The old Capital’s murder spree started on Saturday morning when a resident of Wagner’s Lane was brutally riddled with a barrage of bullets. Forty-four year old Joe Hamilton was murdered near his home. According to reports, Hamilton’s body was found at the corner of South and Plues Streets. He had sustained gunshot wounds to the […]
A father of two was the weekend’s fourth murder victim in the lawlessness that engulfed the streets over the weekend. Abner Rodriguez last saw his family on Saturday evening after six. Thereafter he went out with friends, and by midnight when his wife called him by cell for the second time, she got the horrific […]
While four murders were added to the rapidly growing list that now stands at a staggering thirty-three, charges have now been levied the murder of a Lebanese born woman. On Friday, police arrested forty-five year old Mark Anthony Diaz, a construction worker of Roaring Creek Village in Cayo for the Murder of Isis Nassar. The […]
As we said earlier, the four weekend murders sent the government scurrying for solutions. The police met in emergency over the weekend and this afternoon Prime Minister Barrow along with the ministers of police and defense, flanked by the top brass of the Belize Police Department, the B.D.F. and the National Coast Guard held a […]
In the public outcry on the escalating crime situation, there is a plea to implement capital punishment. According to P.M. Barrow, the death penalty is still very much part of the law; however, there have been cases where sentences have been lessened depending on the nature of the homicides. Again he reiterated the urgency to […]
Back to the prime minister’s press conference this afternoon. Undoubtedly the issue of preventative detention was initially met with protest from the Belizean public when the matter arose in 2010. When asked if retaliatory action taken by Belize City gangs is the result of measures taken by the Gang Suppression Unit, Minister of Police Doug […]
Another measure that the government is contemplating to fight crime, is to seek funding for equipment and training. Dean Barrow “I am committed to finding now additional money for the security forces; in particular the police department, for bullet proof vests, additional firearms and additional radios. I will get a costing from the minister very […]
A teenage girl is in stable condition after her boyfriend reportedly stabbed her in the neck and leg at his shack this afternoon. The girl, seventeen year old Stephanie Wagner suffered stab wounds to the left side of her neck and leg during a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, nineteen year old Linsford Baldwin. The […]
Murder victim number twenty-seven for this year, was found inside his taxi on Prince Street not far from his station at the downtown taxi stand. The gunman sought Luis Ramos’ taxi just before midnight, and pulled the trigger on the cabbie. He attempted to get away but was killed behind the wheel with a single […]
Police are questioning a US sex offender, David McLain from Oklahoma, in connection with last week’s murder in Orange Walk of a Lebanese born artist Isis Nassar. She was killed at her home in Orange Walk on March twenty-fourth. Her throat had been cut and there were bruises on her hands. At the time of […]
A foiled robbery attempt earlier this week landed a pair of teenagers before the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday evening. Eighteen year old Akeem Requeña, a resident of Morter’s Alley, was jointly charged along with a minor from Hattieville for attempting to rob a fourteen year old of his bicycle. On Tuesday evening the teenagers accosted […]
Shots rang out in the night a little after eight-thirty on Tuesday. It happened on a very busy Belize City Street. Police officers blocked one end of Freetown Road at its junction with the I.T. Vet compound and another near Li Chee. There was a barrage of gunshots and officers tagged at least fifteen expended […]
There have been constant reports of harassment of witnesses to crimes. As recent as a week ago, the police asked the media not to report that a murder witness had been threatened. But friends of a man accused of robbery have allegedly been persistent in their attempts to unlawfully end the case. It started as […]
No one will dispute that there is an abundance of violence on television and it is debated that the programs are influential to rogue behavior. But a nineteen year old resident of San Pedro Town is in critical condition tonight not because of the program he watched, but because he moved a TV. According to […]
In our newscast on Monday night, we reported that six persons had been shot over the weekend; two did not survive the gunfire. Early this morning, a shooting in the heart of a known hotspot on the south side of Belize City has landed a marine mechanic in the trauma room at the Karl Heusner […]
The Friday night murder of fifteen year old Devon Reynolds as he went about looking for his aunt on Caesar Ridge Road succeeded that of nineteen year old Shamir Medina who was gunned down just over an hour earlier as he rode his bicycle in the area of Plues St. While many believe that the […]
A fifty-four year old taxi driver was taken for a ride to Hattieville today, but he ended up at the Belize Central Prison. And Donovan Reid will remain behind bars until April twenty-seventh when he returns to court on a charge of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. The alleged victim is a thirteen year […]
There were two murders in the Old Capital over the past weekend within a little over an hour of each other. A minor and another youth fell victim to the gang violence in the city’s meanest neighborhoods on Friday night. Devon Reynolds, a mechanics student, was pursued by his attackers and gunned down shortly after […]
The other victim to the weekend’s violence is nineteen year old youth, Shamir Medina. He was gunned down just before Devon Reynolds at eight-thirty on Friday night. Shamir Medina, who is known on the streets as “LEE TULU” and as “WANKA,” was shot and killed near his home on Berkeley Street. Medina’s murder was the […]
Aside from the murders of Reynolds and Medina, there were several shooting incidents that occurred over the weekend and while the following incident was not fatal, it was still alarming. The victim was a uniformed cop, who was wounded inside the Belama Police substation that recently came under scrutiny because there was an increase in […]
Earlier we reported on two murders and a shooting over the past weekend in the city. There was more violence, including the shooting of a mechanic of Vernon Street. Fifty-one year old Linsford Ferguson was shot to the left side of his neck, his nose and the right side of his back, at around eight-thirty […]
There have been twenty-four murders this year, twelve in this month alone. Sometime after seven this morning, the body of a fifty-four year old woman was discovered at her house in Orange Walk Town. She goes by the name of Isis Nassar and holds Lebanese and British passports. There are no known relatives in Belize […]
In our newscast on Wednesday night, we also reported on the murder of Philip Swift. Swift was killed in close proximity of his house on Ebony Street shortly after five o’clock in the evening. Up until news time, no arrests have been made nor has police been able to conclusively determine a motive. News Five’s […]
A few days ago, U.S. authorities reported that they had smashed an international pedophile ring and rescued two hundred and thirty-four children. This Tuesday, an elderly U.S. citizen was indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin for “traveling in foreign commerce and engaging in and attempting to engage in illicit sexual […]
And back to the House debate, notably absent from today’s sitting were P.U.P. representatives Cordel Hyde and Mark Espat. And although it appeared that Briceño was flying solo and getting the full brunt of the government fire, he was accompanied by Francis Fonseca, Florencio Marin and Former Prime Minister Said Musa. Musa also came out […]
