New Minister of Home Affairs, Kareem Musa praised the police officers who responded to the spate of gun violence in the city. Musa says that the officers displayed remarkable control in the face of a hostile environment where they were greeted with projectiles. According to Musa, when the cops are faced with such threats, they […]
The flare up of tensions between feuding gangs in Lake Independence has forced the police department to re-strategize its approach to crime fighting where gangs are concerned. While specific instructions have been given to gather intelligence on persons believed to be actively involved in the spate of shootings, ComPol Williams says that they will not […]
Could the police department, particularly the officers assigned to the Mahogany Street Precinct, have prevented the recent eruption of gang violence in Lake Independence? ComPol Williams says he won’t play the blame game where that is concerned, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the number of officers on active duty. […]
A Belize City man was lucky to escape a barrage of bullets on Monday afternoon when someone tried to kill him. Charles Young Junior was at the intersection of Western Avenue and Ordonez Street in Belize City when a man fired several shots at him. Those bullets grazed Young in his back and arm. Today, […]
You’ve heard Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa commend the way the police officers responded to the violence. Musa told the press today that with the spate of crime in recent days, what we shouldn’t expect is a kneejerk reaction from his ministry – so a state of emergency will not be at the top […]
The third murder was the first to be recorded on Tuesday, just before six p.m. and is believed to be completely unrelated to the gun violence in the Saint Martin’s area. Floyd Carter was shot multiple times on East Collet Canal. And despite efforts to rush him to the K.H.M.H., he perished on arrival. Tonight, […]
The San Pedro Police Formation today carried out a drug destruction exercise on the island. More than a hundred kilos of several types of drugs were destroyed by fire. The commanding officer, Superintendent Christopher Noble says that the exercise will be an annual event. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo was on Ambergris Caye where he along […]
Crime in San Pedro has been relatively low over the past few months. The last recorded murder was in mid October and the victim was twenty-eight-year-old Marisela Gonzales who was allegedly shot by her husband, David Gonzales. But it was many weeks before Gonzales’ body was found that San Pedro Police had recorded a major […]
There was a murder in the village of Ranchito in the Corozal District at the crack of dawn today. The barking of the dogs at four this morning sounded the alarm that something was awfully wrong. The murder victim is Rigoberto Rosado who was ambushed by someone he knew well. The gunman barged inside his […]
Here in Belize City, another family is grieving the loss of one of their own. Around six-thirty on Monday evening, Devin Amoa was murdered in a most vicious way. The twenty-year-old had had dreams of becoming a nurse, but his life was cut short when an unidentified gunman made his way inside his yard and […]
Earlier today, Scenes of Crime personnel processed the scene of a late afternoon shooting that took place near the intersection of Western Avenue and Ordonez Street in Belize City. The victim, who survived the brazen attempt on his life, is identified as Charles Young Jr. who escaped with only superficial injuries. Multiple shots were reportedly […]
Belize may see a decline in its murder rate for the first time in seven years. That’s what an analysis of the numbers is showing. Technical Coordinator of the Belize Crime Observatory Adele Ramos plugged in the crime stats into GIS applications to get more insight into this year’s major crimes, zoning in on the […]
Fifty-four-year-old Egner Guerrero, a resident of George Street here in Belize City, has been missing since Friday and his family is worried that he may be in danger because of his medical condition. According to his daughter, Guerrero was last seen walking along the George Price Highway in the direction of Hattieville and, despite all […]
Belize City police have charged twenty-two-year-old Jeffry Contreras with the crime of abetment to commit murder. He stands accused of playing a role in the murder of a well-known Bowen and Bowen employee, fifty-seven-year-old Sean Menzies. Menzies was fatally shot while on Lancaster Street in Belize City. He was in front of his yard smoking a […]
In the south, police in Punta Gorda have charged Aduan Usher for allegedly killing Eden Mejia. The thirty-two-year-old was fatally shot shortly after midnight on November nineteenth. Police found his body on Pampana Street riddled with bullets. It was first reported that Usher had escaped the hail of bullets, but Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett says […]
On Thursday morning, the Succotz Police Station was broken into and an assortment of firearms was stolen. The list includes a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun, four nine-millimeter pistols, and two rifles; stolen from under the nose of a police officer who resides at the station. While a reward of two thousand dollars is being offered for information […]
Five men and a seventeen-year-old male minor have been arrested and charged for burglarizing the home of Gary Samuels on Wednesday night. Samuels and his family were at their residence in Burrell Boom Village when the men barged into the house and held them up at gunpoint. The men escaped the premises with thousands of dollars […]
Family and friends of fifty-two-year-old Victor Morales are asking for your help in locating him. Morales was last seen about two weeks ago on November sixth. His sister, Demetria Pineda says that he was at her house in Roaring Creek Village before he headed to Gallardo Farm where he works as a caretaker. Pineda says […]
Three persons were murdered within twenty-four hours as Belizeans celebrated Garifuna Settlement Day. Two men were cold bloodedly killed in the south and one in Belize City. The madness started on Wednesday night here in the city where a well-known employee of Bowen and Bowen was gunned down as he smoked a cigarette on Lancaster […]
The second murder takes us to Dangriga where a twenty-one-year-old fisherman was shot and killed on nineteenth night. Roger Blanco and another man were reportedly walking to a shop when two men approached them, one of whom fired shots in their direction. The bullets caught Blanco as he ran away from the scene and later […]
Today, ACP Joseph Myvett of the National Crimes Investigation Branch says that they are looking for one man in connection with this fatal shooting in Dangriga. Myvett told reporters that investigators are unable to say whether Roger Blanco was the target of the shooting, considering he was in the company of another man when the […]
Further south, thirty-year-old Eden Mejia was shot and killed in Punta Gorda Town shortly after midnight on November nineteenth inside the home of someone who is also well known to police. Mejia’s bullet-riddled body was found lying face up on a mattress inside a room. It was identified by his sibling, a police corporal who […]
A Burrell Boom family is still shaken up tonight after they were held up at gunpoint inside their home on Wednesday night. Police say that just after seven that night, fifty-three-year-old Gary Samuels and his family were at home when the attackers wearing face masks and hoodies pounced on them and robbed them of several […]
An assortment of firearms was stolen from the Succotz Police Station. Police say that four nine-millimeter pistols, two rifles and a twelve-gauge pump action shotgun were stolen during a burglary early this morning. There are a lot of questions about how the weapons were removed from the police station, considering there is a shift system […]
The body of Jose Mendez was retrieved today, two days after his canoe capsized in Franks Eddy Village. Police say that Mendez, his son and a friend were transporting some items in a motorized canoe when the engine cut off and caused the canoe to drift and suddenly overturn. Two of the men swam to […]
