An argument between in-laws has left one person hospitalized and another facing an attempted murder charge. Police say that during the early hours of Tuesday morning, a family was socializing [...]
Since the round-up of gang members in Belize City, the gun violence has subsided. But there was a murder recorded over the weekend in southern Belize. Around midday on March [...]
It’s been almost a week since five-year-old Kia Herbert was senselessly murdered inside her house on Pitter Street in Belize City; she was with her mother, Frances Herbert when shots [...]
As the crackdown of suspected gang members continues, police today hoarded away a first group of affiliates. The men were picked up at different times and places and kept in [...]
The full force of the law to crack down on crime came down as early as three o’clock on Wednesday morning when the round up began in neighbourhoods in the [...]
Several persons were arraigned this evening in the lower courts after being charged for crimes ranging from attempted murder to murder. On Tuesday afternoon, twenty-two-year-old Derrick King, an employee of [...]
At a press conference this evening, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams provided an update on operations being conducted under the existing state of emergency, beginning with an increase in the [...]
Investigators are closer to making arrests in at least three of the murders that occurred earlier this week. According to Commissioner Williams, they have made significant inroads in cracking the [...]
ComPol Chester Williams stopped short of divulging operational details of police activities that are scheduled for this weekend, suffice to say that the ramped up presence of officers in the [...]
The recent spike in gun violence in the Old Capital claimed the lives of two innocent children in two separate incidents. Five-year-old Kia Herbert was fatally shot on Tuesday as [...]
Also speaking on the topic was Minister of Education, Youth, and Sport Patrick Faber. Kia Herbert was a constituent in the Collet Division which is, Faber’s constituency. The Minister says [...]
The coronavirus, crime and the recent crash of a B.D.F. helicopter, in which four soldiers perished; are heavy and hugely critical issues facing the nation. First on the matter of [...]
While police conducted an early morning raid today, it is believed that a number of persons, who are wanted for involvement in gang activity, may have given them the slip [...]
It is expected that of the eighty-two persons, who are presently in custody and are headed to the Belize Central Prison for the next thirty days, a number of them—through [...]
Equally challenging for the Belize Police Department, in its attempt to put away known gang members, is the fact that the lower courts continue to impose fines and grant subsequent [...]
Minister of State Elodio Aragon Junior, himself a former ranking police officer, is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Ministry of National Security which includes the Belize Police Department. [...]
Eight areas across the city are on lockdown tonight as a state of emergency is in effect. The crime that swept through the Old Capital at the start of the [...]
As we’ve said, the security measures put in place by the Ministry of National Security was triggered by the bloodbath in the Old Capital. Within less than forty-eight hours, seven [...]
Another innocent infant was senselessly killed in the spate of violence in the city. Five-year-old Kia Herbert was sleeping with her mother inside their bedroom when a gunman aimed his [...]
The Lake Independence area is in lockdown, having been identified as a hotspot for gang activity. B.D.F. soldiers and police officers are stationed at all streets and access to that [...]
In the face of an imminent threat from the coronavirus, a crime wave is sweeping across the city. There is word tonight that B.D.F. soldiers will be deployed to the [...]
The lives of two innocent children were taken following separate shooting incidents on Sunday night and Tuesday morning. As the city reeled from the crime wave since Sunday, the nation [...]
Among the seven persons to be senselessly killed in the past forty-eight hours, is another infant, four-year-old Dominic Rhamdas. The young child was at home when his mother Shakira White [...]
Before Kia Herbert, was gunned down in her house, a father of one was shot and killed in Belize City. Collet Morter was hanging out with friends when the killer [...]
Aside from the seven murders, nine persons have been injured in shootings in the violence that ash erupted in the past two days. On Jane Usher Boulevard this morning around [...]
