There is a report tonight of a major bust of nine point nine million boxes of cigarettes by Guatemalan authorities in Peten. The Guatemalan police say agents in Peten detained Byron Misael Gonzalez who was transporting the cigarettes. The bust on Monday comes on the heels of two others in January in which a combined […]
News Five has obtained copies of a Belizean nationality certificate granted to David Nanes Schnitzer, the former fugitive caught a few days ago in Mexico after several months on the run after he skipped Belize on bail on a minor charge. Nanes was wanted in Mexico in relation to the multi-billion dollar Allen Stanford Ponzi […]
Just after midnight on Sunday, another Belize City youth was shot as he walked on Caesar Ridge on south side Belize City. Eighteen-year-old Clent Geban, a resident of Kraal Road, was en route to his house when a lone gunman on motorcycle opened fire on him; Geban was hit once to the left hand. He […]
Last Wednesday, an attempt was made on the life of twenty-three year old Alrick August; he has since been hospitalized inside the Intensive Care Unit of the K.H.M.H. after undergoing surgery for eight shots to the neck, chest and arm. There is good and bad news coming from the family today who says that while […]
Last month, we showed you a report done by ABC7 on the one-year anniversary of slain TV Producer Anne Swaney. In that report, the F.B.I. was offering a ten thousand U.S. dollar reward for information surrounding Swaney’s murder. Well, now they have doubled that offer and are giving twenty thousand U.S. dollars or forty thousand […]
Shooting victim, twenty-three-year-old Alrick August remains in a critical condition, clinging to life inside the Intensive Care Unit at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. On Wednesday night, August was shot eight times to the chest, neck and arm on Western Avenue as he headed home from a friend’s house around nine o’clock. It is not […]
On Wednesday night there was more gunfire in the relentless violence gripping the City. Twenty-three-year-old Alrick August of Belize City was shot up to eight times on Western Avenue. He was heading home when he was ambushed by a gunman. Tonight, he remains at the K.H.M.H. clinging to life. Still in shock, his girlfriend tells […]
While investigations continue into the cause of the Victoria Street fire, what of the San Pedro fire in the San Juan area on Ambergris Caye? Calvin Young and his two sons were not on the island when the blaze consumed their home and all their possessions. In his interview with News Five, Young maintained that […]
It has been an uphill battle for police and the community, because most of the residents work within the city and often times leave their homes unattended and open to crime. According to James, there has been cooperation from the police to try and nip this perennial issue in the bud. Voice of: Lisa […]
Belize City police have detained one person and are looking for two others, following Tuesday’s mid-morning armed robbery of the UNO Gas Station on Youth for the Future Drive. A Honda accord car with no license plates, believed to have been the getaway car used by the two armed and masked robbers, has also been […]
Police are investigating a robbery reported this morning at the Belchina UNO gas station on Youth for the Future Drive, right across from the United Democratic Party headquarters. Approximately fifteen thousand dollars in a knapsack was taken from an employee inside the convenience store just before nine a.m. by one of three armed men. News […]
The body of a Gardenia resident was found before the crack of dawn between miles nineteen and twenty on the Philip Goldson. It took some time before John Ortiz could be identified and as much time for police to determine if a hit and run had caused his death or if Ortiz had been murdered. […]
Meanwhile, police are yet to crack the murder of Felix Ayuso, whose body was found last Thursday at his house in San Pedro. That is because the suspect is on the lam; still yet, police say they have enough evidence to lay charges. On Friday, we reported on the brutal killing of the forty-three year […]
There were two shootings in the Old Capital which has seen a spike in gun-violence since the start of 2017. On Saturday, a man was robbed and shot in the city off Jasmine Street in Saint Martin De Porres. Sometime before midday, thirty-year-old Jovanie Sutherland was working with a co-worker when two men approached him. […]
In the other shooting, thirty-one-year-old Eletero McKenzie was shot to the right calf and chin on Friday evening. Sometime after six p.m., Police visited the K.H.M.H. where they observed McKenzie suffering from gunshot wounds. Investigations reveal that he was standing behind a fence on an alley off Amara Avenue when two men on separate bikes […]
The prime tourism destination San Pedro has lost an outstanding member of the community who was murdered inside his home in the island. Forty-four year old Felix Ayuso was a well-known and respected advocate for a wide range of issues from culture and the arts to carnival. He was also a businessman and the President […]
There was another murder, this time in Belize City where Mark Jones, was shot to death in his own yard. After eight o’clock on Thursday night, Jones was returning to his home on Iguana Street Extension, accompanied by his girlfriend, when he was ambushed. While Jones’ family believes it may be related to another shooting […]
The third murder victim to the ongoing gun-violence in Conch Shell Bay, Belize City is nineteen-year-old Keimar Nicholas. Around ten o’clock this morning, Nicholas succumbed to gunshot injuries he received back on January twenty-third. He was left paralyzed from the neck down when he was shot while hanging out on a basketball court in front […]
Gun violence in the area of Conch Shell Bay in the Old Capital has seen a sharp spike since the start of the year. Murders and shootings connected to feuding gang factions in a drug war have placed the community under the microscope so much so that police plan to beef up their presence in […]
As we said, on Monday night, twenty-one-year-old Jaheel Goodger was shot during a brazen attempt on his life as he rode through Conch Shell Bay. His assailant has since been identified as a sixteen-year-old minor and has been charged in connection with the incident. But what was Goodger, a resident of Slaughterhouse Road, across town, […]
A senior drug operator for the Sinaloa cartel controlled by the ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has been caught by Mexican police. Roberto Najera Gutierrez, a.k.a. ‘La Gallina,’ is said to be the man charged for the trafficking and distribution of drugs in Southern Mexico and the northern area of Belize. A report in Por Esto newspaper […]
Turning to the courts….a sixteen year old has been charged for the most recent shooting incident in Conch Shell Bay area of Belize City. On Monday night, sometime after eight o’clock, twenty-one year old Jaheel Goodger was shot to the right leg as he rode his bicycle on West Collet Canal. He reported that one […]
Two cops were charged with grievous harm when they appeared in court today. Brothers twenty-eight-year-old Kenrick Gamboa and twenty-four-year-old Akeem Gamboa were jointly for grievous harm upon nineteen year old Michael Crawford. Kenrick was also slapped with an additional charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. On Saturday evening, the Gamboa brothers and another […]
Two fishermen appeared in the Independence Magistrate Court for possession of unprocessed and undersized conch. Sanasermo Torres was busted with forty-nine conch and Earl Lamb with eighty-six by rangers of the Southern Environmental Association in the Gladden Spit and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve. Both pleaded guilty and were fined accordingly. The SEA notes that the […]
Another massive credit card scam has been uncovered in the local banking system and police are on the lookout tonight for a pair of thieves who have withdrawn an undisclosed sum of money from ATMs across Belize City. It’s a high-tech scheme which involves the use of an electronic device that is able to read […]
