An apparent bullet hole was discovered on Thursday in the glass window at an office of the Agriculture Department in Belmopan. It shares space with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Lands Department on Queen Elizabeth II Boulevard in the Cohune Walk area and some believe a message was being sent to the more powerful […]
Bus lines sparring over passengers? According to one video that has gone viral on Facebook that is what happened between two bus drivers from different companies. It appears that bystanders or passengers captured the heated armed exchange between the two men. As this cell-phone footage shows, the men are armed with machetes and are squabbling […]
Gun violence is creeping back in the south side of the City where another senseless murder took place less than twenty-hours after the shooting death of Guatemalan national Ruben Esquivel during a home invasion. At about eleven o’clock on Wednesday night, twenty-three-year-old Christian Velasquez was executed by a gunman who opened fire from a vehicle. […]
Even as police continue to investigate the murder of Velasquez, this afternoon shots rang out in that same area of Antelope Street Extension. Information to News Five is that around two-thirty p.m. Ryne Arnold and Marion Ramirez were traveling in this Ford Explorer SUV seen here in the vicinity of Pitters and Antelope Streets on […]
The murder of Christian Velasquez is the third in four days on the south side of Belize City. The two others are Wednesday morning’s home invasion turn murder of Ruben Esquivel and taxi man Thomas Staine’s stabbing murder on Monday. It is has been just over a month since a change of command in the […]
As we told you on Wednesday night, Nevis Betancourth was charged with the murder of Jose Castellanos that happened at a restaurant in Santa Elena, Cayo on July twenty-eighth. Bentancourth was hospitalized since then under police protection; his arm was almost severed when Castellanos chopped him with a machete. Betancourth’s family contends that he acted […]
Dueck says that Betancourth still needs medical attention for the chop wound on his arm and remains in pain. But he says that Police didn’t allow him to receive that much needed doctor’s care – instead they removed him from the hospital and slapped him with a murder charge. Jimmy Dueck, Brother-in-law of Nevis […]
A national from Guatemala arrived in the country a few days ago to get away from personal problems. But instead his life was cut short in a deadly home invasion even before the crack of dawn this morning. Forty-five-year-old Ruben Esquivel Aguilar was shot multiple times in the kitchen of his sister’s house. Two armed […]
San Ignacio Police have arrested and charged Nevis Betancourth for the murder of Jose “El Chele” Castellanos. Betancourth was hospitalized for several days following the deadly incident that happened at a fast food restaurant in Santa Elena. The chopping/shooting happened on July twenty-seventh around eight that night. According to witnesses, there was a brief exchange […]
Hours prior to the murder of Ruben Esquivel, shots rang out several blocks away on Sarstoon Street in the Old Capital. Just after midnight on Tuesday, thirty-four-year-old Michael Aspinal, a resident of Kraal Road was shot to the leg and arm. There are few details that police can confirm. Superintendent Daniel Arzu explains. Supt. […]
We can finally confirm tonight that the San Pedro police are looking for Wasani and Jafari Castro, following the aggravated assault of twenty-one-year-old Kevin Brown at a resort on the island since the weekend. Police say that the sons of Minister Edmond “Clear the Land” Castro cannot be located since Sunday, but had beaten Brown […]
The Belize Central Prison is bursting at its seams as the number of inmates stands at one thousand three hundred. Of that amount, four hundred and fifty-two are awaiting trial for crimes that range from petty offenses to murder. Today, the Belmopan Police took a group of youths to the prison for a life lesson, […]
A three-year custody battle between Canadian parents is winding down. Thirty-three-year-old Canadian national Robin Leanne Greenway Trockstad was arrested by authorities in Cayo District after the Canadian government issued a warrant for her arrest on charges of abduction in contravention of a custody order. Four-year-old Treyson Trockstad Greenway, Robin’s son with ex-husband Chad, was taken […]
A duo believed to have been involved in an armed robbery in the Lord’s Bank area, Ladyville were arraigned this afternoon in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. A third man remains at large. Steve Ferrel, a Belize City construction worker and Veris Ventura, who is originally from Hopkins Village, appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford and […]
The proliferation of guns and ammunition across the western border near Benque Viejo del Carmen is a recurrent problem that is openly acknowledged by the Belize Police Department. But tonight, gun-running of illegal weapons from Guatemala at the hands of a cop takes on a totally different complexion for the department. On Monday night, a […]
The firearm, as we’ve mentioned, is a nine millimeter handgun from Guatemala with a matching serial number. The fact that it was found in the possession of an officer, concealed inside a vehicle he was driving, has raised eyebrows. Reporter “Is it a concern for you all that a police officer was at the […]
There is another cop in hot water. Senior officer, Superintendent Dinsdale Thompson was busted in Arenal Village on Friday by customs officials in possession of a quantity of contraband pharmaceuticals. While the drugs were confiscated, Thompson settled the matter quietly for an undisclosed sum. Still, he is under investigation by the Professional Standards Branch of […]
Two persons, including a minor, were shot on Cleghorn Street in Belize City on Monday night sometime after ten o’clock. When police arrived at the scene, the victims had been rushed to the K.H.M.H. Fourteen-year-old Jaheem Pipersburgh was hit to the left wrist, upper chest and upper right back while thirty-six-year-old Fiona Spain was shot […]
There was a grisly discovery this morning in the Stann Creek District where the decomposing body of a Guatemalan farmer was found on a road in Alta Vista Village. Forty-nine-year-old Cesar Augusto Monroy was hacked to death along the Davis Falls Road. He had been chopped on the neck and left hand. Around six-thirty a.m., […]
Are taxi drivers at risk in Belize City? According to police, no more than usual. Thirty-nine-year-old Thomas Staine was murdered overnight on Monday, his stab-riddled body recovered from the Collet Canal two hours after his taxi was found abandoned with blood stains on the passenger seat at the corner of King Street and Amara Avenue. […]
Brandon Taylor was cleared of murder for the second time earlier this year in the death of Kaylon Matura. Since then the thirty-one-year-old has been trying to lead a clean life according to his family, even briefly moving out of the city. But on Monday, police say he was caught with a nine-millimeter firearm and […]
There was an apparent murder overnight in the City. The body of thirty-nine-year-old Thomas Staine, known as “Kun”, was retrieved from the Collet Canal near the Yabra Bridge this morning, hours after his taxi was collected from an area closer to the center of town. He had been stabbed and had his hands bound. But […]
For the second time this week a murder has been reported in Orange Walk Town. While involving less drama than the sensational shooting between friends Daniel Sosa and Hilmar Alamilla last Saturday, the death of eighty-five-year old retiree Gregorio de Leon at his home in the Marcus Canul area north of the town center is […]
The sensational story of the murder of Daniel Sosa in Orange Walk over the weekend has left many with questions – particularly as it relates to the alleged killer. Forty-two-year-old Hilmar Alamilla, associate of former government minister Gaspar Vega, was arrested and charged on Monday in connection with Sosa’s murder. Today, when the media got […]
San Ignacio Police say that investigators continue to gather evidence in the shooting death of Jose Castellanos, as the shooter, Nevis Betancourth remains hospitalized in a stable condition after being chopped to the arm. According to one report, Castellanos was at “Comida Belicena y Latina” restaurant in Santa Elena on the night of July twenty-eighth, […]
