BREAKING: The First Murder of 2025

59-year-old Godfrey Winfield Hyde is the first murder victim of 2025. His body was found on Turneffe Island yesterday afternoon. The Belize City resident was discovered face down on a veranda of a wooden house. He had been shot to death.

His body was discovered by a fisherman, 52-year-old Fedrick Dougal, who had arrived at the camp around 6 a.m. to deliver supplies. Upon finding Hyde unresponsive, Dougal immediately alerted Coast Guard personnel stationed on the island.

Crime scene technicians recovered a single expended shell from the location. The body was transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) and later to the National Forensic Science Service for a post-mortem examination.