According to our records, to date, there have been forty-nine murders in 2015, compared to thirty-four during the same period in 2014. In April 2014, there were ten murders. In April 2015, there were sixteen. In May 2014, there were seven. Today is May thirteenth, and there have already been six murders this month. So […]
While the Minister of National Security roundly criticized the media for purportedly exaggerating murder statistics for 2015, C.E.O. George Lovell told News Five that Eastern Division of the Police Department will be executing a plan that will see additional patrols and direct supervision of the boots on the ground. Despite not being able to divulge […]
There are countless and persistent complaints of police brutality on civilians. Lovell says that supervision of police officers is a priority for the force so that standards in policing are upheld. He also says that the relationship with the community is also important if the force is to get a grip on crime. Ret. […]
There is a brand new Police Station in Crooked Tree. Actually it’s been in use since it was completed in October 2013, but today it was officially inaugurated with much fanfare. It’s an impressive structure which will house two officers, with facilities adequate to serve the needs of the small, generally quiet community. News Five […]
Belizean born soldier Lee Busano is making headlines in the UK. The twenty-eight year old British Lance Corporal has been accused of two rapes and one sexual assault. Two of the alleged incidents happened within days of each other, while the third one happened some months later. When Busano appeared in Preston Crown Court a […]
Four persons lost their lives over the weekend. We start with the story of an elderly man from Ladyville, who was shot in his chest and perished over mangoes, which he did not even get to enjoy. Police are treating it as a case of manslaughter and not murder. Today, a well-known resident was charged; […]
The body of a Roaring Creek youth was discovered on Friday night in a remote location in the village of Camalote. Sixteen year old Glasford Thomas had been shot multiple times and left in the bushes off a feeder road. His family believes that he was killed because of the company he kept, and Thomas […]
The weekend violence continued on Saturday night. In Belize City, Kjiel Young’s life was snuffed out of him and one knows for sure why he was executed as he sat in a yard on Vernon Street. Several shots found their mark on the back of the nineteen year old whose demise was immediate. His execution […]
The gun violence in the Old Capital continued today. Over fifteen shots fired and three injured this afternoon. That’s what happened on Gill Street around two today. Residents say they heard about fifteen or more shots that sent people in the area for cover. But when the bullets stopped flying and the air cleared, three […]
The fourth person to die over the weekend is from Belmopan where a freak accident claimed the life of thirty-two year old Zack Leonard August, who attempted to elude police after a robbery. According to reports, August had already cut the lock on the front door of the La Inmaculada Credit Union in Belmopan when […]
A U.S. fugitive is back in the U.S. after being apprehended by the Placencia Police on Thursday. On the strength of a warrant issued by the United States Government, forty-three year old William Elmer Pettijohn was wanted in Jones County, Texas for the crimes of “Child Sex Assault” and “Human Trafficking.” Pettijohn entered the country […]
An internal investigation by the Professional and Standards Branch of the Belize Police Department is currently underway in Dangriga following allegations of police brutality made by a family in that southern municipality. Twenty-one year old John Pascal is tonight in a state of coma at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was allegedly beaten […]
Mena would rush once again to the police station to find his brother on the ground between two vehicles parked on the compound of the Dangriga police station. Pascal, visibly injured, could not walk and was later picked up by officers and thrown inside a cell. Two days later, on Sunday, he was taken to […]
Also in the south….today Placencia Police’s Quick Response Team conducted a search at the residence of twenty-two year old Akeem Tejeda in Placencia Village where they discovered one hundred and eleven grams of suspected cannabis. Eighteen year old Stephon Andrews, who was in the company of Tejeda during the search, was jointly charged for the […]
Twenty-year-old Kashief Bevans was arraigned in the Orange Walk Magistrates Court this morning on a single count of murder. His indictment follows the shooting death of eighteen-year-old Derrick Romero who was killed while socializing inside his yard on Wednesday morning. Bevans, a resident of number twelve Waight Street, Belize City, appeared before Magistrate Merlene Moody […]
There is another arrest regarding a murder last weekend. A sixteen year old minor from Roaring Creek is tonight spending his first night behind bars following his arraignment for the fatal stabbing of Dernell Brown at the Agricultural Show Grounds. The minor is accused of stabbing Brown to the right side of the head following […]
An on-duty security guard of Guadalupe Street in Belize City is tonight recovering from a gunshot to the neck. Thirty-one year old Victor Hendy was shot as he stood watch at New Asia Restaurant on Vernon Street just before nine o’clock on Wednesday night. Hendy was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and underwent […]
Eighteen-year-old Derrick Romero was shot and killed inside his yard by a lone gunman on Wednesday morning. He was shot multiple times when his attacker got off a bicycle, jumped the fence and entered the premises. The shooter asked for Romero by name and then proceeded to let loose on his target. Romero was mortally […]
A mid-morning murder in Sugar City has left family and friends stunned and Orange Walk police none the wiser as to a motive for the fatal shooting. Shortly before eleven o’clock this morning, eighteen-year-old Derrick Romero became the fifth murder victim since the beginning of the year in Orange Walk Town. He was along with […]
The murder of a cab driver in San Pedro last week has brought the police department under intense public scrutiny yet again for alleged use of excessive force. Twenty-three-year-old Luis Campos was a person of interest in the grisly homicide of Jose Beltran who was found dead inside his vehicle in a remote location on […]
According to Selgado, information included in the statement taken from Campos was tendered while his client was under extreme duress. The statement, Selgado further adds, will be dismissed in court since Campos was beaten into cooperating with the police. Oscar Selgado, Attorney for Luis Campos “The message I want to send to Mr. Broaster […]
In the U.S., former middle school teacher, forty-nine-year-old David Wendel Thompson has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison after being found guilty of attempting to lure Belizean teens for sex. Thompson, who admitted to leading a double life, spun many fantastic yarns about the immense wealth his country has to offer to adolescent Belizean […]
The first four months of 2015 have been particularly violent with the number of murders exceeding the 2014 homicides. So far, there are fifteen more murders than last year according to our records. Gun violence has hit the city particularly hard with gang warfare responsible for a large number of murders. Tonight, Isani Cayetano revisits […]
The family of six year old Travis Polanco from Pomona Valley, Stann Creek District, is tonight grieving his death, five days after he was shot to the head by another primary school student. At three minutes past twelve this afternoon, the young boy who had been unresponsive for some days, was taken off the ventilator […]
The shooting of Travis occurred last Thursday and it was until this afternoon that police sent out a release on what transpired. Contrary to the family’s report that the two boys were playing in the yard, the police say that their initial investigations reveal that while Travis was coming from school, he started hurling rocks […]
