In the Old Capital last night, a salesman was shot, but survived the incident. Forty-one-year-old Zane Robinson, a resident of San Ignacio, was injured on Tuesday evening while conducting business in the vicinity of First Street in the King’s Park area. Robinson was accosted by a pair of armed men who demanded money, before proceeding […]
The incident in which a Guatemalan minor was shot in the Chiquibul has gone viral, pushed by the highest officials in Guatemala and fueled by the Guatemalan press. At his press conference on Monday, PM Barrow accepted that the issue was emotive and sensational, and that Guatemala had been first out the gate. But he […]
There are also reports that Belizean Joseph Budna was attacked in a prison in retaliation for the death of the thirteen-year-old boy killed in la Cebada, Chiquibul last Wednesday. The incident occurred at Cantel prison in Quetzaltenango; five persons were injured in the chaos and three were taken for medical treatment. It is believed that […]
A father and his son are tonight being actively pursued by Corozal police, following a mid-morning murder in the San Jomal community earlier today. Sometime around ten o’clock a male person of Hispanic descent frantically arrived at the Corozal Police Station requesting assistance to follow up on a shooting incident that occurred moments earlier. When […]
Is the weekend shooting of a pair of Belize City men a gang related incident? Nineteen-year-old Abraham Craig and twenty-two-year-old Tyrone Guy were attacked on Saturday evening by a lone gunman as the two were standing on Caesar Ridge Road across from Bismark Recreational Center. As many as ten shots were reportedly fired at the […]
As many as nineteen persons have been charged in connection with the home invasion of Lebanese Honorary Consul Sarkis Bou Nehra in early December 2015. In the robbery in Burrell Boom, Belize District, a number of items were stolen including guns and household items of significant value. Some of the items have since been recovered, […]
Twenty-year-old Austin Gabourel is tonight behind bars accused of murdering a Caye Caulker resident over the weekend. Late this afternoon, Gabourel was read a single charge of murder for the April seventeenth murder of Leon Gordon. He appeared unrepresented in the courtroom of the Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith and was remanded to the Belize […]
The Special Branch Unit in the south has taken an alleged criminal off the streets. Shane Bennett escaped from the Independence police and did not go too far. He has now been recaptured in Placencia and police believe he was being assisted by friends. Considered dangerous, Bennett escaped from police hands in early January. While […]
Police are being deployed in many neighborhoods on the south side of Belize City, as they brace up for any eventuality, following the murder of Gerald “Shiny” Tillett in Dangriga over the weekend. The George Street boss will be laid to rest in the days to come and it is likely that retaliatory acts will […]
Following the murders of Gerald Shiny Tillett and Kadeem Castillo, at least two clubs—Dino’s Night Club and Thirsty Thursday—were reportedly closed down just after midnight on Saturday. Several businesses in the north and south sides of the city were also asked to close shop to prevent further violence. According to the regional commanders of Eastern […]
A Coast Guard Petty Officer Class Three is tonight recovering at the K.H.M.H. after he was injured at the Coast Guard’s Forward Operating Base in Consejo. From a very preliminary investigation into the incident, it appears that the officer was clearing his weapon when it accidentally discharged, injuring him on the hand and leg. The […]
Police Constables Hallet King and Leonard Nunez were the two officers charged for the vicious killing of eighteen year old Baptist High School student Hilberto Sotz inside the police station on Caye Caulker. They were arraigned for the murder one day later in Belize City on June ninth, 2015, but ten months later on April […]
Fear blanketed Belize City and Dangriga as the most violent weekend since the start of the year started to unfold. The murder of the reputed gang boss of George Street, Gerald ‘Shiny’ Tillett caught police by surprise but they quickly moved to shut down businesses and clear the streets immediately after his murder on Saturday […]
“Shiny” Tillett’s murder triggered another and hours later, twenty-two year old Kadeem Castillo was gunned down in Belize City. His body was found on Madam Liz Crescent in the Faber’s Road area. He had gunshot wounds to the chest and head. Three men drove up in vehicle, approached Castillo and another person and unleashed a […]
It won’t get as much attention as the weekend’s bloodshed and sensational murder of a notorious gang figure, but there was another killing on the island of Caye Caulker. It happened just after eight on Sunday night at the Sip and Dip Bar located on Avenida Hicaco, where police say Leon Gordon was fatally stabbed […]
We’ll have more urban violence coming up, but deep inside the Chiquibul Forest, a trio of Guatemalans was detained after being found with a quantity of suspected cannabis in the area of Ceibo Chico. On Saturday, a detail of law enforcement officers, including members of the Belize Defense Force, the Belize Police Department and Friends […]
Earlier we told you about murders in Dangriga, Belize City and Caye Caulker. But there was a string of shootings, in particular in the city, where two men were injured and hospitalized. One was shot on Vernon Street while he was purchasing food at a shop across from the Berger Field. The other shooting was […]
Before leaving Belize today to attend a training course in the U.S., Regional Commander of Eastern Division South, Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, told News Five there were up to seven shootings over the course of Saturday night and in the aftermath of Gerald “Shiny” Tillett’s murder. On the Phone: ACP Chester Williams, […]
He was arrested in 2012 on charges of unnatural sex with a minor, but tonight British national David Taylor is recovering from a gunshot wound to the chest. Taylor was at his home in Biscayne on the Phillip Goldson Highway when he was shot as he resisted what Police believe was an attempt by two […]
Just hours after that Ladyville Police were called out again for another shooting on Marage Road. According to reports, Ladyville businesswoman Cynthia Lozano told Police that at around three that morning she heard noises at her front door followed by three gunshots. Insp. Juanito Cocom, Acting Regional Commander, Rural Eastern Division “Police visited Marage […]
In light of the recent shootings in the city, police stepped up operational presence in known gang areas to mitigate likely retaliation. On Sunday, ACP Chester Williams, Dianne Finnegan and GSU’s Commander, Superintendent Mark Flowers met George Street Gang members to diffuse tensions. Police also closed down night clubs and businesses as a way to […]
The unimpeded movement of gang members across various parts of the country, including Dangriga, has raised serious concerns for residents, as well as law enforcement. It is well known that criminals from Belize City often retreat to Gales Point Village and Dangriga Town to lay low for a while whenever things get heated in the […]
Officers of the Rural Eastern Division are also cracking down on the movement of narcotics in the community, and report that over the weekend they seized a total of over six hundred grams of marijuana. Inspector Juanito Cocom told News Five that a majority of their drug operations are fueled by increased vigilance and by […]
On Friday, charges against two police constables were downgraded from murder to manslaughter. PCs Hallet King and Leonard Nunez were accused of killing eighteen year old Hilberto Sotz, while he was detained at the Caye Caulker Police Station. Sotz was badly beaten and taken to the polyclinic, but died within hours of his detention. Both […]
Sotz killing prompted riots on Caye Caulker and the family believes that the wheels of justice are not turning. The two cops were also granted bail of two thousand dollars each. Hilberto was to graduate from Baptist High School in the west when his life was cut short ten months ago. Santorino Sotz, Father […]
