The old capital’s other murder took place just before midnight on Sunday. A well known cyclist, thirty-eight year old Elbert Pope was shot and killed as he sat on his bicycle behind the City Centre. The motive remains unknown. News Five’s Jose Sanchez has a report on Pope’s senseless murder. Jose Sanchez, reporting Elbert Pope […]
The weekend’s third murder was reported in the south. Dangriga police are in the preliminary stages of investigating the homicide of a resident of the Stann Creek Valley. According to police, the lifeless body of twenty-nine year old Carlos Enrique De La Cruz, a laborer of ten miles community in Stann Creek Valley was discovered […]
Back in the old capital, in addition to the weekend murders, there were several shooting incidents. One of the most senseless occurred at a house on Rivero Street at ten-fifty p.m. The occupants include about a dozen children that would normally be in the yard. Most of them, however, were asleep when a man dressed […]
There were two other shootings. On Sunday, a twenty-one year old Kareem Heusner, a Fisherman of Wagner’s Lane, was walking near his home when several shots were fired in his direction. He received wounds to his upper right leg. Heusner has been treated and released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to Heusner’s father, […]
Gun violence flared up in the past twenty-four hours. A murder and two shootings in the City’s took place in the Old Capital in what is believed to be an open war over turf among the gangs. Only last Thursday, the leader of the South Side Gangsters, Andre Trapp, was gunned down mid-morning near the […]
Several hours after the fatal shooting of nineteen year old Joyce Mitchell gunfire once again erupted on the south side of Belize City. Shortly after twelve o’clock this morning, twenty-eight year old Colin Lord and a few of his friends were sitting on a verandah at the family residence on Lavender Street celebrating the outcome […]
The bloodbath across Belize City continued today as another man was fired upon multiple times by gunmen on bicycles. Reports are that shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, Emerson Gill was walking along Banak Street near its intersection with Central American Boulevard when two young men rode up to him and fired as many as […]
The rampant violence on the streets of Belize City has reached crisis proportions. No longer do criminals wait for the cover of darkness to attack. The Prime Minister’s law office, Barrow and Williams, was shot at by an unknown assailant on April fifteenth, a bright Thursday morning. On the night of May thirty-first, the P.M. […]
We’ve just received news of a late shooting on Lakeview Street in Belize City. Details are still sketchy but unconfirmed reports indicate that a young woman suffered head injuries and was rushed to the hospital. However, her status remains uncertain. Police are supposedly on the lookout for two or three young men, who reportedly did […]
In the west, a resident of Camalotte Village is tonight facing a charge of forgery after he allegedly passed himself as the Manager of Recondev to obtain thousands of dollars from an unsuspecting businessman. According to Zhi Yiang Zhang, sometime between the eleventh and thirteenth of April, while at the offices of Recondev in Belmopan, […]
The tragic death of a Hattieville man caused by two ferocious pit bulls went unreported when it happened two weeks ago. How that fell under the radar, is still a mystery, because the man was attacked, died several days later and still the results of an autopsy did not raise any red flags by the […]
According to Patnett, an incident occurred a few nights prior to the attack when several young men entered her property and began banging on her door. Despite reporting the incident to Hattieville police, it prompted her to have the dogs transported from Belize City to her residence in Tropical Park. Patnett said she released the […]
Two men are in custody for the cold-blooded murder of Marlon Rivera that occurred in San Ignacio this past weekend. They are Trevor Lamb and Adrian Arzu, who are facing charges of abetment to commit murder and abetment to commit attempted murder. The two are believed to have retrieved the weapon used in the murder […]
There were at least three shootings over the weekend in the City, but the crime wave spilled to the west on Sunday night. More on the shootings later, but in San Ignacio, one man was killed and another was badly injured in an early morning shooting. It is believed the shooting was motivated by revenge […]
There was a third shooting in the Old Capital over the weekend; the victim was admitted to the surgical ward of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. It occurred shortly after eight last Friday night and involved thirty-nine year old mental patient, Harrison Staine. Staine was en route to his home located on Wagner Street when […]
Minutes after the fatal shooting of reputed street figure Andre Trapp on Thursday morning, law enforcement officials attached to Operation Jaguar descended upon Southern Foreshore. Sections of Regent and Albert streets were closed to vehicular traffic as officers scoured the area in search of two suspects whom they believe carried out the execution of the […]
A cold-blooded murder paralyzed downtown Belize City this morning. It was a brazen attack in an area where justice is dispensed and where police presence was heavy. It ended the life of a reputed gang leader on the pavement just in front of the Magistrate’s Courts. Across the street at the Supreme Court, a jury […]
Earlier in the morning before Andre Trapp was murdered, gunshots rang out in the Mayflower Street area of Belize City. When the smoke cleared one Belize City youth had to be rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he is clinging to life. No one has been arrested for the crime and according to […]
On Monday night’s newscast we heard the story of the Garifuna Collective’s lead drummer, Joshua Arana, who claimed that a police officer abused him while he was walking home in Belize City early Sunday morning. Well today Assistant Commissioner of Police, Elodio Aragon Jr., answered questions on whether the alleged abuse which is now under […]
In the south, a fifteen year old minor of Independence Village was viciously beaten by another minor after nine o clock on Friday night. According to reports, up to six teens attacked the youth, but only one of them carried out the brutal beating with a baseball bat behind Rosas restaurant. According to his mother, […]
The lifelong friend and law firm partner of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, Rodwell Williams, was shot last Monday night in an execution style attack by two unknown assailants. Williams was flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami for treatment where tonight Williams is still in critical condition. Doctors remain vigilant at his side due to […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow left the country this morning on an American Airline’s flight bound for Miami, Florida. He didn’t go on official business, but he is there to attend to a serious and personal matter. His lifelong friend, the soul and back bone of his law firm Barrow and Williams, Rodwell Williams lies in […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is in Miami tonight to lend support to his law partner Rodwell Williams who was gravely injured on Monday night outside his law firm. As reported earlier in the newscast the motive for the shooting is still not determined but there is plenty speculation going around. If you recall, there was […]
He has been in the news several times before for allegations as a rogue cop and then he was charged for the murder of an Orange Walk businessman, thirty-six year old Hui Lin Chen and for injuring three police officers in March of 2009. But since thirty three year old Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez was stabbed […]
While we were at the Ombudsman’s office we met the mother of the prison inmate who allegedly provided the knife used to stab Alvarez. Daisy McKenzie is the mother of Jeremy Harris, a prisoner who is on a life sentence for the 2002 murder of businessman, Philip Chin. As the story goes, it was Harris […]
