New details surfaced over the weekend regarding the drug plane which attempted to land in Belize early on Friday morning. Approximately one thousand five hundred kilos of cocaine were confiscated by agents of the Federal Police and the Mexican Army after the plane made an unexpected landing at the Chetumal International Airport. Early on Friday […]
When we caught up with Leader of the Opposition John Briceño, we asked him for comment on the recent landings of suspected drug planes in the north. Briceño says we need to put a stop to these illegal aircrafts to send a clear message that Belize is not a drug transit. Briceño also had strong […]
There were two shootings over the weekend. Two men were hospitalized early on Sunday morning after shots were fired on Hudson Street in San Ignacio Town. It happened at around three-thirty-five and according to police; thirty-two-year-old Moamar Zelaya and his brother were reportedly attacked. Zelaya pulled out a firearm and fired several shots at the […]
A seventy-one-year-old Canadian man was shot, beaten and tied up over the weekend. Pierre Blais was entering his Toyota Eco car at his residence in Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek, when he was attacked by two masked men. One of the men drew a firearm and pointed at Blais’ head before firing a single shot, […]
A suspected drug plan was attempting to land somewhere in San Estevan Village sometime around two o’clock this morning. Reports are that Orange Walk police disrupted the landing and the aircraft left after hovering between San Estevan and Progresso in northern Belize. Information to News Five is that police learnt about the landing and so […]
The man believed to have been found dead along the New River is alive. Forty-two-year-old Nerry Montenegro is at home in August Pine Ridge Village tonight after being missing for some four days. His mother, Hermina Montenegro, reported Nerry missing on Tuesday. She told police that her son went missing on November twenty-fifth. It was […]
Pomona resident, twenty-one-year-old Christopher Albert Bradley was charged on Wednesday for the murder of sixty-eight-year-old Marta Gonzalez. Bradley is accused of fatally stabbing Gonzalez on the chest and dumping her body in his backyard. Her body was discovered in a pit latrine inside the yard in Pomona Village on Tuesday. Investigators also found some of […]
Dangriga resident, Nelson Jackson is tonight recuperating from a gunshot wound he received on the right leg. Jackson was shot by a police officer on Tuesday. At this morning’s press briefing, ACP Joseph Myvett explained that Jackson was being boisterous in front of a local business establishment and officers were called in to calm him […]
While that is the official police version of events, an eyewitness told News Five that Nelson Jackson was not being boisterous. Elizabeth Williams was nearby when the incident occurred. She says that it was the police officers who began aggressing Jackson. On the Phone: Elizabeth Williams, Witness “The police man said something to Mr. […]
PC Steven Ferguson was today laid to rest by the Belize Police Department in his home village of Hattieville. Ferguson died on November twenty-first in a house he was renting with his common-law-wife, Josephine Hamilton. He fatally shot Hamilton before turning the gun on himself. The couple was involved in a volatile relationship for years […]
Investigators are still unable to identify the body of a middle-aged, Hispanic man which was found on Wednesday in the Orange Walk District. The body was fished out of the New River near the Orange Walk bypass in the afternoon. Both arms were missing and police believe that the face and abdomen were disfigured by […]
Five persons are at the Western Regional Hospital receiving treatment after they were allegedly run over by an enraged common-law-husband. Thirty-two-year-old Darrell Alexander Usher was slapped with a number of charges. Police in Belmopan have charged him with five counts each of attempted murder, use deadly means of harm, aggravated assault and two counts each […]
The cause of death of an elderly food vendor whose body was found inside a latrine has been released though the motive for her murder has not been confirmed. A post-mortem examination conducted on the body of sixty-eight-year-old Martha Gonzalez on Tuesday revealed that she was fatally stabbed. According to the results, Gonzalez was stabbed […]
Reports emerging from Orange Walk are that a body was fished out of the New River this afternoon along the Orange Walk Bypass road. The official identity of the man has not been shared with the press but we understand that foul play is not suspected. There is also the suspicion that the body is […]
An elderly vendor from the village of San Felipe, Orange Walk, has been found murdered in the Stann Creek District. She had been missing since last Friday; today the body of Marta Gonzalez was discovered inside a pit latrine and wrapped in a tarp. Gonzalez travelled every two weeks to southern Belize to sell food. […]
Twenty-one-year-old Belizean Rakeem Francis was murdered on Thanksgiving Day in Los Angeles, U.S.A. Francis was reportedly stabbed to death by his seventeen-year-old girlfriend following a heat’s argument in an alley behind an apartment complex in Baldwin Hills where Francis resided. He had been stabbed to the chest once, left for dead and later found by […]
While the fishermen are safe and sound, a Guatemalan national was shot and killed in the Cayo District over the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, twenty-six-year-old Jairo Alfaro was found in the vicinity of the Xunantunich Archaeological Site with gunshot wounds to the back of the neck and upper right chest. According to police, the young […]
A couple is lucky to be alive tonight after narrowly escaping with their lives when a hail of bullets was fired into their home in the early hours of Sunday morning. Vilma Robinson and Erick McLarly were fast asleep inside a residence in the Eight Mile Community when the echo of gunshots startled them out […]
At their press briefing today, police also provided updates in respect of a string of violent activities in the west and south. Jermain Sanker, a resident of Corozal, lost his life in Salvapan on November eighteenth, when a lone gunman approached the parked vehicle he was seated in and fired two shots in his direction. […]
The tragedy involving Honduran national Keidi Ramirez has resulted in the arraignment of her sister who has been charged with manslaughter. The twenty-six-year-old resident of San Juan Village was found dead hours after being bound by her relatives during a drunken fit last Wednesday. It was later discovered that Ramirez, whom many say openly struggled […]
Fifty-five-year-old Simeon Alvaro Perez was brutally attacked and stabbed as many as twelve times during a home invasion last Wednesday. The caretaker had just arrived at work at the DeYoung residence in Ontario Village when he happened upon a burglary in progress. Armed with a shovel, Perez proceeded to investigate a commotion on the property. […]
Tonight, the family of an elderly woman from San Felipe Village in the Orange Walk District continues a desperate search for their loved one whom they reported missing on Sunday. According to Ramiro Ixpec, his mother, sixty-eight-year-old Martha Gonzalez, was last seen on November twenty-third when she set out to sell produce in Dangriga. It […]
Punta Gorda police are investigating a murder-suicide involving one of their own and his common-law-wife. Police constable Steven Anthony Ferguson fatally shot Josephine Hamilton, before shooting himself in the head on Wednesday night at their residence in Punta Gorda Town. It happened shortly before eleven o’clock and when police arrived on the scene, they found […]
PC Steven Ferguson was a member of the Quick Response Team which is why he had a service issued pistol in his possession on Wednesday night. He was a member of the force for several years and had been transferred to the Punta Gorda police station recently. He relocated to Punta Gorda along with his […]
A woman is dead and tonight her relatives are in police custody. On Tuesday evening around four-thirty, Keidi Ramirez, a resident of San Juan Village along the Southern Highway, was socializing and drinking with family members when she had to be restrained. Four hours later, she was pronounced dead at the Independence Polyclinic. Police have […]
