According to Nembhard, the death of her nephew is even more painful on Deandre’s father, who is currently living in Los Angeles, California and is unable to travel to Belize for his burial. An emotional Nembhard says that she questions whether the family will get any justice for the murder of the minor. Anita […]
A minor was murdered in the wee hours of the Tenth of September. From all accounts, seventeen year old Deandre Nembhard was not the intended target, but happened to be at the wrong place. He was on his way home on Nutmeg Street, Belize City, when he stopped at a friend’s house; that decision cost […]
Rural Eastern Division Police are also looking Jessie Mejia; he is wanted for the chopping of the Tejeda brothers over the weekend. According to police, Mejia and the siblings were in an altercation on Sunday morning and Mejia pulled out a machete and chopped the brothers on the hand and face. They were both rushed […]
Social media has been abuzz with numerous comments and shares over the past few days, following the posting of a video purportedly showing a security officer at the Corozal Free Zone snorting a suspected narcotic substance. The amateur video has since gone viral, prompting us to place a call to the management of the free […]
There were two shootings over the past twenty-four hours. The first took place sometime around six o’clock on Thursday evening on south side Belize City. Thirty-seven year old Jason Longsworth was at a house on McKay Boulevard talking with his common-law-wife at their front door when they were approached by two men on separate bicycles. […]
Back in April of this year, two former Hofius employees were charged with forty-nine counts of theft for allegedly stealing about two hundred and eight-seven thousand dollars from the downtown store in Belize City. Tonight, they are free of the charge because of the lack of evidence. The decision from the Director of Public Prosecution […]
A Mexican/Belizean now living in Mexico was busted in Corozal back in July of this year, allegedly in possession of eight hundred and seventy-six grams cannabis. This morning Jose Carlos Rosado Gomez was granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars which unfortunately for him, he has been unable to meet. Rosado […]
A thirty-two year old unemployed man from the San Mateo area of San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye is dead tonight. Police in Ambergris Caye told us the evening that the victim has been identified as Elton Polonio. Police have also confirmed that the deceased was stabbed during a confrontation inside a hardware store on Angel […]
A Belize City youth was gunned down in the city on Monday night minutes before the live news broadcast. Today, three days after his execution style murder, Belize City police have levied a single charge of murder against twenty-year old Keon Usher, a resident of a Chancellor Street, Belize City. Usher was duly arraigned before […]
There was a horrific murder in Orange Walk Town just before seven on Tuesday night. A young woman was shot and killed in front of her two children, one seven and the other five years of age. Twenty-two year old Jahida Crawford, who is just recently found out she was two months pregnant, was called […]
An Orange Walk resident was busted on Tuesday with over one point two pounds of suspected cannabis. According to Officer Commanding Orange Walk Police, Superintendent Selvyn Tillett, the accused was acting suspicious and when police conducted a search on him, discovered five hundred and fifty grams of suspected weed in a cooler he carried in […]
In the court today, Jamaal Michael Warrior, a tour guide and resident of Orange Walk, was arraigned on a charge of robbery. There was heavy objection because of the use of a knife and bail was not entertained so Warrior was remanded to prison until this coming Friday when bail will be considered. Warrior was […]
A twenty-two year old was executed on Monday evening in the unending cycle of violence in the city. Nicasio Zuniga was ambushed by a duo on bicycles on Complex Drive not far from his house on Jones Street in the Saint Martin’s area. One of the gunmen pulled out a firearm and delivered the fatal […]
Late this afternoon, the family also granted News Five an interview saying that Zuniga was never affiliated with any gang, nor does he have a criminal record. The bullet, according to his family, penetrated his cheeks and exited through the back of his head. His sister Keisha says that her brother never complained of his […]
There were two other shootings overnight; the first exactly one hour after the execution of Zuniga. Around seven-thirty p.m., shots rang out on Racecourse Street in Belize City. Another youth, twenty-one-year-old Adrian Dyer, a resident of George Street, was shot multiple times to the thighs by two men on a motorcycle. The gunmen rode up […]
On Monday, we reported that thirty year old Tyrone Davis of Sandhill was murdered, shot in the throat and arm while in a hammock at his home. Police were already baffled as to a possible motive for a murder but according to Regional Commander for Eastern Division South, ACP Edward Broaster, their investigation has led […]
Melissa Ferguson, out on bail for the attempted conspiracy to commit kidnapping of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas and another, is reporting an alleged burglary at the residence she shared with incarcerated accused murderer and kidnapper William Mason in the Mountain View area of Belmopan. She has been living at the ranch at mile thirty-one on the […]
There is breaking news: Police are at this time processing the scene of a murder in Lake Independence, Belize City. A few minutes ago shots rang out behind the Complex Building where the murder took place. We’ll have more on this murder in Tuesday’s newscast.
Police have very limited leads to go on in the Saturday afternoon murder of a Sandhill resident. While the end came quickly for victim Tyrone Davis, answers as to who killed him and why will be harder to find. Davis was known to the law and had faced charges of aggravated burglary and later, firearm […]
An infant was kidnapped last week from his home in the village of Bella Vista in southern Belize. There was little information to go by at the time because the mother of the child, Yosselyn Ordones, did not want to aggravate the abductors. All that was known was that the kidnappers grabbed the child when […]
Rape in itself is repugnant act, but sexual violence against a person living with a mental disability is hideous. Tonight, there is one such allegation from a family in the Orange Walk District. A seventy-seven-year-old mother claims that her mentally challenged daughter of San Lazaro Village, Orange Walk District was raped in their kitchen located […]
A Guatemalan national lost his life on Tuesday night; his body was found behind a bus shed in Hope Creek, Stann Creek District. But it is not clear if it is a case of murder or self defense. Earlier in the night, Arnulfo Ramirez was involved in an altercation with Gustavo Castillo; both sustained injuries […]
Family members of the late George McKenzie Junior are preparing to lay him to rest within the next two or three days. But police are yet to charge the main suspects. Since the stabbing death of McKenzie Junior, two well-known street figures linked to the George Street gang were detained and released after spending forty-eight […]
A Belize City youth is tonight hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed multiple times near the Radisson Hotel in the Fort George area. Twenty-three year old Antelope Street resident, Kendale Green was stabbed to the left side of the chest and hand and was later rushed to the K.H.M.H. for […]
A thirty-two year old San Pedro resident is claiming police brutality. Allen Delroy Martinez says that he was beaten before being locked down at the police station for two days without any reason given to him for his detention. According to Martinez, he was brutalized by a police officer with whom he has been beefing […]
