Daily, between 11:30am and noon, the area surrounding Kut Avenue, Tigris
and Tanoomah Streets in the Queen’s Square area of Belize City –
is crowded with primary school students from any of the three schools in the
area: St. John’s Primary, Queen’s Square Anglican or Wesley Upper.
But the presence of school kids on their lunch break didn’t stop a daring
killer who rode up to 22 year old Peter Myvette and shot him as he stood at
the corner of Tigris Street and Kut Avenue. The gunman shot him, Myvette ran
for his life and dashed under a nearby bus for cover. But the killer still pursued
to finish off the job. In the end, Myvette was shot multiple times and rushed
to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
It’s notable that death found him at the at the corner of Tanoomah
and Kut – half a block from his family home and two streets away from
where he had been shot three months ago. But even with that near miss in November
of last year, today his older sister Edith Myvett told us that they don’t
knows why her brother was killed so cruelly in his own neighbourhood.
Edith Myvett, Sister of Murder Victim
“They said appromixtely it was about four shots. People say it was 
one in his neck, one in his belly, and in his chest.”
Jules Vasquez,
“As I understand it he was cleaning the bus.”
Edith Myvett,
“Washing a bus, he was washing a bus. He never see nothing. He was
cleaning and washing the bus, he said he was making a two or three dollars,
that is what he told his friends. ‘Bwai I di mek a lil three’ -
that is the exact words he used, ‘I di mek a two three.’ But the
person who killed him, only they and God know why, only they and God. They probably
only wanted to kill somebody.”
Jules Vasquez,
“You remember on the night of November 23rd about 7 pm he had been shot
up here. Do you think the same person who shot him then came to kill him?”
Edith Myvett,
“No. no.”
Jules Vasquez,
“So you think it is unrelated?”
Edith Myvett,
“It is unrelated. I could say my brother hasn’t killed anybody
out here yet. The police know that, they know 
that for a fact. My brother hasn’t killed nobody out here yet. The only thing they would hold him for is for weed
or they would say a little robbery charge. That is the only thing they will
hold my lil brother for.”
Jules Vasquez,
“Is this something that you all might have expected, is it something that
you feared?”
Edith Myvett,
“No we never know this would face our door one day but what everybody
says, only who feels it knows it. Only who feels it knows it Jules and this
is what I want to say to whosoever kill my lil brother out there, the only thing
me want is unu name. Only their name I want; me Edith Myvett aka Miss Yo. Tell
them me say so. Me nuh need no gun to kill no man out here.
Me nuh need no gun Jules. Somebody killed my lil brother and just like
how my mom feels it I feel it. So anytime my mom cries I cry too because everyday
I go to work Jules, I don’t say my little brother is innocent but I want
to know what that person killed my little brother for. That is what I want to
know. But me, I will leave it to God. Only their name I want and I am looking
into the camera, only their name I want.”
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