There is a despicable report coming out of the Cayo District involving the sexual assault of an eleven-year-old boy in Santa Elena. Even more disturbing is that the minor was allegedly sodomized by his sixteen-year-old brother as he slept inside his room on Friday morning. Reports are that around three o’clock that morning, the minor […]
Two persons have been charged in connection with the murder of Duck Run Two resident, forty-one-year-old Hever Miranda. Late Monday evening, after twenty-four hours of investigation, San Ignacio police charged Gladimir Bartolo Shish and Carlos Antonio Menendez for his murder. Miranda was killed just after three o’clock on Sunday at the entrance to La Pasadita […]
On Monday, Senior Counsel Richard “Dickie” Bradley, attorney for Melissa Ferguson, accused of conspiring to kidnap Pastor Llewellyn Lucas and David Dodd, all but assured the press after her bail hearing that his client will be free of the charge. Now that’s par for the course for defense attorneys, but Bradley went a little further, […]
On Monday afternoon, a meeting was held at the Police Training Academy in Belmopan between the top brass of the Belize Police Department and the new Minister of Police Godwin Hulse. On the discussion table were issues on surging crime, particularly in rural Belize and of course the incident and those alleged friendships with accused […]
But on the investigation of William “Danny” Mason, as we’ve reported in the past, several high ranking officers are of the opinion that the lead investigator for the crime involving the kidnapping of several persons and the gruesome beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas is an amateur. ACP Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South […]
A trio of men was charged with robbery and handling stolen goods and they were arraigned this morning before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser. Thirty-one-year-old Kareem Betancourt; twenty-year-old Jermaine Wagner, a fisherman of Neal’s Pen Road; and eighteen-year-old Lemar Lamb, are accused of stealing money and other goods from Ainsley Castro, a well-known Belize City, on […]
It was a bloody weekend in the Cayo District where two murders have been reported. In both incidents, in Spanish Lookout and Belmopan, respectively, the victims were hacked to death with machetes. Tonight, Belmopan police are looking for three persons in connection with an overnight homicide in the San Martin area in the outskirts of […]
According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, DPM Faber notified Belize City Police of the theft of his assigned ministerial vehicle some after seven o’clock. That was after being informed moments earlier that indeed his 2013 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado had been discovered submerged in water near the Marine Parade. ACP Chester Williams, […]
There was a second murder in the Cayo District, this time at a popular bar just outside Spanish Lookout on the Iguana Creek Road. Now it is not the first time that someone has been killed at La Pasadita Bar; in fact in early May, fifty-nine-year-old Jose Anibal Molina Estrada of Duck Run Three was […]
The city is still reeling from another senseless murder. A well-known footballer was shot and killed early this morning on Dolphin Street. Jason Young left his wife and children at their home to go and buy Johnny cakes for breakfast. He did not get too far; he was ambushed at the junction of Gibnut Street […]
Prior to the murder of Jason Young, there was a shooting in the city. Around nine-forty on Thursday night, seventeen year old Cameron Moreira, a student of Maud Williams High School, was standing outside his residence on Neal Pen Road when gunman came up and fired two shots in his direction. Moreira was injured to […]
Well-known Belize City businessman Chef Ainslie Castro, former co-host of Creative Caribbean Cooking at the Radisson, is the victim of an armed robbery. Sometime after one o’clock this afternoon, Chef Ainslie, along with his employees and teenage son, was inside the kitchen working when a pair of men entered the premises. The thieves informed Castro […]
On Monday night, a Belizean was murdered on the Guatemalan side of Arenal. Twenty-four year old Mario Estuardo Cunil was stabbed to the chest allegedly by Guatemalan national Rolman Aldana Alvarado during a brawl at a bar. We asked the minister if the Ministry of Foreign affairs will be taking up the issue with Guatemalan […]
On Tuesday, we showed you the video footage of a home invasion – shocking footage of three women storming into the home of Brimimie Martinez, tearing off her blouse and beating her savagely in front of her two small children. It was recorded on a phone by the fourteen year old son of the woman […]
As we showed you earlier in our newscast, Melissa Ferguson has been sent to the Belize Central Prison on remand, another chapter in the William Danny Mason saga which continues to play out. Tonight we also have some more clips from an extended interview with attorney Dickie Bradley earlier this week, done while his client […]
Questions have also been raised about the properties held by William Mason – notably the mansion on Intelco Hill in Belmopan and the sprawling Outback Ranch at mile thirty-one on the George Price Highway. How did the man from Guyana with fake Belizean nationality pay for those properties? That information hasn’t come out just yet, […]
And then there’s the evidence we keep hearing about – all that evidence which supposedly incriminates those high-ranking politicos and policemen who used to be fixtures at Masons house. Mason was supposedly a con-man and extortionist of the highest order, so the notion of recordings and footage does make some sense. So if Mason is […]
Four persons were in Court today for the very vicious beating of a young woman in Dangriga on Sunday afternoon. According to reports, and evidence, three women pushed their way into the home of Brimmime Martinez, one of them with a large knife in hand, and proceeded to pound on her in front of her […]
An investigation is ongoing on the overnight murder of a Belizean in Guatemala. News Five has confirmed that Mario Estuardo Cunil, a resident of Arenal on the Belizean side, was killed this morning in Guatemala. Reports are that on Monday night, the twenty-four year old left his home and went socializing at a bar on […]
Before noon today, Melissa Ferguson, the wife of accused murderer William “Danny” Mason, turned herself in to the Belmopan Police. Police had been looking for Ferguson and had issued a wanted bulletin for her arrest in connection with the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas on July fifteenth. The bulletin was issued on July nineteenth, four […]
At news time tonight Melissa Ferguson, also known as Mila Mason, has been at the CIB headquarters in Belmopan since eleven-forty-five this morning when she walked into the Police Station in the company of attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley. Ferguson has been the subject of what we were told was an intensive manhunt since July twenty-first, […]
While there were no known casualties caused by Hurricane Earl, immediately in its aftermath a plumber from Camalote, Cayo, who had just been released on parole, was found murdered in the City where he had moved following his release from prison. Fifty-one year old Carl Trapp, who is well-known to the law, was viciously stabbed […]
News Five has been able to confirm that a Police driver from Roaring Creek, Adison Gillett, has been charged for allegedly sexually assaulting a fifteen year minor. He was taken to Belmopan Magistrate’s Court for formal arraignment on Wednesday and has been remanded until September thirtieth. And while details are sketchy, we have also confirmed […]
Belmopan Police are also investigating an incident which occurred on Thursday night in which Police Corporal Derin Mariano, assigned to the Mobile Interdiction Team, was badly beaten by another MIT officer, Corporal Jamir Casanova. Multiple sources today confirmed to News Five that there is a measure of conflict between officers because there is intervention to […]
Thirty-two year old welder, John Williams, a resident of Ladyville, was murdered inside his house in the Japan area on Tuesday night. The gunman knocked at his door and when Williams opened, he was met by a barrage of bullets. When police arrived at his house, Williams was dead. The suspect is Egbert Baldwin aka […]
