An eighteen-year-old Belize City resident was shot and killed on Monday evening, shattering a period a relative calm in urban gun violence. It is not known whether the murder of Ludwin Lalin is gang-related, but we can say that his life had been under threat by persons he knew. Lalin left his home on Jane […]
The murders of fifty-two-year-old Francesca Matus and Drew Thomas DeVoursney remain under investigation by Corozal Police, with the assistance of the F.B.I. A suspect has been in custody for one week, but has still not been charged for the murders. Police have still not ascertained what when wrong two weeks ago after the Canadian-American couple […]
Two of the four men alleged to be involved in the kidnapping and robbery of three young men in Corozal last week were arraigned on Monday in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court. They are twenty-three year-old Jason Espinoza and forty-two-year-old Elio Lopez for three counts of kidnapping and three counts of robbery. On May third in […]
There has been a murder in the south side of Belize City. Just after six p.m., shots rang out in the Jane Usher Boulevard area, where police over the weekend organized a sporting event in its ongoing community policing efforts. Our News Five cameraman, Kenroy Michael is just back from the scene of the city’s […]
The sitting Magistrate accused of rape of a Dangriga woman in April can now be named as Norman Rodriguez. Up until today, News Five had restrained from using his name. As early as April twenty-fourth, an online news outlet, Associated Belize Press, had publicly disclosed the name and stated as a matter of fact that […]
The alleged rape of the Dangriga resident has raised numerous questions on the role of the judiciary in respect of indicting one of its own. While there is a gap in law where sexual offenses are concerned, rape is a crime for which the accused can be granted bail. Senior Counsel Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley does […]
The fact that the woman has gone on record in the media to tell her story may very well prejudice her case. Should charges be preferred on the magistrate in the days ahead, it is expected that he will vacate his office. Attorney ‘Dickie’ Bradley explains the process that the Solicitor General’s office will take […]
Canadian national John DeShaies remains in police lockup following his arraignment on Friday, when he was denied bail in the Independence Magistrate Court. He appeared in court for charges of theft and handling stolen goods of over fifty-seven thousand dollars’ worth of electronics from the Placencia Casino, has obtained legal representation. But instead of being […]
Over the weekend, the Gang Suppression Unit moved against various gangs across the city. There is a truce in place among the rival gangs for about a month now and during that period there have not been any gang-related murders. But is the truce brokered between the gangs and the Eastern Division South commander under […]
This afternoon, some ten men from the area were to attend a meeting at the Eastern Division South headquarters at Raccoon Street to lodge formal complaints and to seek recourse against the GSU over alleged brutality and ill-treatment at the hands of the officers attached to the unit. Mediator Dianne Finnegan, who has been working […]
Word to News Five is that the GSU was simply following orders and that the operations in the area were as a result of instructions issued from up top, but by whom? Gang members told the media that in the past two weeks, officers attached to the unit have been conducting searches. They claim it […]
News Five can confirm tonight that there’s a team of F.B.I. agents in Belize investigating the double murders of one of their own, ex-U.S. marine thirty-six-year-old Drew Thomas DeVoursney and his girlfriend, fifty-two-year-old Canadian national Francesca Matus. The couple was found dead inside a cane field in the outskirts of Chan Chen Village, Corozal District […]
There was a murder in the Old Capital on Thursday night, leaving many to wonder whether the fragile ceasefire brokered among the various gangs has once again unraveled. The victim recently returned to Belize City after spending his childhood in Dangriga. That homecoming has been short-lived, as a gunman approached Michael Bonilla, who was riding […]
Corozal police have detained two of four men accused of robbery and kidnapping and are seeking two others. Twenty-three-year-old Jason Espinosa and forty-five-year-old Elio Lopez handed over a bag containing a gold chain and ring stolen from twenty-six-year-old Eder Stevenson Hall of Corozal Town, while Lopez handed over six thousand, five hundred dollars, half of […]
An Orange Walk man is accused of killing his cousin in the early hours of the morning over in Chetumal. The murder sent shockwaves across that northern municipality because the Pech cousins were well-known – not just in the north, but across the music scene, particularly in the rock band community. The tight knit duo […]
Investigations into a double murder in Corozal continue tonight. The only suspect in the murder of a Canadian woman and her American boyfriend remains in police custody. That suspect, John Deshaies, was transported from Corozal to the Placencia Police Substation where, this morning, he was questioned about a theft at a casino in March. That […]
The family of missing secondary school teacher, Pamela Lino, is seeking closure for what can only be described as a most puzzling disappearance. It is widely believed that the Belmopan resident perished in an automotive fire on Tuesday morning. The police, however, have not been able to conclude definitively whether the charred skeletal remains found […]
The murders of Canadian national Francesca Matus and her American partner Drew Thomas DeVoursney continue to receive news coverage in both countries and around the world. Unfortunately, it’s not the kind Belize would want. And while they have been few and far between, murders of foreigners visiting Belize, like those of Anne Swaney and Matthiew […]
Three men, including a pair of siblings, were lucky to escape with their lives during a robbery turned kidnapping on Wednesday afternoon in the Corozal District. According to Eder Hall, a land consultant of Corozal Town, he visited a well-known businessman in Ranchito Village sometime around four o’clock that evening to purchase a sports utility […]
Hall also told News Five by phone earlier today that despite being able to successfully foil the kidnapping attempt, his brother’s vehicle remains missing. He says they were fortunate to have been able to jump out of the trunk of the car when the driver slowed down at a bump near Calcutta Village. Voice […]
Police busted four men in a taxi in which they found a point thirty-eight revolver on Wednesday on Arlington Drive, Belize City. The taxi, a Dodge Caravan, was being driven by fifty-six-year- old Clive Smith; the passengers were Aaron Flowers, Elwin Pollard and Kendale Green. By this morning, the group appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon […]
The murder by strangulation of fifty-two-year-old Francesca Matus and thirty-six-year-old Drew Thomas DeVoursney continues to baffle police up north. The Canadian woman and her American boyfriend went missing last week and six days later, their bodies were found in a cane field, on Monday. The couple was to travel back to their respective countries last […]
Belmopan teacher, Pamela Lino, is still missing tonight. Her vehicle, a Kia Sportage, was found burnt on the Gracie Rock junction on the George price Highway early on Tuesday morning. Charred remains found inside are inconclusive as to the identity of the person that was travelling in the vehicle when it went up in flames. […]
We can confirm tonight that the Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Vidal, has directed the police to proceed to bring charges against a magistrate serving in south. The magistrate, however, is at this time travelling overseas so it is expected that he will be charged next week on his return. The charges against him are […]
Sometime between Friday night and Saturday over the holiday weekend, Belize City police reportedly discovered a grenade on Fern Lane in the Saint Martin De Porres area. The grenade has been identified as a nonlethal British-type Practice Grenade. We understand that no one was in the area and so it was labelled as found property. […]
