Christian Neal is one of three inmates at the Belize Central Prison who managed to escape from detention last Tuesday. Neal, a resident of San Ignacio, was serving time for carnal knowledge, along with Rafael Mencias and Wilser Echevarria who are incarcerated for other offenses when they also made a dash for freedom. While Mencias […]
The mother of a two-year-old child was fatally shot down south; she is the second woman in twenty-four hours whose life has been cut short in violence. This morning, a Honduran national was rushed from her home in Big Falls to the Punta Gorda Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. Police are not […]
At around seven-thirty this morning, the lifeless body of Lindon Baldwin was found at a yard on Ebony Street in Belize City. Baldwin was there on Monday night in the company of two men, known to him, when he came under attack. One of the men fired several gunshots at him. It is not known […]
The life of a young woman who had her own share of misfortune was cut short in Corozal on Sunday night. Nineteen-year-old Ana Villanueva was visiting with a friend when she became embroiled in a fight with another young woman who lives nearby and with whom she had a conflict. It is said that the […]
The first murder for the weekend occurred in Belize City on Saturday night. He was recently released from prison, but twenty-one-year-old Denzel Flowers was shot multiple times as he walked on Louise Bevans Street heading toward Cemetery Road. A gunman approached him just as he was about to get to his house. As many as […]
Another man was killed in the city within hours of the murder of Denzel Flowers. The case, however, is being treated as a fatal shooting because police say Shemar Nunez was killed during an armed robbery on Albert Street, while service was ongoing at the Wesley Church. Initially police said that Nunez was stopped in […]
Fortunately, no one was injured this morning when shots were fired in Belize City, but the shooting caused commotion in the neighbourhood. At around ten o’clock, shots were fired behind a house on Allan Pitts Crescent. A number of residents scrambled for safety fearing for their lives. Police arrived on the scene, but one of […]
Last year, Orel Leslie was freed of a murder charge, but on Sunday morning it appears he was a marked man. Leslie was driving on Bocotora Street around five in the morning when two unidentified men fired shots at him. Leslie escaped the gunfire unharmed. Police recovered six expended shells from the street. Today, police […]
Police have detained one man and are looking for another suspect in connection with a shooting incident that happened on Freetown Road on Sunday morning. Police say that shortly after the shooting incident on Albert Street, two other persons carried out a shooting on Freetown Road. Surveillance footage shows a man running across the street […]
A residence situated next door to Unity Presbyterian Church on Antelope Street Extension was set on fire twice overnight by someone intent on reducing the elevated wooden structure to cinders. Sometime around eleven p.m. on Thursday, a neighbor observed the rear of the property on fire. He immediately sprung into action and with assistance from […]
Aside from the Wednesday night murder of Karl Lamb in Belize City, there was no violence during the referendum. It is a success for the police department and Commissioner of Police Chester Williams at Thursday’s press brief told the media that over eight hundred officers were deployed across the country as part of its strategy […]
As the counting of ballots was underway in the City, a newspaper vendor was ambushed and executed on Lacroix Boulevard. Thirty-eight-year-old Karl Lamb was speaking to an individual when he came under attack. A gunman approached him from behind and fired multiple shot, killing him instantly. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting […]
An internal investigation by the Professional Standards Branch is ongoing in southern Belize after two persons in police custody were able to escape from the cellblock inside the police station in Independence. Gregory Flowers and Clinton Coleman somehow damaged the lock to a detention cell and escaped without detection by any on-duty officer. It was […]
Meanwhile two of three prisoners who escaped from the Central Prison are back behind bars in Hattieville. Christian Neal, Rafael Mencias and Wilser Echevarria were incarcerated for different crimes from carnal knowledge to murder and manslaughter and escaped on Tuesday afternoon. Mencias was captured soon after, while Echevarria was re-detained by prison authorities on Wednesday. […]
An elderly man from southern Belize remains hospitalized after he was chopped multiple times by his nephew on Tuesday night sometime around seven o’clock. Sixty-five-year-old Elias Coleman was in the Yemeri Grove Village, Toledo when he was attacked by a Mark Cadle, who is almost half his age. Coleman was rushed to the Punta Gorda […]
On Monday night, a Lakeview Street resident was targeted by a gunman in the Old Capital. Osbert Gentle was shot in the neck during a brazen attack in front of his home. A gunman entered the alley that leads to his house and opened fire at Gentle and another person who stood talking with him. […]
Thomas Requeña, who was wanted by Belmopan police for the stabbing of his common-law wife, Katherine Anthony, is tonight in police custody pending charges for the crime. Anthony was attacked by her husband on Saturday night following an altercation between the couple at a house on Sarstoon Street in Belmopan. There was no record of […]
Three prisoners managed to break out of the Central Prison early this afternoon. The trio is Christian Neal, Rafael Mencias and Wilser Echevarria. But freedom was short-lived for Mencias and Echeverria who were recaptured by prison authorities soon after their daring escape. Mencias was in for murder while Echevarria is one of the most known […]
Thirty-three-year-old Osbert Gentle narrowly escaped with his life on Monday night after being shot in the neck during a brazen attack in front of his home on Lakeview Street. Gentle, who lives in the vicinity of Banak Street, was accosted by a gunman who entered the alley and fired twice in his direction. One of […]
Forty-two year old Brian Brown, who was once a leading member of the George Street gang, has been convicted of threatening to set on fire his mother, sixty-one year old retired teacher, Rose Jacobs. The incident occurred on August twenty-third, 2018 at the Lord Ridge Cemetery where Jacobs had gone for the burial of a […]
Last week a cop was charged for harming his wife after he punched her in the face. Today, the tables turned as his pregnant wife was before the court charged for wounding him. Ramona Lewis, an Income Tax Officer from the Ladyville area, was arraigned on wounding of her husband, Police officer, Carl Lewis. But […]
A house fire on Antelope Street this afternoon has left twelve persons homeless. The blaze is said to have been an act of arson, following a dispute in the early hours of this morning among families occupying the property. According to Shovannie Vega, she was at the police station filing a report when she received […]
Another Belmopan woman has been stabbed by her common-law husband in the capital. Katherine Anthony remains in a stable condition at the Western Regional Hospital after she was stabbed to the chest following an argument. On Saturday night, the couple was at a house on Sarstoon Street in Belmopan when an argument ensued between them. […]
Up north in Corozal, one person has been charged in connection with a home invasion in Sarteneja. Noel Samuels has been arrested and charged with aggravated burglary and handling stolen goods for the crime which occurred on Thursday morning. Reports are that just before two a.m. on May second, the home of Leomir Santoya was […]
Takeem Maskall is recovering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, which he sustained on Thursday morning during an armed robbery in Cristo Rey Village in the Cayo District. He had travelled to a farm in the village to make a purchase, but while at the gate to the property, he was accosted by a […]
