It was a crazy weekend in which the blood spilled across the city and elsewhere. As many as seven persons were murdered beginning on Friday in one of the most violent periods. Aside from the homicides there were shootings, a home invasion, fatal traffic accidents and other acts of violence. The killing spree started in […]
The Hopkins community is stunned at the murder of Sherris Stringham, who by all accounts was well-liked in the village, where a memorial is being organized for later this week, pending the arrival of her relatives. A post-mortem conducted on Stringham’s decomposing body concludes that she died from traumatic asphyxia. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph […]
As we said there were six murders in less than thirty hours in the Old Capital. It began on Friday afternoon when Shakedi Baizar was gunned down in an alley off Johnson Street near the Matron Roberts Polyclinic. That murder is believed to have triggered several other homicides in the city since his siblings are […]
Less than six hours after Shakedi Baizar was gunned down, a retaliatory murder occurred on Arlington Drive. Twenty-three-year-old Francis Pollard was shot several times while on Doris Books Crescent, a few minutes away from his house. Investigators confirmed today that the murder is gang-related. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo reports. Hipolito Novelo, Reporting Shots several […]
Victim number three, also on Friday night, was Daniel Lopez, a delivery man for Chon Saan Palace. The twenty-five-year-old was sent to deliver food at the corner of Basra and George Street in gang territory where street figures were mourning the murder of an associate, hours earlier. A gunman fired several shots in his direction, […]
Three murders on Friday and another three on Saturday. On Saturday morning, a guesthouse housekeeper found forty-year-old Allin Anthony Purtillo dead, covered by the hotel linen with his feet and hands bound with phone cord. Purtillo travelled from Independence to Belize City last Friday to officiate a softball game and checked into the Bayview Guesthouse […]
The unabated wave of gun violence over the weekend also claimed the life of a twenty-two-year-old resident of Pelican Street, who was shot and killed a short distance away from home and within hours of the gruesome discovery of a body at the Bayview Guesthouse. Investigators are still piecing together what may have precipitated the […]
In the wake of the violent weekend, grassroots organization One Struggle has been reaching out to grieving families in each of the affected neighborhoods. Led by former city councilor Philip Willoughby the distraught mothers turned social activists are making a bold effort at providing support for their inconsolable peers. This afternoon, they were at the […]
While processing the Pelican Street murder, fifteen minutes later, a school security guard was shot and killed while on duty. Orson Stephens was inside the Port Loyola preschool compound when his life was snuffed out. A single shot to his chest ended his life on the school’s veranda. The school authorities as well as his […]
Police confirmed today that Vildo Westby, wanted in the murder of Felix Ayuso, has been deported to Belize from Mexico. Westby was detained in Veracruz, Mexico in December 2017 for the murder of Ayuso, an activist from the island town of San Pedro. Ayuso was found stabbed multiple times inside his San Juan sub-division house. […]
Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood is a former press officer of the police department. He is a well-known for being outspoken and at times for going against the grain of the department. Over the weekend, news spread like wildfire that there was an attempt on his life. But who shot at him? The inspector says he came […]
There was a confrontation between residents of the Mayflower Street area and the Gang Suppression Unit, which raised the temperature in the area. On Sunday night, a truck full of officers descended in the neighbourhood. Sixty-four-year-old Sandra Uter, the grandmother of the slain Ghost Town boss, Kendis Flowers was pepper sprayed, which caused old wounds […]
There was further loss of life, but on the highways. A traffic accident in the north claimed the life of a young woman in the early hours of this morning. Police responded to an accident in Ranchito Village where they saw a car overturned. The driver, twenty-five-year-old Ashanti Rowland, lost control of her vehicle, which […]
Another fatal traffic accident claimed the life of sixty-two-year-old Seine Bight resident, Japhet Marin. On Saturday, sometime around nine-thirty in the morning, police were called out to an area between miles twenty-three and twenty-four in Middlesex Village in southern Belize. Marin was one of two persons traveling in the vehicle, which was found off the […]
A freak accident on Sunday ended in the death of Orange Walk Town resident Evelina Suliema Celiz. The thirty-six-year-old NEMO Coordinator was at a horse race event at San Felipe Village when about five-thirty, a horse trampled her. The narrative is that Celiz was attempting to cross the race track while the race was ongoing […]
Three persons were injured in separate shootings over the weekend. Twenty-seven-year-old Akeem Lopez is not known to police for any gang or criminal activity, but on Sunday afternoon he was marked for death by a lone gunman. The motive for the near-fatal attack is still unclear. Around one-thirty p.m., police were called out to the […]
A shooting in Ladyville, also on Sunday, has left two persons hospitalized in a serious, but stable condition. Police say they have no idea what motivated the shooting that targeted nineteen-year-old Patrick Canelo and his friend forty-five-year-old Emmerito Reyes sometime around nine p.m. The two men were socializing on Flamboyant Street in Ladyville when the […]
Sixty-one-year-old James Bradley had a terrifying experience early on Saturday morning. Bradley was sleeping inside his house at mile twelve of the George Price Highway when he was awoken by suspicious noises between two and four o’clock that morning. When he opened his eyes, he saw a masked man trying to break into his bedroom. […]
No one or organization is spared from the hands of criminals. Sometime over the weekend, the Belmopan Clinic of the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired was burglarized. When staff arrived this morning, they noted that the entire office had been cleaned by thieves. The B.C.V.I.’s Optometrist and Ophthalmic Assistant was first to report to […]
There is a new national Queen of the Bay to be crowed on the morning of September tenth. The title was clinched by Miss Belmopan, Jenny Lee Cruz, after her second go at the pageant. The nineteen-year-old was also picked as Miss Eloquence from among the other delegates from the districts. The first runner up […]
Even as the city recorded a bloody weekend, over on the north side, there were several festive events taking place; the Belikin Bash at the B.T.L. Park and the Carnival King and Queen Competition at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. As early as five p.m. on Saturday, prejudging commenced before the revelers from ten bands, […]
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