Initially, Mai was in a critical condition and his condition had improved. According to Torres, he was to be released, but he has developed an infection and the doctors will continue to monitor him. She says that she is hoping for the best and hopes that the family gets justice for what has happened to […]
Weeks ago, Alexander Palacio was released from prison on parole for a manslaughter conviction. But his life was taken over the weekend in Punta Gorda where he was seeking refuge following his release from prison. On Friday night, a duo of shooters appear to have monitored his movements and then fired the fatal shots as […]
Six persons are in detention this evening after police stopped an armed robbery in progress at the Northern Fisherman’s Cooperative’s offices on North Front Street in Belize City this afternoon. Police responded to the area based on prior intelligence just after two p.m. and detained the men, including the driver of the van used in […]
A well-known foreman at the Port of Belize escaped death after he was chopped twice to the head on Friday night. In Ladyville, the Nicholas family was having an annual memorial for their son, Barney Cunningham. But later that night, word came to the gathering that Wilfred Nicholas Junior, better known as Chicky Blue, had […]
Police came out to the scene within minutes because the incident occurred just around the corner from the Ladyville Police Station. An injured Nicholas and his wife were escorted to the medical facility at the B.D.F. Compound at Price Barracks. There, they were given a medico form by the police who left the facility. But […]
There was a home invasion in Ladyville just before midnight last Thursday on Hibiscus Street. Twenty-six-year-old Steven Wade reported to Police that while he was inside his girlfriend’s house in the village, he was approached by an armed masked man. The intruder proceeded to rob Wade and his girlfriend of two cell phones valued at […]
Police detained a seventeen year old minor of Belize City over the weekend. He may face charges in the attempted murder of Kyron Tyrell Santiago. On Sunday afternoon, Santiago was shot to both arms and back on Police Street in Belize City. Police continue their investigations; however, initial reports say the shooting was a result […]
This Friday, thirteen-year-old Anaseily Gonzalez was allegedly kidnapped; her family believes it is by her Mexican father, forty-three-year-old Javier de la Cruz. De la Cruz was recently released from a Mexican prison for sexual molestation. The mother has reported that on Saturday, he contacted her using a Mexican phone number to say that he had […]
According to Menzies, the Jasmine Alert program is not as effective as intended. While anyone under eighteen years of age falls within the program, the police should immediately start investigations into a missing person report when it is filed. In that respect, Menzies asserts that the Corozal Police Department dropped the ball. On the […]
The New Year has been greeted with protests in Mexico against a government price deregulation that sent the price of fuel there up by as much as twenty percent over the weekend. The Mexican government said the deregulation had long been planned, but unfortunately coincided with rising world oil prices. While prices are still relatively […]
Tonight there is a report of a despicable act upon an elderly man in Hattieville. It happened at a time when seventy-eight year old Clinton Belisle was grieving the death of his brother hours earlier on Thursday. He was inside his home at mile seventeen on the George Price Highway when around midnight, four masked […]
Earlier this week we shared with you a wrap-up of the year in terms of crime statistics from the western-most part of Belize, Benque Viejo del Carmen Town. While that area is mostly quiet, about fifty miles east, the capital, Belmopan, sits at the center of one of the largest police jurisdictions countrywide, covering at […]
Police have cracked the second of six murders that occurred over a four-day period. It’s been two days since the murder of Police Street resident nineteen-year-old Randolph Johnson and tonight, another Belize City youth, nineteen-year-old Elden Edward Flowers, a resident of Croton Lane has been charged for his execution. Late this evening, Flowers appear before […]
There has been a prison break reported, but not in Belize. Ten inmates escaped from a jail in El Salvador on Sunday. Authorities in Honduras and Guatemala are on alert, and earlier this week Police in Belmopan shared the general alert with local media and the public. The inmates are suspected to be part of […]
It may be “maaga season,” but there is money circulating in Belize. Too bad it’s not the genuine kind, according to Belmopan Police. This week they found counterfeit twenty-dollar bills at the automated teller machines inside the capital’s branches of two major banks, after a similar report a few weeks ago. While investigations continue, Officer […]
You may recall that a few years back the Police Department installed surveillance cameras in key spots on south side Belize City; at the corner of George and Dean Streets; including the corner of Kraal Road and Haynes Street; Foot of the Pound Yard Bridge and BelCan Roundabout. From what we have gathered, none of […]
2016 ended off as one of the deadliest years in Belize’s history – with one hundred and thirty-seven murders. The transition into the New Year was a bloody one as well – with five murders in the first three days of 2017. Most took to the airwaves or online to express their discontent with the […]
The Christmas Season saw a noticeable increase in the number of police officers assigned to various hotspots across Belize City. In fact, it would almost seem as though a small tent with a pair of foldable chairs and two officers are stationed at the corners of every street leading towards the downtown area. Those measures […]
The top brass of the police met in emergency and closed door session today, in light of a murder spree since the start of the year. They were not providing details on the recent string of murders and that’s perhaps because they said too much on Tuesday night to incense the criminal elements. By seven-thirty, […]
Hours before Bert Abraham was executed, nineteen year old Randolph Johnson was among a group of friends fishing when he too was ambushed near Belize Waste Compound on the George Price Highway just after two in the afternoon. Johnson’s family believes his movements were being monitored before the gunman pounced on him. News Five’s Duane […]
Since December thirty- first, the six murders have the police working around the clock, but except for one, police are yet to crack the cases. Dillon Grinage did not live to see the New Year; he was killed in Sandhill at the close of 2016. Patrick Harris, a resident of the same village, was arraigned […]
The Forest Department is cracking down on the illegal harvesting of hardwood. Two major busts have been made in recent days in the west and south, which show that the illegal harvest of the precious wood continues despite the signing on to the CITES Convention. A Benque Viejo businessman, Miguel Angel Estala, appeared in the […]
On Tuesday night sometime around eight, there was a shooting in the village of Sandhill; fortunately, no one was injured, but that there was a shooting at the same residence some weeks ago. Now, the man whose life was threatened is in police custody for protection. Today, we spoke with Regional Commander Edward Broaster who […]
In another update…What killed a seventeen-week-old fetus found wrapped in a plastic bag and stashed inside a large coffee bottle and laid to rest along the quiet banks of the Mopan River on New Years’ Eve? A post-mortem examination was scheduled for Wednesday in San Ignacio to determine cause of death. But it could not […]
Nearly one year ago, Chicago, Illinois television producer and journalist Anne Swaney was found murdered at a resort outside of Benque Viejo del Carmen. Local police called on investigators from the U.S. to assist in the case, but the trail has gone cold. It has otherwise been a quiet year for the Benque Viejo Sub-Formation […]
