The dismembered body of a woman found in a crocus sack last week near the Iguana Creek Bridge in Black Man Eddy Village remains unidentified. The gruesome discovery of the mutilated remains on Tuesday was made by a group of young men who were hunting iguanas in the area. While the severed limbs were retrieved […]
The first matter discussed in the Senate this morning was not the Budget or even the Superbond – those came later. Business Senator Mark Lizarraga opened the sitting with a short statement on crime, paying tribute to the families of Police Constable Marvin Locke and other murder victims from this past weekend. He issued a […]
Overnight gun violence in the south side of Belize City has left one man hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Just minutes before eight p.m. on Thursday shots rang out on Neal Pen Road; twenty-six year old Ron Myvett was hit once to the back after a lone gunman reportedly came up from behind […]
The recent murder of Keonia Ara was particularly gruesome, but body parts found in the river behind Blackman Eddy this week, tell the tale of a most gory murder. On Tuesday, arms and legs were found floating in a sack and on Wednesday, a decomposing torso was found in a sack submerged in the water. […]
More body parts were found this morning in the Belize River in Blackman Eddy, Cayo District. On Tuesday afternoon, the hands and feet of a man were found stuffed in a sack. Around eight o’clock this morning, a search party found a torso also in a sack submerged in the water about three hundred feet […]
Tonight, villages in central Cayo District are on edge after another gruesome discovery was made around two this afternoon. A group of boys hunting iguana on the banks of the Belize River in Blackman Eddy village came across far bigger prey – the remains of what appeared to be severed human hands and feet. So […]
In the case of another gruesome murder, Elijah Burke, a Belize City resident, is in police hands awaiting arraignment in court for the hacking of his sister. It is not known what triggered the savage murder of Julian Burke by her brother. On Sunday, Elijah waylaid his sister and pounced on her as she entered […]
Thirty-year-old Mario Makin of San Marcus, Toledo, says that four cops beat him and left him for dead in August 2016 and nothing has been done about it. The construction worker says he had only stopped at a shop on August thirteenth when he encountered four officers at a shop. He said the officers were […]
Tonight there is a most disturbing case of fratricide to report involving a pair of siblings in the King’s Park community. A brother reportedly hacked his sister with a machete and within twenty-four hours she was dead. On Sunday, twenty-nine-year-old Julian Burke was entering her home near the corners of First and Saint Peter Streets […]
The second murder over the weekend took place on Friday night in the West. A father of three lost his life at Champon at the adjacency zone area when he was taken down execution style in front of his wife and brother. The gunman is said to have fled across the border to Melchor de […]
The hit on the well-known bus driver, as well as the vicinity of the deadly spray of bullets on Belize’s side of the Adjacency Zone, has raised serious concerns about border security, outside of the business hours of the Belize Western Border. This morning, Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Elrington shared details of the harrowing […]
We asked Foreign Minister Elrington if there will be a protest note sent to the Guatemalan government in the wake of the fatal shooting. According to the F.M., it is not the normal practice of the ministry to issue protest notes in cases involving civilian-related crimes. The question was posed in the context of the […]
Investigations are ongoing in the case of a human skull found at a dump site over the weekend in the Orange Walk District. Police are providing only the minimal details on the discovery. The confirmation we have is that this past Saturday at about twelve twenty-five police were called to the dump site situated at […]
A minor was stabbed in Caye Caulker over the weekend. Police report that the seventeen-year-old boy Ryan Saldivar was wounded in the shoulder on Sunday sometime after seven. Investigations revealed that around six that same evening, the Belize City teen was socializing at a bar when he got into a fight with twenty-two-year-old Charles Robinson […]
A shop lifter who was caught in Public’s Supermarket on Saturday stealing a ball of Dutch cheese was charged with theft and was luckily sentenced to a three-month suspended sentence. Carlos Vasquez of the Kings Park area in Belize City was also ordered to stay out of trouble for the next year or else he […]
A nine-year-old boy who was harmed late last week was back in school today despite injuries he sustained allegedly inflicted by a Chinese businessman. The child’s mother, Darlene Morris alleges that the owner of Home Ever Supermarket beat-up her son, Arden Garbutt. In an interview outside the courtroom today, Morris claimed the young student was […]
After more than two weeks in trial, the case of thirty-year-old, Brandon Taylor, charged with the May 2012 shooting murder of Kaylon Matura, came to a close. And it is the second time that Taylor has beaten a murder rap. Matura was shot on Central American Boulevard, Belize City, not far from his home. Taylor was […]
The two men accused of the gruesome murder of eighteen-year-old Keonia Ara were formally arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court this morning. Teakettle residents, twenty-two year old Jaime Patnett and twenty year old Shaylon Santos appeared before a Magistrate and have been remanded until May fifteenth, 2017. Shaylon Santos is the older brother of Shemar […]
There was a shooting incident in Belize City on Thursday night that left a pair of young men suffering from various degrees of injuries. Sometime after eight o’clock, multiple gunshots rang out in the Lake Independence area, in the vicinity of Cumberbatch Street. During the gunfire Sherlock Vernon was shot in the stomach, while Kemar […]
This morning a woman was found on a football field at the Price Barracks in Ladyville. The report is that she was allegedly raped and heavily intoxicated. The identity of the woman is still not clear but what we do know is that she is from Honduras and purported to be a sex worker. We […]
Two young men from the village of Teakettle are facing charges of murder in connection with the brutal slaying of eighteen-year-old Keonia Ara over the weekend. As we’ve reported, the charred remains of the teenager were discovered on Saturday afternoon by a watchman at a dumpsite approximately four miles outside of Belmopan. The body remained […]
The family of eighteen-year old Keonia Ara of Blackman Eddy continues to reel over her gruesome murder over the weekend. Ara was stabbed multiple times, her throat slit and then her body set on fire at the Belmopan dump. A second post mortem is to be held since it is suspected that she was also […]
There is a most disturbing report of cyber bullying against a minor by an alleged sexual predator. A thirteen-year-old student from the Belmopan area has reported to police that man from the Camalote area whom she knew and had been communicating with, asked her to send him nude photos of herself. The incident happened last […]
The identity of a female who was stabbed multiple times, her throat slit and then set on fire has been determined. Her body was found over the weekend at the Belmopan dumpsite by a caretaker. She had been burnt beyond recognition, but tattoos on her arm have led police to her identity. News Five’s Duane […]
A woman was gruesomely murdered over the weekend and police need the public’s assistance to determine the identity of who at this point is Jane Doe. Here is the little known so far. The woman had tattoos on her arm and is of fair complexion. She was stabbed multiple times, her throat slit and then […]
