Is the government in bed with a conman in the case of the multi-million dollar Basil Jones airstrip development project? The project is being spearheaded by the International Airport Alliance Belize Limited who proposes a state-of-the art facility for private charters and select flights to the island. However, questions have been raised about Jorge Abraham […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources has been investigating procedures as it relates to the mining of aggregate for road works at the Santa Cruz quarry outside of Santa Elena Town, where an explosion last week killed one man and wounded several others. Tonight, News Five has confirmed with C.E.O. in the Ministry Sharon Ramclam-Young that […]
There was further violence in the city aside from the murder and cocaine bust. A scuffle inside a popular nightclub in Belize City ended with stab wounds being inflicted on Tariq Tzul. He was injured twice in the stomach by someone he had a misunderstanding with. It is not clear whether the incident was gang […]
A sanitation worker is another victim of violence. This morning forty-year-old Michael Tesecum was inside a parked bus when another worker chopped him twice to the head with a machete. After the first blow to the head, Tesecum fell unconscious but another chop wound was inflicted on him by fifty-three-year-old Dennis Bodden. Other workers in […]
A carefully orchestrated sting operation has proven successful for the Belize Police Department as they were able to arrest a pair of Belize City men who were in possession of over five parcels of cocaine. The duo had reportedly met up at a local restaurant where they planned the drug transaction. According to Assistant Commissioner […]
Dion Bruce is accused of shooting Aaron Carter to death in July of 2010 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. In 2014, then-Chief Magistrate Ann-Marie Smith ordered his extradition to face a long list of charges including murder, attempted murder and possession of a firearm. Nearly four years later he continues to languish in jail pending an […]
After the extradition was ordered and the direct appeal to the Supreme Court by means of habeas corpus was denied as well as an application for judicial review of the lower court decision, Bruce’s attorney Audrey Matura appealed the latter but not the former. Latin for ‘you shall have the body,’ a habeas corpus application […]
In the courts, Keyron Johnson was freed of the murder of eighteen-year-old Christopher Jorgensen that happened back in April 2012. Johnson was the main suspect and was first charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm and deadly means of harm – but that charge was upgraded to murder when Jorgensen died. Jorgensen was shot while he […]
Love FM’s annual Christmas parade ended in mayhem on Saturday evening when the procession of lights and revelers rounded the corner into Albert Street in the Old Capital. That’s because there was a misunderstanding among onlookers which resulted in bottles being thrown. While that may have been the case, somehow word spread that shots were […]
An Orange Walk resident is dead, following an early morning attack that left him mortally injured and a pair of women he was socializing with grazed by bullets. Jaime Pelayo Junior was shot and killed while he was hanging out with friends near a popular establishment in the Sugar City. The father of one was […]
Santa Elena Town resident and taxi driver Rasheed Hyde, accused of attempting to murder his relative Russell Hyde Junior on December third, is out on bail of ten thousand dollars from the Supreme Court. Also free on the same amount is Michael Mendoza, who is alleged to have given him the gun used in the […]
Despite no objection from prosecutors, Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas denied bail to one of two men accused of a home invasion in Belize City, who were previously denied in the first instance at the Magistrate’s Court. Thirty-three-year-old Leon Weir, also known as Leon Blease, is accused along with Laquan Flowers of breaking into the […]
Local authorities are trying to locate the driver of a full-size luxury SUV which was abandoned on Wednesday evening at the northern border with Mexico. Corozal police were summoned to the customs cargo area near the border crossing around four p.m., where they came across a cream Lincoln Navigator. The vehicle had collided into a […]
We’ve been reporting on a case of alleged sodomy inside the Belize Central Prison. An inmate, who is now out on bail, claims he was sodomized twice last month while he was locked up in the prison. The alleged perpetrator is another inmate, Kenroy Cooke, who was charged on Wednesday with two counts of unnatural […]
What about claims that the guard on duty ignored the plea for help after the first incident happened? We asked him if there was negligence on the part of the guard to whom it was reported first. C.E.O. Murillo says that there are a number of systems in place, apart from the guard on duty […]
Baltazar Sarmiento, an elderly watchman, was killed at his place of work last Saturday by a pair of thieves who broke onto the Buca Shell compound on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The sixty-one-year-old Honduran national was fatally shot once to the left temple. While the ordeal was caught on camera, police are unable to break […]
A pawn shop manager had to employ his licensed weapon to defend himself against a robbery of his establishment today. Tonight, one of the three men who tried to rob him is in hospital and two others are on the run. Around two-thirty this afternoon, thirty-six year old Dorian Usher, manager of Monica’s Pawn Shop […]
This morning, the Chuc family from San Ignacio spoke out about the murder of Israel Chuc. The thirty-four-year-old was discovered dead in the Branch Mouth area of San Ignacio and police initially did not suspect foul play. But a postmortem on Tuesday revealed that he was in fact murdered. Today, his family told News Five […]
Last week we told you the story of an inmate allegedly sodomized inside a cell at the Belize Central Prison. The young man was reportedly twice raped on separate occasions – the twenty-fourth and twenty-ninth of November. As we reported, a doctor classified the twenty-year-old inmate’s injuries as harm and the prison informed us that […]
The alleged perpetrator is expected to be taken to court on Wednesday where he will be charged with two counts of an unnatural act. The alleged victim says that he is speaking out because what happened to him in prison was wrong. He feels that he was put in the “hole” to be intentionally punished […]
And as you heard, the young man was not allowed to see his family. His father also spoke with us off camera today to say that it was until after they started to investigate the matter that prison officials met with them. The father says that he was told in very clear terms by prison […]
Thirty-four-year-old Israel Chuc, a resident of Santiago Juan Layout in San Ignacio was discovered dead on Sunday morning in the vicinity of Branch Mouth Road. There was a trace of blood on the nose and his throat appeared to be inflamed, but even so police initially reported that the case was being treated as a […]
The following story is about the 2017 murder count. Soon after it was calculated at one hundred and thirty-three, the count went up this afternoon by one with the murder of Israel Chuc. It means that there are four less than last year with nineteen days more to go to the end of 2017. The […]
Just before midday today, the Special Assignment Team attached to ACT made a significant bust. The initiative, ‘Addressing Crime Together,’ seeks to tackle the spiraling urban violence related to gang activities, and today while conducting searches in an abandoned building on Aloe Vera Street, the officers discovered a whopping twenty-five cases of assorted canned beers. […]
Operation ACT was in full operation on Monday in the city and turned up cocaine and weed. Around eleven in the morning, the Special Assignment Team searched an abandoned barrack on Flamboyant Street where they discovered nine small transparent zip-lock bags containing eight point zero grams of cocaine and a black plastic bag with almost […]
