It was a bloody New Year’s Day in Belize. Five persons were brutally killed within twenty-four hours. The first murder for 2019 was recorded in a small village in rural Belize where a fifty-eight-year-old man was killed under odd circumstances. Howard Coleman celebrated the New Year with friends and then left for home in the […]
In the aftermath of the homicide, Vice-Chairman and Justice of the Peace in Lucky Strike is making an appeal to the authorities for law-enforcement support in the village. According to Allan Jones, after Howard Coleman was killed things escalated in the village when residents found out that a man from the village was the suspected […]
The Belize District had the distinction at the close of 2018 as the most murderous area in the Jewel. The New Year is not shaking off that black eye and gang warfare is threatening Belize City. Twenty-year-old Joseph Babb, the leader of the Backalands Crips, was executed on Blue Marlin Boulevard where he was hanging […]
There was another shooting elsewhere in the city. In the south side, the life of Glenford Mossiah came under threat. While a gunman fired as many as sixteen shots, Mossiah was injured, but luckily survived the attack on him at Wax House on East Canal where he was socializing. The would-be killer exited a vehicle […]
In order to thwart another wave of gun violence in the wake of Babb’s murder, the police department has rounded up a group of young men who are considered affiliates of the Backalands gang and has placed them on preventative detention. It is one of several measures being taken to address the recent spike of […]
The first twenty-four hours of 2019 was nightmarish in Belize City as the violence would not let up even as police put more boots on the ground. Twenty-two-year-old Preston Reynolds was heading home to Neal Pen Road on bicycle when he was executed within minutes of another murder on New Year’s Day. He died instantly. […]
One of the persons to be killed during the bloodbath on the first day of the New Year was a young mother of three. Anita Pineda was reportedly stabbed by her ex-common-law husband while she was in the company of her mother at a house of her former brother-in-law in San Ignacio. Pineda’s ex-common-law husband […]
Also in western Belize, the Belize Police Department is investigating the murder of an unidentified Hispanic man. The body was fished out of the Belize River near Blackman Eddy Village, Cayo, on New Year’s morning. The autopsy revealed that the person may have been dead for about three to four days. The hands of John […]
Two rogue cops have been placed on suspension. They are Samir Medina and Tyrell Rowley, who were caught on camera beating up two men in the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro. One of the officers pulled out a firearm during the violent ordeal and one of the victims is believed to be a […]
The beating of the two men by the police is facing outrage in various quarters. The People’s United Party is condemning what it calls the outrageous, criminal actions of two police officers in San Pedro. In a release, it states that it cannot be business as usual in the Belize Police Department. There are far […]
The Belize National Teachers Union says the Ministry of Education has disrespected its membership when it came out batting for the school managements that have docked teachers’ salaries for the November seventh demonstration in Belmopan. Last week, the Ministry of Education sent out a press release to say, “if a teacher is absent without authorization […]
So the line has been drawn. The B.N.T.U. says it will stand by its decision to protest the managements’ docking of salaries for November seventh. Senator Smith says the union is not backing down and will explore all options including legal recourse. And while to some it may appear that the managements may just be […]
In the wake of the record number of killings in a span of twenty-four hours, Chief Executive Officer George Lovell, of the Ministry of National Security, has outlined a strategy that will be employed during the reorganization process. (Ret.) Col. George Lovell, C.E.O., Ministry of National Security “In terms of police professionalization, we have […]
Over the past few years, the Ministry of National Security and the Belize Police Department have attempted a number of strategies to arrest crime and violence in Belize City. 2018 goes down on record as the second most murderous year in the history of the country, with just a few less homicides than 2012. But, […]
Here is an uplifting story. A twenty-eight-year-old first-time mother welcomed her bundle of joy as the first baby to be born in Belize at the start of 2019. Clarissa Williams birthed baby Jayelle at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The healthy baby girl weighed six pounds four ounces. Duane Moody has the following report. […]
