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In the aftermath of a horrifically violent weekend in March, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced a package of anti-crime measures. Under Section eighteen of the Constitution, the Governor General was to be asked to declare “public emergency areas” under terms to be defined by the security agencies. This, according to the Prime Minister, was intended […]
The Opposition People’s United Party had objected to the calling of any state of emergency or declaration of public emergency areas by the Governor General, accusing the Prime Minister of skirting the National Assembly which has the same powers under section eighteen of the Constitution. But more importantly, the P.U.P. said the Government’s approach fails […]
Attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley has also weighed in on the matter of emergency zones. He says had the public emergency declaration gone through, the government could have opened itself up to damaging accusations of abuse of process in safeguarding our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights in the service of fighting crime. He urged the Government to very seriously […]
With close to fifty murders so far this year, the new Regional Commander of the Eastern Division South, Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett, is making his rounds – meeting with religious leaders, the business community, residents of the south side and other groups. Gillett has been receiving advice and dialoguing to find solutions for the crime […]
Still on the topic of guns, Gillett also met with the licensed arms dealers in Belize City to discuss issues related to the availability of ammunition. According to the Regional Commander, their intel shows that some of the weapons on the streets have made their way through licensed channels. One of the points discussed is […]
Over the Easter weekend, there were four murders: one in the north, two in the west and one in the city. We begin today’s newscast with the gruesome discovery of the body of a man in the San Pedro Village of Corozal District. The decomposing body of Louisville villager Eleazar Chan was found properly wrapped […]
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The murder of Eleazar Chan has rocked the small village in the north. His nephew, Eliodoro Ya, is also the chairman of Louisville and tonight he is imploring the police department to solve this crime as soon as possible because villagers have lost their sense of security. Eliodoro Ya, Chairman, Louisville Village “As an […]
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This morning, police escorted twenty-two-year-old Evyn Ardon, a Honduran national and construction worker of Antelope Street to court to be charged for murder. Forty-two-year-old Manuel Canales, who lived in the ‘London Bridges’ network located behind Antelope Street Extension, made a life for himself as a respected private contractor and raised two sons and two step-sons. […]
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Police have also made an arrest in the murder of forty-four-year-old Emmerson Anderson who was killed six days ago at the long barracks at the corner of Sibun and Ebony Streets in Belize City. While he was not the intended target, it is believed that two persons he was playing dice with managed to escape […]
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In western Belize, two persons were also murdered in separate violent crimes. A twenty-one-year-old Teakettle villager was reported missing by his family on Wednesday and two days later, his body was found not far from the village in Camalote Village, Cayo. He had been shot to the head and buried in a shallow grave. But […]
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The second murder in the Cayo District occurred in Buena Vista Village just outside of Spanish Lookout. Thirty-six-year-old George Hyde was killed in front of his friends. The group of men was hanging out at a friend’s house when a fight broke and Hyde was chopped to the neck. He died on the veranda where […]
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Police are looking for one person in connection with the murder of forty-four-year-old Emmerson Anderson, who was shot and killed on Wednesday night in Belize City. The Belize City resident was shot to the abdomen and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital around eight p.m.; minutes later he succumbed while receiving treatment. Now, Anderson […]
Written on March 29, 2018 | Posted in
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At the scheduled police press briefing today, Assistant Superintendent of Police Alejandro Cowo gave the media updates on several incidents, including the murder of Jamal Humes, whose remains were unearthed on Wednesday from a shallow grave in the Western Pines community, two miles off the George Price Highway. Earlier that day, shooting victim Fabio Paredes […]
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Aside from the fatal shooting of Anderson, there was one other act of gun violence in San Pedro for which the victim is in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The incident occurred on Tuesday night in the San Pedrito area where a turf war has seen many persons fall victim to gun […]
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The Caribbean Court of Justice, in a decision handed down this afternoon, upheld the conviction of Gregory August for which he is incarcerated for the murder of Alvin Robinson in 2009. While the CCJ affirms the ruling of the Court of Appeal, August’s sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole has been […]
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According to the D.P.P., other matters related to the case were also debated before the appellate court. Cheryl-Lynn Vidal, Director of Public Prosecutions “One of the issues that was argued was in relation to an accused person who remains in the safety of the dock and makes a statement rather than an accused who […]
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Crime remains a hot-button issue in the social discourse. This week’s news has been dominated by the police’s response to Sunday’s confrontation between elements of the Gang Suppression Unit and residents of the ‘Ghost Town’ area centered on Mayflower Street. Then on Wednesday, residents of the area rejected conciliatory gestures by Deputy Commissioner Chester Williams […]
As chief executive of Belize City, Mayor Bernard Wagner must also grapple with the issue of crime, despite not having much to do with policing. He too made a public plea to the criminal element to “hold it down” and not put their fellow residents in danger. He also addressed the actions of the police […]
This morning around nine o’clock, a team of officers set out to a remote area of Western Pines where they were led to a shallow grave along a dirt road near the site of the proposed Airport Link Road. There they found a makeshift burial place where a badly decomposed body lay entombed beneath the […]
Written on March 28, 2018 | Posted in
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Fabio Paredes, a resident of Berkeley Street who was shot in both legs over the weekend, has succumbed to his injuries. Belize City police confirmed earlier today that the laborer had passed away while undergoing treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. On Monday, Assistant Superintendent of Police Alejandro Cowo informed the media that Paredes […]
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Tensions have been high in the Mayflower Street neighborhood after residents and GSU personnel clashed on Sunday evening, following the burial of slain gang boss Kendis Flowers. The Ministry of National Security has since justified the conduct of the Gang Suppression Unit, denouncing the actions of the residents. Since then, they have gone on the […]
And caught in the Mayflower and Deputy Commissioner Williams crossfire was new Officer in Charge of Eastern Division South Howell Gillett. He was on the meet and greet today – but he says he will not be deterred from carrying out the community policing activities because of high tensions in the community. Howell says he […]
And all the rage and volatility in the Mayflower Community is because of the murder of Kendis Flowers. His family believes he was killed by the GSU and now they are saying that the Police Department is preventing them from viewing a critical piece of surveillance footage that shows the killer. But OC Gillett says […]
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As of eleven o’clock this morning, the Belize/Mexico border crossing up north had been blocked by Mexican protestors, impeding traffic to and from the neighboring country. News Five confirmed with Mexican officials in Belize that the blockade was staged by a group of persons known as contraband smugglers who were reacting to efforts by Mexican […]
Information reaching News Five is that some one hundred and thirty boxes of limes have been released from the cargo section at the Belize-Mexico border. The fruit is scarce in Belize and the Ministry of Agriculture had agreed to a pest risk analysis for importation, though it is not clear if it has been completed. […]
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