villages in the Belize Rural District. As residents leave their homes for higher ground and shelter, it leaves the […]
As we said earlier, it is known that William Mason was also highly connected with senior members of the police department. Today, ACP Edward Broaster also acknowledged that he met the accused murderer once, back in 2014. But Broaster claims he was never at the house on Intelco Hill nor at the farm, Outback Ranch, […]
A Honduran national was murdered on Saturday afternoon at Mile fourteen on the George Price Highway. The victim, Geovanni Rosales, was chopped on the arm, shoulder and neck and had no chance of survival. A machete which was recovered at the scene of the crime is believed to be the murder weapon. Rosales was hanging […]
Just after six on Saturday morning, a senior public officer was hit in front of the Novelo’s Terminal, Belize City, by a vehicle driven by Victor Gibbs. Emily Guy and friend were in that neighborhood to purchase coconut water when the horrible accident happened. The area was buzzing with market activity when Gibbs crashed into […]
Back to the Prime Minister’s press conference. The Opposition and other organizations have maintained the call for an independent investigation into the gruesome murder of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas. They say this is necessary because of Mason’s now evident ties to Cabinet Ministers and Police officers. The speculation is that in one scenario, those Police officers […]
A firearm that is prohibited in Belize was discovered by police in the village of Burrell Boom, Belize District. Last week Friday, officers attached to the Boom precinct confiscated the illegal weapon, which it is believed was used to commit a robbery in that community in early July. ACP Broaster told the media that one […]
A second cohort of children from the south side of Belize City is today starting a week-long summer camp hosted by the Community Policing Unit of Eastern Division South. The program captures at-risk youths who are vulnerable and are being recruited by gang elements across the city. Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams spoke of […]
According to ACP Chester Williams, some of the participants are already playing a role in gang activities. Last week, he had an intervention with parents and the reality is damning. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “In the intervention that I had last week with some of the young people. And I […]
Just before three this afternoon, there was a brazen robbery. Belizean salesman Mark Lisbey of Santiago Castillo Limited reported that after midday, he was conducting business at a supermarket at mile thirteen on the Phillip Goldson Highway. He collected two thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty-three cents in cash from Everyday Supermarket located […]
On Wednesday night, the quiet of the usually peaceful Farmer’s Site in Hattieville was shattered by the sound of gunshots. When police responded, they found that twenty-seven-year-old Keron Devon Moss bleeding in the parlor of the home he shared with his parents. He had been shot by a gunman who came knocking at around nine […]
William Danny Mason has been behind bars since July nineteenth, in a special facility at the Belize Central Prison reserved for high-risk prisoners. He is alone – or as alone as somebody in prison can be – having been separated from the four men arraigned along with him for the kidnapping and murder of Pastor […]
Superintendent Mark Flowers, former commander of the Gang Suppression Unit, spent his first night on remand at the Belize Central Prison on Tuesday. The pretrial detention succeeds an arraignment at the magistrate’s court during which he was indicted on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse involving a minor. The teenager is believed to be several […]
Flowers maintains that the charges brought against him are all part of a plot to make him the fall guy, to shift attention away from the ongoing investigation involving alleged murderer William ‘Danny’ Mason. He asserts that the Minister of National Security is meddling in the affairs of the police department where it concerns their […]
A teenager of Salvadoran nationality was this morning arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s court for Monday’s murder of Bella Regina Williams. The mother of three was found dead by her eldest daughter at the doorsteps of their Las Flores house. Police confirm Williams was partying with the murder suspect just prior to her death. Her […]
A pair of thieves netted over ninety thousand dollars during a home invasion in Belize City on Monday afternoon. Seventy-five-year-old Maria Sylvester, the Patroness of HelpAge Belize, reported to police that she was sitting inside her living room at her residence near the corners of A Street and Princess Margaret Drive. While conversing with her […]
With the home of an affluent Belize City family robbed in broad daylight, does the aggravated burglary pose a threat to other well-off residents in that neighborhood? Reporter “Should others in the area be concerned that they too may be targeted? This is an affluent area of the city.” Supt. Hilberto Romero, O.C., […]
Mark Flowers, head of the infamous Gang Suppression Unit, is tonight a fugitive from justice, according to a police source. Over the weekend, an arrest warrant was issued for Flowers, who was out of the country on vacation leave. The news broke last week that a report had been lodged at the Domestic Violence Unit […]
According to Bradley, Flowers remains commander of the Gang Suppression Unit despite recent announcements that he has since been replaced by Inspector Glenn Caliz. Bradley says his client is a senior public officer and as such the Public Services Commission and the Police Services Commission are the only two agencies empowered to remove him. To […]
There were three murders over the weekend, in Gardenia, Belize District where a bar owner was executed; in Belmopan where a woman was likely raped and murdered and up north in Orange Walk Town where a teacher was stabbed and killed. The Orange Walk resident is a teacher at the Belmopan Comprehensive High School and […]
The life of thirty-eight year old Nathan Underwood was also cut short. The Hattieville resident was at his bar, Nates Cool Spot, when he shot dead. The establishment is located in Gardenia, Belize District and Nathan was alone in the kitchen when he was executed. Police found eleven expended shells, but don’t have a suspect […]
The most recent murder took place this morning and in the nation’s capital. A mother of three, Regina Williams was found partially nude in front of her house in the Las Flores area of Belmopan. It is believed she was raped and then killed by a person known to her. Williams went out on Sunday […]
Heading back to the Belize District….just minutes after the murder of Nathan Underwood at mile twenty-one on the Phillip Goldson Highway, there was a shooting on the Old Northern Highway in Sand Hill Village. A twenty-six year old American national was shot once in her rear as she slept with her common-law-husband at their home […]
We don’t normally hear of the use of a pen gun in the committal of crimes in Belize, but around eleven o’clock today, Orange Walk police were called out to an area in Carmelita Village where they discovered the weapon in an open lot. Officer Commanding Orange Walk Police, Superintendent Selvyn Tillett told News Five […]
Interestingly, Eastern Division South did not see any major criminal activity over the weekend. In fact, it’s been three weeks since there has been any murder or violence triggered by gang rivalry in the city. ACP Chester Williams told News Five that several interventions with gang leaders over the past weeks have been working. […]
