The crime statistics for 2014 are out – well, not exactly because 2014 isn’t done yet and all those figures are subject to change. But at the request of the media, there is an interim stat sheet. We won’t look in-depth at all the figures until the end of the year, but we did take […]
At least by our unofficial stats, murders in Belize City have gone way down, which is good news. But murders in the districts have gone up, which is bad news. And it gets worse. Murders in the city, particularly due to gang violence, can be addressed, and have been addressed, proactively. But many of the […]
On Tuesday morning, shortly before three o’clock, the body of twenty-year-old Juan Menjivar was discovered by police in an area between miles forty-two and forty-three on the Southern Highway, in the vicinity of the Monkey River Junction. Menjivar, a resident of Water Side Area in Independence Village, was observed in an unconscious state lying in […]
Belize City fisherman Giovanni Murrillo is tonight without a boat, following a theft on Tuesday during which his fishing vessel and equipment were stolen. Sometime during the evening, Twista, which was moored at the Lakeview Street Canal, was taken. The eighteen foot, green and red vessel, valued at four thousand dollars, contained two pairs of […]
There are two murders to report tonight, both of them in western Belize. The first happened, it is believed, sometime early Saturday morning, on the More Tomorrow road outside of Belmopan. One man was viciously stabbed to death and left in the bushes on the side of the road to be discovered later that morning. […]
The second murder was a particularly bloody one, as a Guatemalan labourer was stabbed to death on the remote More Tomorrow Road. It happened sometime in the early hours of Saturday morning, when it is believed that twenty-two year old Juan Alberto Guerra Ramirez was socializing with other persons at a bar nearby when there […]
Sixty-seven year old Jose Antonio Santos, a Salvadoran national living in the village of Paraiso, Corozal was arraigned on Thursday in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court for the double murder of forty-nine year old Fernando Rivas and nineteen year old Heidy Atherly. The couple was viciously chopped to death on Sunday just after six a.m. in […]
Our records indicate that the murder count now stands at one hundred and forty-three. This morning, the remains of a man were found in an area in Ladyville known as the Dewdrop Estate. According to the police, it is believed that the person was killed sometime in November. News Five’s Duane Moody was there when […]
The manhunt continues for twenty-five year old Emmanuel Willoughby, an inmate at the Belize Central Prison who escaped from his cell last Saturday. According to the Kolbe Foundation, Willoughby cut a hole on his cell door and broke out from the prison at around three a.m. on Saturday. Emmanuel has relatives in Libertad and Georgeville, […]
Up until late Wednesday afternoon, police officers conducted a search at the Willoughby’s residence at 7005 Antelope Street Extension. Attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd says that they have made formal complaint to the Professional Standards Branch and intend to press charges against the officers for injuries her client has sustained. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, Attorney for Willoughby Family […]
On Monday, a police officer was hauled off to jail after being found guilty of committing a lewd act upon a fellow constable at a substation in Belize City back in October. It is the kind of incident that raises serious concerns about the conduct of law enforcement officers while on duty. This morning, we […]
There has been an increase in police presence on the streets of the Old Capital since mid-November in preparation for the hustle and bustle of the Christmas Season. Traditionally, it is the time of year when burglaries and robberies spike. Today, we asked Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster about police preparedness in Belize City. Sr. […]
There was a double murder in Paraiso, Corozal District over the weekend which has all the signs of a crime of passion. The mother of a four-year old child was hacked to death; the twenty-one year old woman who has had a troubled past, was along with her boyfriend of three weeks when they met […]
In San Pedro, there was also a loss of life. Investigations, both criminal and internal, are taking place into a shootout involving the Belize Coast Guard and three civilians in an area known as a hot spot for wet drops. The incident occurred this morning at around ten-thirty twenty-one and a half miles north of […]
In San Pedro, a resident ate evidence to avoid apprehension by the police. On Friday morning, police approached twenty-six year old Juan Ramon Nah of the San Mateo area to conduct a search on him. But an ingenious Nah pulled out a plastic bag from his pocket containing cannabis and began to chew on it. […]
A prisoner is on the loose tonight. He is twenty-five year old inmate, Emmanuel Willoughby, who escaped from the Central Prison over the weekend hoping that he won’t spend the Christmas behind bars. Willoughby ingeniously cut a hole on his cell door which facilitated his break from the prison at around three o’clock on Saturday […]
Joel Seawell and four other persons were ambushed on Wednesday evening in the Mahogany Heights area on the George Price Highway. Members of the group, including a woman, were headed home through a picado road, when they came under fire. Seawell was the only one to be hit by the barrage of shots fired at […]
The shooting of Joel Seawell was followed by another this morning in Belize City when a bold attempt was made on the life of twenty-seven-year-old Leon Garcia as he made his way down Victoria Street. Reports are that sometime before ten, a pair of men, described as wearing hooded sweatshirts, accosted Garcia and let loose […]
Tonight, the Belmopan Police are reporting the seizure of a sizable amount of marijuana, confiscated during a special patrol just after midnight. Three persons – Jennie Silva and Yolanda Patt from Benque Viejo, and Casey Fitzgerald Smith from Belize City, were in a vehicle which Police stopped and searched. It is believed that they were […]
The countdown is on…. There are only nineteen days to end 2014. Earlier today we looked at the crime statistics and at this point, it is safe to say that the number of murders is far above the 2013 stats. Our database shows one hundred and thirty-nine to date, compared to ninety-nine homicides in 2013. […]
There is breaking news of a shooting in the Mahogany Heights community at mile thirty on the George Price Highway. News Five has confirmed that one Joel Sewell was shot multiple times and he has since been rushed to the Western Regional Hospital in Belmopan. More details of this shooting will be available in Friday’s […]
The Belize Defense Force Bomb Expert was called in on Fabers Road on Wednesday night where another deadly grenade was discovered. The active explosive device was safely removed off the streets of the Old Capital, following an operation led by a police strike team. Sometime around six-forty p.m., a team of officers visited an area […]
Well-known disc jockey, Samir Fernandez, known in the clubbing and music scene as DJ Kid, was discovered dead on Wednesday in the village of Esperanza. Fernandez, a resident of Santa Elena Town in the west, was last seen alive on Tuesday when he left home in a taxi. A day later, his father, attorney Orlando […]
There was a brutal and bloody murder in Corozal Town on Tuesday night. It happened at around nine o’clock on College Road as residents of the area were getting ready to turn in for the night. Two men, who are not known to be friends, became embroiled in a violent argument which led to murder. […]
But Mark Massam Junior is no stranger to the law; he received a nine-year sentence back in 2005 for a string of robberies in the Orange Walk and Corozal districts. After serving his sentence, in January of 2013, Massam Junior was remanded for firearm offences for an incident in Corozal. He was released earlier this […]
