Police say they have no suspects in the burglary that happened at a western union branch in Orange Walk on Thursday. A cashier at the business reported to police that around nine-fifteen that morning, she was inside the office when a lone armed robber entered, demanded money and she handed over more than a thousand […]
A twenty-one-year-old man was shot in Seine Bight Village on Sunday night some-time after ten-thirty. Kadeem Augustine was socializing at a house and when he went out in the back yard he was shot in the face. Police say that that they are looking for one person in connection with this shooting. ACP Joseph […]
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was the target of a failed assassination attempt on Saturday in Caracas. Six people have since been arrested for their alleged involvement in the incident. According to Interior Minister Néstor Reverol, they were part of a group that loaded two drones with explosives and detonated them during a military parade in […]
There are very few details of a developing story in the Cayo District. Accountant Flavio Tzalam who has been with Santander, the Spanish company operating out of Valley of Peace is in plenty trouble with the law tonight. He is facing charges of theft and forgery in connection with over two hundred thousand dollars that […]
Robbers hit another business in Orange Walk. Earlier this week, the security guard at Odette’s Home Center was held up and the thieves made away with cash as well as computers and cell phones. On Thursday, a businesswoman was held up at gunpoint inside her store: Misericordia De Dios, which is a branch of Western […]
A trio of brazen robbers, including two minors, succeeded in robbing Harpy Security on Antelope Street Extension, just after six o’clock on Thursday evening. The security company is located a stone’s throw away from a police checkpoint, but that didn’t prevent the daring robbery. Thirty-four-year-old Dion Gentle had just reported to work when he came […]
Murders and other violent crimes are continuously being committed against innocent children. While the tragic stories fade from the headlines, the pain—emotional and psychological—continues to impact surviving family members and friends. Tonight, News Five’s Duane Moody revisits the murder of three minors and finds out how families are coping with assistance from support groups. […]
Before noon today, the police raided the gated-house of the notorious Brian Brown off Faber’s Road Extension. It is the third such operation to be carried out at the residence. This morning, the squad of police officers arrived at the scene in four vehicles and in full gears, before calling on backup. In the mayhem […]
As you heard, relatives and friends say that Brown was shot to the abdomen, but Deputy Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, says that he was never injured by lethal or rubber bullets and was in fact taken to the hospital for treatment for scratches to his hands. Williams, however, confirms that the minor, Rene Ayuso, […]
There has been an explosion of gun violence in the Port Loyola area of late. Ongoing conflict between rival gangs has ended in shootings and two murders, including the horrible slaying of three-year-old Etana Bennett. As tensions grow and the risk to life escalates, the police have moved into the area to suppress further gang […]
Investigators believe that thirty-three-year-old Reainard Randey Ferguson killed Samuel Cosme. He is accused of fatally stabbing Cosme whose body was found on a dirt road off the Philip Goldson Highway near the Haulover Bridge early on Monday morning. The forty-three-year-old Belize City resident was stabbed to the chest, abdomen, back, and hand. Initially, a woman […]
A Belizean, believed to have links to the Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested on Wednesday night across the border in Mexico. Online reports say that Dioney Rolando, who goes by the alias ‘El Nene,’ was arrested after a high-speed chase with authorities ended at the Chactemal Bridge around ten o’clock. Rolando was along with four other […]
Twenty-six-year-old Eric Tillett narrowly escaped grave injury on Tuesday night when a gunman pounced on him while heading home on Gill Street. According to police, Tillett and his girlfriend were riding a motorcycle when they were ambushed by a lone gunman. A single shot was fired in their direction, hitting Tillett in the right foot. […]
A chopping incident in downtown Belize City on Tuesday afternoon has resulted in cabdriver Gerald Lewis receiving multiple injuries to the body. The incident, however, was not reported to police immediately. It was not until this afternoon that the victim visited the police station on Queen Street to file a complaint against his attacker. Police […]
Tensions remain high tonight in the Gill Street area of south side Belize City, following the murder of three-year-old Etana Bennett. The toddler was sleeping along with her mother and father in their house, when a gunman took aim at their room from the neighboring yard. While Alva Moody was hit multiple times to the […]
There was a robbery at a butane depot in Corozal. Two men, armed and hiding their identity, assaulted the watchman on duty just before eight o’clock on Tuesday night. Forty-eight-year-old Luis Alberto Marin reported to the police that two men wearing dark clothing and with rags covering their faces entered the office of Belize Western […]
The life of three-year-old Etana Bennett was cut short just after five o’clock on Monday evening, as we reported in our newscast. The child clung to life for almost forty hours after she was shot as she slept in the comfort of her home. Her mother was also injured, but survived the shooting by a […]
News Five has confirmed that a woman is in police custody tonight in connection with the fatal stabbing of forty-three-year-old Samuel Cosme. The woman, believed to be the main suspect, first came in contact with Cosme about two years ago. Cosme’s family told News Five that they know her identity. They say that the woman […]
Ervin Wade has been found guilty of the murder of twenty-five-year-old Keisha Buller. The verdict was delivered by Supreme Court Justice Antoinette Moore on Monday in Belmopan. Buller, who was Wade’s common-law wife, was viciously stabbed inside her home on Price Street in Benque Viejo del Carmen on July tenth, 2015. She was stabbed to […]
Just before news time, a Felix family member told News Five the tragic news that a three-year-old girl has succumbed to gunshot injuries to the head. She reportedly died at five-thirteen p.m. at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Her mother was also wounded as they slept at their Gill Street home in the city. The […]
A chopping incident between two men in Dangriga has left one person dead and another hospitalized. Anthony Picart was chopped multiple times to the head and body; he underwent surgery at the Southern Regional Hospital and was being transported to the Western Regional Hospital when he died on Sunday night. The other man involved in […]
There was a second murder over the weekend. Ladyville police are investigating the fatal stabbing of Belize City resident, Samuel Cosme. The forty-three-year-old was found brutally murdered early this morning on a feeder road off the Phillip Goldson Highway near the Haulover Bridge. According to police, Cosme was stabbed several times to different parts of […]
A thirty-four-year-old stevedore was shot and killed on Thursday night as he rode his bicycle from work at the Port of Belize Limited. Raymond Arnold, a resident of Rivero Street in Port Loyola, was mortally injured when a gunman on motorcycle approached him and a friend he was riding with along Central American Boulevard. Arnold […]
A shooting on Sunday night, a short distance away from Faber’s Road, has left a twenty-one-year-old woman hospitalized with injuries to both feet. Monica Ferguson was in the company of her common-law husband and a group of friends when they were attacked by an unknown individual who opened fire at her. According to police, Ferguson […]
Two Punta Gorda residents have been arrested and charged for a shooting in that southern municipality in which a third woman was injured over the weekend. Police believe that on Friday night Andel Avilez and Luis Barrias shot twenty-three-year-old Renita Jackson to the hip as they targeted one of the two persons she was with […]
