Gene Lopez, elected to the Belmopan City Council last year, is under suspicion of forgery of a land document using official property of the Council – the stamp and signature of Mayor Khalid Belisle. Detained on Tuesday afternoon, Councillor Lopez has been released while police await an official report from the Council. According to Superintendent […]
The office of Mayor of Belmopan Khalid Belisle has confirmed this evening that Belmopan Police have detained City Councilor Gene Briceño Lopez based on a report of alleged forgery. Mayor Belisle personally made the report, in which he alleges that Lopez forged his signature and used his official stamp illegally on a document which was […]
Caroline Hamilton, the mother of eleven year old eleven year old Aaron Gabourel who was killed in a fire on October fifth, is pleading with those who have information on the arson to come forward. The mother says she is desperate for closure and feels that the case is stalling. It has been two weeks […]
The man believed to have set fire to DPM Patrick Faber’s government issued Mazda SUV appeared in court this morning. Allen Martinez was picked up by Ladyville Police on Thursday morning in connection with the arson that took place around midnight on Tuesday, October eleventh. When he appeared in court this morning, Martinez was told […]
He was charged back in 2004 with aggravated assault, threat of death against a police officer and discharging a firearm in public, as well as the possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, but tonight, forty-three year old Lincoln Robinson Senior is dead. He was executed on Saturday morning as he left Fido’s Club on […]
But police on La Isla Bonita have been fighting drug trafficking clamping down on the perennial issue on the island. In fact, statistics are that since the start of the year over sixty-four kilos of marijuana have been seized and in September alone, eighteen persons have been charged for drug trafficking. Superintendent Sandra Bodden told […]
Of eighteen persons initially charged in connection with the December home invasion at the house of Sarkis Abou-Nehra, twelve have been freed of charges. In an update, police said that all twenty-one DNA results are still not back. Today, Regional Commander of the Rural Eastern Division, Assistant Commissioner of Police Edward Broaster reassured the media […]
Who excluded the Dorian Pakeman cocaine positive forensic lab test from the file that went to the D.P.P.? This is in connection with the fatal traffic accident in which the Director of Government Press Office Pakeman was driving a vehicle that knocked down and killed Dean Dawson in March earlier this year. It was later […]
Two hostel boys will be heading to prison. The boys, who are a part of a seven member escapee group, were caught in a vehicle with a man carrying stolen goods in Hattieville. ACP Edward Broaster told the media that all seven, boys and girls, were discovered after running away from the hostel, but it […]
A Sunday mid-afternoon aggravated assault on a Burrell Boom Police Officer has led to the detention of one man. PC Larry Sutherland came face to face with a gun and had to send a call of distress. According to the commander of the Rural Eastern Division the driver was discovered in Ladyville: ACP Edward Broaster […]
Police have picked up a man in connection with the burning of Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber’s government assigned vehicle. The fire happened at Faber’s Lord’s Bank residence around midnight on Wednesday and surveillance on Faber’s property picked up the culprit as he climbed over the gates and set the vehicle on fire. Well, Faber […]
On Wednesday, we reported to you about the arson at the home of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Patrick Faber. But early this morning, the vehicle of Otilio Muñoz, B.N.T.U. Orange Walk Branch President, was vandalized, presumably as a form of intimidation for his strong stance on the strike. Today, we asked Orange […]
At midnight on Tuesday, the vehicle of Deputy Prime Minster, Patrick Faber went up in flames; police are looking for a suspect caught on camera. He was seen jumping the fence, gouging the vehicle and setting it on fire, all that happened in a matter of seconds. Police believe that a person of interest will […]
According to Belmopan police, two prisoners escaped from police custody while being held in the capital around midday today. The prisoners have been identified as twenty-five year old Lincoln Bejerano, accused of the murder of taxi driver Isidro Suar in January, and twenty-two year old David Cruz, one of four suspects charged in the robbery […]
Eighteen persons were initially charged in connection with the December 2015 home invasion at the house of a businessman Sarkis Abou Nehra in Burrell Boom Village. At least six persons ransacked the house and stole a number of items including guns, jewelry and cash. During the horrific incident, a domestic employee was violated but the […]
It was a bloody weekend, three persons were murdered; in the nation’s capital, in the west and in a southern community. A violent confrontation between a group of persons socializing at the popular La Cabaña Bar ended tragically for the Clarke family of Belmopan. One of their own, twenty-three year old Ashley Clarke was hit […]
A homeless person was also murdered over the weekend in San Ignacio Town. The vagrant, later identified as Benjamin Gomez, was discovered lying on a bench at a bus stop with multiple stab wounds to the upper body. It is uncertain what led to the vicious attack which left Gomez fatally injured with cuts to […]
In the third murder, one man, Orlando Cedios, has been charged and will appear in court on Wednesday for the murder of a twenty-one year old Guatemalan national, Edilsar Mendez, in Bella Vista, Toledo District. Police believe that a romantic love triangle between tenants of a house in the village may have led to the […]
The holiday weekend was quiet in terms of crime in Belize City, but it didn’t start out that way. There were two shooting incidents within minutes of each other in different sections of the Old Capital on Friday night. It started with a double shooting of a pair of brothers from Racoon Street. Then, more […]
Over the weekend of October first, a group of fishermen from the north were robbed at gunpoint while out at sea in southern Belize. It was reported that the fishers were approached by an unknown vessel and the occupants, who were said to be well armed, proceeded to rob and assault the fishermen. In an […]
A man was killed by his brother in Orange Walk on Wednesday evening. Forty-one year old Ruben Cain, a labourer of Flamboyant Street, was stabbed in the chest by his brother during an altercation at home. Because it is a case of fratricide, the family declined a comment earlier today. Police have since arrested Cain’s […]
There was another vicious murder that occurred overnight. A forty-five year old woodcarver was gunned down in bizarre circumstances in front of his wife and teenage daughter in his native San Jose Succotz. Police are still chasing suspects and a motive in the murder of Luis Alberto Camal. According to reports, Camal was walking along […]
The most tragic of deaths—heartless and cold—is that of an innocent child being killed. That’s what happened on Tuesday night on Aloe Vera Street when an arsonist entered into the house of the Hamilton family and knowingly set the house on fire with seven persons, including four children inside. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Caroline […]
Our first interview with B.N.T.U. President Luke Palacio took place this morning, just before nine a.m., as he and B.N.T.U. executive secretary Keisha Young left from an appearance on the Wake Up Belize Morning Vibes show. Shortly after that, it came to the attention of show host and vocal B.N.T.U. supporter Evan “Mose” Hyde that […]
In Orange Walk Town, tragedy struck a family when one of their own was fatally stabbed on the abdomen and chest on Sunday. Thirty-year-old Bladis Gonzalez who had just moved to the town from Corozal was allegedly stabbed to death by his former neighbor. The motive is widely believed to have been triggered by a […]
