A young man, who lived in Independence Village and had just come to Belize City to visit with friends, was shot and killed sometime after one this afternoon. The victim, nineteen-year-old Shemar Cabral, was only in the city for a few hours before he was murdered in front of his family home on Balan Street. […]
While with ComPol Chester Williams, he was also asked for an update on the investigation into the murder of Armando Williams. The sixty-year-old Swallow Street resident, who also goes by the surname Meggs, was discovered on his bed with injuries to his face. Investigation continues into this homicide and ComPol Williams says that they are […]
Just before midday today police were called out to the scene of what is believed to be yet another murder in Ladyville. It’s the third murder to be recorded in the village in less than a week and is completely unrelated. The victim of this latest homicide is an older man, Armando Williams, better known […]
Tonight, thirty-three patients are receiving medical attention at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after suffering marijuana intoxication. Twenty-seven of them are children who are attending primary school, between the ages of four and fifteen. Earlier today, students were being hospitalized with symptoms, including vomiting and nausea. It is believed that they ate sweets that were […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Miguel Encalada was arraigned on two counts of murder on Monday. His court appearance where he was unrepresented by legal counsel, followed the shooting death of his common-law wife and his younger sibling on April twentieth, at his home in Ladyville. This morning, Assistant Commissioner of Police Hilberto Romero provided additional information on the […]
There are several unanswered questions that have been posed to investigators, including a possible angle that may have involved drugs. Here’s how ACP Romero responded to those queries. Reporter “Is there any drug element in the investigation?” ACP Hilberto Romero, Regional Commander, Eastern Division “We collected several items from the house and those […]
Thirty-eight-year-old Wilford Dawson was injured during an officer-involved shooting on Sunday night in Gardenia Village. That is because he allegedly refused to stand down when instructed by officers responding to the scene of a commotion at a nearby shop. It is reported that Dawson was acting disorderly when the police officers instructed him to cease […]
Miguel Encalada, the Ladyville resident who is accused of the murder of his common-law-wife, fifty-year-old Desiree Gonzalez Rowland and his own brother, twenty-five-year-old George Encalada Rochester, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today to face the charges. The thirty-nine-year-old barber is charged with two counts of murder. While speculation is still rife that the […]
Thirty-eight-year-old Leon Walford has been sentenced to forty-eight years in prison for the execution-style murder of American national Lamont Edward Lipka in May 2018. The deadly incident took place in San Pedro when Walford and Tracey Betancourt entered Tropicana Restaurant and Bar and shot Lipka multiple times inside his place of business. While Betancourt has […]
Two men who police have blamed for last week’s shooting of well-known street figure, Jervis Valencia appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today. They are Logwood Street resident, twenty-five-year-old Lyndon Alexander Saint Claire of Pickwoad Street and twenty-three-year-old Kareem Kelly, a construction worker of Mayflower Street. Police maintain that at around eleven-thirty on April […]
A man was shot by police in Gardenia Village on Sunday night after he allegedly became disorderly and then charged at police with a piece of board. Police information is that sometime around seven-thirty on Sunday night; they were summoned to the area, which is a shop, owned by relatives of the man, thirty-eight-year-old Wilford […]
The Ladyville community was stunned on Thursday afternoon when reports of a double murder began to surface in the village. Indeed, a man and a woman were found dead inside the woman’s residence that she shared with her common-law-husband, who is the police department’s suspect in the pair of homicides. The woman, fifty-year-old Desiree Gonzalez […]
A man and a woman were found dead inside a residence in Ladyville shortly after midday today. The two were businesswoman, fifty-year-old Deserie Gonzalez Rowland and her brother-in-law, twenty-five-year-old George Encalada. Police reportedly took the main suspect, known to both victims, into custody at the scene. The circumstances surrounding the double homicide are what have […]
Chairman of Ladyville, Bernardo Bennett, also told News Five that the incident brings back eerie memories of what happened over a decade ago, when an entire family was murdered inside their home. Bennett speaks about the deceased woman and the accused man that he grew up with decades ago. Bernardo Bennett, Chairman, Ladyville “I […]
Thieves broke into the Treasury Department’s Dangriga Branch back in March and made good their escape with forty-thousand dollars. Reports are that the culprits pried off the burglar bars on the bathroom window to gain entry. Police have been investigating, but there have been little to no leads in that investigation. This morning we caught […]
We begin our newscast tonight with a decision that was handed down in the High Court earlier today by Justice Ricardo O‘Neil Sandcroft. Three former law enforcement officers have been sentenced to fifteen years in prison after they were convicted of manslaughter in the beating death of a bartender in San Pedro in March 2016. […]
Well-known street figure Jervis Diamond Valencia was the target of a gunman earlier today when shots were fired in the vicinity of Logwood Street in Belize City. According to police in the area, officers were on foot patrol near Ebony Street when they heard reports of gunfire. When they arrived at the scene they observed […]
A team of law enforcement officers, as well as personnel from the National Forensics Science Services, is on the ground in southern Belize tonight. After a week of searching, including aerial surveys of a far-flung location in Toledo District, the party, led by members of the Belize Police Department, discovered the burnt vestiges of an […]
A pair of Belize City men, believed to be among three persons who robbed and fatally shot a vegetable vendor last Wednesday, appeared before the new Chief Magistrate earlier today. Twenty-three-year-old Milton Nunez, a resident of mile two and a half on the George Price Highway and twenty-one-year-old Emerson Elijio, a car washer of a […]
Two Belize City men who are part of the Leadership Intervention Unit were shot while socializing over the weekend on Amara Street. Ronlee Petillo and Alyon Domingo were at a yard on Amara Avenue on Saturday evening when shots rang out and the two sustained gunshot wounds. According to the Belize Police Department’s Regional Commander […]
Twenty-year-old Kamaron Williams is on remand at the Belize Central Prison on charges of kept unlicensed firearm and kept unlicensed ammunition. On April sixth, the Police Street resident was found in possession of a nine millimeter pistol loaded with nine rounds of Aguila brand ammunition. He appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford where he […]
A Belize Defense Force soldier lost his life in a hit and run on the Phillip Goldson Highway in Ladyville. Reports are that just before ten p.m. on Thursday, thirty-eight-year-old Hector Cho was lying on the highway motionless when a concerned motorist stopped and exited his vehicle to inform another motorist of a body on […]
There was a murder in Belize City overnight and it happened just off Holy Emmanuel Street. A businessman from Cayo District was at a bar just before midnight when he was attacked and robbed by a trio of men. He was fatal shot, before the robbers made off with his wallet and licensed firearm. While […]
Two adults and two minors have been arraigned for a burglary in Los Lagos where thirty-eight thousand dollars, a high powered rifle and several other items were stolen. On Tuesday night, we told you that thieves broke into a home over the Easter holiday and escaped with these items. Well, tonight two of the four […]
Police have arrested and charged to men for the murder of seventy-two-year-old Belizean American retiree William Maxwell Smith which occurred on Easter Sunday in San Ignacio. The accused are fifty-nine-year-old Ernest Thompson of Santa Elena Town and twenty-nine-year-old Isiah Azueta of Kontiki Extension. The men were jointly charged with one count of murder, one count […]
