Almost a week after well-known taxi man and activist Albert Cattouse was executed on Hicatee Street on south side Belize City; there is finally an official report on what happened to the seventy-two-year-old Lord’s Bank resident. It didn’t come from the Police Department or any person from within the Ministry of Home Affairs, but in […]
There is a resurgence of crime and violence on Jane Usher Boulevard area in the Old Capital. On Monday night, there was another shooting which left a thirty-one-year-old resident lifeless. Keith Middleton was gunned down as he sat on the back step of his house on Mud Street. There had been two previous attempts on […]
In Monday’s newscast, we reported on the foiled abduction of three young girls in the west. Today, News Five’s Duane Moody headed to El Progresso Seven Miles Community to follow this story. Now, a well-known U.S. businessman, who resides in a nearby community is in police custody and is being investigated, following the report made […]
Hattieville police made a gun bust on Sunday during which they intercepted a trio of men inside a pickup and found a nine millimetre firearm and four live rounds of ammunition. As a result, the driver and owner of the vehicle, twenty-five-year-old Tremaine Williams as well as brothers, Anthony and Andrew Lewis were all charged […]
There is a disturbing report coming in from the west where two men attempted to abduct three girls—ages nine, ten and eleven—from El Progresso, seven miles village in the Cayo District. At news time tonight, the minors along with their parents are with investigators inside the San Ignacio Police Station providing formal statements as to […]
Tonight, seventeen-year-old Erwin Paulino Rodriguez was laid to rest at Eternal Garden Memorial Cemetery on the George Price Highway following a short graveside service. The last faint hopes of his family were dashed on Saturday afternoon. His mother Silvia was called by police to the seashore behind the Port of Belize, to the rear of […]
A security guard attached to Technical Security Systems Company Limited out of Cayo is tonight in police custody following a shooting incident at the parking lot of the Ramada Belize City Princess Hotel and Casino. Thirty-three-year-old Glenford Brown has been working at the establishment for some time now, but around three on Sunday morning, he […]
But thirty-one-year-old Kirkland Dawson is tonight at home recovering from a gunshot wound to the thigh. The electrician of Euphrates Avenue was socializing with friends and family inside an open lot adjacent to his mother’s house on Curassow Street when a gunman appeared from across the North Creek Bridge and fired multiple shots at the […]
Nineteen-year-old Asher Saunders has been charged for the attempted murder of Floyd McNab who was shot in the buttocks in Belize City on Friday night. Shortly after nine o’clock, officers were summoned to the K.H.M.H. where they saw the thirty-three-year old suffering from as many as four gunshot wounds to the left and right buttocks. […]
There was a brazen armed robbery on Friday in San Ignacio. Just before ten a.m., twenty-eight-year-old pump attendant Vicente Maldonado of Shawville area was held up at gunpoint at Sirrom Gas, located in the Kontiki area of San Ignacio Town. Maldonado says that he was sitting around his desk when a gunman dressed in dark […]
There were two other armed robberies over the weekend in Orange Walk. The first occurred on Friday afternoon on Zericote Street in Orange Walk Town. Sometime after three o’clock, two men dressed in black clothing, wearing caps and white rags over their faces entered Sun Luck Store and held up Hong Zhen Quin. The twenty-four-year-old […]
The activist community is shaken by the Thursday night execution of seventy-two-year-old Albert Cattouse. The taxi operator was gunned down with a single shot to the head inside his Lincoln Town Car on Hicatee Street behind Rogers’ Stadium. His family is preparing for his funeral this coming Saturday and police have begun an extensive investigation […]
The Jane Usher Boulevard area has become well-known for its murderous rivalries. When the intervention and community policing program under former south side commander ACP Chester Williams was in full effect, the Boulevard was one of his frequent stops. Residents in the area have anonymously suggested that inside the mostly abandoned property immediately west of […]
Twenty-seven-year-old German Flores, a resident of Hill View area in Santa Elena, is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight, after being beaten to a bloody pulp over the weekend by a pair of attackers. Flores was on his way home in the wee early hours of Sunday morning when he was […]
Around seven-thirty on Thursday night, shots rang out in the vicinity of Dolphin Street near the rear of Roger’s Stadium. A well-known taxi driver and activist had been gunned down in cold blood. Seventy-two-year-old Albert Anthony Cattouse was driving his Lincoln Town Car on Hicatee Street when he was targeted by a gunman. The bullet […]
Warren Lewis has been on remand for over eight years for the August eighteenth, 2009 murder of Albert Allen. After almost a decade and after a third trial for murder was not forthcoming by the judiciary, attorney Darrell Bradley sought bail today for twenty-six-year-old Lewis, a former B.D.F. volunteer, who at the age of eighteen […]
They had expected many more, but only fifteen family members and friends and a handful of concerned citizens joined the search for seventeen-year-old Erwin Rodriguez. Although all signs point to foul play, the family of the teenager is focused on finding his body and knowing definitively what happened to him. The inhospitable terrain of the […]
Last week, we showed you the search for Erwin Rodriguez that led to the discovery of his bike in an area called “Dike,” located off Faber’s Road. The seventeen-year-old has been missing going on seven weeks and the family has been searching for him. In previous efforts, Rodriguez’s slippers were found and since the teen […]
Chrisstofer Jan Roggema is missing and his friends need help to find him. Roggema is a Norwegian-Belizean businessman who has been living in Belize for more than twenty-five years. He moved to Saint Margaret Village on the Hummingbird Highway earlier this year and on Monday, he went to see a property in a remote, forested […]
At this station, we have joined media colleagues countrywide in a boycott of all activities of the Belize Police Department as we await action on various issues to better improve our coverage of crime and law enforcement-related stories for you, our viewers. Last Wednesday on his return to office, Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie had […]
The murder of Jason Almendarez occurred on Tuesday afternoon on Jasmine Street off Mahogany Street in Belize City. Almendarez was purchasing food when he was targeted by a gunman believed to have been carrying out a hit on him. The family believes that a quarrel over money was the motive behind his execution. News Five’s […]
Tonight, another Belize City youth remains in a critical, but stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting on Tuesday night. Just after seven o’clock, Jaron Bradley was targeted by a gunman as he opened the gate to his residence on Lakeview Street in the south side of Belize City. The single […]
Five officers have been placed on interdiction after they were slapped with disciplinary charges which stem from two incidents; one in the west involving a large quantity of cocaine and a report of extortion in the south. Corporal Clinton Thomas and Police Constables Kishane Peck and Albert Augustine are in big trouble after an investigation, […]
With two murders over the holiday weekend and a third reported this afternoon, the murder count for 2017 is up to one hundred and fourteen murders unofficially, slightly ahead of the 2016 pace. We start with what appears to be an execution-style murder on Jasmine Street, a stone’s throw from the neighborhood police station on […]
The City’s second murder victim is twenty-two year old Justin Hyde. On Monday night he was riding with two friends on separate bicycles not far from his home on Curl Thompson Street when according to police, near the corner with Levi Slusher Street, several gunshots were heard and Hyde was hit to the back and […]
