There was a double murder on Wednesday night in the city in which the life of a twelve-year-old student was abruptly cut short on Pregnant Alley in the Mesopotamia Division. David Morrison, the Queen Street Baptist student was simply at the wrong place along with his mother and about to head home to Ladyville when […]
The gun violence was not contained to Pregnant Alley. Two more city residents were injured in a shooting in the Lake Independence area. Emerson Garnett and Houston Apolonio were on Police Street when they came under fire. Apolonio was grazed on the shoulder, but Garnett was hit multiple times and is in critical condition at […]
Police are tonight investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Orange Walk Town earlier today. It is alleged that an individual identified as forty-six-year-old Ariel Audinette was severely beaten by a team of men dressed in camouflage uniforms. It is not clear at this time whether the group is in fact part […]
Forty-five-year-old Clinton Fitzgibbon of Eighth Street, Kings Park in the city was shot multiple times on Tuesday night. Fitzgibbon was along with his common-law-wife Dorita Wallace when a gunman walked up to them and opened fire on the unsuspecting couple. While Wallace was injured on the calf, Fitzgibbon did not survive the attack and perished […]
In the west, a twenty-four year old caretaker was savagely chopped to death. Gian Espat was found dead on Wednesday but was likely murdered two days earlier. His body, already decomposing, was discovered by a friend at the remote farm where he worked in the Trapiche area of Santa Elena. The last time he was […]
Hermelinda Pinks, the slain wife of Jason Emmanuel, by all accounts was a woman of tremendous strength and fortitude. At the Coast Guard headquarters on the Western Highway where she worked as a supervisor, co-workers are attempting to come to terms with her shooting death on Saturday morning at the hands of her husband at […]
There’s another murder to report tonight. Twenty-four-year-old Santa Elena caretaker Gian Espat was chopped to death in the west. Just before midday today, police found Espat’s body inside a wooden house at Capital Heights in the Trapiche area of Santa Elena Town. Espat’s was found lying on a bed with a large cut wound to […]
The families of Jason Emmanuel and Hermelinda Pinks continue to reel in the aftermath of the murder suicide of the pair on Saturday. Pinks was found dead on her bed with a gunshot to the left side of her temple while Emmanuel was found with a gunshot wound to the right side of his temple […]
A Caye Caulker resident is tonight recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for stabbing injuries he received just after eleven on Monday morning on the north side of the island. As police responded to a fight in the Palapa area, they would set chase after a vessel on the western side of the island […]
Mario Vernon’s family says they will not let up. They believe that there is a cover-up surrounding the death of the twenty-four-year-old Punta Gorda resident and grandson of the iconic Leela Vernon. Vernon’s aunt gave an interview to our colleagues at PGTV and she says that they have even sent letters to the Prime Minister’s […]
Early on Saturday morning, it is believed that a well-known Belize City resident took the life of his wife and then turned his licensed firearm on himself. The news of the bloody loss of life has shocked the family of Coastguard Supervisor, Hermelinda Pinks, a purported victim of domestic abuse. Exactly what transpired inside their […]
There was another murder over the weekend that police have to crack. Just before midnight on Sunday, a City Council employee was shot and killed. Thirty-five-year-old Luis Dominguez, better known as Esse, was at a yard in the Kings Park area when a gunman unleashed a barrage of bullets that found their mark on him. […]
Police had hoped that a young woman detained last Thursday in the murder investigation of twenty-year-old Tyrone Gibson could provide critical information to crack the case. She is believed to have contacted him before he was ruthlessly killed, allegedly by rival gang members. But their hope was in vain, and now police are hunting for […]
A security guard at the campus of the University of Belize in West Landivar was the target of a gunman on Friday morning. Edwin Williams is lucky to have escaped with his life after a gunman came for him at his workplace. ASP Alejandro Cowo shares the details. ASP Alejandro Cowo, O.C., C.I.B., Belize […]
Police in San Pedro have now charged a resident in connection with an alleged case of rape. Thirty-seven year old John Cus, an electrician of San Pedro Town, was detained almost immediately after the report was made. Last week a twenty-five-year-old female American tourist visited the San Pedro Police Station and reported that at around four-thirty […]
In the coming weeks an initiative sponsored by a British organization in conjunction with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime will establish a portal through which instances of sexually explicit imagery of children found, seen or shared online can be reported. There was a sensitization workshop organized on Friday by the Belize Police […]
The Police Department has been explaining its recent move for police officers to take photographs of persons stopped and searched as part of its activities on the ground in various areas. The question has been raised as to whether this is profiling or singling out certain individuals based on their particular descriptions and activities. Legal […]
On Thursday afternoon the body of an elderly woman was discovered under the popular Mike’s Club on Regent Street West. Police have since indicated that the death is natural. Sixty-one year old Yolanda Bowman Nembhard was described as a mental patient. The find was made around three-fifteen Thursday afternoon and police investigations so far have […]
A security guard was ambushed by a gunman on Friday morning, but lived to tell the tale. Around one-ten a.m., twenty-six-year-old Edwin Williams was at work at the University of Belize Education Campus, better known as the Old Teachers College, in West Landivar when he was approached by a gunman. The Police Street resident fought […]
An American tourist was sexually assaulted in San Pedro just before dawn today. The twenty-five-year-old woman visited the police station on the island this morning and reported that while asleep, she was awoken by a push. That’s when she realized that someone she knows was having sexual intercourse with her against her will. Police have […]
A woman has been detained in connection with the latest murder in the city. Police hope she can provide them with information that will help them crack the murder of Tyrone Gibson. The twenty-year-old south side resident, affiliated with the PIV gang, was killed last Friday night as he stood across from the Michael Finnegan […]
Following his murder, Dianne Martinez told News Five that she would like to know what role, if any, the woman played in her son’s murder. Martinez shared what she knows about her son’s final moments, while meeting up with the woman who is now being questioned. Dianne Martinez, Mother of Deceased “Apparently, they already […]
Canadian fugitive Jordan Bacchus was arrested for drug possession in Sudbury, Canada; he will also be charged for armed robbery and other crimes in Toronto recently. But will he be extradited to Belize? Bacchus is a person of interest in the May 2016 murder of Melvin Almendarez in San Pedro. Today, we asked Foreign Minister […]
On Wednesday night, couples were dining out showing their love for each other for Valentine’s. But for one couple, it ended in a stabbing and hospitalization. A woman stabbed a man on Princess Margaret Drive sometime around nine but no official police report was made. ASP Alejandro Cowo shares what Police have gathered so far […]
A Belizean businessman was murdered inside his establishment in Melchor de Mencos around ten on Monday night. Thirty-two-year-old Samuel Sosa, who once lived in Benque Viejo del Carmen, was shot and killed whilst inside his restaurant and bar in the neighboring town of Melchor in Guatemala. Sosa’s bar was open for business when a man, […]
