The Gang Suppression Unit is apparently headed for a much narrower mandate within the Belize Police Department. This is after their run-in with Cameron Usher Senior and Kelvin Usher, which caused the teenager to flee into the bushes near Lucky Strike for four days, terrified by gunfire from a team approaching to destroy a marijuana […]
The Police Department is also tackling continuous egg on its face from officers breaking the law with impunity. Whether it is extorting members of the community, or stealing the proceeds of crime like cocaine, or overreacting to citizen protest, it has not been a good few weeks for the men and women in khaki and […]
There was a brazen murder just before midday on San Pedro. Teenager Christian Contreras was gunned down as he was hanging out with a friend outside of a bar in the Boca Del Rio area of the island. Another man, twenty-eight-year-old Ryan Lucas was wounded and airlifted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. With quick […]
While police will not say why eighteen-year-old Christian Contreras was killed, it is widely believed that is linked to the drug problem on the island. Several of the killings in the past year have been connected to drug rival groups and the Police Department has since implemented several initiatives to combat the growing problem. Today, […]
In the Old Capital, police continue to look for a man that committed a brazen murder around five o’clock on Monday on La Croix Boulevard. Dorian Sutherland, a father of two girls, was killed by a single shot to the face fired by a gunman, who he knew, and with whom he had an argument […]
Meanwhile, police say they know who fired the fatal shots outside of Bismark Club following a birthday celebration which killed Daniel Anderson and left two others hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. While that person has reportedly been detained, no charges have been levied so his name is being withheld at this time. Anderson was shot once […]
No worker likes to be left high and dry at the bank or credit union on payday, and so the complaints of sanitation workers since Friday have been reaching ears in the press. The Belize City Council, which effectively assumed responsibility from the private company Belize Maintenance Limited following unrest five years ago, says it […]
Shortly after our interview, the Council’s Director of Finance Marilyn Ordonez confirmed through public relations officer for the Council, Shane Williams, that the H.R.C.U. problem had been resolved and workers would get time off to go get their pay. But the Credit Union fired back this afternoon with a statement calling the criticism unfair and […]
Paul “Chicken Dread” Ferguson is once again at odds with the City Council. Back on September fifth, we reported that Ferguson had a fallout with members of the police department and CitCo special constables who threatened to remove his food trailer because of improper documentation. The trailer, according to Traffic Manager Kevan Jenkins, was not […]
Just before news time tonight, there was a murder on Police Street in the south side of Belize City. Around five p.m., police responded to reports of shots being fired on La Croix Boulevard. Inside a property at the corner of Linda Vista and Police Streets, they found the body of Dorian Sutherland. Preliminary investigations […]
Within a span of twelve hours over the weekend, one person was killed, another stabbed and five others injured in separate shootings also in the city. A birthday celebration ended fatally for Daniel Anderson; a man well-known to the law. Party goers at the popular Bismark Club on Queen Charlotte Street were exiting the establishment […]
Alex Underwood and Crystal Flowers remain hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. recovering from gunshot wounds following the shooting at Bismark Club on Sunday morning. Now, Underwood is one of the reputed bosses of the South Side Gang and most recently was part of the gang truce organized by then South Side Regional Commander, Assistant Commissioner of […]
There’s a break in Friday’s murder of Marcel Samuels. Eighteen-year-old Blake Norman Lewis, a construction worker of Myvette Street in Hattieville Village, was arrested and charged for the murder of the sixty-two-year-old jeweler and butcher of Cemetery Lane in Belize City. This afternoon, Lewis appeared before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser and read a single charge […]
On Friday, the body of forty-six year old Luis Antonio Sierra, a naturalized Belizean businessman of Bullet Tree village, Cayo, was located near Valley Community, Stann Creek District. He had been shot once to the abdomen. On Sunday, the man whose farm he was visiting, thirty-one year old Lyndon Lewis of Mile eighteen, Hummingbird Highway, […]
Back to the city where there were two other acts of gun violence on south side prior to the shooting murder of Daniel Anderson at the Bismark Club on Queen Charlotte Street. The first shooting for the weekend occurred around five-thirty on Saturday evening on George Street near the barracks. Reports are that twenty-six-year-old Emerson […]
Five hours later, shots rang out near Yarborough Bridge. Twenty-two-year-old Justin Coote is tonight recovering at home after he was shot to the back. The fisherman was walking on Queen Charlotte Street when a gunman emerged from a nearby bushy lot and fired a single shot at him. Coote was rushed to the K.H.M.H. where […]
It’s more than twenty-four hours since seventeen-year-old Kelvin Usher emerged from the bushes near Lucky Strike where he went missing and returned to his family in the city. While Belizeans are expressing relief at the safe return, the narrative of his friends and family desperately searching for him after he went missing during a Gang […]
To the cynical, the events of Thursday and indeed this entire week seem to have played out like the most sugary movie script this side of the Hallmark Channel or maybe Lifetime. And the old adage still holds true that something too good to be true usually is. But for others, to hold that view […]
Another major question being posed in the aftermath of Kelvin Usher’s disappearance and return is what business did the Gang Suppression Unit have in Lucky Strike on Sunday? It’s very name indicates that the G.S.U. has the narrow focus of undercutting gangs and criminal activity involving them, but very frequently in the past few years […]
A well known butcher and jeweler was executed this morning as he went to his farm in the area of a favorite swimming spot, Butcher Burns. Sixty-two-year-old Marcel Samuels was ambushed in a quiet farming community as he and his wife were heading to their livestock farm, when two gunmen rode up and opened fire […]
There is another fatal shooting in which two suspects have reportedly been detained. The shooting incident turned apparent murder occurred outside of Valley Community on the Hummingbird Highway. Dead is forty-six-year-old Luis Sierra, a father of five, whose body was found this morning after he called his family on Thursday afternoon to tell them that […]
There will be a country-wide shut down of the Chinese community on Sunday, October first so get your groceries and boledo before then. Chinese businesses will close its doors in response to two recent separate armed robberies, one which left Chinese businessman Bainan Wu dead on Monday night. Bainan was inside his small grocery shop […]
The Kelvin Usher story appears to be over for now. But prior to his safe recovery, tension on the streets had ratcheted up considerably. Students from Saint John’s College Junior College had taken to the streets on Wednesday afternoon against police and had threatened more protests. A march was held on Wednesday evening and the […]
At this time, a vigil is taking place at Battlefield Park where family, friends and peers of Kelvin Usher have gathered to give thanks for his safe return. Usher surfaced this morning on the Old Northern Highway just as his father, Cameron Usher Senior, was driving by. While Usher only sustained minor injuries, he is […]
As we said, tonight Kelvin Usher is safe at home, reunited with his family. Missing since Sunday, the teenager surfaced this morning, according to police, not far from where he disappeared when the Gang Suppression Unit busted a marijuana farm on Lucky Strike, Belize District. The Saint John’s College Junior College student was with his […]
