A search for the missing Belize City youth proved fruitless this morning. C.I.B. requested the assistance of the Belize Coast Guard to conduct a search at Burdon Canal along the Philip Goldson Highway. Operations Officer, Lieutenant Roque Canul told News Five that officers found new clue of Jaswant Brooks. On the Phone: Lieutenant Roque Canul, Operations […]
The investigation into a brazen armed robbery in Belmopan led police across the Guatemalan border. Just before nine o’clock on Wednesday night, police were called out to the branch of the rice company, Circle R, along mile forty-five on the George Price Highway where two men reportedly held up and tied an employee and proceeded […]
According to Romero, the cargo truck was empty. It is not certain if the thieves wore masks and if there is security footage of the aggravated burglary. Investigators, however, know little about the two suspects. Hipolito Novelo “Did the robbers or thieves were wearing masks?” Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes […]
There have been no arrests yet in the attempt on the life of Eric Tillett. The twenty-seven year old was shot as many as five times on Lavendar Street, Belize City, as he walked to his house. While there is gang activity in that area and Tillett is reportedly involved, he tells police he does […]
A business establishment was hit on Wednesday night as patrons milled inside. Police confirmed today, they are looking for three men that are persons of interest in the armed robbery at one of Belize City’s popular watering holes. Four armed men casually walked into Dream Like City Bar located on the George Price Highway and […]
There was another robbery this week in addition to the jacking at Circle R and Dream Like. At around nine-thirty, on Tuesday morning a pair of armed assailants targeted Centaur Cable just after it had opened for business. The cable company is located in Ramon’s Plaza in Ladyville, Belize District. The thief barged into the […]
The owner of Almacen Shanti in Corozal town Kishore Kumar was charged with operating a money exchange business without a permit. On Wednesday, the businessman appeared before a magistrate and pleaded not guilty. He was offered bail of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars which he met. He was ordered to surrender his travel documents […]
Turning to crime, Belize City Resident Eric Tillett was on his way home on Lavender Street when he came under fire attack. A volley of bullets were unleashed and as many as five hit Tillett on various parts of his body. Tillett managed to regain his balance and strength and fled, jumping the fence and […]
This morning around nine-thirty, a pair of thieves entered the office of Centaur Cable in Ladyville. While one of them inquired about an unknown individual, the other brandished a firearm and proceeded to demand money from the cashier. The location at Ramon’s Plaza, across from the Airport Road junction, is rigged with a system of […]
A father of one, Aaron Baptist was gunned down inside a music studio early on Sunday night in Burrell Boom. Another person was inside the building, but the spray of bullets hit Baptist, killing him immediately. Baptist is well-known in the village, but the motive for his murder is not and is under investigation. News […]
Within hours of the murder of Aaron Baptist, shots rang out once again in Burrell Boom, adjacent to where Baptist lived in the village. Kyle Pinkard was shot and is in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. Pinkard was inside his house when someone came knocking; he refused to open the door and that person […]
Two days after his shooting, Belize City resident Adam Joseph succumbed at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital; he is the second person to lose his life over the weekend to gun violence. Joseph was riding his bicycle on Central American Boulevard when a gun man took aim at him on Halloween night. There is reason […]
Police say that last week Thursday, a joint team of cops, FIU and Belize Tax Service personnel conducted a joint operation at a store called Almacen Shanti in Corozal Town. A search of the business led to the discovery of a large quantity of monies. Police say that included among the currencies, were over a […]
Earlier in the newscast we told you about Adam Joseph who was shot on Halloween night. He lived for four days following that shooting, but died over the weekend. That same night another man was shot less than an hour before Joseph. Fortunately for him, he survived that gun attack. ACP Joseph Myvett tells us […]
Police conducted a search at a home in Belmopan where they found over fifty pounds of weed. The search happened sometime after eight on Saturday morning. ACP Joseph Myvett says both persons at the home have been arrested and charged. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Belmopan police conducted a search at […]
There was armed robbery at Madison Furniture store on Constitution Drive in Belmopan on Saturday evening. Police say that it happened just before five that evening. Two armed men walked up to the store and entered where they robbed cell-phones and other personal belongings. Police say that one of the men was shot by someone […]
The City has been free of murders since Troy Polonio was gunned down on Raccoon Street on October fifteenth. But on Thursday night there was an attempt on at a group of persons partying at a house on Lizarraga Avenue even as children were in the neighbourhood truck and treating. The persons scrambled for safety […]
A number of countries from the Caribbean region have completed a one week training programme to tackle an online scourge targeting children. Online child exploitation involves the sharing of images of children involved in explicit sexual conduct on the internet. The training was organized by the Interpol Cybercrime Capacity Building Project to free children from […]
As the weekend starts, the police is carrying out anti-gang activities in neighbourhoods in the City. Three men who were arrested and charged pleaded guilty to court for the offense of being members of a gang. They are eighteen-year-old Delbert Flowers, twenty-four-year-old Ralph Quintin Martinez, and twenty-year-old Shemaud Nuñez. Martinez and Flowers are members of […]
As children were around the city trick and treating, armed men held up the Summer Café on Blue Marlin Drive, Belize City. The thirty-one year old owner, JinSu told police that at around eight- o’clock, four armed men arrived at the café. One of them pulled out a firearm and demanded money. Two of culprits […]
A Dangriga resident is tonight recovering at the Southern Regional Hospital after he was shot to the arm in a home invasion. Reports to our newsroom is that Darren Taylor was inside his house in the Southern Foreshore area of the town, when someone came knocking at his door around two a.m. As Taylor opened […]
News Five has received word that Dangriga Police are investigating the sudden death of an eighteen-year-old mother of two from the south. Shylee Polanco was taken to the Southern Regional Hospital on October twenty-third after she reportedly ingested poison; she died several days later on October twenty-sixth at the hospital. On Monday, the police said […]
According to Estella, the boyfriend was detained by the police on Saturday and later released on Monday, because there was insufficient evidence to levy a charge on him. Today, she was back at the police station seeking answers; Estella says she wants justice for the death of her daughter. On the Phone: Estella Polanco, […]
Another child has been scarred due to sexual violence at a very early age. It involves a six-year-old boy, who was left in the care of a man he knows well. The boy and his father went to overnight at the house of the friend in San Pedro. But the father reportedly left to buy […]
Several persons, from Cotton Tree and Roaring Creek Villages, were picked up and remain detained as the investigation continues into the beheading of Michael Gladden. But still charges have yet to be levied against anyone for the heinous crime. On the night of his gruesome murder, Gladden was seen partying at a nightclub in Belmopan […]
