A man and his family say that they are lucky to be alive after they were targeted by three armed men. The Chi family was at home last week Saturday when the criminals forced their way into their home in the village of Succotz. They made threats and got away with the family truck. Today, […]
The Succotz residents are up in arms about criminals targeting vehicle owners. They say that several strangers, reportedly Guatemalans, are moving about freely in their community conducting surveillance at different homes. These reported thieves, they claim, would then strike on unsuspecting residents. They report that two cycles and a vehicle were stolen from in the […]
Twenty-two-year-old Akeem Trapp, a resident of Flowers Bank, has been arrested and charged for the murder of Glenford Hines Jr. and the attempted murder of Albert Valentine which took place in Punta Gorda on Sunday night. As we reported, Trapp was taken off a bus in the early hours of Monday morning by police officers […]
In this newscast we have reported on countless cases of police brutality. The most recent was caught on camera prompting a long list of questions over the behaviour of the police versus the citizens. On Sunday night, an unsuspecting Anthony Tillett of Belize City was attacked by two cops, one held him in a chokehold […]
As the season gets underway, criminals are on the loose. Tonight, there is yet another home invasion to report in the Belama Phase One area of Belize City. For the second time in less than two weeks, a house was targeted on Samuel Haynes Street, but police cannot ascertain if the masked and armed burglars […]
Former Belmopan Mayor and businessman Anthony Chanona was held at gunpoint on Monday night near Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on the Ring Road. He had just exited the church and was walking towards his pickup truck when two Hispanic men pounced on him. One of them was armed and pointed the weapon on Chanona, […]
ComPol Williams also addressed the media following this evening’s meeting and spoke of increased measures that will be put in place to ramp up police presence in the Garden City, during the Christmas Season and beyond. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Well first and foremost I must say thanks to Mr. Chanona, the Mayor […]
Police are yet to levy any charges in respect of Sunday’s murder of Glenford Hines Junior in Punta Gorda though one person is in custody. Hines was gunned down on Price Street and the general view is that he was not the intended target. In the aftermath of his senseless murder, there has been an […]
On December seventh, police formally arrested and charged Shane Jones for the murder of Edwin Usher. On December first, Usher was gravely beaten outside of a bar at the corner of Vernon and Johnson Streets in Belize City. He was taken to the K.H.M.H. but slipped into a coma. Usher died several days later at […]
Well-known Tour Operator, Yhony Rosado, is on the news tonight for a robbery at his home on the George Price Highway. Rosado and his family were in deep slumber when thieves struck driving away with his forty-five thousand dollar pick-up truck. The vehicle was recovered but had been extensively damaged. Today, he told News Five’s […]
It’s been one year since Anisha Young vanished without a trace. The twenty-two-year-old went missing after a night out with her boyfriend at a local nightclub on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. Family and friends as well as police searched endlessly to locate her, but with no luck. There were multiple persons, including the boyfriend, […]
At news time tonight, the family has organized an event at the Digi Park on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. They are encouraging family and friends of other missing persons to come out and join in with an aim to create a support group that can help families with finding closure. Sheree Saldano says that […]
Late this evening, the Young family, along with Jose Luis Espat, who has been working closely with them since Anisha’s disappearance last year, called a press brief to provide an update on latest developments regarding the case. While they are no closer to locating Young, the family is upset that another piece of evidence has […]
There is another report of a missing person whose family is desperately looking for. It’s been nine days since Darlene Whitfield says she has seen her son, Devon Lopez and like Anisha Young’s family, Whitfield believes that her son is dead. Today, she broke her silence on the disappearance of her son. The twenty-two-year-old was […]
The family has been working closely with investigators from the Belama precinct as information on his whereabouts is being reviewed. In the one-on-one interview with News Five; an emotional Darlene Whitfield believes her son is dead and her family wants closure. Darlene Whitfield, Mother of Missing Man “If unu do something to ahn, unu […]
Twenty-five-year-old Travis Tyler Navarro is tonight in trouble with the law. He was reportedly busted with a loaded point three-fifty-seven revolver in the wee hours of Saturday morning. At around three-twenty-five a.m., Navarro was spotted inside a yard in Pinks Alley, Belize City, and when he saw police officers, Navarro bolted inside the house. Police […]
There has been an alarming increase in carjacking in the west in recent days. The stolen vehicles are quickly transported over the border into Guatemala. Another such case occurred on Monday morning. The victim, fifty-five-year-old Santiago Molina recounted to police that at around eleven-thirty that morning he was driving out of his residence on the […]
A woman is one of two murder victims of the weekend. In Dangriga, the community is stunned at the shocking killing of a thirty-six-year old woman who was killed and dumped in the sea where her body was found early Sunday morning. The well-known resident Jasmin Garcia, known around Dangriga as “Min-Min or Minaz,” was […]
Well-known Dangriga artist, Elsworth ‘Vida’ Magdaleno, spoke with News 5 this evening to condemn the killing of Jasmin Garcia. Garcia, as we told you, was killed and her body dumped in the sea in Dangriga. She is Magdaleno’s first cousin and today the artist says that while this killing has hit home for his family, […]
Police say that they are now looking for one person who may be able to assist in the murder investigation of thirty-six-year-old Jasmin Garcia. That person, according to police, is a resident of the town. Not much else is known about Garcia’s murder except that she was seen out socializing before she was found floating […]
Further south in Punta Gorda, Glenford Hines Junior was killed on Sunday morning. The latest murder victim was on Prince Street where his family lives. He was outside his house when a gunman opened fire. The Hines family believes that the bullets were meant for another person who was walking by. That person, Albert Valentine, […]
Earlier this year, Albert Valentine and another man identified as Adwan Usher were both arrested and charged for attempted murder, in the wake of an incident that occurred in Punta Gorda back in February. It is alleged that the pair of men had let loose a barrage of gunshots at a home on Queen Street. […]
There is a new case of police brutality to report. The violent incident was caught on camera and the images released on social media. It shows a police officer put a chokehold on a Belize City resident who was in front of a store on Faber’s Road. Another officer is seen holding down Anthony George […]
The Belmopan Supreme Court recently freed two men who had been charged with the murder of Canadian Matthiew Klinch. The filmmaker was stabbed to death in January 2016 outside his house in Selena, Cayo District. Twenty-two year old Brandon Anderson, and a minor were charged with his murder and conspiracy to commit murder; both were […]
On Friday morning, the remnants of a burnt twin-engine aircraft with the markings “N-five-four-six-one, were discovered west of Chan Chen Village in the Corozal District. As is customary, no one was found in the area and neither was any cargo. However, a police find included eleven small aluminium buckets, four portable rechargeable led lights and […]
