Last Friday, September second a thirty year old US national was accosted and raped on the Stann Creek Valley Road. The woman told police that after one on Saturday as she was approaching mile seventeen and a quarter on the Stann Creek Valley Road when a Hispanic man jumped out of the bushes and pushed […]
In San Ignacio, police are investigating a report made by British National, fifty four year old Alan Gobie, that his San Ignacio house was burglarized on Saturday between the hours of four and six a.m. The thieves made off with over forty five thousand dollars worth of items including, a twelve gauge shot gun with […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow cut short his trip to St. Kitts and returned to Belize to diffuse the ongoing tension between the gangs and the Gang Suppression Unit. Last Friday, the GSU mounted a violent confrontation with the George Street Gang following the funeral of Charles Woodeye and in the process many innocent persons were […]
It’s been a violent week of murders and shootings. At least five persons were murdered and another five were injured in separate shootings. This morning, at around nine-thirty, two minors were shot and had to be rushed to the KHMH for treatment. Fifteen year old Samuel Logan and seventeen year old Nirisie Mejia are the […]
A number of robberies have been reported in the past twenty-four hours. On Thursday night between eight fifteen and nine forty-five, Body Image store on Albert Street was burglarized. Owner, Anil Harjani, says this is the first time in his ten years on Albert Street that his business has been burglarized. He lost cash and […]
Police are also investigating two other robberies that took on Thursday night. Chinese cashier, Su Mei Zhu was at the Super Center on Chetumal Street when he was jacked by three men carrying handguns. They stole seven hundred and fifty dollars from the store. In the other robbery, Ladyville businessman, Hao Tie Wu of “All […]
The gangs are not known to issue statements; in fact they are known not to want to appear on camera. So we found a release they purportedly sent out today to be unusual. It comes in the aftermath of a violent shakedown by the Gang Suppression Unit against alleged members of the George Street Gang […]
There were two shooting incidents on Wednesday night. A Belize City woman was shot in the presence of her children. According to reports, thirty-one year old Tiffany Cadle was standing in front of her home at the corner of Victoria and Yorke Streets when a lone gunman approached her. At seven p.m. Cadle, in the […]
Earlier in the night another shooting incident occurred but luckily no one was injured. It happened on Iguana Street at a home behind the Raccoon Street Police Station. According to forty-eight year old Francine Coleman, she was standing on the verandah of her bungalow house when she heard several gunshots coming from Morrison Alley which […]
There is tension on the streets over the recent confrontation between the Gang Suppression Unit and the George Street Gang. Police are claiming that the gangs are threatening to use grenades during Celebrations. While the cops have their hands full, two more lives were taken on Tuesday night. Around seven o’clock, Guy Fuller, was […]
Also on Tuesday night, shooting victim Troy Bowen succumbed to gunshot injuries. In early August, the twenty three year old stevedore was shot to the right side of his head. He survived that incident. But Bowen was a marked man and before eight a.m. on August twenty fourth a gunman was waiting for him at […]
The Belize Recycling Company Limited was robbed on Tuesday afternoon. According to twenty-nine year old Lindy Hernandez, at one fifty p.m. a man wearing a white T-shirt, a three quarter pants and a white cap came to the business in order to sell scrap iron. But the business transaction was just his cover to commit […]
Following the weekend’s violence, the police claim today that the gangs have grenades that they plan to use over the September celebrations. On Friday night, the Gang Suppression Unit zeroed in on George Street at a house where neighbours gathered after attending the funeral of Charles Woodeye. It is estimated that over forty persons were […]
An unidentified man was killed at the corner of George and King Streets after ten on Sunday morning in the weekend’s blood bath. Not many details were available because he was believed to have been homeless. Well that’s until today when we can confirm that he is forty-two year old John Garbutt. His family members […]
Belize City’s relationship with violence has shown that society’s dysfunction has plummeted further. Gun violence, which once only left bodies of gang members on the streets, now regularly includes the innocent. The bloodbath over the weekend spilled into King, George and Berkeley Streets. Three persons are dead since Friday and three more are shooting victims […]
The second murder victim on Friday night was eighteen year old Stephan Flowers, who succumbed to injuries at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Flowers was shot two weeks ago as he rode a bicycle along with Ian Henkis on Mopan Street. Both came under fire by two men who were riding on separate bicycles. Flowers […]
A homeless man, known only as Speedy, was the third victim to succumb to gun violence over the weekend. The shooting incident took place near the corner of George and King Streets in Belize City shortly after ten o’clock on Sunday morning. It is widely believed that the murder was an act of retribution by […]
To add to the spate of crime over the weekend, there were two separate shootings on Friday night. The first incident took place at the corner of Vernon and Santa Barbara Streets where thirty year old Michael Hemmans was shot to the hand, buttocks, hip and grazed on the forearm. Hemmans was securing his vehicle […]
Earlier we told you about the explosion of violence over the past weekend. On Friday evening, mayhem erupted on the corner of George and Dean Streets. It was the first sign of tension in what turned out to be a bloody weekend. Residents claim they were on the sidewalk waiting for the annual carnival motorcade […]
Just before six this evening, a shooting took place at the corner of Berkeley Street and East Canal in the old capital. From what we have been able to gather, there are two victims, thirty year old Maurice Neal, a welder, and ten year old Denesha Cadle. Neal man was smoking cigarettes he had just […]
Four persons were injured in a space of twenty-four hours in Belize City. A couple was shot before midnight as they watched television at home. Hours earlier in the same neighborhood, another person fell victim to gunfire as he rode his bicycle on Marigold Lane. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting The bloodstained […]
Just before news time, Lawrence Elijio was shot on Jasmine Street, which intersects with Marigold Lane. We’ll have more details on that shooting later, but it is in the area where another shooting took place early this morning. Twenty-three year old Troy Bowen remains hospitalized with gunshot injures tonight. Bowen was fired upon this morning […]
The Belize Defence Force, the Guatemalan military and OAS representatives convened today in Santa Elena, Petén. The meeting is taking place on the heels of an incident along the border on Monday in which a Guatemalan national was shot by a B.D.F. patrol. The B.D.F. has increased presence along the borders because of persistent illegal […]
There is tension tonight over the shooting of twenty-one year old Luis Alberto Garcia Pineda on the western border on Monday. Garcia claims that a military patrol by the Belize Defence Force shot and wounded him during a raid in the village of San Jose Las Flores in the Chiquibul, Melchor de Mencos. The report […]
Guatemalan national Ivan Padilla Mena remains in police custody tonight after being busted at the Western Border in Benque Viejo Town on Monday with an unusual sum of cash in Belize dollars. Police along with members of the Financial Intelligence Unit conducted a search of a Toyota Hilux bearing Guatemalan license plates driven by Padilla […]
