We begin tonight’s newscast with shocking news of the death of a baby girl under most mysterious circumstances, where authorities are not sure if it was an accident or a case of murder. A month shy of her second birthday, twenty-three-month-old Janeeka Campbell suffered a most brutal and senseless death. Her mother is speaking to […]
Late-breaking information from an aunt of the deceased, who spoke to News Five via telephone this evening, is that according to Janeeka’s father, they were sleeping in bed together when the child got up and went outside to play. She apparently fell down a steep flight of stairs, sustaining massive scrapes and bruises, and it […]
A Belize City man was murdered in the wee hours of Friday morning, giving way to the start of a bloody weekend in which police tonight have four murders to investigate. The well-known tour-guide, forty-four year old Dale Anthony Tillett was executed as he walked on Hydes Lane along with friends, one who was injured […]
The murder count continues to climb. In the City, Tillett’s execution was followed with the broad daylight murder of twenty-six year old Emmerson Skyers of Taylors Alley. Skyers was shot to death in the area of Cemetery Road and West Street on Sunday at around one-thirty in the afternoon. He was in front a shop […]
There was a third death in the Old Capital. On Saturday afternoon, Eastern Division South Police were called out to Lawrence Avenue where the body of a Belize City man was discovered around midday. Altreed Williams’ body was reportedly retrieved from a shallow drain and there were no signs of physical injury on his body. […]
The family of a nineteen-year-old is preparing to bury him this Wednesday in Teakettle Village, in the west. Abner Vasquez, who is a known handyman around his village, was killed sometime between Friday and Saturday. He was beaten to death in the center of the village. The family doesn’t know exactly why he was killed […]
The fourth murder in the span of forty-eight hours occurred in San Roman Village in the south. Thirty-year-old Gabino Choc was with a friend at a bus stop in the village around midnight on Sunday when he was killed. The two men, who were reportedly under the influence of alcohol, were attacked by another intoxicated […]
Mum’s the word in Ladyville where a burglary at the residence of B.D.F. Commander David Jones has allegedly netted thieves a whopping thirty thousand dollars in cash. It hasn’t been determined when the break-in actually took place, as Jones was out of the country at the time of the incident. What we can confirm however, […]
A shipping vessel tonight remains in the custody of the government of the African country of Somalia for illegal fishing activities. But what does the detention have to do with Belize? Well, the Geko 1 was detained while flying the Belize flag which means that it is registered in Belize and the incident can potentially […]
It made headlines in 2012 when alleged George Street gang figure, Brian Brown, was the target of a raid by the Gang Suppression Unit at a residence identified as his on Jimmy Dyer Avenue in the Fabers Road section of Port Loyola. But in court today, forty year old Brown was cleared of a total […]
Also in court, a pregnant woman, who is due to give birth soon, was charged for drug trafficking. She is twenty-one year old Carolee Orosco, who appeared before Magistrate, Carlon Mendoza. Orosco was read a single charge of possession of more than five hundred grams of weed found inside a bathroom of a house on […]
A few months ago the Government announced plans to fund four institutions, including the Belize Defence Force and Friends for Conservation and Development, to the tune of sixteen million dollars over four years in a project known as the Chiquibul Forest Initiative. More recently, F.C.D.’s executive director Rafael Manzanero was in London to witness the […]
The Christmas season is now upon us, it means that the police will be working overtime to keep up with criminals. The Police Department is embarking on an anti-crime campaign to ensure at least in the commercial areas citizens are safe. Chester Williams says more boots will be on the ground. ACP Chester Williams, […]
The official handing over of a brand new fleet of vehicles for use by the police department took place today. On hand at the ITVET was the U.S. Ambassador Carlos Moreno whose government invested over one point six million Belize dollars to acquire the vehicles under the CARSI initiative. The Isuzu pickup trucks will be […]
The south side of Belize City has been rather quiet and little to no crime is always good news to report. But over the weekend, on Sunday night, there was a shooting on East Canal. Just before eleven p.m., twenty-four year old Kashief Gallego was shot to the left thigh and buttocks as he was […]
A pair of burglars was caught in the act just after twelve o’clock this morning by officers attached to the Eastern Division South. The duo had broken into Lucky Supermarket on Central American Boulevard in Belize City under the cover of darkness when police arrived on the scene. To avoid the long arms of the […]
Southside police were on their weekly meet and greet. Today they were in the Vernon Street area and we met up with them to see what they were doing. Some thirty traffic and community police officers were walking around talking to resident and business owners in the area. We caught up with Deputy Commander of […]
Police are tonight investigating the landing of an aircraft, presumably a drug plane, overnight in the vicinity of La Democracia, Belize District. Officers at the Hattieville substation were notified of a suspicious airplane hovering in an area off the Coastal Road. By the time they were able to make contact with an anti-narcotics team and […]
The coordinated response involving a trio of law enforcement agencies was fairly swift, but not fast enough to arrest the ensuing activity. So, was their reaction timely enough? That’s what we asked ACP Broaster, who said that they did not know the exact location of the landing strip. Isani Cayetano “Do you believe that […]
On Monday night, we told you that four persons of interest in Nelson Zelaya’s murder were in police custody. Today, two of those men were charged for the Gardenia resident’s killing. Brothers Lenford Samuel Harris Junior and Camron Douglas Harris were each charged with a single count of murder. On Thursday, twenty-seven-year-old Zelaya was in […]
A forty three year old Gales Point man is missing. On November twentieth, Delbert Delroy Andrewin is said to have left his home that morning in Gales Point and headed to his family farm on the Coastal Road. But since then Andrewin has not been seen or heard from. His family is very worried and […]
Four persons, including two minors from the neighboring village of Biscayne are tonight in police custody as the investigation continues into the midday shooting and subsequent murder of Nelson Zelaya. The twenty-seven-year-old was shot at close range, by someone he reportedly knew, as he made his way to his wife and kids who were at […]
A third person has been detained and is expected to be charged for the brazen robbery of “T” Supermarket in Lord’s Bank Village last Monday. The proprietor Jing Xiao Tan reported to police that he was robbed at gunpoint on Monday night of three thousand, two hundred dollars in cash, and his licensed nine millimeter […]
A few weeks back we told you about an incident at sea where northern fishermen were robbed at gunpoint in southern Belize. The fishers were approached by well-armed men who took away their property and assaulted them. During the struggle, one of the fishers fell overboard and he still hasn’t been found. The local sea […]
Petty Officer Daniel Arzu Junior of the Belize National Coast Guard was shot towards the end of October. He was shot in the head when he was visiting his child’s mother at an apartment on Neal Penn Road. Arzu Junior had to be placed in an induced coma and his prognosis wasn’t very good. However, […]
