Over nine hundred plus officers sat the Police Department’s promotional exams this Saturday; a little less than half were from Belize City alone. And while the results of that test is pending, the Commissioner of Police Chester Williams took the time to point out that even with that many officers away from duties, the week […]
News Five has been informed that on the advice of his attorney, an Asian businessman turned himself over to police for the San Pedro murder of Brandon Humes which occurred on Thursday morning in the island town. Humes was shot multiple times to the body as he sat on a sofa inside an apartment on […]
There were three murders between Wednesday night and Thursday morning of this week. The first occurred in the south, in the village of Steadfast, at mile sixteen on the Hummingbird Highway. Jose Alberto Requeña was stabbed multiple times and died in a drain as he headed to his house in the village. Police were able […]
There were three murders in less than twenty-four hours in Belize City, Stann Creek and San Pedro. The latest murder was on the island, but the victim is from south-side Belize City where police are on alert in the event that the killing may result in retaliation. It is not clear when Brandon Humes went […]
Late this evening, the mother of Brandon Humes, Maria Hamilton, spoke to the media at their Belize City home. Hamilton shared what she knows so far about her son’s murder. According to Hamilton, she received the terrible news via phone. Voice of: Maria Hamilton, Mother of Brandon Humes “I got a call this morning […]
In Belize City, a B.D.F. volunteer came under attack on Wednesday night and investigators are looking for a motive. Twenty-seven-year-old Hamed Guzman left his house on Lopez Street in the Saint Martin de Porres area and soon after he was a dead man. A gunman opened fire on the B.D.F. volunteer hitting him multiple times […]
Another murder during the Labour Day holiday occurred in the south. In this case, police say that they have the murder weapon as well as the suspect in custody at the Dangriga Police station and charges will soon be levied. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett says that officers responded to Stann Creek Valley Road […]
There is a frightening ordeal to report on tonight involving the kidnapping of a pair of women from Belize City. Cinthia ‘Catherine’ Ulloa and Kristie Mejia were hanging out near Mejia’s house at mile one and a half on the George Price Highway when they were ambushed by three men, one wielding a gun. They […]
Police continue to search for Jose Bejerano Sanchez, who is wanted for the vicious stabbing of his ex common-law wife. On Sunday, the Guatemalan national visited Alba Chavez at her workplace, Maya Star Restaurant and Bar in Belmopan. According to an eyewitness, there were no signs that Bejerano Sanchez intended to attack Chavez, but suddenly […]
ACP Joseph Myvett also gave details on the Monday evening stabbing of Maskall resident Malique Stuart. Stuart was walking on Pinks Alley, in Belize City, heading towards Queen Street when he was accosted by three men who were armed with knives and a machete sometime around four p.m. He was stabbed multiple times and left […]
This morning an inmate at the Belize Central Prison was shot after scaling the perimeter fence of the prison in an attempt to escape. Nineteen-year-old Kevin Moore was on remand for aggravated assault and was housed in the Tango six area of the prison. The Punta Gorda resident was known to be suffering from a […]
There was an attempted murder by stabbing of a woman on Sunday night. The victim is twenty-nine-year-old Alba Chavez and the culprit is said to be her ex-common-law husband, Jose Bejerano, who is a Guatemalan national. Chavez was at Maya Star Restaurant and Bar in Belmopan when Bejerano approached her and stabbed her as many […]
Twenty-three-year-old Malique Stuart remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following an incident on Monday evening during which he was stabbed several times to the body. Sometime around four o’clock, the resident of Maskall Village was walking through Pinks Alley, in Belize City, towards Queen Street when he was accosted by three male persons […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Hakeem Arzu, a Belizean who relocated to Mexico with his wife, was one of four men who were tortured and killed in Playa del Carmen over the weekend. Arzu, who is originally from Punta Gorda, reportedly left home on Friday night and was not seen or heard from until the discovery of the bullet […]
The annual agricultural show is a mass public gathering that attracts huge crowds. This year, it got off to a good start, but on Sunday, police moved in to quell a melee. The situation, however, escalated to a point that police resorted to the use of pepper spray on onlookers. It all started when an […]
Just before seven this morning, the body of a Santander employee was discovered in an open lot in Armenia Village on the Hummingbird Highway. It has since been identified as that of forty-seven-year-old Guatemalan national, Riden Rodas Pedro, who roomed with a co-worker in the village. Reports are that Rodas went out to a popular […]
There is yet another report of local airlines being used to transport drugs across the country. The most recent incident occurred on Saturday in San Pedro Town. Around four p.m., police were called out to the cargo section of Tropic Air where over five pounds of marijuana were recovered. They were packaged off in twenty-two […]
A Roaring Creek resident remains in a stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. Thirty-seven-year-old Mervin Young was shot just above the eye on Sunday night around ten o’clock as he was in a vehicle, dropping off a relative in the Hattieville area of Roaring Creek […]
Earlier this week a three-year-old baby boy and his father were injured in a shooting. Jose Navarette and his junior were shot in front of their home in Saint Margaret’s Village on the Hummingbird Highway on Sunday night. Fortunately, both survived the shooting and have been treated and released from the hospital. Police say that […]
Police found two and half kilos or about five and a half pounds of weed in San Pedro. Around nine this morning, they were called out to the cemetery on the island and while making checks in the area, officers discovered the drugs wrapped in a single package. ASP Alejandro Cowo shares the details of […]
Turning to crime…A bar in San Jose, Toledo burnt down earlier this week. Police say that Margarita’s Cool Spot was completely destroyed by fire around twelve-thirty on Tuesday morning. Today ACP Joseph Myett told reporters that they suspect that the property may have been intentionally set on fire. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes […]
A second fire was reported in the south this week. Sometime around ten-thirty on Wednesday morning, a woman in Maya Mopan Village found her house on fire. Police report that the structure did have electricity but police say that they have information to suggest that the house was set on fire. ACP Joseph Myvett, […]
Up north in Corozal, a high powered weapon was found on Tuesday of this week. Police say that they conducted a search in the Dominguez Layout area and found the rifle along with a seven point sixty-two live round inside the chambers. According to ACP Joseph Myvett, the specific caliber of weapon is not licensed […]
Police say that they are still investigating the brutal attack on Corozal businessman Byron Chiu, which happened at his home in Corozal last Thursday morning. The owner of Maya World Guest House was found badly beaten, suffering from massive head and body injuries. Today, police told the media that Chiu’s condition has improved and he […]
On Wednesday night, we told you about the large quantity of weed found in some bushes along the Hummingbird Highway. The eighteen parcels weighed in at fifty-six and a half pounds. But before that big discovery, police say they found a smaller quantity of about four and a half pounds of cannabis in the immediate […]
