Teenage siblings Josephine and Crecencia Oh were chopped to death in the southern community of San Jose, Toledo on Sunday night, while they were returning home to San Antonio Village. Earlier that day, the sisters had attended a church service and visited with their brother before heading home on foot some ten miles away. But […]
There is another murder to report tonight and many believe that the brazen execution of Simon Velasquez on Plues Street this afternoon may be related to the ongoing spate of gun violence in San Pedro. Velasquez was reportedly attacked by three men here in Belize City and in attempting to defend himself shots were fired […]
Belmopan Police say they’ve got a two-for-one murder case solved. This evening, police charged Tyler Herrera Cruz and Joseph Cadle for the killing of Thomas Henry, but they say the investigation has led them to solve another homicide in that jurisdiction. They aren’t able to release details on the second murder case that has been […]
As you heard, three persons were charged in connection with the murder of Thomas Henry in Roaring Creek, who is one of four persons killed by gun violence on Tuesday. Tonight, police have also charged Jesse Mejia for the double murder of Casey Lozano and Marlon Spain that occurred in the Japan area of Ladyville. […]
Police are reporting a significant decrease in the number of major crimes reported across Belize in 2017. Some one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-two major crimes – defined as murder; rape and unlawful sexual intercourse; and robbery, burglary and theft – were reported in 2017 compared to two thousand, one hundred and forty-five in 2016 […]
The overnight carnage began in San Pedro and within a span of five hours, four persons were murdered and four injured in the madness making Tuesday night, one of the bloodiest nights in the country. We start on the island, where Paul Jex, a reputed street figure who had moved to the island and has […]
Within hours of the execution of Paul Jex, a double murder around seven p.m. rocked the Ladyville community. Casey Lozano and Marlon Spain were gunned down on Marage Road in the Japan area of the village. Two other persons were injured and lived to tell the tale of the deadly ambush by two gunmen who […]
The fourth murder on Tuesday night occurred in Roaring Creek Village at about ten-thirty. Thomas Henry was gunned down inside his house less than a month after relocating to the village. Henry and his common-law-wife Kimberly Smith heard shots in the yard and when she looked out of her window, the gunman fired several shots […]
Just now you heard about the tragic killing of Thomas Henry in Roaring Creek Village. He was murdered in the presence of his common-law-wife and their three children. The family in Roaring Creek says the gunmen wanted Orlando Smith and he acknowledges as much. That is their account of the story and today police say […]
An unidentified body, reportedly in an advanced state of decomposition, was discovered in Dangriga earlier today. News Five understands that the corpse was found in an area off the highway and that arrangements were being made for an autopsy to be conducted onsite. It is unclear whether the unnamed individual died as a result of […]
This morning, prior to the press brief at the Raccoon Street Police Station in Belize City, the top brass of the police department including, ACP Chester Williams, the Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie and Operations Commander ACP Edward Broaster held an intervention session with the families and close friends of the recent victims of Tuesday’s […]
It’s only twenty-four days into the New Year and already there are ten murders; two are double murders and that number does not including the shooting death of Mario Vernon Junior in Punta Gorda. Police already have their hands full following the year 2017 as one of the most murderous years in recent times. Commissioner […]
Three Mexican nationals are behind bars at the Hattieville prison for scamming the Atlantic Bank of more than a hundred thousand dollars. The three residents from Cancun, including a couple, were charged for the fraud of the ATMs in Corozal and Orange Walk Towns and police are yet to press further charges for additional theft […]
An internal investigation continues into the shooting death of Mario Vernon Junior, which occurred in Punta Gorda on the night of January thirteenth. Vernon was shot by Police Constable Tevin Aranda in a most callous way and his body dragged several yards before it was dumped into the back of a police pickup and taken […]
There is another murder to report in San Pedro tonight, where a well-known street figure was just shot and killed around five-thirty this evening. Paul Jex, an affiliate of the George Street Gang, was executed in front of the Coyote Ugly Bar located near the airstrip at the entrance of San Pedrito area where at […]
The first murder victim on the island is Alfredo Cowo and tonight, a San Pedro mechanic is spending his first night behind bars at the Central Prison for that murder. But the family of William Godoy isn’t convinced that he is the killer and believes Godoy was charged to cool down tensions simmering on the […]
The barbarity of a pair of machete murders in the village of San Jose, Toledo District, has sent shockwaves across the Maya community. This act of savagery, the mutilation of teenage siblings Cricencia and Josephine Oh, are uncommon in this part of the country, as the area is widely known to be quiet and calm. […]
In light of the tragic incident, alcaldes are being reminded to make certain that the highest level of attention is paid to complaints where women and children are being violated. There is also an appeal for anyone with information that can lead to an arrest, or the solving of this monstrous crime, to please come […]
In an addendum to the Economist Intelligence Unit report on Belize, the organization discusses the rise in the rate of murder in several Caribbean countries, due to gang feuds related to the drug trade and extortion. The E.I.U. cites that a disproportionate number of victims are young, low-income males and that most Caribbean countries share […]
Corozal police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred Monday morning on Seventh Avenue. Thirty-year-old Edgar Loria, a salesman of Ranchito Village, was on his way to make a deposit at the Belize Bank when he was pulled over by a vehicle that ordered him to stop. Upon parking the Nissan Frontier pickup on the […]
A grisly discovery of two nude bodies on a remote road in the Toledo District has left the southern community in shock. The bodies are that of two sisters – sixteen-year-old Josephine Oh and nineteen-year-old Cricencia Oh. The girls received huge chop wounds – and photos of the scene shows a chopped off part of […]
A trio of Mexican nationals was arraigned this afternoon before Magistrate Sharon Frazer for scamming the Atlantic Bank of a substantive amount of cash. The trio comprises of a couple and a resident from Cancun who were charged with the sophisticated theft of various Atlantic Bank ATM’s up north, but police are investigating more than […]
A week after killing his mother with a crowbar, wanted Carmelita resident, Andy Rhaburn was captured by Orange Walk Police in the vicinity of Rhaburn Ridge on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Rhaburn was on the lam for the past six days and was considered armed and dangerous after he attacked and killed fifty-four-year-old Braulia Pech […]
On Friday, thirty-six-year-old William Godoy of San Pedro was charged for the murder of twenty-eight-year-old Alfredo Cowo, who had foretold his demise a week before. Cowo claimed that his life had been threatened as two officers were on trial for a shooting incident on the island involving him and five others. Officers Norman Coye and […]
There were two separate shootings on Sunday night on the south side of Belize City. Around six-thirty p.m., a data entry clerk was shot to the right arm as she spoke with a man on Casaurina Street. Twenty-six-year-old Ajesha Humes is tonight hospitalized in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. The duo was talking when […]
