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Family of Murdered Deacon Accuses Police of Murder

But there’s a lot of other news going on tonight. First up, is the murder of 21 year old Teddy Murillo. He was killed in an area adjacent to the Yabra area but his killing is not gang related, nor is this young man known to have had rivalries with anyone else. He was a University of Belize student, living 5 days of the week in Cayo at the Central Farm campus. He came home to his family’s residence on Nurse Findley Crescent in the Port Loyola area every weekend.

7 Year Old Shooting Victim Faces Paralysis

Last night we catalogued the tragic series of violent assaults on Central American Boulevard in just 12 hours between Monday night and Tuesday morning. It left three dead – and three injured. We’ve told you about the dead already – Dorrell Williams became the third when he was unplugged form life support this morning. But what about the injured? As we told you last night 7 year old Janay Moguel was at the Universal Hospital receiving treatment for a bullet wound to her shoulder. It sounded neat enough: Gunshot to the

Police Recover Fly-off Lever from Monday's Grenade

When the grenade exploded on Caesar Ridge Road on Monday morning – no one was hurt – but police were seriously hindered in their investigation by the fact that they could not recover the fly-off lever. This is the part of the grenade that when released by the persons holding the grenade activates the detonation sequence. More importantly, it has all the information about the grenade – and can tie it down to a batch number. So it’s a critical piece of evidence. Well the news tonight is that it has

COMPOL Jeffries Says Crime Was Down in 2009

Police Commissioner Crispin Jeffries made it known that he was pushing for a 10% reduction in crime for 2009. Well, the numbers are in; he got only 4%. But we venture to say that if you ask anyone in virtually any corner of Belize – they’d say that the numbers are wrong – crime was not down. And while that’s the feeling, here’s what the figures say: In every quarter of the year, there was a decrease in the number of crimes reported. So the figure was down by 93

Minister of National Security working on crime in the Jewel

There are no detentions or leads for Monday morning’s grenade explosion that hurled numerous lethal and tiny shards of shrapnel in Andre Trapp’s yard on Caesar Ridge Road. The frequent attacks with these small but lethal weapons of mass destruction are rattling the old capital. Coupled with the high murder rate, there is concern that urban terror in our own back yard will exacerbate the already worsening international perception of Belize as one of the Caribbean’s murder capitals. A late press release coming out of Cabinet stated that ministers had

5 AM Grenade Attack in Yabra

Another grenade has been detonated in Belize City. It happened this morning in the Yabra area. The only good news is that no one was killed and no one was injured. And that has a lot to do with the fact that the grenade was thrown at dawn on a very cold morning – when no one was out on the street. That is the only bit of good news: the bad news is that it is the second grenade to be thrown in exactly two weeks; the last one

Opposition Leader calls crime wave “urban terrorism”

With the streets becoming more dangerous every day, the People’s United Party issued a release today about the alarming crime situation. The Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño, in an interview with News Five said that his party is willing to work with the government on a solution to decrease what he calls urban terrorism. And since the situation is out of control, he places the impotency of the police, squarely on the shoulders on the Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo. Briceño said it is time for Perdomo to

Deadly Grenade Attack on Kraal Road

There was another grenade blast in Belize City last night – it is the fourth such explosion since May of 2008 – and the fifth grenade incident since that time. And last night’s explosion picked up right where Thursday night’s news left off: at Kraal Road – an area that has been targeted for sustained attacks since last week. But last night – there was no idle gunplay; at about 7:15 pm the powerful blast

Chris Galvez Family Accuses Police of Cover-Up

23 year old Christopher Galvez was killed in an area near Faber’s Road in Belize City on the night of Tuesday, 22nd December. The story was that he was sitting in a friend’s car at a boatyard when a gunman came up and shot him in the car. It was written up as a robbery; his jewellery was missing and so was his wallet. He was with a friend, Andre Aguilar but that young man

Sedi Elrington Defends "Artificial Border" Comment

Last week at the OAS in Washington DC, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington called the Belize Guatemala border “artificial”. The use of that single word that has awakened bitter nationalist sentiment and provoked strident criticisms of the Minister with the most passionate calling him a sellout and the most casual calling him, plainly, crazy. But when we called him this morning, Elrington was cool and mostly unperturbed – in fact, even with all the