The gangland execution of nineteen-year-old Devin Parham, moments after the murder of Tevin Palmer on Castle Street, is strongly believed to have been an act of retaliation. Parham was dispatched in a hail of approximately nine bullets, as he walked down Cemetery Road along with a cousin. Both incidents prompted the police department to take […]
This morning, Eastern Division North of the Belize Police Department called a press briefing to apprise the media on the investigation into the murder of twenty-year-old Tevin Palmer, who was the first to be executed on Wednesday afternoon. Palmer was murdered as he socialized inside a home on Castle Street that he frequented and sources […]
Nine hours after the murder of Tevin Palmer inside a house on Castle Street, that same house was on fire in a case of arson, allegedly to do away with evidence. Police say that around eleven-thirty p.m., a neighbor heard dogs barking and around midnight, a loud bang would draw his attention to the Castle […]
It’s been a while since there was a murder on the north side of Belize City. But in that vicinity of Barrack Road and Castle Street, we’ve reported several shootings happening in that specific area, particularly when it comes to gang-related gun violence. Today, the media asked the senior officers of Eastern Division North about […]
Since the shooting death of Giovanni Gentle in the wee early hours of Saturday, interventionists have not met with elements of Belize City’s feuding groups to stage a mediation. It is much needed, as the recent spike in gang violence has the Old Capital on edge. Today, ACP Chester Williams spoke on the urgent need […]
The city is on high alert following the recent gang murders and threat of more retaliations to come, but that vigilance isn’t restricted to that jurisdiction. Commander of the Rural Eastern Division Edward Broaster explained today that gang violence is known to spill over into the Belize District, and they’re preparing for anything that may […]
This morning, representatives from various media houses converged at the Eastern Division South Headquarters on Raccoon Street to participate in a special intervention with the police department. The purpose of the workshop was for us out to put on the table concerns that have arisen as a result of recent friction with the brass of […]
Community Policing meets Social Media in the Rural Eastern Division…it’s a brand new concept which seems to have taken off in grand style. Faced with having to deal with a jurisdiction with thirty-two communities spread over many miles, the cops from the RED turned to Whatsapp for help and held the first of its kind […]
The police department, in separate jurisdictions, is working overtime tonight to quell the late afternoon violence that has erupted on the north and south sides of Belize City. The first murder took place inside a residence on Castle Street where a teenager, identified as Tevin Palmer, was fatally wounded by gunfire. Neighbors told News Five […]
Los Lagos resident Eugene “Fatback” Webster is currently at the K.H.M.H., listed in stable condition after he was stabbed to the neck, back and arm by his twenty-one-year-old stepson. It happened in the early hours of this morning. When Police responded they found “Fatback” alone in the home on the ground, bleeding profusely. Today Commander […]
There is also a curious case in the Rural Eastern Division’s jurisdiction, and it allegedly involves the elite Mobile Interdiction Team. What we do know is that there is a vehicle at the Ladyville Police Station, a black Montero Sport, with a bullet hole in it. The bullet which penetrated the rear of the vehicle […]
There’s another incident allegedly involving the MIT, and again, there is practically no official information. What we have heard, unofficially, is that in the past few days the MIT was in the Rural Eastern Division jurisdiction when they reportedly extorted some Chinese individuals heading to Orange Walk. It is alleged that they told the persons […]
A family of eleven in Mahogany Heights is tonight homeless after the place they called home was gutted by fire this morning. Sometime around five a.m., Elstwin Willoughby, his wife and their eleven children and grandchildren were the victims of an inferno that is believed to have been deliberately set. But was the fire retaliatory? […]
A female Police Officer is tonight recovering from injuries she received when a group of persons assaulted her. WPC Tracy Stevens was doing extra duties at the Blue Angels Nightclub in San Ignacio over the weekend when she got into an altercation with a young woman who wanted to get inside. That altercation led to […]
Another Belize City youth has fallen victim to the relentless spate of gun violence in the Old Capital. Tonight, police are saying that the weekend murder of Giovanni ‘Blege’ Gentle may have been the result of jealousy. The vendor, who was well-known for selling coconut water across the city, was gunned down while leaving a […]
Eighteen-year-old Kent Brooks Junior remains bedridden at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being shot last Wednesday. During the deadly incident which occurred on La Croix Boulevard sometime around eight-thirty that night, his friend Kieran Morrison lost his life. The shooting is strongly believed to be the result of an ongoing feud between rival gangs […]
While a pair of men had been detained following the deadly shooting, they have since been released from custody. Williams says the challenge is getting witnesses to provide investigators with statements. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “We had two persons detained and those persons have been released and like we always […]
The house in which seventeen-year-old Jasmine Petillo was murdered has been identified. Today, the Rural Eastern Division of the Police Department held a press briefing in Ladyville to announce that an ongoing investigation in the Mahogany Heights community has led police to the house where Petillo was brutally stabbed fifty-seven times. The community is still […]
While one person has been detained for the murder of seventeen year old Jasmine Petillo, police are yet to lay charges on a suspect in the murder of Lyndon Murillo, who was also killed in the Mahogany Heights community less than a month ago. On June ninth, the well-known watchman, and a father of five […]
Today, exactly seven months after the aggravated burglary of the home of Lebanese Consul, Sarkis Bou-Nehra, Rural Eastern Division Police are looking to charge four additional suspects. In fact, a DNA sample sent out following the rape of a female at the home has come back positive as that of twenty-one-year-old Paul Jex Junior, a […]
Ladyville police are also investigating a shooting on Friday night in the Lord’s Bank Community. Seventeen-year-old Michael Aldana alleges that while driving a green Range Rover on the Lord’s Bank Road, he was shot to the knee and arm. But is there more to that story? That’s what we asked ACP Edward Broaster. ACP […]
Meanwhile, police are facing a roadblock in their investigation of another shooting incident that occurred last Tuesday night at the Crooked Tree junction on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Twenty-five-year-old Belize City resident, Stephen Palacio, reported to police that he was shot by someone as he stood outside his vehicle. Palacio was rushed to the Northern […]
The unremitting spate of crime and violence among rival groups is a social phenomenon which continues to grip Belize City. The problem has been observed keenly from the perspective of experts who study the Belizean society and the individual social institutions therein. It has also been scrutinized from the point of view of local law […]
According to ACP Williams, despite a fundamental difference in philosophy, he is still open to working with the team of social scientists. ACP Chester Williams, O.C., Eastern Division South “We must be real. Do not say things out there just because you want to sell a book.” Isani Cayetano “I think it was […]
On Friday night, exactly two months after the murder of Camalote youths, Akeem Thimbriel and Shawn Lopez, residents organized a vigil near the Westar Gas Station in the village. The message was two-fold—they want justice for the killing of their loved ones; that someone be brought in to investigate the double murder, and as an […]
