Not far from Ladyville where Orin Velasquez was murdered, in Lord’s Bank, brazen robbers also broke into a house. The early morning heist netted thieves a reported thirty thousand dollars, according to persons in the know. At five o’clock this morning, Ladyville Police responded to a 911 call which led them to Lord’s Bank Store. […]
There was an execution over the weekend up north where twenty-three-year-old Jair Tamay was fatally shot multiple times; his body was discovered at the Ricalde Stadium around six-thrifty on Saturday morning. The young man left his house with a friend around midday on Friday and never came back. Here is News Five’s Duane Moody with […]
Three days before the execution of Tamay, there was another murder recorded in the Corozal District. On July twenty-second, Raymond “Snow” Jenkins was shot dead inside his car in Carolina Village; his six-year-old son was also inside the vehicle and witnessed as two men on a motorcycle rode up to the vehicle and fatally shot […]
Since the murder of Jenkins, there have been two other shootings incidents in that northern district – one which occurred on Saturday night that left one person injured and then there is the execution of Jair Tamay. ACP Joseph Myvett spoke about the spike in gun violence in the north; while he did not say […]
Police were also called to Saint Mathews Village on the George Price Highway. Four armed men targeted Jacklyn’s Store in the village and stabbed its owner, Lionel Tobar and injured his wife on Saturday morning. Tobar attempted to stop the robbers, but the armed men made away with the cash from the sales. Here is […]
A domestic dispute between a Punta Gorda resident and her spouse may have been the reason behind an aggravated burglary inside a hotel room over the weekend. Police in that southern municipality are investigating that angle as they try to determine who entered a room that Daphne Haught was occupying after leaving her home a […]
Things got heated over the weekend along the Rio Hondo River. News Five confirmed that members of the Mobile Interdiction Team were shot at on Saturday evening. No injuries were reported. We understand that a shot was fired by an individual across the Mexican border near the illegal border crossing in Santa Cruz Village. Sources […]
Suspected arsonist Kareem Arnold has been arrested and charged for setting fire to several used car tires on the Belize Bank property in downtown Belize City. The incident happened on Thursday morning, following the unrest that had taken place across town at the Port of Belize compound a day earlier. It is not clear what […]
A band of armed thieves, now in police custody in Belmopan, may have been responsible for a string of robberies committed between Saint Matthew’s Village and Pomona over the weekend. On Saturday evening, the proprietor of Xia Ona store was also stabbed multiple times by four men who also fit the description of those who […]
Three senior police officers have been placed on administrative leave following the series of riotous activities that happened at the Port of Belize’s compound on Wednesday. Those officers, in this first instance, have been placed on five days administrative leave. They are Eastern Division Commander, ACP Alden Dawson; Region One Commander Senior Superintendent Daniel Dawson […]
So, what has the preliminary investigation revealed about what happened at the Port of Belize compound on Wednesday? Deputy Commissioner of Police Dezerie Philips-Magdaleno shares the sequence of events that happened, which ultimately led to the GSU confronting workers of the Port of Belize and injuring several persons. In a nutshell, there appears to have […]
The Commissioner of Police Chester Williams also spoke on the sequence of events that transpired that led up to the GSU’s actions on the grounds of the Port of Belize. Williams says that a breakdown in communication but there also appears to have been a breakdown in chain of command when the GSU was deployed. […]
There was an armed robbery at the Bowen and Bowen Ladyville Sales Centre on Thursday evening. Around six-thirty p.m., the employees at the centre, located on the factory compound near Price Barracks, were held up at gunpoint by a pair of robbers who somehow gained access to the compound. The employees were tied up and […]
Turning to a shocking murder in the north; a six-year-old boy in Carolina Village is recuperating tonight after he witnessed his father’s murder on Wednesday afternoon. Forty-six-year-old Raymond “Snow” Jenkins was inside his car with his son in front of a residence in Calcutta Village in Corozal when two men on a motorcycle rode up to […]
Five days after Egbert Baldwin was executed in a hail of bullets in Ladyville, police have arrested and charged two men for his murder. Camryn Lozano and Albert Gill, both nineteen years old, were today arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for the crime. Lozano is an aero dispatch ramp agent of Marage Road […]
The violence at the Port turned out to be a thorn for the government. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams late this evening called an emergency press briefing to address the ugly police response to protestors at the Port of Belize. Like the Attorney General, Williams says he will get to the bottom of the shooting. […]
While both sides are looking for answers, someone did give the order for the GSU to be deployed to the area and an infuriated Chester Williams is trying to get to the bottom of it. According to Williams, the GSU was pulled back after he received words that the officers had descended on the protestors. […]
A twenty-six-year-old resident of Ladyville met a brutal death overnight in the village of Carmelita, Orange Walk where he had recently relocated. Terrique Munnings was chopped to death at around ten o’clock. Three men approached him after he left a house where he was staying in the village. Munnings was attacked and chopped with a […]
Late this evening, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams shared details of the investigation into Munning’s murder. According to Williams, investigators are looking for two suspects believed to have committed the gruesome murder. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “The police responded last night to an information of a body on the side of the word […]
In Corozal, police are investigating a murder that occurred this afternoon. It happened in Calcutta Village and we understand forty-one-year-old Raymond Jenkins was shot multiple times while inside his vehicle. According to Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, two men on motorcycles approached the vehicle and released a barrage of bullets, killing Jenkins. Chester Williams, […]
Egbert Baldwin was shot and killed over the past weekend; police are yet to crack that murder. But a man, who happened to be at the wrong place at the time of the fatal shooting, is now in police custody. He is Ronald Cole, who was at a shop, when a stray bullet hit him. […]
Late this evening, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams told the media that investigators are looking for two persons in connection with the murder of Egbert Baldwin. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “I know the police were looking for two persons. I am not sure if they have found those two persons as yet.”
Police say they are close to making charges against those responsible for the double murder that claimed the lives of Windell Trapp and Samuel Hill and has left Danny Jimenez, Telesha McKay and Marques Robateau injured. The deadly shooting happened early Sunday morning in San Ignacio Town and since then, the police have detained and […]
There is information tonight that the Belize Coast Guard has detained seven persons and seized two vessels. They were on a counter-drug operation in the vicinity of Northern Two Caye where they intercepted the vessels and on board they found three Mexican nationals and four Belizeans. Also, on board, they found a large quantity of […]
Police continue to investigate a wild shooting that happened on Joseph Andrews Drive in San Ignacio on Sunday morning. The shooter was targeting football player, Windell Trapp, but he also killed a taxi driver and injured three other innocent persons. As we’ve shared, Trapp and Samuel Hill were killed on the spot. And although Danny […]
