One police officer who certainly won’t be receiving any awards of distinction anytime soon is Detective Constable Urbie Alamilla. Alamilla was charged criminally last week for discharging his weapon in a bar while allegedly under the influence. Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie says that while cops are human, cops who do wrong are an embarrassment […]
Anthropologist Doctor Herbert Gayle is releasing a book on urban violence in Belize. Gayle started his studies of Belize in 2008 and released the infamous Gayle Report in 2010. This book, released six years later, is aimed at providing a comprehensive look at where Belize has moved in the time-gap between report and book. Today, […]
According to the expert, Belize has the exceptional public will to do away with violence and that’s a critical component of positive change. But the time to start moving is sooner rather than later. Dr. Herbert Gayle, Anthropologist of Social Violence, UWI Jamaica “Things are becoming better worldwide. The problem we’re having though is […]
We took the opportunity to ask Gayle about the brazen shootout in front of the Queen Street Police Station, in which a fifteen year old minor wounded four persons, one of them a Police Officer. He explained that it may not be as dramatic as it seems, but it should certainly be a wake-up call. […]
While the Reporter’s Editorial is found to be lacking in accuracy, another article in circulation today puts perspective in what really is happening in the Chiquibul. Renowned professional photographer Tony Rath recently accompanied Friends of Conservation and Development into the depths of the Chiquibul National Park in Western Belize. His trip into the vast wilderness […]
There is a disturbing report out of Orange Walk. Police are investigating a chopping incident which occurred this afternoon sometime after two o’clock. Larry Banner, who has a history of mental illness, reportedly arrived home and chopped his sister-in-law and three minors. He then went across to the neighbour’s house and there chopped two adults, […]
Five firearms have been taken off the streets of south side Belize City. Today, Eastern Division South Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams called the media to his office at the Raccoon Street Police Station and displayed the five guns that were discovered on Thursday during several searches in hotspots across the city. In […]
A trio of burglars was caught in the act this morning in Belize City. The planned burglary occurred like this. One of the men pretended to be chopping the yard while the two others broke into house on Franklin Street to steal the belongings of the house owner who had already been robbed before by […]
Members of the Ahmad family of Hattieville were detained by the police on Monday morning and kept incommunicado while they were in custody. The Muslim family says that the past forty-eight hours has been hellish. In the predawn operation police took their electronic devices, travel documents and licensed weapons. The family describes the incident at […]
Ten hours later, the Ahmad women, including minors, were released without any explanation or apology from the officers; the men were released late Monday night. The officers claimed the search was prompted by suspicions of conspiracy to commit murder and damage to property by Ahmad family members. But their licensed firearms were returned, but not […]
A well-known Belizean family within the local Muslim community was the subject of a predawn raid on Monday at their house in Hattieville. Former Superintendent of the Belize Central Prison Taheera Ahmad and her sibling Fareed, proprietor of the Real Barbershop, along with seventeen other relatives, were rounded up in an operation conducted by the […]
It is almost six months into the year, and the murder count continues to grow. The Belize District continues to be plagued by the most violent crimes. This past weekend, two other persons were murdered. In the south, another person was chopped to death. There was further loss of life due to drowning and a […]
But prior to the Hattieville murder, the life of Edison Williams was cut short in Belize City for motives unknown. On Friday night, the thirty-three-year old resident of Kraal Road was at his own yard when he was fired upon by a shooter who emerged from the nearby alley. The brazen gunman approached and spoke […]
There was a third murder over the weekend – this one in the remotest area of the Toledo District, in San Benito Poite. Sometime Saturday night Francisco Ack, a resident of that community was brutally chopped to death and left in some bushes near the school in the community. According to officer commanding the Punta […]
Late this evening, a fifteen-year old minor was arraigned in court for Friday’s Queen Street shooting involving a police officer and three other persons. The minor is facing a slew of charges, fourteen in all. Four are for attempted murder upon forty-four old Elroy Saldano of Pink’s Alley, thirty-four year old school warden Graciela Castillo […]
A police officer attached to the eastern division south tonight remains in custody after he discharged a firearm in a restaurant, wounding a patron at a Ladyville restaurant. According to Rural Eastern Division Commander, ACP Edward Broaster, on Saturday, at Green Jade Restaurant at the corner of Poinsetta Street and the Phillip Goldson Highway, an […]
Now, this is the second shooting incident involving the same police officer. One week prior to Saturday’s shooting; the officer was detained by police following reports that he discharged his firearm on Perez Road. His licensed firearm was retrieved following that initial incident and it is not known how he was in possession of another […]
Belize City resident, Elroy Perdomo Junior, was murdered on Thursday afternoon during a funeral procession four hours after he was released from police custody. If that brazen murder sent shockwaves, today, a shooting in front of the Queen Street Police Station at eight-twenty this morning caused tremors in one of the busiest commercial areas. Business […]
Officers attached to the Gang Suppression Unit were immediately dispatched to the scene and have also joined in the investigation on the incident that appears to be as a result of warfare between two rivaling gangs from south side Belize City. Supt. Mark Flowers, Commander, Gang Suppression Unit “We operate in uniform, in concert […]
The daring attempt on the life of Brandon Tillett this morning on Queen Street happened less than a stone’s throw away from Independence Hall, the headquarters of the People’s United Party. Party Leader John Briceño was in office today and while it is not clear whether he was there at the time of the shooting, […]
Today, there was further violence in the south side of Belize City. Elroy Perdomo Junior was executed on Vernon Street as he attended a funeral. Perdomo Junior was held for forty-eight hours as the prime suspect in the murder of Marlon Bonner on Sunday at the basketball court on Faber’s Road. He was released from […]
In another case of murder, thirty-four-year-old Marlon Anthony Bonner was callously dispatched in a hail of bullets on Sunday evening as he awaited a turn to play a game of basketball on the Fabers Road Basketball Court. The deadly shooting was witnessed by several persons, including those who were at the court at the time […]
Bonner, who was shot multiple times to the back, head and chest, was accosted by a lone gunman. While Belize City police are no closer to a motive, they do not believe that the hit on him was gang-related. As for the suspect, ACP Williams told News Five this evening that should the detention period […]
A vehicle was deliberately set on fire on Monday afternoon; it was the property of businessman Evan Tench of Techtronic’s Communication located on Amara Avenue, Belize City. The vehicle, a Jeep Wrangler, was parked behind the Saint Ignatius Primary School in Belize City, when it was doused and lit. The arson was caught on surveillance […]
Belize City Police are currently looking for the gunman who brazenly walked onto the basketball court at the corner of Faber’s Road and Central American Boulevard and gunned down Marlon Bonner, thirty-four years of age. It happened at around four on Sunday as Bonner played with friends on the court. It is the same basketball […]
