A former employee of Anchor Security tonight remains in custody pending investigation into the murder of sixty year old Feliciano Richard Noralez. Mister Mac, as he was affectionately known, was on the night shift at the security firm when he was hacked to death. The security officer of Xunantunich Street, Belmopan, had reported for duty […]
Tonight, a disturbing report is coming out of the Belmopan area. In the police blotter today, it was reported that a seven-year-old minor accompanied by her mother visited the Belmopan Police Station claiming that on Monday evening sometime after six o’clock, she was sexually assaulted by a man, who also robbed her of a five […]
An elderly man has been reported missing in the Belmopan area. According to caretaker, forty-three year old Alexander Sheppard, on Monday afternoon he went to deliver lunch to eighty-three year old Cayetano Nah, but he was nowhere to be found. He was last seen earlier that day when Sheppard took him breakfast at his home […]
In the capital, a vicious murder occurred overnight and one person has been detained for questioning. A security guard was hacked to death and his body left at the premises of Anchor Security located at the entrance of Belmopan. The body of sixty-year-old Feliciano Noralez was discovered this morning; he left his home on Monday […]
Like we said, that brings the murder count for the Belmopan jurisdiction to three. The first occurred on New Year’s Day at the Dream Valley Resort in Teakettle. Resort manager, Yaima Duany Ledesma was shot and killed in broad daylight in front of patrons. Two men walked into the bar at the resort and ordered […]
Belmopan police also believe that they are wrapping up the investigation into the murder of Roaring Creek resident, Emerson Daly. The twenty-four year old was reported missing on Monday, January nineteen. His partially nude and decomposed body was pulled out from the river behind Banana Bank in the Cow Run area two days later, on […]
There was a home invasion very early Sunday morning, at a farm one mile into the old Northern Highway. It happened on the thirty acre homestead owned by Hipolito Castillo. Reports are that six young men armed with sticks broke down two doors of the home and forced their way in. In the ensuing melee […]
Just before our newscast on Thursday evening, word spread like wildfire that four students of Queen Square Anglican Primary School, three girls and one boy, were abducted by a man of dark complexion, placed in a white van and driven away. That report was made by two students; it caused panic in the community coming […]
Deputy Officer Commanding the Eastern Division of the Belize City Police Department, Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster, says that while the report may have sounded a false alarm, it is a perfect opportunity to encourage parents and guardians as well as the schools to take necessary measures to ensure the safety of the children. Sr. Supt. […]
It has been over a week since the two containers of ammunition were reported missing from the B.D.F. base in Ladyville. One thousand six hundred and eight-five point five-six and a thousand seven point six two ammunition were removed from that holding bay. The initial reaction was and continues to be that it is an […]
The Eastern Division of the Belize Police Department is launching yet another initiative in an effort to combat crime. A Be Loving and Cease Killing (BLACK) march will be held on the twenty-seventh of March in which the department seeks to have Belize City residents parade through gang-infested neighborhoods. The march will conclude with a […]
Heading south…There is very unsettling news to report out of Dangriga. Twenty-two year old Robert Taylor of Monument Site in Dangriga was arrested and charged for the crimes of rape and aggravated assault, after he sodomized a twenty-five year old woman in that southern municipality. Taylor was also charged with abduction, theft of motor vehicle […]
Twelve days after she was buried three and a half miles north of San Pedro in the Grand Caribe Estate area, the body of Honduran national Silvia del Carmen Benitez, is to be exhumed. This rare act takes place at five-thirty on Friday morning and will be followed by a proper burial at the island’s […]
Tonight News Five has confirmed that Police are investigating a report that four students of the Queen’s Square Anglican School were abducted in a white van. That report was made by a female student who allegedly told Police that she was near the Fire Station on Dolphin Street when she saw four other students lured […]
The sister of Leonard “Ghost” Myers, slain George Street boss, is missing. Amanda Usher, a fifteen year old girl from Berkeley Street is missing. On Wednesday, Elizabeth Welch reported to police that her daughter was last seen on Monday night when she went to bed shortly after seven thirty. Amanda, who is of Creole descent […]
Dangerous prisoner turn escapee Emmanuel Willoughby is a fugitive no longer. He is currently under Police guard at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot twice during his apprehension by Police on Tuesday. Willoughby escaped from the Belize Central Prison in December by sawing through his cell door, and since then has allegedly been on a […]
So why did Emmanuel Willoughby leave Cayo and come to Belize City? It could be because Cayo Police had launched an intensive manhunt for him. Today, News Five spoke to Deputy Commander of Cayo Inspector Reymundo Reyes. He told us on Monday a resident went to dump garbage in the Kontiki area, and that’s when […]
One hour and a half after the shooting of Willoughby, shots rang out once again…this time on Fairweather Street on South Side Belize City. Just after nine p.m., an attempt was made on the life of notorious street figure thirty-six year old Jason Williams, just a stone’s throw away from where he lives on Supal […]
There is growing concern tonight over the safety of primary school students. In the past few days, there have been reports of alleged attempts at kidnapping in Belmopan and Corozal. But in Orange Walk Town, two students came under serious threat and the school is taking every precaution to avert any reoccurrence. The incidents are […]
In a separate incident in the north, which may have some bearing to the incident in Orange Walk, Corozal police are looking for a man who tried to lure a young girl into a white Prado. The child was heading home from a shop when the man offered her money, but she became scared and […]
A B.D.F. soldier is in remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was busted with an illegal weapon and ammunition. Eber Navarette was under surveillance in Benque, and when he headed east, authorities there informed their counterparts in Cayo. Cayo Police moved in and caught him with the goods. Via Phone: Insp. Reymundo […]
The following did not appear on the police report, but on Tuesday, January twenty-second, Police visited an area between miles seventeen and eighteen on the Humming Bird where they intercepted a Green Corolla Taxi heading in the direction to Belmopan. Police then conducted a search on four men who were inside the car, however nothing […]
Tonight the brothers from Calla Creek, who allegedly had sexual intercourse with a teen who is now pregnant, are in police custody. Police arrested and charged twenty-five year old Maysin Smith and a seventeen year old Belizean chef for the crime of “Unlawful Sexual Intercourse.” This follows a report by a thirteen year old girl that […]
Tonight, the B.D.F. is still trying to determine who stole two containers of ammunition being held for the U.S. army in training on the B.D.F. compound. On Friday, we reported that a robbery at the compound resulted in a number of military-grade ammunition stolen from the secured base. The B.D.F. confirmed that while they are […]
Just after midnight on Saturday, a shot was fired as the Bowen family of Hattieville was celebrating the birthday of one of their own at their residence on Camal Street. The party, however, was disrupted when twenty-seven year old Eugene Pitts was injured by a single gunshot fired at the crowd by a gunman, believed […]
