The official result of a post-mortem has been released by the Police Department in the murder of Yanira Novelo in Orange Walk. It shows that the young mother had a horrible death as she was manually strangled by her killer. But according to police, Novelo also had multiple cut wounds to the chest area. The […]
Police are looking for answers on whether four-year-old Alexander witnessed the heinous murder of his mother. While has not been confirmed at this time, it is known that the child was physically injured. That aside, the minor has undoubtedly been left traumatised by the incident. At a press conference today, police did not have much […]
Murder victim, Yanira Novelo, was laid to rest today in her home village of San Jose in Orange Walk. Over one hundred and fifty residents from San Jose and San Pablo villages held a peaceful demonstration to show support and demand justice for the young mother who was brutally killed on Monday and her body […]
The chilling murder of a young mother in Orange Walk has shaken that northern district. The callousness with which she was killed and her little boy brutally attacked on his birthday is, to many, a tragedy out of a movie. But it’s a reality for a family that is preparing to bury their loved one […]
An employee of the Ministry of Human Development has been charged with human smuggling of four Honduran nationals, who are in Belize illegally. The employee is thirty-five-year-old Sergio Adrian Guerra. Guerra and another Belizean, forty-year-old Edwin Naj, were allegedly busted on the Crooked Tree Road on Tuesday morning. They were transporting four Honduran nationals, two […]
In recent years the level of crime and violence against women and children has escalated. The recent killing of twenty-four-year-old Yanira Novelo and the attack on her four-year-old boy brought this into sharp focus, showing the need for a lot intervention at all levels. While crime has peaked and many others have lost their lives, […]
A mother was stabbed to death and her four-year-old boy was brutally attacked on his birthday. The series of tragic events started to unfold on Monday evening in Orange Walk and culminated with the discovery of the twenty-four-year-old woman’s body this morning. Yanira Novelo and her little boy were in that northern municipality to get […]
After two years on remand for a 2017 murder, tonight, twenty-year-old Eldon Flowers is a free man. His murder trial by judge without jury ended today before Justice Colin Williams of the Supreme Court who concluded that Flowers had no case to answer for the murder of nineteen-year-old Randolph Johnson, who was shot multiple times […]
Weeks ago, the Prime Minister assured to the nation that the Sanctuary Bay scam, which deprived U.S. nationals of millions of dollars, was being resolved and the government was reaching a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission of the U.S. But today, News Five has obtained a trove of documents relating to the ongoing battle […]
The criminal trial against accused murderer William “Danny” Mason and his associates, Terrence Fernandez, Ashton Vanegas, Keiron Fernandez, and Ernest Castillo, finally resumed today in the Belmopan Supreme Court after several adjournments. The trial is continuing at a point that is very crucial to the prosecution. A vior dire commenced today to determine if the […]
Thirty-four-year-old James Escarpeta was this afternoon marched into the Belmopan Magistrate Court where he answered to two charges relating to Sunday’s brazen armed robbery of the PUMA gas station in Belmopan. Escarpeta was charged with robbery and possession of a firearm without a gun license. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and was remanded […]
A sixty-four-year-old San Pedro man is on remand for committing a sexual assault upon a nine-year-old boy. He is Ernesto Caliz, a self-employed resident of the island. Late on Monday, Caliz, who was unrepresented, appeared before Magistrate Michelle Trapp. The prosecutor, Corporal Roman Andrews of San Pedro, objected to bail being granted to Caliz on […]
A pregnant woman is the latest victim of gun violence. Thirty-one year old Kanchi Casey was at home in bed with her common-law-husband when a bullet penetrated the wall of her house and injuring her on the lower back. Casey may not have been the intended target of the shooting and luckily for her and […]
Brothers Maurice and Emory Felix were gunned down in cold blood last Wednesday at an establishment on Baymen Avenue in Belize City where they were playing a game of billiards. The siblings were out on bail following a stint on remand for the murder of Mark Vernon and the attempted murder of Pamela Cumberbatch back […]
Police say that no one has been charged in the murder of forty-four-year-old Jermaine Balthazar Flores. The Dangriga resident was found dead in a bushy area on the Jaguar Paw Road around seven o’clock last Thursday morning. Balthazar’s killing presumably happened on Wednesday night when he was shot multiple times in the face; his hands […]
A brazen robbery in the Capital City on Sunday afternoon has landed the suspected robber in the hospital. Police were called out to Puma Gas Station on Constitution Drive around one o’clock where a lone gunman robbed two gas attendants of an undisclosed amount of cash. The robber took off on foot, but one of […]
Robbers were also operating up north. A supermarket was robbed on Sunday night just after eight o’clock in Corozal Town. Police say that they responded to reports of a robbery at Tang’s Superstore in the Santa Rita Area of Corozal Town where three robbers targeted the establishment. ACP Joseph Myvett says that no monies were […]
June proved to be one of the most violent months in the past three years. As many as seventeen individuals were murdered in June 2019. The year 2016 saw twelve murders and then in 2017, there were thirteen; but in 2018, the number of homicides dipped to five. The police are yet to release their […]
Women have not been spared of ongoing violence in the country showing that violence does not discriminate along gender lines. Aside from domestic and sexual abuse, crimes of passion and other forms of attacks, the lives of many women have been cut short in homicides. Here is News Five’s Isani Cayetano with a look at […]
A man was stabbed in Belize City last Thursday night, but police say that he has not made an official report of the incident. Matthew Smith was injured after seven that night, but he is not providing any information to the authorities so police have not charged anyone for this stabbing. ASP Alejandro Cowo shares […]
A twenty-year-old man has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison until September twelfth after he was arraigned this morning for last Thursday’s attempted murder of Ozen Rhaburn. Rhaburn, a twenty-three-year-old resident of Hattieville, was targeted by a gunman at his home in the Farmer’s Site area of the village. He was reportedly confronted by […]
The killer of the Felix brothers remains on the loose tonight. Maurice and Emory Felix, well known street figures, were gunned down on Wednesday night at a club on Baymen Avenue, Belize City. The duo was inside the pool room when they were executed. The siblings were no strangers to the law and had been […]
Police are still gathering information in the near fatal shooting of Ozen Rhaburn of Hattieville. An attempt was made on the life of Rhaburn on Thursday morning, but fortunately, he survived the shooting and is in a stable condition. The twenty-three-year-old was shot at his house reportedly by someone he knew. A motive has not […]
A Sinaloa Drug operator was gunned on Thursday in Chetumal, Mexico. It’s making news in Belize because Juan Ulises Galvan Carmona, who goes by the drug alias “El Buda,” possessed several passports including one from Belize. Mexican media are reporting that “El Buda” not only possessed a Belizean passport, but also one from Mexico and […]
A pair of Belizean fishermen was busted in the southern waters off the coast of Placencia with a massive haul of out-of-season conch. According to the Fisheries Department, a team of rangers was out on routine patrol near the southeast corner of Channel Caye when they encountered Bartolo Jimenez and another fisherman. Upon closing in […]
