A couple from Corozal is claiming that they were victims of a housing scam, but this incident is revealing a bigger issue of alleged corruption at the Housing Department. News Five has been told that between 2016 and 2017 at least six wooden houses were issued to persons who provided two thousand five hundred dollars […]
A teenager has been sent to central prison after failing to evade police while carrying an unlicensed weapon. Nineteen-year-old Tyree Gentle of Racoon Street Extension was charged with possession of a nine-millimeter pistol for which he does not have a gun license. The pistol carried ten live rounds of ammunition for which he was also […]
There had not been a murder in the city since January twenty-seventh. During that time, police put more boots on the ground to curb gun violence and restore some peace on the streets, following the 2017 bumper murder rate. But early on Friday night, the life of Norman Tyrone Gibson, aka Ty Ty, who had […]
Are Punta Gorda police interfering with a purported witness in the officer-involved killing of Mario Vernon? Amateur footage has surfaced showing an altercation between a PG resident who emotionally charges to have seen firsthand the fatal shooting of the twenty-four-year-old grandson of famed Belizean musician Leela Vernon. While none of the officers in the video […]
Thirty-five-year-old taxi driver Reginald Garoy was shot to the right side of the cheek and right ring finger on Sunday night in Belize City. Garoy told police that he and another person were inside his car by the Rocky Road Bridge at the East Canal when a man walked up to him and fired several […]
A man and his girlfriend were shot in Orange Walk on Sunday night. Police say that twenty-four-year-old Amin Mendez Junior and twenty-year-old Jessica Melendez were inside Mendez’s grocery shop on the corner of Liberty Avenue and Boundary Road when a man entered the store and fired several shots. Mendez was hit to the lower left […]
Around three-thirty on Saturday morning, police on mobile patrol in Orange Walk found a point thirty-eight revolver and four live rounds of ammunition on Santa Lucia Street. Police say they saw a man in the area acting suspiciously but when they searched him, they didn’t find anything incriminating. They were escorting him back to the […]
Breaking News: There is a late evening report of the robbery of three Belizeans—well-known cyclist Darnel Barrow, Albert Leslie and another known only as Mark. Leslie daughter, Elisa, phoned in to our newsroom minutes ago to inform that the trio had just left the Mexican border with the United States en route to Belize. Just […]
There was a brazen armed robbery on Thursday afternoon in Corozal Town. The mid-afternoon crime was carried out by a trio of thieves, two of whom were armed with guns. Before escaping with over ten thousand dollars in cash and personal belongings, Chinese businesswoman, Hong Su Rong, and her husband were physically assaulted by the […]
These the two men were arraigned this afternoon in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court for the murder of Immigration clerk, Israel Perez. Cotton Tree residents, Cruz Castillo and Stanley Herrera Junior, were known to the murder victim and Police proceeded to levy charges after they found Perez’s vehicle as well as other items on Castillo. He […]
On Monday, we reported that Canadian national Jordan Bacchus was arrested by police in his home country for possession of drugs. According to the Canadian media, Bacchus will answer to the drug charges in Sudbury, as well as armed robbery and other charges in Toronto and then he will be extradited to Belize where he […]
A stabbing incident earlier today on Gill Street has left a couple hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. after receiving injuries to various parts of their bodies. Thirty-five-year-old Rhonda Burgess and her boyfriend, Erick Tillett, were at home babysitting a three-year-old toddler when they came under attack by an individual who is known to them. According to […]
Ongoing anti-drug operations took police up north to the village of Trinidad in the Orange Walk District. In an empty lot there, they found a plastic bag containing forty pieces of crack cocaine that amounted to two point nine grams. There were no arrests. But in a second bust in the village, on Wednesday morning, […]
A thirty-three-year-old resident of Saint Matthew’s Village, Cayo District, is in custody tonight as investigations continue into the murder of Israel Perez. Earlier today, Cruz Castillo was arraigned for handling stolen goods including a power wash machine and a vehicle belonging to Perez. But was he involved in the murder? That’s what police are trying […]
The Police Department appears not to be taking the bait of the Ahmad family in relation to some of the key pieces of evidence being used to support a murder charge against one of their own, Woman Police Constable Michelle Brown. Fareed Ahmad was shot inside his car on December twenty-seventh in Hattieville; he died […]
One of the many red flags in last July’s Trafficking in Persons report issued by the U.S. State Department, which rated Belize at tier three, is the practice of police officers working as private security at establishments where human trafficking is alleged to be taking place, among wait staff and others. The Attorney General, Michael […]
The body of a missing Immigration Officer was found today at Harmonyville, off the George Price Highway. Israel Perez, a resident of Saint Matthew’s Village and father of a young boy, had been missing for days and this morning, his family, friends and colleagues had the most difficult time coming to terms with his brutal […]
There is another murder for which a motive has still not been established. It is now six weeks since the popular barber, Fareed Ahmad, was murdered in his car on December twenty-seventh, 2017. A female police constable with him at the time is behind bars charged with his murder, but as far as we know, […]
Twenty-one-year-old Hezron Parks is making the headlines in the U.S. where he shot and killed an Arizona fire captain. According to international media, Parks faces second-degree murder charge and was given a three hundred thousand dollar cash bail and put under electronic surveillance because he is considered a flight risk. U.S. media says that Parks’ […]
2017 ended as one of the most murderous years with one hundred and forty-four homicides. This January, there have been as many as fourteen murders, topping the statistics for the same month last year. This morning, the Ministry of Home Affairs launched a two-year anti-crime strategy. First and foremost, police want to reduce the murder […]
So what is the fate of Operation ACT now that a National Crime Fighting Strategy has been introduced which will remain in effect for the next two years? The campaign has been ongoing since late October and while it covers three specific hotspots in Belize City, it has also expanded to other areas of the […]
As many a weary Belize City resident can tell you, we have learned to appreciate the silences between the outbursts of gun and other violence we report nightly on the daily news. The trick has become managing those periods of calm through mediation efforts like those led by Dianne Finnegan, Nuri Muhammad and ACP Chester […]
A Bella Vista man has been arrested and charged with the heinous murders of two sisters: Cricencia and Jospehine Oh from the village of San Antonio in southern Belize. The hacked and nude bodies of the two siblings were found on January twenty-first and days later, police charged twenty-year old Wilmer Escobar, a man with […]
There is a major arrest of a Canadian national with a long rap sheet who is wanted in Belize for murder. But it may be a while before twenty-eight year old Jordan Bacchus returns to Belize. He was nabbed during a drug bust in Sudbury, Ontario, north of Toronto, on Friday. Bacchus and a woman […]
A domestic of Belize City no longer faces attempted murder charges after the prosecution decided not to continue the case against her in the Supreme Court. Forty-two year old Hilda Locario was accused of attempting to kill Shirley Leslie on February fifteenth, 2012 on St. Thomas Street during a night out. Locario appeared before Supreme […]
