As the family of Travis Polanco grieves his death, the family of twenty-seven-year-old Denfield Bowen Junior fears the worst. Bowen Junior, known to family and friends simply as LL, has been missing since Thursday of last week when he was last seen leaving his Plues Street address in his vehicle. It has been five days […]
The stevedore was last seen wearing a white tee shirt with R.I.P. Kareem Lopez emblazoned on the front and Robbery on the back. Bowen was also clad in a pair of yellow three-quarter shorts and a pair of green Nike slippers. Isani Cayetano “Describe the vehicle in which he was driving?” Voice of: […]
Tonight San Pedro Police have released three of the five persons detained for the murder of taxi-man Donicio Trujillo on Sunday. Trujillo was found early that morning on the side of the road with his throat cut and stab wounds to the body. Preliminary investigations resulted in the immediate detention of five persons of interest […]
A second suspect has been detained by police in connection with the murder at the National Agricultural and Trade Show Grounds. Shariff Anderson Andrewin of Cotton Tree was taken into custody at the Belmopan Police Station today. His arrest comes on the heels of the detention of Kimal Dawson hours after a Hattieville resident was […]
There is a disturbing incident to report tonight of a shooting involving two young children in the south. A six year old boy is clinging to life after he was shot to the head by another minor with a sixteen-gauge shotgun. At news time, the family says that the chances of survival for Travis Polanco […]
911 was immediately called by Thomas Polanco, who thought of nothing else, but to get his son to the Southern Regional Hospital to save his life. But there was no response and the family had to rush six year old Travis to the hospital in a private vehicle. But with the clock ticking and a […]
According to Travis’ father, Thomas Polanco, the sixteen-gauge shotgun used in the shooting by the year old, is the weapon utilized by the minor’s family for hunting. Police have since questioned the parents of the boy who pulled the trigger and they have been released. Now, the nine year old is under the age of […]
The San Pedro Police Department is investigating a second brutal murder in less than a week. On Sunday morning, well-known taxi-driver forty-two year old Donicio Trujillo was found stabbed to death on a remote road outside of town; his van was parked nearby. Trujillo’s apparently senseless killing comes just five days after the execution of […]
The national agricultural and trade show was held over the holiday weekend in the Capital….thousands turned out for the event; that story is coming later in the newscast. But on Saturday night at the show grounds, a Hattieville youth was stabbed to death. Twenty-four year old Dernel Brown was socializing with a group of friends […]
One final issue on crime in tonight’s newscast… There are all manner of criminal issues bedevilling the Police on San Pedro, Belize’s premier tourism destination and seriously lucrative revenue earner. Violence on the island has spiked, as has drug-related activity and in recent weeks Police have launched any number of special operations to get it […]
Former Belize City Mayor David Fonseca is dead. The retired People’s United Party politician, served two terms as mayor and a total of sixteen years in active politics, took his own life sometime around two this afternoon in the bathroom at his residence in Stuart’s Alley. He was the first mayor to be directly elected […]
Our records show that in the first four months of the year, there have been forty-three murders; that is twelve more than in the same period in 2014. Our stats also show April recording the most murders so far with eighteen killings; nine of occurred within the past six days. Of those nine, eight occurred […]
The murder count went up by three in the past twenty four hours. In San Pedro a taxi man was killed in his van, while in the city another cabbie succumbed at the K.H.M.H.; he is a casualty of a shooting on Sunday. And on Monday night before eight o’clock twenty nine year old Wayne […]
At eight-twelve on Monday night when the medical officers would pronounce Wayne Rocke dead, they were called to the bedside of fifty-five year old Egbert Hemmans to record his death. Hemmans was admitted in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Sunday morning when he drove himself to the Emergency Ward after […]
The forty-third murder of the year happened in broad daylight this morning in the San Juan Layout of San Pedro. At around ten this morning, popular taxi-man, forty-two year old Jose Rigoberto Beltran, was found lying in his van off the road, shot once to the back of the head. The grisly execution-style murder has […]
Earlier we told you about three murders over the course of Monday night and this morning. But the bloody Monday killings were preceded by an early morning shooting in Mahogany Heights. Forty-year old Kevin Flowers was gunned down in a remote area of the community, as he took a shortcut through the bush to reach […]
Last Thursday, the badly decomposed body of a John Doe was discovered floated near mile five on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The discovery was made when a caretaker of a property just past the Haulover Bridge, who immediately alerted the police. A postmortem conducted on the body that same day would be inconclusive as to […]
Breaking News: Word to News Five is that a man was shot and killed a short while ago on Reggae Street on Southside, Belize City as he was. Police are currently processing the scene of this latest homicide, but News Five understands that the resident of Jane Usher Boulevard while working on a vehicle in […]
From our count, there have been forty murders since the start of the year with April being the deadliest month with sixteen murders. It’s nine more than the same period last year. Between Saturday night and this morning, there were four murders, all in the Belize District. Two men were executed in the city on […]
The first of two murders in the City was a broad daylight shooting on Iguana Street which claimed the life of thirty-one year old Mark Medina and left a fifty-five year old taxi operator fighting for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Egbert Hemmans had taken Medina to a house on Iguana Street […]
The murder of Mark Medina was followed by another in the City where three hours later, thirty-four year old Tyrone Neal was gunned down likely for a small quantity of stolen marijuana. Neal, whose rap sheet is a long one for minor offenses, suspected that someone was out to get him. He moved out of […]
And if three murders in one weekend weren’t bad enough, there was another early this morning…this time at the community of Mahogany Heights near Mile thirty on the George Price Highway. Forty-year old Kevin Flowers was gunned down in a remote area of the community, as he took a shortcut through the bush to reach […]
Over a month ago, new rangers graduated from the Friends for Conservation and Development, also referred to as the FCD rangers program. The now eighteen rangers have been deployed to critical hot spots in the Chiquibul. Since then, they have been active and their training has resulted in two separate detainments of Guatemalans illegally within […]
Tonight, police are still unable to say whose badly decomposed body floated up into the mangroves near Mile five on the Phillip Goldson Highway. But there is more information emerging as they ask the public to assist in the identification. The discovery was made when a caretaker of a property just past the Haulover Bridge […]
Almost exactly three months ago, two containers of military-grade ammunition were stolen off the secure, guarded B.D.F. Echelon Base in Lord’s Bank. The ammunition, about two thousand, seven hundred rounds used in M-sixteen and M-four rifles, was stored there by the American military for use in their training exercises. At the time, the then B.D.F. […]
