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Mar 1, 2021
Phillip Wallace
So many families in Belize have lost loved ones to violence, but for one Belize City mother, the cycle just never ends. Today, News Five spoke with Irene Wallace, who has had four of her sons murdered, with the most recent on Friday night. Reporter Andrea Polanco has more in the following story.
Irene Wallace, Mother of Deceased
“2004 the first one was Charles Wallace Junior. 2005 was Andrew Wallace. 2016 was Michael Wallace and now 2021 Phillip Wallace. Suh ah nuh know who next! Believe you me, I think I have to be the gun woman after this because I nuh wah have nothing to lose because my pickney deh dead.”
Feb 15, 2021
U.D.P. Belize City Municipal Slate is Nominated!
Following the P.U.P.’s nomination this morning, it was the U.D.P.’s turn at the ITVET where mayoral candidate Orson Picart and his team of ten councilors were officially nominated. Following the process, Picart and councilor candidate Shane Williams spoke to the press about the nomination and what it means for them going into the March third municipal elections.
Orson Picart, U.D.P. Mayoral Candidate, Belize City
“My team and I are really elated that we are the U.D.P. Belize City eleven slate and we are ready to continue the work that we are doing and consulting with the people of Belize City in order to convince them to cast their ballots for us on March third, 2021.”
Dec 18, 2020
Cassian Billary
Cassian Billary of Warrie Street in Belize City was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for the murder of nineteen-year-old Micah Baltazar. Billary couldn’t be offered bail and no plea was taken because the charge is an indictable offence to be tried only in the Supreme Court. He was remanded to prison today. On Monday night, Baltazar, a gas attendant, had just left a relative’s house on Kraal Road and he was walking on Neal’s Pen Road when he was gunned down. According to Head of Eastern Division’s Crimes Investigations Branch, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, Balthazar may have been killed because of the area that he frequents.
Dec 15, 2020
Micah Baltazar
Another mother is grieving the loss of a teenage son to gun violence tonight. Florentina Baltazar’s son was gunned down on Neal’s Pen Road on Monday night, several minutes after leaving his cousin’s home. Admittedly, Micah Baltazar was no saint, but his mother says that he was simply misunderstood. Police, on the other hand, say that it is all gang-related and that Baltazar was in the wrong neighbourhood when he was preyed upon by his rivals. Here is Isani Cayetano with that story.
Isani Cayetano, Reporting
A nineteen-year-old Belize City resident is dead and his murder on Monday night is being investigated as a gang-related homicide. Micah Baltazar had just left his cousin’s house on Rivero Street and was walking along Neal’s Pen Road around 7:30 p.m. when he was pounced upon with lethal precision. A gunman fired several shots in his direction, leaving him for dead on the sidewalk.