There have been two double murders reported in the Corozal District within the past six weeks. The first incident involved the gruesome abduction and strangulation of Canadian-American couple Francesca Matus and Drew Thomas DeVoursney. They were similarly reported missing on April twenty-fifth, prior to departing the country. Despite locating their vehicle several days after, the […]
Before the gruesome discovery of Lopez and Orozco, the body of a third murder victim was found. He is a twenty-one-year-old Orange Walk resident who was shot and killed in the Dominguez Layout area of Corozal on Tuesday night. According to his mother, Brandon Lee Tesecum had been receiving death threats since last week. Those […]
In the city, another killer remains on the loose, following the shooting death of twenty-seven-year-old Jerson Carballo on Monday night. The deadly spray of bullets happened at the corners of Electric and Lawrence avenues, in the Saint Martin De Porres area, sometime around midnight, while the Radisson employee was heading home on bicycle. It is […]
On Monday, a robbery of a MoneyGram location in which two robbers took a thousand dollars and escaped took place at its office on the George Price Highway in Santa Elena Town. According to police, cashier Nely Jimenez said two men went into the office walking casually; the first was in a black shirt and […]
In the Saint Martin De Porres area of the city on Monday night, the life of Jerson Carballo was snuffed out and police have no motive or suspect. Carballo had left the house of his cousins and was riding home when he was ambushed after midnight by a gunman who followed him. His sister, artist […]
Also up north in Corozal, the search continues for a couple who has been missing since Thursday. Thirty-four-year-old Zeidy Orozco and forty-two-year-old Balthazar Lopez were last seen in the vicinity of Corozo Blues, but hours later, Orozco car was found torched in a cane field in the outskirts of Patchakan Village. Search parties have been […]
A seven-year-old girl has reportedly been abducted by her grandmother and is believed to have been taken from her hometown in San Pedro across the border to neighboring Guatemala. Hamy Alena Reyes is a student of Ambergris Elementary School, who was over at her babysitter’s home in San Mateo over the weekend. On Sunday morning, […]
It has now been a month since it was reported that the villages of Otoxha and San Benito Poite have been facing a takeover of acres of territory by Guatemalan farmers seeking greater pastures. The farmers left a mile-plus-long trail from Guatemala into Belize for easier access to their ‘conquered’ territory. The matter was officially […]
Anxiety is building up in Corozal where a couple has not been heard from since Thursday night. Search parties have been combing the area around the village of Patchakan in the Corozal District where the vehicle belonging to Zeidy Orozco was found torched after she and Balthazar Lopez went missing. Just six weeks ago, another […]
Police have confirmed that there was an armed robbery in Santa Elena Town this afternoon but at news time, they are still investigating. News Five understands that the Nationwide Cash Express office next to Lin’s Supermarket on the George Price Highway near La Loma Luz roundabout was hit by armed robbers. Two men are said […]
Well-known street figure Kendis Flowers appeared in court today where he was arraigned for the attempted murder of two police officers. According to police, Flowers fired as many as five shots at two Police Constables in the early hours of Sunday morning. The officers had to seek cover and escaped uninjured. The incident happened on […]
Police investigations continue in the south following an act of infanticide. Police say that after twenty-nine-year-old Santos Cac Asig gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday, she threw the newborn into the river. Punta Gorda Police were notified by Alcalde Edgar Pinto of San Vicente Village in Toledo, who reported that around midday on […]
Twenty-three-year-old Kareem Harvey, a resident of Poison Wood Street in Belmopan, has been charged with Aggravated Burglary in reference to a 2016 government-owned Toyota Hilux, stolen from an employee of the Ministry of Agriculture. According to the registrar officer of the Pesticide Control Board in Central Farm, Cayo, as she arrived at her house last […]
There has been further violence at the old border crossing at Subteniente Lopez, Chetumal. According to a report on POR ESTO, contrabandistas resorted to extreme violence at midday on Wednesday to the extent that the Mexican agency for Joint Operations had to be called in to quell the situation. Two media workers were attacked and the […]
Well-known Belizean artist, Tanya Carter, was robbed by a group of four men, one who also threatened her life. The artist declined on-camera interviews since she was shaken up by the ordeal, but posted on social media that she is well. On Monday, robbers took her bag and then fled, but did not get far because […]
Deshawn Ramirez – she is the woman who was charged with her husband’s murder on Monday and remanded to prison. But tonight she is free, after the murder charge was withdrawn and Deshawn was released from custody. On Friday night in Seine Bight, Deshawn and her husband Glenn Ramirez Junior were engaged in a confrontation […]
This morning, the body of a man was found floating in the Caribbean Sea near First Avenue in the Bay of Corozal Town. The person has since been identified as forty-three-year-old Anthony Pasos, a resident of the Santa Rita community in Corozal. A postmortem exam conducted this afternoon confirms that Pasos died as a result […]
Sixty-five-year-old grandmother Martha Parchue returned to court today on a charge of theft for shoplifting in a popular supermarket. Parchue is accused of stealing Celebrity brand boneless chopped ham valued at seven dollars and fifty cents from off the shelf at Lucky Star Supermarket on Central American Boulevard. The store owner told police that Parchue […]
In addition to illegal operation in Belizean waters, Guatemalan fishermen have been guilty of several offences, including use of gill nets and other illegal methods to capture fish. Recently they have been using another method: constructing traps in the sea made from mangroves. Mangroves serve a particular purpose in the ecosystem as the spawning ground […]
A murder over the weekend involving a couple in Stann Creek has stunned the community. In a case of domestic dispute, a husband was killed in Seine Bight, two days before he celebrated one year of marriage. On Friday night around eleven-thirty, Glenn Ramirez got into an altercation with his wife as he and his […]
There were two other murders over the weekend. Up north in Orange Walk, police have not been able to determine the identity of a man whose decomposing body was found by a farmer in the bushes off the San Estevan Road on Sunday afternoon. A post mortem conducted on the scene, has determined that John […]
Also on Sunday, but this time in Bella Vista Village in the Toledo District, a man was shot and partially decapitated and his body left lying next to the highway. Shortly before eight, Independence Police were called out to miles forty-five and forty-six on the Southern Highway where they made the gruesome discovery. The person […]
Last Wednesday, a popular DJ and activist was killed just outside his home on Central American Boulevard. Forty-year-old Andrew Bennett, known as Hard Rock, was shot multiple times to the head and body and died on the spot. He will be laid to rest later this week and tonight police are looking for a person […]
An employee of the Ministry of Agriculture is in custody tonight for attacking and robbing a registrar officer of the Pesticide Control Board in Central Farm, Cayo. Kareem Harvey is accused of stealing the truck belonging to the department as well as cash and other items belonging to the victim. But Harvey was soon arrested […]
The Belize Police Department has its eyes on the streets of the Old Capital, particularly in various hotspots on the city’s south side. This afternoon, as many as eleven surveillance cameras were launched at the Raccoon Street headquarters, where Junior Minister Elodio Aragon and the brass of the police department gathered during a brief ceremony. […]
