A Honduran national visiting Belize was the victim of a vicious attack on Thursday night. Reports are that just before midday police were called out to a bus stop in the eight miles community on the George Price Highway where they discovered forty-one-year-old Luis Roberto Sanders. Sanders was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital […]
Ignatius Williams today obtained bail on a charge of possession of a prohibited firearm in the Supreme Court. The twenty-four-year-old, a repeat alleged offender originally from Dangriga, was seen by police riding against the flow of traffic on Cemetery Road on March twenty-second, coming from the Pound Yard Bridge. Upon seeing police, he turned around, […]
Police have made arrests in two separate cases of rape and unlawful sexual intercourse. Twenty-four-year-old William Daniel Carabantes faces charges of rape after a report by an eighteen-year-old female to Belmopan police that she was raped on April twelfth. Meanwhile, Ryan Neal, a twenty-seven-year-old security guard at a high school in Belize City, is charged […]
We regularly report on nationals of Guatemala and Honduras caught in Belizean waters with illegally captured produce, but rarely in the other direction. But according to Guatemalan media reports, on Tuesday morning three men were picked up by Guatemalan military personnel near Livingston. Prensa Libre reports that radar on the Guatemalan side warned of a […]
What’s in a name? Just ask the Belize Police Department. They say they want to help to eliminate the stigma associated with what’s known as the “south side” and they want to get residents to start looking at the City as a whole – and not by north and south sides with connotations. So, they’ve […]
Belmopan police are investigating a shooting incident that occurred on Friday morning on Macaw Avenue. Around twelve-fifteen a.m., Ysela Logan says she was awoken by the sound of gunshots just outside her home. When she checked, the thirty-three-year-old teacher says that she realized that her Saturn Vue SUV, valued at eight thousand dollars, which was […]
A criminal and an internal investigation is ongoing following a shooting incident in Valley of Peace, Cayo where a police officer shot a resident. According to police, officers were conducting operations in the village and as they were about to search the residence of Kevin Avetar, he ran into nearby bushes. One of the officers […]
Tensions are high in the Majestic Alley-Jungle area. A spate of shootings and murders associated with the gangs in those areas has led to an increased hostility. Now, Police say that they are actively working in that area albeit a challenge due to high tensions. According to Chester Williams, Operations ACT has expanded from region […]
Today, cops were visiting residents in the Jane Usher Boulevard area in their meet and greet sessions. Things have been relatively calm in this area since more boots were put on the ground. Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams said that they received a lot of positive feedback on the law enforcement efforts in the […]
Police say they have caught up to the man they believed killed one of Channel Five’s own. Thirty-seven-year-old Marcia Downs was shot twice at her front gate on April eleventh by someone she knew, and died during treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. A teenager, nineteen-year-old Antwon Alburn Rivero believed to be a Handyside […]
Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett is at it again. This afternoon the Eastern Division South Regional Commander was at the corner of West Canal and Rocky Road in south side Belize City where a new police booth was installed at the location following requests made by officers and a resident on harsh weather conditions officers endure […]
A father of three was killed in Belize City on Sunday evening. Police say that they have one man in custody and are looking for another – but the motive of the killing has stumped his family. They say that Jason Belencio is a family man, but he was callously taken out with five shots […]
Corozal Police are looking for one person in connection with a murder that occurred in the village of Ranchito on the Philip Goldson Highway. Just after midnight on Saturday, as Pasadita Bar was closing for the day, thirty-eight-year-old Ivan Sosa was shot to the right shoulder by a masked man who approached the establishment with […]
The shocking double murder on Caye Lagos on Friday has shocked the Ladyville community and left two families grieving. Forty-eight-year-old Mark Seawell and forty-two-year-old Gabriel Escalante were shot to death on the island where they worked. But the murder of the two Ladyville residents has left more questions than answers. The account provided by police […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Marcia Downs was murdered in cold blood last week Wednesday night around eight. She was killed inside her yard when a man approached her house and called out her name, shortly after he fired a single shot that hit her in the forehead. Police said today that they are looking for one person in […]
A double murder took place early this morning at Caye Lagos which is located about four miles south of Caye Caulker. The small caye is occupied primarily by fisher folks but at three this morning; tragedy struck for two men socializing at a three-story building around eleven-thirty on Thursday night. Caretaker Mark Sewell and fisherman […]
The shocking double murder of Mark Sewell and Gabriel Escalante has devastated two families but the close knit Ladyville Community is also in mourning. The two men were described as friendly and easy-going productive members of the village. Two friends of the deceased told us that the killings have left the residents shaken and grieving […]
There are more details tonight on the murder of former Great Belize Productions Channel Five employee, Marcia Downs. She will be laid to rest this Saturday following funeral services at Central Assembly of God Church on Freetown Road. On Wednesday night, she was executed at a gate leading to her house off Handyside Street, Belize […]
It spread like wildfire on Thursday night during news time that officers attached to the Gang Suppression Unit had opened fire on George Street residents. While it has since been confirmed that the officers used non-lethal rubber bullets, the residents are crying foul even though the unit is claiming that they opened fire to overwhelm […]
While it is reported that the GSU team was in the area to pick up a fellow officer, Tillett alleges that it was a clear act of police brutality as he claims women and children were also injured during the confrontation. Three persons, including Tillett, were taken into custody and Deputy Commissioner Chester Williams had […]
There was an armed robbery in Santa Elena, Cayo, during news time on Thursday. A forty-year-old Chinese businesswoman, Yan Ru Shao of a Bradley’s Bank address, Santa Elena Town, says that three men entered store, A and A and Eight, around seven o’clock. They wore masks and were armed with what appeared to be a […]
The relentless cycle of gun violence has left us devastated here at Great Belize Productions Channel Five. Today, we mourn the death of one of our own, Marcia Downs. A mother of two, Marcia left work on Wednesday evening and within hours, she was dead. Someone she knew walked up to the gate of her […]
While the family states they fear for the safety of their loved ones, late this evening News Five spoke one-on-one with Marcia’s boyfriend, who has his own conclusions about the reason for her murder. While he did not want to disclose his full name, Michael says he was at the hospital when Marcia took her […]
All of Central America including Belize has been listed in the 2018 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report of the U.S. State Department, published this week. These and other countries have been identified as major sources and in Belize’s case, transshipment points for illicit drugs including marijuana and cocaine, most of which end up in the […]
The primary finding of the I.N.C.S.R. states, “Belize’s drug control efforts are hampered by the same challenges faced by the rest of the country’s security sector – corruption, insufficient investigative capacity, an ineffective judicial sector, and a lack of political will.” But U.S. Embassy acting deputy chief of mission Deborah Lingwood says while there is […]
