The village which lies along the Philip Goldson Highway is not known for violence so when a second body was discovered over the weekend, it sent the community in shock. Someone stabbed and killed Juan David Mendez and left his body on a dirt road. It was found in a pool of blood by his […]
Police have arrested and charged one man for the shooting murder of Kajoan Tony Roches. Today, Adrian Claude Swasey appeared before the court where he was charged with a single count of murder. He was denied bail and remanded until May fourth. Roches was shot and killed in Belize City on Thursday night. Today, police […]
There was a string of shootings in the city on Sunday. The shootings all happened in a small area and police say that at least two of the incidents may be connected. Earlier today, police told the media that several persons have been detained for each of the shootings, but up to news time, no […]
Forty-one-year-old Emory Gonzalez was brutally attacked by three men while he and a woman waited at the entrance of Old Belize on the George Price Highway. The attack happened over the weekend and Gonzalez as injured on his face and head. The ugly incident was caught on video and while police has determined the motive […]
A post-mortem conducted today on the body of Khris Gentle shows that he died from asphyxia due to drowning. Gentle’s body was discovered on Saturday morning sometime just before seven-thirty. Gentle reportedly told his fishing party that he would stay behind on Bannister Caye to fish. He was on the caye along with one other […]
Anthony Parks has died as a result of gunshot injuries he sustained on January twenty-second. As we reported last month, Parks was shot multiple times and police had arrested and charged Shane Bennett, who is presently at the prison on an attempted murder charge. Police say that since Parks has succumbed, the file will be […]
Police have arrested and charged one man for firing shots at a Police Constable. In last week’s news we reported on how PC William Woodye narrowly escaped a hail of bullets in Mapp Street area. Woodye was on motorcycle when shots were reportedly fired in his direction and as a result PC Woodye crashed into […]
A security guard at Reimer’s Feed Mill in Belmopan reported to police that three men attempted to break into the business. The watchman told police that in the early hours of Sunday morning he heard the dog barking and when he made checks, he saw three thieves. The men ran away from the business when […]
A resident of Mahogany Street, Belize City was shot and killed around eight-thirty on Thursday night. Two men rode by on Ebony Street where Kajoan Tony Roches was hanging out with friends. One of them opened fire targeting Roches and causing his immediate demise. Here is New Five’s Duane Moody. Duane Moody, Reporting Another […]
Tonight we bring you more of our interview with the member of the civilian staff at the B.D.F. The victim has been working there for many years but as you heard in our Thursday night’s newscast, she doesn’t feel safe at her workplace. She feels that the culture at the B.D.F has encouraged some members […]
The head of the Belize Defence Force Brigadier General Steven Ortega today braced for reporters who sought answers after allegations of despicable acts of sexual abuse against female recruits was first reported by News Five. The Ministry of National Security has launched an investigation into the allegations of extortion, maltreatment, sexual assault and sexual advances at […]
A special investigative team has been assigned by the Ministry of National Security. The team is being led by Assistant Superintendent Sherlette Ramclam and includes Inspector Shaida Mckenzie, Josephine Garbutt, and retired Commissioner of Police Gerald Westby, who is now the Chairman of the Civilian Complaint and Review Board. According to Ortega, no stone will […]
The Belize Coast Guard made a fisheries bust of marine products valued at forty-thousand dollars. The Coast Guard was carrying out an operation near the Manatee Bar Mouth earlier today when they discovered three fishermen operating with expired fisher folk license. The fishermen were found with nine drums and several coolers filled with marine products […]
There is growing concern by family and friends of Khris Gentle, who remains missing up to news time tonight. The Belizean fisherman of Cemetery Lane in Belize City was officially reported missing by his sister on January thirtieth. This is after he was last seen heading out to Austine Bogue Island on a routine fishing […]
The Ministry of National Security has launched an investigation into a number of allegations against members of the Belize Defence Force. On Wednesday night, we broke the story about mounting reports of sexual assaults and other infractions committed against recruits. Well, the Ministry says that it is taking those allegations seriously and an independent team […]
Turning to crime, police provided updates today to a number of murders under investigation. Police say that Belize City resident Everal Gray is the gunman that executed Jahvin Wagner back in November 2019 in Dangriga. Wagner was speaking with a friend in front of his grandmother’s house on Commerce Street in Dangriga when a gunman […]
Why was Delbert Alvarez killed? It remains a mystery for the family and the police, who have been on the ground trying to crack the case. Alvarez was gunned down on the night of January twenty-eighth as he went to purchase weed; his body was found on the veranda of a house on Cumberbatch Street […]
Ernesto Williams, the proprietor of Sky Deck on Baymen Avenue, Belize City, was executed on January twenty-fourth as he left a friend’s residence on Orange Street. Surveillance footage in the area captured as the gunman approached and fired the deadly shots at Williams. There is reportedly no evidence to suggest that the businessman’s life had […]
Is ongoing gang war in the Saint Martin’s area of Belize City the motive behind the January twenty-seventh murder of Ronald Michael? Police say that it is one of the possible reasons, but they have been investigating all angles of this homicide. Around ten o’clock that morning, Michael was cleaning a yard on Ordonez Street […]
Over the weekend, there were two murders in southern Belize for which police say that investigation is ongoing, despite no arrests being made. In the first instance in Punta Gorda, Denroy Nicolas was at home when he was shot at, just outside his house. Several persons have been detained and question for this homicide, but […]
But there has been little progress in the murder of Darrel Laurie. The father of two and owner of the popular Hide & Seek in the Bushes Bar and Chill Spot was gunned down inside his business on the night of January twenty-fourth. Police do not believe that robbery was the motive and that instead […]
As we had reported on Wednesday, a shot was fired at Police Constable William Woodeye on Mapp Street in Belize City. Fortunately, he wasn’t hit, but Woodeye lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a parked vehicle. Surveillance footage from the area indicates that the shooter was one of at least two persons travelling […]
The B.D.F. is investigating some its own tonight on the heels of explosive allegations. Those under investigation are senior officers who stand accused of sexual assault and abuse of authority committed against female recruits. The recruits are to be matriculating to soldiers in two days time, but reports are that they have endured unspeakable acts […]
There was a murder in the city before nine o’clock on Tuesday night. Delbert Alvarez was shot and killed on Cumberbatch Street, not far from his house. The victim’s family says that he had gone to buy weed when he was shot on the veranda of a house. There are tensions in certain neighbourhoods in […]
A cop on motorcycle is fortunate to have escaped gunshots this afternoon. He was riding in the area of Mapp Street, Belize City, where neighbours say they heard gunshots from a passing SUV, presumably meant for William Woodye. The frightening ordeal was enough to cause him to crash into a parked vehicle and he landed […]
