While there have been no leads in the murder of Foreman, twenty-seven year old Ladyville resident, Ehud Haulze remains in police custody in connection with the murder of twenty-four year old Mark Rhamdas who was killed on Wednesday. Haulze’s forty-eight hours in lockdown are about to expire, but no charges have been levied as yet. […]
San Ignacio Police have been piecing the story together of a man who was found badly beaten at the San Ignacio Welcome Center and died five days later at the K.H.M.H. It is reported that the man was drinking and later attacked by three men on Holy Saturday morning. After circulating the photo of the […]
American Businessman and owner of the Palapa Bar in San Pedro, Scott Harnish, was busted with over one hundred thousand U.S dollars in his home. On Tuesday, April seventh, it is reported that authorities visited Harnish’s home on the north end of San Pedro when they made the discovery. Harnish was detained and released that […]
The Berkeley Street area in Belize City has quickly become a hotspot in the Old Capital. There have been several shootings and a murder in recent days. At about six o’clock on Wednesday night, there was another homicide. Twenty-five year old Mark Anthony Rhamdas was executed as he rode his motorcycle in an alley where […]
The second murder in the past twenty-four hours took place in the west and police needs the public’s assistance in identifying a man who was badly beaten and found at the Cayo Welcome Center with head injuries on Saturday. Police believe that he had been partying and was intoxicating prior to the violent attack on […]
Eighteen year old Belize City youth, George Maskall was murdered down south and his body thrown into the lagoon behind the village of Seine Bight. Maskall’s decomposed body was spotted by a fisherman on Tuesday morning. It is suspected that he was hiding out in the village for a few weeks now and was last […]
Three weeks ago, Minister of Tourism, Manuel Heredia Junior and San Pedro Mayor, Daniel Guerrero got police security after both received death threats. Not much has been said about it, since San Pedro Police would not confirm, but tonight News Five has been able to verify the very serious matter with Heredia Junior. Up to […]
On Easter Monday, at the end of a joint maritime operation of Belize’s armed forces, twenty-four year old Coast Guard Seaman Keyren Tzib approached the vessel’s captain, thirty-seven year old Kurt Hyde and shot him in the face with her M-four assault rifle. Police investigators say she never uttered a word before she fired that […]
The body of a Belize City man was today retrieved from the lagoon in Seine Bight on the Peninsula. Eighteen year old George Richard Maskall was last seen by relatives in Placencia on Thursday and this morning a missing report was made to the police. Hours later, around eleven-thirty a.m., a report would come to […]
There was a string of three arsons across the country over the Easter weekend, the most tragic being the deliberate destruction of a Garifuna spiritual temple in Barranco Village. Since July 1996, the thatched structure served as an informal gathering place for residents of the remote community and more officially as a ceremonial shrine for […]
A toddler is dead and police are investigating the cause of the death of the eleven month old baby. Karen De Jesus Perez reported to police that sometime around seven-thirty on Wednesday, April first she was attending to her eleven month old daughter, Mia Eusebia Lopez, when the child started to cry. Perez told police […]
On Wednesday, April Fools’ Day, forty-two year old security guard, Patrick Castillo Senior, viciously chopped his stepson, Guatemalan Jose Maderos, to death. It was a bloody scene which left a family traumatized. Castillo claimed self-defence, allegedly stating that Maderos came home intoxicated and tried to force open the front door, after which they got into […]
Forty-two-year-old Belize City resident Patrick Castillo is currently detained by police after a grisly chopping murder on Wednesday night. According to reports, an altercation between Castillo and his stepson, twenty-year-old Jose Maderos, resulted in Maderos sustaining multiple chop wounds and bleeding to death in the upstairs flat of his home at number nine Kut Avenue. […]
Three persons were arraigned today for a fire at the Belize Youth Hostel compound at Mile twenty-one on the George Price Highway. The fire on Tuesday gutted a section of the hostel and following the determination that it was arson, sparked an intensive investigation. Two minors, one twelve and one thirteen, along with eighteen-year-old Erlene […]
The murder of fifty-seven year old businessman Ricardo Triminio in Orange Walk Town has left the community stunned. Triminio was shot and killed in his shop, Munchies Snack Shop on Progress Street in the early hours of Tuesday morning, but his body was found several hours later. Police haven’t arrested anyone in connection with this […]
On Tuesday night, we told you about the fire at the Youth Hostel at mile twenty one on the George Price Highway. The fire, which is suspected to be arson, destroyed the girls’ dorm and all its contents. The Fire Department was called in and the fire was put out after five in the evening. […]
The GSU raided a home located in the Set Site area of Lake Independence on Tuesday afternoon; the bust yielded over six kilograms or more than thirteen pounds of cannabis. Three of five persons were arrested including a man and two women and police are looking for two other women. The trio was arraigned today; […]
A Honduran national living in Belize pleaded guilty to robbery with a firearm and while he was spared from being imposed the minimum mandatory sentence of seven years, he could not escape jail time. Darwin Martinez and two other persons held up a woman and her son in the Jane Usher Boulevard. Martinez could not […]
There had been several previous attempts on the life of twenty-six year old Jamie Chavarria, including one as recent as three weeks ago. But on Monday night, the Belize City resident would no longer elude death. Chavarria was executed on an alley off Berkeley Street by at least one shooter who fired twice hitting him […]
There was another murder which occurred on Monday night. The timeline leading to the murder of fifty-seven year old businessman Ricardo Triminio of Orange Walk Town remains unknown and police are yet to pinpoint exactly when the businessman was killed. This morning after ten, his body was found inside his shop, Munchies Snack Shop on […]
Around three-thirty this afternoon, fire was seen coming from the girls’ dormitory at the Youth Hostel at mile twenty-one on the George Price Highway. The building and its contents were destroyed, but luckily the girls inside the building were rescued and escaped unhurt. The suspicion, however, is that the dorm was set on fire by […]
An elderly Belize City resident is lucky to be alive tonight after he was brutally attacked in his home early Saturday morning. Eighty-eight year old Robert Acosta heard noises in his house on Hyde’s Lane sometime between four thirty and six that morning but upon checking he didn’t see anyone. He went back to bed […]
At this time, two law enforcement officers from the south are in deep trouble with the law, and under investigation for a most despicable act. The duo from Mango Creek is being accused with the rape of a thirteen year old student. The girl’s name will not be released to protect her indentify but we […]
The police department is tonight mourning the death of one of its officers. Just before seven p.m. on Thursday, Police Constable Shannon Ramirez, who is attached to the Belama Police Precinct, reportedly shot himself in the head inside his room at his Aloe Vera Street house in Belize City. The body of the twenty-eight year […]
With Easter around the corner, the police are in high alert to curb criminal activity. Earlier this week, Placencia Police conducted anti-drug operations in Seine Bight and Placencia Villages which yielded a total of one thousand three hundred and sixty grams of cannabis; that is three pounds of weed. On the morning of March twenty-fourth, […]
