Six Honduran nationals have escaped from the Benque Viejo Police Station—only one has been recaptured up to news time. Did they have help from the inside? Well, that’s what we asked police today after six persons got away from under their noses. The men, twenty-one year old Darwin Josue Turcios Caceres, eighteen year old Jose […]
A teen believed to have been involved in the brutal murder of two American nationals in Teakettle more than a month ago was apprehended this weekend in Belize City. Due to an alert which was circulated in the past few weeks, nineteen year old Cardinal Lemott was identified during a routine search in the city. […]
Late on Monday evening, four members of the same family were released from the Western Regional after they had been hospitalized following a chopping incident that happened on Saturday shortly before midnight. In the early hours of Sunday morning the family were rushed to the hospital with varying degrees of chop wounds- all caused by […]
It has been over twenty-four hours since the execution-style murder of beloved print journalist Kareem Clarke. At news time tonight, Belize City police are no closer to ascertaining a motive in the deadly shooting. As we’ve reported, Clarke was riding his bicycle in the early hours of Monday morning after reportedly leaving the residence of […]
On Monday’s newscast we told you about the changes to the organization structure and the ranks at the Eastern Division in Belize City. Former Officer Commanding the Eastern Division, Assistant Commissioner Dezerie Phillips, is now Divisional North Regional Commander of north side Belize City and the cayes. Her deputy, Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster is now […]
There was a daring robbery in the downtown area on Monday afternoon. A Taiwanese member of staff at the Embassy concluded transactions and had just exited the Belize Bank on Albert Street when he was pounced upon. The driver of the diplomatic mission was accosted by a lone gunman in the parking lot of the […]
All day, today there has been an outpouring of both love and sympathy for media colleague, Kareem Clarke. The tragic news spread quickly this morning that the young and gifted journalist from the Amandala newspaper had been executed at about one this morning in an area which ironically is close to a police checkpoint and […]
The Amandala Newspaper has issued a statement on the senseless murder of Kareem Clarke saying, “We are still in disbelief over the tragic loss of this very promising and ambitious young journalist. On a day like today, Kareem would have been hard at work, juggling several stories for publication in the mid-week edition of the […]
There were three other murders over the weekend. The violence started on Friday night with the homicide of a Belize City welder. David Rivas was shot and died just hours into his twenty-second birthday. But was his murder foretold due to gang warfare in the area? Rivas was shot multiple times to the pelvis, buttocks, […]
The third murder occurred before dawn on Sunday also in the city. Sixty-five year old Emmerson Cain was assaulted by at least three persons behind Village Kitchen Restaurant on North Front Street sometime around four o’clock. He was reportedly attacked with a stone and beaten several times to the face before he was thrown into […]
Williams is taken on an area that is spiraling with criminal activity. Over the weekend, there have been three murders in Belize City and in the past two weeks, a total of six persons have been killed by gun violence in the Old capital, particularly south side Belize City. News Five asked Williams about the […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you about four murders that occurred over the weekend. But there was another act of gun violence in the city, a shooting on Friday night that landed a Belize City youth in the K.H.M.H. in a critical, but stable condition. Jerome Smith of Fourth Street in the Buttonwood Bay […]
After being reported missing by her boyfriend to police earlier this week, the motionless body of twenty-nine-year-old Juana Cardinez, a public officer working out of the Labor Department in Punta Gorda Town was discovered inside her apartment building. The boyfriend is now a prime suspect in her murder and at news time remains in police […]
The long arms of the law finally caught up with a Guatemalan fugitive wanted by Interpol. Uefrin Aldana Cassasola was found living in Yo Creek Village, Orange Walk when police conducted an operation on Thursday evening. It is reported that he was living in a wooden shack with a sister and her partner. The Guatemalan […]
Members of the Gang Suppression Unit struck again on Thursday in the Jane Usher Boulevard Area. Around six p.m., officers attached to the GSU stormed the house of Leroy Slusher on Levi Slusher Street, just off Jane Usher Boulevard. The team was looking for drugs and conducted a search on the property, roughing up the […]
Aside from roughing up the elderly man and the minor, the family dog, Prince, was shot twice and killed, allegedly at the hands of the officers. Joyce says that the children have been left traumatized because the dog was killed in front of them. Joyce Slusher, House Searched by GSU “When they going up […]
There has only been one murder in San Ignacio since the start of the year, but the body of a man was found on Wednesday afternoon in the area of the San Ignacio Community Hospital. The grisly discovery was made by a resident who is constructing nearby and it took his daughter to identify him […]
Six men are in custody tonight in respect of an unlicensed firearm found on Turneffe Caye. The men were detained by the Belize Coast Guard on the caye and handed over to the police on Wednesday for the nine millimeter firearm. They are twenty one year old Everon Teck, twenty-nine-year-old Geovanni Murillo, fifty-two-year-old Goldburn Goff, […]
Police have made a huge bust of an arsenal that includes a high powered weapon as well as a hundred and six live rounds of ammunition and have arrested two men. Just before six o’clock on Monday, a passenger bus heading west from Belize City was stopped by the Mobile Interdiction Unit between miles thirty-one […]
The man responsible for the brutal attack against a police officer on Monday is tonight behind bars after he was charged and arraigned for the attempted murder of Police Constable Jason Hall. Belize City resident, twenty-eight year old Darren Levi Gillett appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith this afternoon, two days after the incident. […]
The officer was in his uniform when he was physically attacked and robbed of his vehicle. Hall has been working at precinct three of the Belize City police department for quite some time now. His mother says that while her son is in a stable condition, he is still not out of harm’s way. […]
Stories of police brutality are mainstays in our newscast, but tonight, the report is that a police officer is on the receiving end. The constable Jason Hall attached to precinct three of the Belize City Police Department was attacked as he was heading in uniform to Belize City to report to work. Hall experienced vehicular […]
There is closure tonight for the Usher family who earlier today lay to rest one of their own: Desmond Usher, a twenty-three year old resident of the Mahogany Heights community on the George Price Highway. As we reported on Monday, Usher’s body was discovered in the morning by family and friends who had organized a […]
Two Belize City high school teenagers were murdered last week following separate shooting incidents on Monday and Wednesday nights in the Old Capital. Fifteen year old Tarique Thompson was shot last Monday as he headed home on Lakeview Street. He was hit to the head and died five days later on Saturday at the Karl […]
Two police officers on motorcycle patrol over the weekend were shot at, but fortunately the gunman missed his targets. But the alleged shooter, Phillip Bowen, ran out of luck when the vehicle he and another person were travelling in, collided into a nearby drain. He appeared in court today to answer to two charges of Aggravated […]
