Ladyville police have made in-roads in two recent murders. With respect to the murder last Thursday of eighteen year old Anthony Matura in Ladyville, police are looking for a fifteen year old student of Anglican Cathedral College who is at large. An eyewitness has placed the minor at the scene at the time of the […]
Death threats have been made to members of Belizeans for Justice, the anti-violence movement. Many of them are activists who have publicly decried the street violence and want sweeping changes at the top of the police force. On Tuesday we asked: Do you think that the organizers of Belizeans for Justice are putting their lives […]
The police department may have rogue cops and it seems that the Belize Defense Force may have a few rogues of its own. The B.D.F. amasses and stores vast amounts of food supplies for the hundreds of soldiers stationed around the country. But someone has stolen about ten thousand dollars worth of the supplies from […]
The police commissioner Crispin Jefferies has said that the department has rogue cops, but the lingering questions are how many and how to get rid of them. But there are not only rogue cops. A nineteen year old woman has accused an alleged officer of trying to kiss her and touch her inappropriately as well […]
In our newscast on Monday night, we reported on an incident involving an abandoned boat at the Municipal Airport in Belize City. The details did not make it to the daily sitrep from the police, but it was witnessed by many persons who work in the area. What we know is that a boat which […]
Belizeans for Justice held its press conference on Monday at the Radisson Fort George without a hitch. The conference was initially postponed because of a threat received by one of the group’s founding members, Joan Sutherland. Security was beefed up to protect the participants from any potential danger. But while the officers could physically protect […]
Belize City police are tonight no closer to solving the weekend murders of Giovanni Lauriano and Niki Pinkard. Despite the detention of two suspects in connection with the Sunday evening slaying of Lauriano no charges have been brought against the men in custody. A post mortem examination conducted on the body of the thirty-three year […]
The number of persons that are signing up to join Belizeans for Justice is growing day by day. Families of the victims of gun violence or other crimes have come out publicly against the madness on the streets and have taken a stand against the hierarchy of the police department for their inaction or alleged […]
There is a major investment in the works for the south. The owners of one of the two privately owned ports are investing some thirty million dollars to expand and attract more services at the Port of Big Creek including in the tourism industry. The investment was first revealed in an international trade journal and […]
Turning to health issues, a five year old school girl died from dengue fever at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on July fourteenth. The parents of young Melissa Cruz of Progresso Village claimed that hospital negligence led to the death of their daughter since she had not been initially properly diagnosed and furthermore she had […]
The bloodbath continued over the weekend; two men were murdered within hours of each other on Sunday and a third who was shot a month ago died past midnight on Friday. On Sunday evening, the life of Giovanni Lauriano, aka Nose, a well known street figure ended in a most tragic way; he was gunned […]
Within hours of the execution style murder of Giovanni Lauriano, another man was gunned down and it is believed that the two homicides are linked and gang related. Niki Pinkard was killed at the house of his girlfriend’s relatives on Jasmine Street in the same area where Lauriano grew up. News Five’s Isani Cayetano has […]
The third man to die over the weekend due to gun violence is Collin Lord. Twenty-nine year old Lord was injured to the head in an early afternoon shooting a month ago, and on Friday, he succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment at K.H.M.H. Lord and Raymond Andrews were injured while socializing with a […]
On Saturday morning, rumors were rife that an alleged drug boat had washed up on Belizean shores. Employees at the Municipal Airstrip told officers that they had detected a mystery boat that was moored at the end of the airstrip. An Anti Drug Unit boat was deployed to the scene and an amateur video clearly […]
Last week, one of the founding members of Belizeans for Justice received a death threat on the eve of a planned press conference. Joan Sutherland, whose son was killed in November 2006, joined the anti-crime movement along with relatives of other murder victims. This morning, the press conference was convened under heavy police presence and […]
The chairman of the Crime’s Control Council, Attorney Michael Young, spoke to the grieving mothers at the press conference and gave his assessment of the Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jefferies. Some of the women claimed they had problems communicating with officers and the ComPol, who also sits on the board of the Crimes Control Council. […]
When relationships go bad, one musical artist’s popular lyrics is to just “Let it Burn.” Unfortunately, that literally happened within the tumultuous relationship of a well known court personnel, Lavern Longsworth and her common-law-husband, thirty-two year old David White. Longsworth’s arrest came last week Thursday night after a domestic dispute ended when Longsworth doused White […]
The entire country was plunged into darkness Thursday night shortly after six-thirty. About an hour and a half after power was restored two gunmen wasted no time in seeking out another of the remaining three Felix brothers. Twenty-five year old Ryan Bennett, also known as Ryan Felix, lays in stable condition tonight at the Karl […]
Ryan Bennett is the fifth of the Felix brothers to have been shot in the area of Port Loyola. Of the five brothers Tyrone and Faron have fell victim to gun violence. On April sixth of 2009, an older brother, Terry Felix and Edward Thompson were also shot while standing in front of Excelsior High […]
There’s another family grieving tonight. On Wednesday afternoon eighteen year old Anthony Matura was killed as he alighted a bus in Ladyville. Anthony was returning home from Belize City he was attacked and stabbed in the chest. He ran a few feet to another lane and died in the vicinity of the Ladyville Police Station […]
The Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jefferies, has been told by his Minister that his management approach is not effective and he is likely on the out way out. So on Thursday we asked: do you believe that the removal of Crispin Jefferies as Compol will curb crime? There was not a big difference in the […]
The statistics on out-of-school children are far from impressive; eleven thousand children are not receiving any form of education or training. Come this new school year, a programme attempting to improve the grim statistics will kick off at the existing Excelsior High School on Faber’s Road. The idea is to offer remedial and vocational courses […]
An eighteen year old man was stabbed and killed in Ladyville this afternoon. The young man, Anthony Matura, had just gotten off a bus and was heading home when he was attacked. We’ll have more on this story coming up, but first a five year old St. Ignatius school girl is believed to be the […]
As we said earlier, eighteen year old Anthony Matura, is the latest murder victim. Matura was stabbed twice in the chest and neck sometime after three this afternoon. The teenager had reportedly just disembarked a bus and was heading to his home about three blocks away when his attacker pursued him and pounced on him. […]
The stabbing death of eighteen year old Anthony Matura comes as another striking blow to Glensford Matura Sr., whose other son Glenford Jr. was killed on Euphrates Avenue in Belize City on March tenth. A few months later his best friend Wilfred Peters died of natural causes and today another of his children this time […]
