On Wednesday, News Five spoke with Belmopan resident, Alvin Hyde, who is the father of Dorla Pitts. According to Alvin, his daughter and granddaughter have been living in Lehigh for the past fifteen years. Brian is reportedly his nephew, and the family remains stupefied as to why he would have committed the crime. Tonight, however, […]
A Corozal man was shot early this morning. Details are still sketchy at this time as no official report was made to the Corozal Police, but we have confirmed that Abisur Loza, the Chairman of the Progressive Cane Farmers’ Association, was shot in the hand sometime between one and two this morning in Patchakan Village. […]
There is a bone-chilling story coming out of Florida where relatives of Roaring Creek’s Russell Hyde have been murdered. The three victims are Dorla Pitts, her daughter Starlette Pitts and her boyfriend Michael Kelly. They were found inside the Pitts’ home in Lehigh Acres by a neighbor on Tuesday morning. A toddler, the daughter of […]
Back here in Belize, the news has been received with shock. Dorla Pitts was the sister of Russell Hyde and Starlette was his niece. The Hydes have also experienced a string of tragic events when the wife, cousin and close friend of Russell were killed within days of each other in May of this year. […]
Alleged drug dealer Hugo Casanova, who is from Corozal, has been in detention in a Chetumal since February 2013 for drug trafficking. But Casanova is in further troubles tonight because a few days ago, the Quintano Roo Attorney General linked him to the double murder of Arena del Rocío Palacios Valdés, a pregnant woman and […]
Two men drowned in the Caribbean Sea in Corozal Town today within hours of each other. Around five-thirty this evening, the body of a man discovered floating in the sea reportedly in the Rainbow Beach area. Details are still sketchy but police were only able to confirm that following a call to the station, police […]
There is a disturbing report of rape coming out of San Pedro. A fifteen year old student is claiming that on the morning of August seventh, around three o’clock, she was awakened by someone lying on top of her and covering her mouth. The perp kept telling her to shut up. The minor reported to […]
A Cayo resident is tonight receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed twice to the stomach on Sunday morning. Around two-thirty a.m., twenty-three year old Alejandro Galvez of Clarissa Falls was stabbed in front of a night club on the Bullet Tree Road. Police arrived on the scene shortly after, […]
The Eastern Division South of the Belize District Police Department held another round of community policing intervention over the weekend. It started on Friday, when at around six o’clock residents from the Mayflower Street area, including Banak Street, Ebony Street and Lakeview Street, gathered at the Zoe Ministries Church on Vernon Street. There, Regional Commander […]
But the unavailability of jobs and opportunities are among the root of the problem says Senior Superintendent Chester Williams. With initiatives like these, it is expected that several departments and agencies will be able to get into these communities and reach the marginalized. And on Sunday, another family sports day was held – this time […]
A fifteen year old San Antonio resident of Corozal remains tonight in police custody for the murder of twenty-four year old Samir Vivas. Vivas was fatally stabbed on Tuesday night across from where he lived at the Venezuelan Site area of the town and police believe that the minor, who is a former student of […]
The North Side Strike team of the Police Force is reporting a huge drug bust in the south side of the city. The team along with the CIB Precinct Four embarked in anti drug operations early on Wednesday morning. Between five and seven in o’clock, the joint operation discovered seventeen parcels of cannabis in an […]
It has been relative free of violent crimes in Corozal Town since the start of the year. But on Tuesday night, all that was shattered when a horrible murder took place, all the more shocking because a fifteen year old minor has handed himself in to the police. The minor, whose name is being withheld, […]
In the city, two persons were injured in separate, but related shootings this morning on Jane Usher Boulevard. Shamar Moore and Raheem Arnold were rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after gunmen opened fire on them. Moore and Arnold were reportedly in an altercation with their attackers earlier in the morning. Moments later, Arnold […]
In recent days, not much has been heard about the John McAfee, the eccentric millionaire who remains a person of interest in the murder his neighbour, Gregory Saul in San Pedro back in 2011. But on Sunday night, according to U.S. newspaper accounts, McAfee was arrested in Tennessee, where he has taken up residence. He […]
As we told you earlier, the second murder for the Corozal district happened on Tuesday night in the Venezuelan Site area of the town. It is also the first murder to take place since the installation of a new commander at the precinct. Superintendent Dennis Arnold was transferred to the jurisdiction from Orange Walk effective […]
Four of five persons, including a minor, are in the custody of the Dangriga Police tonight and are likely to be charged for murder in the wake of the vigilante beating of a Belize City resident. On Monday morning, residents from the Back-a-town area in Sabal Community took matters into their own hands and allegedly […]
A thirty-seven year old and a sixteen year old resident of Sand Hill are facing criminal charges in connection with a stabbing incident in the village on Monday afternoon. Sometime after one p.m., the father of a thirteen year old girl surprised the sixteen year old committing unlawful sexual intercourse with his daughter at their […]
There is a report of a violent incident in Sand Hill Village on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The father of a young girl reportedly stabbed and threw acid on a man who he caught engaged in illegal sexual activity with his daughter sometime this afternoon. We’ll have more on this is Tuesday’s newscast.
How far is too far for citizens to take matters in their own hands? Well, it is believed that they went too far in Dangriga this morning when a man was beaten to death. The man, identified as a resident of Belize City, is said to have been living in Dangriga up to the time […]
Tonight, there is another report of sexual abuse against a minor. A fifteen year old student in the Cayo area has confirmed to police of an ongoing illegal relationship with a twenty-three year old man from Santa Elena. A medical examination following the report reveals that the minor has been carnally known. Police have since […]
A group of armed bandits slipped pass a police officer on duty and bank security to pull off a daring heist at a bank in Belize City this morning. The First Caribbean Bank at San Cas Plaza has been hit at least twice before, but the heist this morning was committed with relative ease by […]
There is still no word on the whereabouts of Ulysis Mayorga. The Honduran national is wanted by police in connection with murder of his ex-wife, twenty-one year old Merlin Mejia. Mejia was found dead in her apartment on Morning Glory Street on Wednesday morning with her throat slit in two places and a cut wound […]
Reports of indescribable sexual abuse against minors are becoming more prevalent and repugnant. This week, a twelve year old girl reported to the Independence police in the south, that years ago and as recent as June of 2014, her father had raped her. Doctors have confirmed that she has been carnally known and charges are […]
The recent spate of violent crimes on San Pedro and Caye Caulker has prompted the command of the Belize Police Department to revisit its crime-fighting strategy. While additional personnel have been deployed to both islands, there has also been an increase in the number of vehicular patrols. The input of Area Representative Manuel Heredia has […]
