There’s one other murder to report tonight. In the City, a resident of the south side was shot multiple times and succumbed at the K.H.M.H. Malik Gibson, also known as “Toony,” was shot over the weekend and died soon after. His death, according to family members, was foretold. Gibson is a member of south side’s […]
But is community policing an effective approach to addressing the issue of crime and violence in the Old Capital? According to Senior Superintendent Chester Williams, when compared to August 2014, the numbers so far have reduced considerably. That is, Williams says, because residents of Belize City have been receptive of the new method. In Precinct […]
As many as six neighborhood teams converged on the Wilton Cumberbatch Field on Sunday where they all competed in a basketball tournament organized by Eastern Division South. The initiative, part of an ongoing effort by the Belize Police Department, is to bring together feuding groups through sports. The community/family sports day saw the participation of […]
There finally is an arrest in the vicious murder of a labor officer that occurred months ago in Punta Gorda. Fifty-five-year-old Alberto Coleman, the ex-boyfriend of Juana Cowo, has been arraigned on a single charge of murder, following her stabbing death on July third. The partly decomposed body of the twenty-nine-year-old woman was discovered inside […]
Illegal logging within the Chiquibul Forest remains one of the foremost causes of biodiversity loss within the national park. An assessment of the problem to determine its scale was commissioned by Friends for Conservation and Development and conducted over a two-year period, between 2010 and 2012. A recent report concludes that almost three million board […]
The Eastern Division South today held a second back to school drive; this time in the Mayflower Street area of the city as part of their strategy to build relations with the community. Primary school children and their parents gathered at the Berger Field on Vernon Street to receive much needed school bags and supplies, […]
On August fifteen, a deadly fight took place on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. It occurred near the entrance to the MCC Grounds across from the Ramada Belize City Princess. Four residents from the Lake Independence area: Mark Benguche, Austin Rowland, Eugene Arana and Joel Bishop were viciously attacked by a group of men, reportedly […]
Police have positively identified the body of a man pulled from the Haulover Creek this morning as that of thirty-three year old Theodore Parchue, better known as Bobbo Youth. He was perhaps best known for his musical talent more than a decade ago when he blazed a trail on the local scene with hits like […]
If the police haven’t been to your house yet, you might as well look out for them because they are busy with a community policing strategy led by the Eastern Division. Today, Senior Superintendent Chester Williams and his team were walking the streets talking with residents, including the children. We met them in the Neal […]
A Belizean is tonight in big trouble in Nicaragua after he was busted near its border with Costa Rica with a large quantity of marijuana. Reports from the Nicaraguan media say that one hundred plus parcels of weed weighing in at a hundred and twenty-three pounds were stashed within a white van with Belize license […]
A horrible home invasion at an isolated farm on the Hummingbird Highway ended tragically for the Polanco family. One of five minors at home was senselessly murdered in front of his siblings, when he recognized the perpetrators of the burglary. It all happened when three gunmen entered the house, bound the children and the caretaker […]
A teenager was shot and killed this morning on a farm in the Stann Creek District during a daring armed robbery. The incident occurred sometime before eleven o’clock, when a trio of masked men entered a property in the Pomona Valley belonging to Thomas Polanco. The thieves then proceeded to tie up his employees before […]
A sixteen-year-old Belize City youth is tonight fighting for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the abdomen on Thursday night. It occurred inside the Queen Square Primary School compound on Fairweather Street. Sixteen-year-old Mark Phillips, a well known affiliate of the George Street Gang, was shot by one […]
Allegations of police brutality are nothing out of the ordinary and tonight, a Belize City resident is claiming that police went too far this morning when they conducted a search at his residence in the Gungulung area. Around eight o’clock, Denmark Carr would rush home to find out that his girlfriend, Carla Belgrave, had been […]
The Eastern Division of the Police Department is the recipient of some much needed donation of surveillance equipment and other items to assist with intelligence-led policing methods. The donation, valued at twenty thousand Belize dollars, is being made by the United States Embassy through the Central America Regional Security Initiative, better known as CARSI. According […]
On Saturday morning, there was a murder on Newtown Barracks near the MCC Grounds. An Oleander Street resident, twenty-eight-year-old Joel Bishop was brutally beaten by a group of men and then ran over by a vehicle; he died hours later at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Now, Oleander Street is part of the PIV gang’s […]
GSU Commander, Superintendent Mark Flowers, also attended the meeting to express the GSU’s perspective in dealing with the criminal activities in these areas. However, on Monday, a motive has not been definitively ascertained as to what led to the murder of Bishop. News Five asked Senior Superintendent Williams if during the mediation, they were able […]
Today, the ITVET Compound in Belize City was buzzing with officers, prosecutors and scenes of crime personnel. A team of officers intercepted a heavily tinted Toyota four runner, detaining two persons. The men were bringing firearms into the country. An inspection of the vehicle led to a massive discovery – sixteen firearms ranging from shotguns […]
Police are nowhere closer to determining who was responsible for the murder of twenty-eight-year-old Joel Bishop. Bishop, a resident of Oleander Street in Belize City, was along with a group of friends on Saturday morning socializing at Pier One at the B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks. As the group headed home around three a.m., they […]
Seventy percent of the population of SICA member countries identify crime as the main threat to sustainable human development and one of the biggest contributors is the trafficking of illegal small and light weapons influenced by the extensive legal and illegal market for such weapons. To control firearms trafficking and reducing violence with a firearm […]
Just before three o’clock on Saturday morning, there was an all-out brawl near the entrance to the MCC Grounds across from the Ramada Belize City Princess. Four residents from the Lake Independence area: Mark Benguche, Austin Rowland, Eugene Arana and Joel Bishop were viciously attacked by a group of men, reportedly from the Supal Street […]
Exactly twenty-four hours later, on Sunday morning, shots rang out at the corner of Mapp and Cran streets in the city. A seventeen-year-old was targeted by gunmen in a vehicle; he was hit to the left leg and taken to the K.H.M.H. for medical assistance. Regional Commander of the Eastern Division North, Assistant Commissioner Dezerie […]
A scary home invasion took place on Sunday night around ten on the Boom Road near its junction with the George Price Highway. A family was inside their home when three men fully clothed and masked presented themselves as law enforcement officers and proceeded to rob the family when they let them inside their home. […]
The Rural Rapid Response Team was out in the Hattieville Area when they intercepted Daniel Meighan with an unlicensed firearm and cartridges. Police shared details of the discovery. Sr. Supt. Edward Broaster, Rural Regional Commander, Eastern Division “On Friday night where a young man, Daniel Meighan, thirty-two years, was intercepted by the Rural Rapid […]
Roaring Creek resident, nineteen-year-old Brian Hyde has been charged in Lee County, Florida for the triple murder of thirty-seven-year-old Dorla Pitts, her pregnant seventeen-year-old daughter Starlette Pitts and Starlette’s twenty-one-year-old boyfriend, Michael Kelly, with whom she shared an eighteen-month-old baby girl. Today, at a press conference held by the Lee County Sherriff’s Department, Lieutenant Matt […]
