A well-known and elderly taxi man from the City was reported missing on Friday soon after his burnt vehicle was found on Benbow Street in the Old Capital. Two days later, the decomposing body of sixty-six-year-old Elbert Gillett was located in the area of Belizean Beach, miles away from his car. Gillett’s family is stunned […]
Michael Usher was shot and killed in his yard on Saturday night sometime around nine. According to the family, just over a month ago, Usher moved to Hattieville to live with his aunt and her common-law-husband. Vinette Arnold told News Five today that her nephew was killed just moments after she returned from church and […]
Police Corporal Darrel ‘Tutsi’ Usher remains in police custody tonight after being busted with a little over twenty pounds of marijuana over the weekend. According to his colleagues at Eastern Division, a man was observed exiting from an overgrown property in the Faber’s Road Extension area. The individual was seen lugging a large bag which […]
Three persons were brutally murdered over the weekend in the Belize District. Deliverymen Albert Wade and Godwin Panting Junior were the first casualties of the weekend’s gun violence. Sometime after one p.m. on Saturday, their mutilated bodies were discovered on a dirt road off mile twelve on the George Price Highway. A pastor and his […]
The bloodshed spilled into the city over the weekend. A construction worker standing in front of a church on Jasmine Street was ambushed by a gunman on Saturday. Marvin Flowers was shot multiple times and tried as he did to flee, he did not get too far and succumbed two hours later. The general area […]
Police in Belmopan have arrested and charged eighteen-year-old Shemar Santos of Teakettle village, Cayo District for the murder of fellow villager, seventeen-year-old Ernesto “Jun” Wiltshire. Official details reveal that Ernesto’s mother reported to police that her son had gone swimming with two male friends in the Belize River around nine-thirty Tuesday morning and did not […]
A woman is in the Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after she was shot in Caye Caulker in the early hours of Monday morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Camille Munnings, her common-law husband twenty-nine-year-old Akeem Garcia and thirty-four-year-old Raul McFarlane were on a golf cart on Xocol Street around twelve-twenty-three a.m. when a man […]
Gun violence continued well into this morning. Personnel from the Scenes of Crime Unit were summoned to Electric Avenue shortly before eleven o’clock this morning, following an incident several hours earlier during which an unidentified gunman opened fire on a house. According to officers on the scene of the shooting, the concrete bungalow was targeted […]
A Teakettle, Cayo District family have had to come to sudden grips with the death of a loved one, found fatally chopped in some bushes behind the village early this afternoon. As we come on the air, they are preparing to lay to rest seventeen year old Ernesto Wiltshire, also known as “Jun.” He had […]
Shortly before two-thirty this afternoon a Belize City man was shot in the City. According to police, around two-seventeen, Brandon Bennett was shot to the abdomen while he was on Belcan Bridge. He was taken to the K.H.M.H. where he is receiving treatment. Police investigation into this matter continues.
Two disturbing videos of recruits training for the B.D.F. have been obtained by News Five. The first, in its entirety, captures the rigorous and extreme training program, including tear gassing for those aspiring to join the force. The second video contains the images of a young man being shoved into a trench even as he […]
There have been three shootings in two weeks in the Saint Martin De Porres area in Belize City; two of them were fatal. On Wednesday night, seventeen-year-old Everal Augustine left his home and family and rode away toward Aloe Vera Street. Thirty minutes later he was dead; shot at least four times. The suspect is […]
The lifeless body of a female was discovered this evening off the coast of Ambergris Caye. The body has been identified as twenty-nine-year-old Rickilee Michelle Mercer; an accountant of Texas, U.S.A. The body was transported to the K.H.M.H. where it awaits a post-mortem. Initial reports suggest that Mercer drowned out at a sea following a […]
A man in the north was stabbed and killed by his cousin over the weekend. Police are still looking for the killer and the family of the deceased believes that he may have crossed the border either in the north or west. The fifty-three-year-old father of eleven children tried to intervene in a domestic dispute, […]
In the city…a minor is tonight recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital from gunshot wounds to the feet following a shooting on Sunday night in Belize City. Around eleven p.m. on Sunday, shots rang out on Antelope Street. Residents say up to six blasts were heard and at least five bullets penetrated the wooden […]
Belmopan police are reporting the apparent escape of a prisoner from the Central Prison at Hattieville sometime over the weekend. The escapee has been identified as one Jonathan Trigeros Galan. The twenty-seven-year old Salvadoran national was incarcerated for a drug trafficking conviction. Senior Superintendent Howell Gillett, in a communication with the media, indicated that he […]
The murder count went up by four over the weekend; the first occurred just after midnight on Saturday. Seventeen-year-old Eaton Lamb was stabbed and killed by his cousin, twenty-four-year-old Tishaun Hamilton. Hamilton was caught by officers on patrol in the Antelope Street Extension area of Belize City because Lamb ran to their location for assistance, […]
While the Belize City murder of Eaton Lamb is an open-and-shut case, it is a lot harder for investigators to crack the murder of Walter Dawson, whose body was found butchered on Marage Road around seven a.m. on Sunday. The fifty-seven-year-old resident of mile eleven on the Phillip Goldson Highway was chopped multiple times to […]
Within a period of thirty hours, there were four homicides recorded: one in the city that claimed the life of a seventeen-year-old, as well as a murder in Ladyville where a fifty-seven-year-old man was brutally killed; he was almost decapitated. And then there were two murders in San Ignacio within hours of each other and […]
Several hours later, Rural Eastern Division police officers were called out to a remote area on Marage Road, near the Caribbean Shrimp Farm in Ladyville. There, they found the mutilated body of fifty-seven-year-old Walter Dawson, a resident of mile eleven on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Dawson had multiple chop wounds to the head and shoulder […]
Two men were killed in less than twelve hours in San Ignacio – but are they connected? One man was killed as he and his common-law walked in a park and the other was found shot to death on a dirt road. So far, police have identified one of the men – he is a […]
There has not been a murder in the City since February third when Keimar Nicholas succumbed to shooting injuries sustained days earlier. But early on Wednesday night, gunshots were heard in the south side of the city. Twenty-one-year-old Jason Cortez of Balan Street was shot multiple times as he walked on Western Avenue. He died […]
Media Officer of the Belize Police Department, Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood also gave the media an update to the shooting of Alrick August, which occurred on February ninth on Western Avenue in Belize City. The twenty-three year old remains in a critical condition inside the Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, and while […]
There is a disturbing report of a fifteen year old girl from Succotz Village, Cayo District, who claims she was raped on Valentine’s Day. The horrible incident reportedly occurred at a house located on Riverside Street, Benque Viejo. According to the minor, around ten a.m. that day, she was along with two men drinking alcohol […]
There is breaking news of a shooting in the city. It happened at around six-forty p.m. in the Saint Martin’s De Porres area. One person, identified as Jason Cortez, was shot at the corner of Electric and Western Avenues and reports to our newsroom is that the victim has succumbed. We’ll have more on this […]
