While the training is to enhance the criminal justice system, for corporals Jane Usher and Jermaine Hyde of the Belize Police Department, the training will allow them to better their reporting to the top brass of the department as well as the public. Cpl. Jane Usher, Belize Police Department “We’ve learned a lot of […]
As we reported on Monday, very serious allegations have been made against officers of the Gang Suppression Unit. They are accused of raiding the homes of three families in San Jose, Orange Walk District for no reason other than intimidation…allegedly at the request of Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega. The homes in question are all […]
The mysterious circumstance surrounding the unauthorized landing of an aircraft at the Belize Municipal Airstrip on Tuesday morning remains an open investigation for the police department. We can confirm tonight that the twin-engine, Piper Seneca has been flown by Belize Defense Force pilots to the Phillip Goldson International Airport where it remains under military guard. […]
Police also have another case to solve, but in La Isla Bonita. It involves the mysterious death of a U.S. national who retired and lived on the island right up till the time of his untimely death. The body of fifty year old Delbert Wayne Fenn was discovered around ten-thirty on Tuesday morning on the […]
In Tuesday’s newscast, we told you of a brazen daylight shooting in San Pedro Town just outside the cargo area of Maya Island Air on the island. A gunman took aim at thirty-one year old taxi-man Juan Menjivar as he stood on the sidewalk just a few yards from his vehicle. As many as six […]
A small twin-engine plane landed at the Municipal Airstrip at around five-thirty this morning – before the facility opens at six. There is no sign of the pilot, passengers or cargo in the American-registered Piper Seneca which may have originated in Managua, Nicaragua. In fact, up to this afternoon, police had no clue as to […]
There was a brazen daylight shooting in San Pedro this afternoon, and it happened right next to the very crowded airstrip. Thirty-one year old taxi-man Juan Menjivar was allegedly at the Maya Island Air luggage section when as many as five shots rang out. Unconfirmed reports are that Menjivar was hit three times to the […]
Late this evening, News Five was able to confirm reports that there was an armed robbery in San Ignacio. It happened at around four, and the victims were two Madisco employees who had just finished making deliveries in a white Kia truck. The truck was parked behind the Scotiabank when it was approached by two […]
Did Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega dispatch members of the feared Gang Suppression Unit to terrorize residents of San Jose in the Orange Walk District? That’s a question to which we certainly won’t get a definitive, official and credible answer. But the residents who woke up before dawn on Sunday to the sounds of the […]
A near-fatal stabbing incident over the weekend in the Lake Independence area has left one man in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Twenty-two-year-old Jermaine Locke was assaulted while conversing with two other men on Tibruce Street. He was stabbed once in the upper left chest and was reportedly rushed to the hospital […]
Just before midnight on Thursday, the Camalote campaign office of U.D.P. Standard Bearer Ralph Huang was destroyed by fire and police are investigating the blaze as a case of arson. The Cayo South aspirant doesn’t know whose dunnit, but he says someone saw some flammable liquid in a basket or bucket. The current area representative, […]
Police are on the lookout for an alleged robber; the second suspect of an attempted robbery at the Commercial Center near the foot of the Swing Bridge in the City on Thursday. Two men and not three as originally reported went to Kephawn’s Pawnshop with the intent to commit the robbery; one was stopped on […]
Three men have been arrested for drug trafficking in Dangriga. On Wednesday police detained the trio while they were travelling in Toyota Fore runner. The vehicle was spotted and stopped as it came from a feeder road which police say leads to a well known drug base in the Stann Creek Valley. Driving the vehicle […]
One of three would-be robbers was shot and killed this afternoon in the downtown area of Belize City. It happened just after two p.m. at the Kephawn Pawnshop at the Commercial Center in Market Square. Police were notified of a robbery in progress and by the time they got to the scene, the proprietor of […]
All hell broke loose in San Ignacio on Tuesday when a knapsack containing one Belizean passport and seven non-Belizean passports were found at a print shop. A known U.D.P. operative for Cayo North East, Charles Cabral, is suspected to have left the black bag behind. When Police were called in, the passports and supporting nationality […]
P.U.P. leader Francis Fonseca also chimed in this morning on the knapsack passports. Fonseca says he fears that U.D.P. operatives may be engaged in tampering with the voters list and in the binders at the Elections and Boundaries Commission. Francis Fonseca, P.U.P. Leader “We are very, very concerned about it. It is absolutely alarming. […]
Tonight, there is a huge scandal brewing in the west after a knapsack containing passports from various countries, birth certificates, police reports and other documents was found inside a business establishment in San Ignacio. News Five has confirmed that the knapsack was found inside Studio Seven early this afternoon, and was searched by the owner […]
Multiple sources have told News Five that the owner of the bag has been confirmed as a former U.D.P. councillor candidate whose passport was allegedly also found inside the bag. Today a politically charged crowd gathered outside the Police Station, and candidate Michael Chebat told News Five that what the police have in their hands […]
Tonight a well-known San Pedro resident is behind bars after he was arraigned last week Friday for the rape of a minor. Even though we report on many incidents of rape and all of them are distasteful, this one is right up there with the worst. President of the San Pedro Taxi Association, Alfonso Wiltshire, […]
A pair of Belize City men, both affiliates of the Supal Street gang, has been arraigned for the weekend murder of fifty-six-year-old Edward Robinson. The duo, twenty-two-year-old Devon Sankey and twenty-five-year-old Ryan Alvarez appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazier earlier today. They were indicted on a slew of charges stemming from Saturday morning’s deadly assault […]
In the wake of the weekend murder, Belize City police have staged an intervention with the Supal Street gang in an attempt to quell any ensuing fallout. According to Senior Superintendent Chester Williams, a meeting was held with members of the group on Monday to address the issues that led to the fatal shooting on […]
The murder of Karl Heusner Junior remains an open case despite an ongoing police investigation. On the heels of the weekend shooting, all efforts are also being made to bring together members of various groups, including Rocky Road and the South Side Gangsters. The Gang Suppression Unit, says Williams, has joined in on the effort. […]
Belize City police have stepped up both foot and mobile patrols in the respective areas. Supt. Hilberto Romero, OC, CIB, Eastern Division “The preventative measures have been taken: the mediation process, the areas that need to be covered are being patrolled. In regards to the murder of Karl Heusner, we are doing follow up […]
There was a pair of unrelated murders in Belize City on Saturday. A deadly attack on North Creek that morning has left one person critically injured and another inside the morgue at the K.H.M.H. Sometime before eight o’clock, fifty-six-year-old Edward Robinson came under fire as he stood along the stretch of road. Robinson was mortally […]
A fifty-three-year-old farmhand in the Stann Creek District was the third person to be murdered over the weekend. On Sunday morning, Jose Rodolfo Sanchez Galeas, a Salvadoran national, was discovered by a family member lying in a pool of his own blood. The caretaker had what appeared to be a wound behind his neck and […]
