1. Two murders in 3 hours, many shootings in 3 days 2. Belizean car dealers held hostage by cartel in Mexico until they paid a ransom 3. PUP Supporter makes 100x purchase price on gov't compensation for land 4. Prime minister will receive Budna report on Tuesday - will it meet minimum credibility standard? 5. Prime minister's UN speech 6. GOB having a press conference? | 7 News Belize
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1. Two murders in 3 hours, many shootings in 3 days 2. Belizean car dealers held hostage by cartel in Mexico until they paid a ransom 3. PUP Supporter makes 100x purchase price on gov't compensation for land 4. Prime minister will receive Budna report on Tuesday - will it meet minimum credibility standard? 5. Prime minister's UN speech 6. GOB having a press conference? | 7 News Belize
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5 Murders In 32 Hours Seven shootings leading to five murders – all in a span of 32 hours. A spike in gun violence has erupted in Belize, leaving many families grieving tonight. Of the five murder victims, four are from Belize City and two were killed last night. Just before that double murder, was a double shooting. It was mayhem in the Southside last night, and Courtney Menzies has a run down of the incidents. | 7 News Belize
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5 Murders In 32 Hours Seven shootings leading to five murders – all in a span of 32 hours. A spike in gun violence has erupted in Belize, leaving many families grieving tonight. Of the five murder victims, four are from Belize City and two were killed last night. Just before that double murder, was a double shooting. It was mayhem in the Southside last night, and Courtney Menzies has a run down of the incidents. | 7 News Belize
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Belize Records 91 Murders in 2025, Police Address Violence Surge Police Commissioner Dr. Richard Rosado says Belize saw little change in the murder count last year compared to 2024. Ninety-one murders were recorded in 2025, just one less than the previous year, with October alone accounting for eleven of those cases. Today, Rosado outlined what police are doing to tackle the recent surge in violence that has Belizeans concerned. . . Join our growing WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel
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Belize Records 91 Murders in 2025, Police Address Violence Surge Police Commissioner Dr. Richard Rosado says Belize saw little change in the murder count last year compared to 2024. Ninety-one murders were recorded in 2025, just one less than the previous year, with October alone accounting for eleven of those cases. Today, Rosado outlined what police are doing to tackle the recent surge in violence that has Belizeans concerned. . . Join our growing WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel
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Killed After he Dropped His Daughter at School The gang violence that gripped the community yesterday with two murders in 6 hours - continued this morning when another man was killed. 31 year old Kadeem Orozco was targeted while walking home after dropping off his daughter at school, and while he’s not known as a gang member, police are almost certain that his murder was gang related. Jomarie Lanza was one of the first on the scene and here's what she gathered. . . . Four persons have been detai
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Killed After he Dropped His Daughter at School The gang violence that gripped the community yesterday with two murders in 6 hours - continued this morning when another man was killed. 31 year old Kadeem Orozco was targeted while walking home after dropping off his daughter at school, and while he’s not known as a gang member, police are almost certain that his murder was gang related. Jomarie Lanza was one of the first on the scene and here's what she gathered. . . . Four persons have been detai
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Two murders were reported last night, in less than two hours, and both in the Belize District. 37-year-old Jareth Tablada was the first victim, a resident of the Gungulung area. He left his home to buy Boledo but never returned. Now, his three kids are left without both their parents in what may have been a land dispute which escalated to murder. @Courtney Menzies has the story. Tablada’s kids are aged 6, 10, and 11. | 7 News Belize
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Two murders were reported last night, in less than two hours, and both in the Belize District. 37-year-old Jareth Tablada was the first victim, a resident of the Gungulung area. He left his home to buy Boledo but never returned. Now, his three kids are left without both their parents in what may have been a land dispute which escalated to murder. @Courtney Menzies has the story. Tablada’s kids are aged 6, 10, and 11. | 7 News Belize
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Father of Three Murdered in Carmelita A Sunday night murder in Carmelita village has left a family with more questions than answers after their loved one was shot and killed while walking home. 45 year old Hugo Rodriguez was a father of 3 - but he got shot almost a dozen times after a petty dispute at a village store. Jomarie Lanza has the story: . . Police had detained a 19 year old villager - but no charges have been brought. We note that teenagers are the prime suspects in both weekend murder
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Father of Three Murdered in Carmelita A Sunday night murder in Carmelita village has left a family with more questions than answers after their loved one was shot and killed while walking home. 45 year old Hugo Rodriguez was a father of 3 - but he got shot almost a dozen times after a petty dispute at a village store. Jomarie Lanza has the story: . . Police had detained a 19 year old villager - but no charges have been brought. We note that teenagers are the prime suspects in both weekend murder
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Two men were brutally murdered between last Monday night and Tuesday Morning in rural Belize. These killings mark the fourth and fifth murders carried out within the past thirty-six hours in the Belize District. Sometime after 8 o’clock, the bodies of 66-year-old, Joel Andrews and an unidentified workman, were discovered on Andrew’s farm in Hattieville. While robbery is the suspected motive, the circumstances leading to their deaths are still being investigated. Reporter Vejea Alvarez was on the
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Two men were brutally murdered between last Monday night and Tuesday Morning in rural Belize. These killings mark the fourth and fifth murders carried out within the past thirty-six hours in the Belize District. Sometime after 8 o’clock, the bodies of 66-year-old, Joel Andrews and an unidentified workman, were discovered on Andrew’s farm in Hattieville. While robbery is the suspected motive, the circumstances leading to their deaths are still being investigated. Reporter Vejea Alvarez was on the
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Deadly Weekend in Belize City: Three Murders Reported
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Accused Murderer Gunned Down On Faber's Road And moving now to crime, there have been three murders in the Belize District since Friday morning. The latest one happened just this afternoon, sometime after 2:00. 32-year-old Carl Reneau was on Faber’s Road Extension, not far from his own home, when he was shot several times. He succumbed to his injuries, continuing the trend of a bloody weekend. And this murder is a heartbreaking one for Reneau’s family, especially his stepfather who had just spok
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Orozco Was Killed Despite Heavy Police Presence And after the two murders yesterday, police presence was heavy in the turf of the rival gangs - which are concentrated in the Martin’s area. But, despite the heavy police presence and dozens of detention since yesterday, still, a gunman was able to take Orozco’s life. The media asked the new ComPol, Dr Richard Rosado, if they faltered somewhere in their tactics. He said that the police have been on high alert since Saturday’s shooting of Jimmy Roja
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Spate Of Murders Triggers State Of Emergency It’s been eight months since Belize’s last state of emergency was implemented in Belize City. But today, the police and BDF stormed areas of Southside Belize City, Hattieville, and Roaring Creek as an SOE was put into place this morning. It’s a measure used in only extreme circumstances to control crime, but this SOE was initiated to prevent retaliation and to assist with ongoing investigations. And today the Commissioner of Police was in the Antelope
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Third Murder In Corozal In Less Than Two Months Back in May, when the country saw 21 murders – a tie for the most murderous month in the past decade – the Corozal district had been spared from all that bloodshed. But that reprieve quickly ended and in the past five weeks, when there have been three murders in Corozal. The most recent, Angel Chimal, has left his family in shock since he was a friendly locksmith who didn’t cause trouble. His wife is now left to figure out what exactly happened in
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Steven Moss Killed On Cesar Ridge Road And turning now to crime news, another Belize City murder is suspected to be gang-related. It happened at around 2:00 this afternoon when a 29-year-old man was gunned down in a shooting on his own street. Cherisse Halsall was on the scene shortly after, and tonight she has the story. . . .Back in 2021 when the cops were seeking gang combatants to be locked up during a state of emergency Steven Moss was one of those who appeared prominently on the list. | 7
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Thirteen Murdered In Thirty One Days And while that shooting did not result in a fatality, there were thirteen murder victims for the month of January. That’s the highest it’s been since 2018 and the victims ranged from gang figures to children. It’s an ominous start to the new year and, now, thirteen families will spend years, maybe a lifetime trying to put their lives back together. Courtney Menzies took a look back at last month’s murders and has this story. | 7 News Belize
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Alleged Double Murderers Arraigned A car dealer and a driver were remanded to prison today after they were charged for the murders of Burrell Boom residents, Felix Martinez and Adelita Gillett. The couple was killed in the vehicle on Monday night, leaving their loved ones shocked and devastated. To everyone they knew, Martinez and Gillett were friendly, ambitious, and dedicated to their 10 year old, who will now grow up without both his parents. And tonight their entire community is in stunned d
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Murder on Lime Street We’ve been reporting on a string of murders in the Belize District for the past two weeks, but tonight the headline is about a murder in Belmopan, which had not seen a murder for 2 months. The victim of this latest shooting is 33 year old contractor, Brodam Santos, who was shot and killed while socializing in his yard last night. Jomarie Lanza followed this story today: . . . Police are still searching for suspects in this murder. Jalen Banner was formally arrested and char
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Father Of Two Murdered In Front Of Mother In Law There were two murders in 6 hours in the Belize District today. And that’s why tonight the head of the new Commissioner of Police is very hot - as government may be forced to activate a Southside state of emergency - only five days after Romero took over. The two killings happened in the rural Belize District - but they spring directly from a Belize City gang war between two sets in the Martin’s area. That’s a long way from the peaceful rural sett
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Three men have been held in the murders of Luis Barillas and Derick Arnold, who were called to their deaths on Saturday evening in Punta Gorda Town. | Breaking Belize News
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Highway Pursuit Leads To Murder: Man Killed By Girlfriend's Ex This past weekend saw another round of violence with two murders and a death investigation following the discovery of a body. The first murder occurred on Saturday evening, and like the two murder incidents last week, it involved a licensed firearm. 30-year-old Damion Baptist spent the day in Grace Bank with a woman he’d recently started seeing. As they were headed to his home in Burrell Boom, her ex-boyfriend began pursuing them on
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Former Gang Figure, "Bobo," Ambushed And Killed There were a number of shootings in Belize City over the weekend - two of which were fatal. The first murder occurred just before 5 on Friday evening and left residents of the George Street area in shock. 43-year-old Elwin Lewis was once a notorious gang figure, but had since changed his life. And though he was well known as a community worker, under the LIU program, that could not save him from the target that was on his back. Courtney Menzies has
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Police High Command on the scene of the weekend double murder of Evadnie and Luke Jones. Commissioner of Police Richard Rosado says the Department is hot on the trail of the suspects following an escalated gang-related social media feud. | Breaking Belize News
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And while that brazen act of violence has the city on edge tonight, the current wave of violence started from yesterday evening when there were two murders. We’ll start with the second one which happened in the Belize District. The quiet of an evening in Los Lagos for a family of five was shattered when a gunman stormed into a residence and killed the man of the house. But why would a gunman with only murder on his mind go to the home of businessman Marco Miranda and kill him in front of his fam
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Sandhill Sees Triple Murder Tonight, the Belize District is reporting 2022’s first triple murder. It happened in the village of Sandhill when three residents were gunned down while socializing in their usual hangout spot. But if you ask the cops they were certainly in the wrong place at the wrong time because they were hanging out with the neighbourhood Durr - slang for the village weed - dealer. And at just around 10:30 last night when shots rang out in the neighbourhood, their families, two of
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19 Year Old Belizean American Murdered By Brother In Law Over Jacket Tonight we begin our newscast with 2025’s second murder. It’s not gang related - in fact it occurred in the usually peaceful village of Hopkins. And the reason for the murder? A glow-in-the-dark jacket. The victim, 18 year old George Brown, who lives in both the US and Belize, saw that his sister’s boyfriend, Stephen Flores, was wearing his jacket around 7:00 this morning. Brown asked Flores to return the jacket, and that’s whe
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Murdered Close To Home On New Year's Day And while Bowens and the Ramnarace brothers were the last murders of 2022, the first murder of 2023 took place in Belize City, right on Central American Boulevard. 24-year-old Lionel Budna was shot right before he arrived at his home - a little after midnight - and bled out in the middle of the street. But according to his family, Budna was not a troublemaker - on the contrary, he was a young cook who had just started working in the kitchen at the Riversi
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35.7 Murders/100K: Belize’s Unseen Crime Crisis
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Two Prisoners on the Loose Tonight, two prisoners are on the run - and one of them was on jail, pending trial for a shocking murder. In November of 2021, Benque Viejo resident Brian Castillo was accused of killing his common law wife and stepdaughter, 33-year-old Jennifer Archila and 12-year-old Nitzia Catzim. He then ran over the Guatemala where he was caught in san Benito Poite - and allegedly confessed to the murders. He was returned to Belize where he has been on remand pending his murder tr
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man fatally Stabbed by Shop Keeper it May have been Self Defense We’ve already told you about the weekend murders and shootings - but our next story is about a stabbing death. A shopkeeper is claiming self defense after an exchange with a customer led to a violent stabbing incident. Jomarie Lanza visited the Rivero Street area today where it happened and here's what she saw. | 7 News Belize
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125 Murders In 2021; Third Best Year In The Past Decade And while there was one murder over the New Year weekend, it was still one too many, and meant that we ended the year with 125 murders. Now, that’s a lot – 125 families who lost someone dear to them - up from 102 murders in 2020. However, it’s the third fewest murders since 2012 and for the police, that’s something worth noting. ComPol said that the police’s aim is to continue the trend in 2022. The 125 murders, puts Belize’s murder rate at
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Families Of Alleged Cop Killers Claim They're Innocent Two men who were picked up during the State of Emergency are now remanded to prison for the murder of a police officer. PC Dylan Anthony was shot dead near the Roaring Creek Bridge last month, a part of a string of murders that triggered the SOE. A number of villagers were detained, and today, the police charged 29-year-old Hugh Middleton and 19-year-old Marlon Gideon. But their families say that while they know these men have caused trouble
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