P.M. Barrow during that press conference also conceded that the police department, as well as the local media, is very much familiar with the names of well-known gang members and leaders. Despite there being legislation allowing for the prosecution of known gang affiliates and the fact that it is common knowledge who they are, charges […]
Belize City came under siege on Wednesday. In a spate of seven hours, three men were murdered. It started in the early afternoon when Cyril McFoy, the father of a notorious George Street figure, was murdered as he played dominoes in his yard while classes were ongoing nearby at Saint Ignatius School. Within hours, McFoy’s […]
The overnight violence in Belize City immediately prompted Prime Minister Dean Barrow to call a meeting with the brass of the Belize Police Department to address the ongoing reprisals that started with the murder of Cyril McFoy, the father of Brandon Tillett. While additional boots will be placed on the ground in the streets of […]
In an attempt to quell fears of further violence, P.M. Barrow has pledged that government will expend whatever financial and material resources necessary to address the ongoing issue of gang-related homicides. The P.M. committed additional funds by way of a financial re-assignment to deal directly with the crime and violence. He announced this afternoon that […]
Barrow says that he does not believe that any of the six men who are presently in detention will be charged for murder, that he says would only succeed a thorough police investigation. They can however, be charged for gang affiliation. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “You asked about whether any of those being detained […]
Police and Customs officers made a huge bust on Wednesday night in Orange Walk. Just under forty pounds of suspected cocaine with a street value of over one point three million Belize dollars were confiscated from a Guatemalan national living in Ranchito Village, Corozal. Thirty-six year old Axel Fuentes was driving a Toyota pickup when […]
Still in the south of the country – Dangriga Police report that this morning they conducted anti-drug operations in that municipality. The operation included the Special Branch Unit, the Dangriga Quick Response Team, the Crimes Investigation Branch and the K-9 Unit. Using intelligence gathered, the units first went to the residence of Darwin Duran in […]
In this newscast, we have carried untold numbers of allegations of brutality at the hands of the police. Tonight, residents of the Jane Usher Boulevard are alleging that they were beaten up for no reason by the Gang Suppression Unit. The group of four including two minors and students of Gwen Lizarraga High School, an […]
At the top of the newscast, we told you of the three murders and shootings that transpired in a span of seven hours on Wednesday. The violence has put the police on alert mode. Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie, who was also at the head table during today’s press conference, gave his assurances to the […]
Assistant Commissioner of Police Dezeree Phillips and Deputy Officer Commanding Eastern Division Edward Broaster also explained the gang matrix, as it relates to the ongoing criminal activities. According to Phillips, while one gang is prominently being named in the ongoing spate, it is likely that the shootings are being carried out by other groups closely […]
Just before two o’clock this afternoon, as many as six gunshots rang old in the area of the Saint Ignatius Primary School located near the Raccoon Police Station as well as Precinct One in the Old Capital. A callous lone gunman opened fire on a group of four men who were playing their favorite pastime […]
While Elrington spoke candidly on the case against the principals of Titan International Securities in his capacity as Attorney General, he was unaware of Belize’s designation as one of several countries within the Latin American region that have been named as drug producing or drug transit nations. On Monday, the White House issued a press […]
The Organization of American States Anti-Corruption Mechanism has released a fifty-five page report on Belize. It follows the visit of the Committee of Experts for the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption back in April. The team interviewed representatives of four oversight bodies responsible for preventing, detecting and punishing corruption as well as members […]
Mark Flowers, the Head of the Gang Suppression Unit, made the headlines recently when he made public comments against the two-term former Prime Minister Said Musa, who at a political convention, called for the disbandment of the GSU. And as you know, the Unit has often come under fire for the use of excessive […]
Allegations of securities fraud and money laundering, in recent days placed Belize on the international headlines. Tonight, the issue of drug trafficking is attracting negative attention for the country. On Monday, by presidential determination, Belize was named again by the US as a major drug transit country. Other Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, Haiti and […]
On Sunday morning, the life of a Guatemalan national was callously taken a stone’s throw from where he lived in the Duck Run Three Area of Spanish Lookout, Cayo District. Thirty-four year old Pedro Ariel Diaz was viciously chopped to the neck and his head almost severed in the village. Today, police say that a […]
On Friday’s newscast we reported about a bust of contraband goods in Bullet Tree Area. Members of the Crimes Investigation Branch and the Special Branch of the San Ignacio Police Formation based on intelligence conducted a search on the residence of Clefido Balan. There, the officers found cases of canned beers and soft drinks stashed […]
In early July, nineteen-year-old Perfilio Rodriguez spent two nights on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being charged for aggravated assault. Rodriguez, also known as Vanessa Champagne Paris, had to be kept in a special cell for his own protection. It caused no end of confusion for prison officials because while Rodriguez is […]
Because of our volume of news on Monday, we didn’t carry the following two stories. First, we have a report on stolen vehicles from the Ministry of Health which has angered Belizeans. A total of four vehicles have been stolen from the ministry, three of which were taken from its headquarters in Belmopan since the […]
Turning to crime news. Three men were murdered over the weekend, in San Pedro, Belize City and in Cayo District. Early on Sunday morning, a Spanish Lookout resident was killed in a most brutal fashion. Pedro Ariel Diaz, a thirty-four year old Guatemalan national, was chopped to death; his head was partially severed. Diaz’s body […]
The body of forty-two-year-old Paul Morgan, who also goes by the name Paul Rubio, is at the Belize City morgue tonight. Morgan, who has a long rap sheet, was violently attacked on Friday night and shot multiple times to the upper body. Morgan was in the company of a woman inside a vehicle which was […]
There was a murder in San Pedro over the weekend, allegedly the result of an altercation in town. According to the Police report, Bowen and Bowen employee thirty-one year old Moses Coc was with a friend on Swan Street when they were attacked by another man. That man allegedly hit Coc repeatedly to the head […]
A sensational arrest was made this afternoon at the Phillip Goldson International Airport. Bahamian nationals Rohn Knowles and Kelvin Leach, wanted by U.S. authorities for their alleged roles in a string of illegalities related to investment fraud, are tonight in police custody. Sometime after one o’clock this afternoon, the pair was nabbed on behalf of […]
A retired American couple and a neighbour endured a terrifying home invasion just after midnight in the north side of the island of San Pedro. The couple resides at Cloister’s Apartment in the Tres Cocos area. Just after midnight this morning, sixty-eight year old Douglas Kelly and his sixty-five year old wife, Gail Neal, were […]
The Customs Department is reporting a major bust in the West. Benque and San Ignacio Police went to an area in the Bullet Tree Village where a whopping eighty-three cases of contraband beer were found buried four feet deep in the ground. The authorities also found another batch of beers, sixty-four cases to be exact […]
