There have been four murders in the past five murders, including that of Corwin Mendoza. This afternoon the violence continued with a brazen shooting on a busy street in the Old Capital. Shortly after two o’clock, gunshots rang out on North Front Street near the Image Factory. The mid-afternoon shooting has left two persons hospitalized […]
Even as we left Orange Walk following that press conference at the B.S.C.F.A., News Five received word that unknown persons had torched cane-fields in Libertad owned by B.S.I. We were unable to get comment from factory representatives, but reliable sources tell us that a total of nine acres of mature cane, approximately three hundred and […]
Earlier we told you about the arraignment of two Roaring Creek residents for the murder of twenty-four year old Corwin Mendoza. Mendoza had been missing since Sunday following an altercation that ended with him being stabbed multiple times, bashed in the head and his body dumped in the creek. But there is some good news […]
There is an utterly disturbing report tonight concerning the alleged rape of a ninety-eight-year-old Belize City woman. The incident occurred on Friday night while the elderly woman was asleep at home. It is reported that sometime after one a.m., in the wee hours of Saturday morning, a prowler entered her residence by breaching the door. […]
Police suspect that Corwin Mendoza, who has been missing since Sunday, was murdered and his body disposed of in the river at Roaring Creek. Mendoza’s family says he left his house to visit his girlfriend; his personal belongings would later be found along the river trail. Two persons are custody; one who is related to […]
On Monday night at about ten o’clock, a decaying body was found at a house on Pine Street, Belize City after neighbors alerted the police that something was awry in the house. William Garbutt was last seen alive days ago, so it is not clear when he was killed or why. But an autopsy carried […]
Breaking news: there is a report tonight from Dangriga that the body of a woman was found in the Havana Beach area. It is believed that she was beaten to death with a blunt object and police are currently processing the scene. We’ll have more on this is Tuesday’s newscast.
Turning to crime…There was a murder in the Old Capital on Saturday. The lifeless body of a well-known street figure was found in his house on Casaurina Street. Ernel Welcome Junior was shot once to the forehead and left to die in the house. While police are following all leads, there are no arrests and […]
While the body of Welcome Junior was discovered inside his house, in Roaring Creek, Belmopan Police, Coast Guard personnel and residents of the village are currently searching the river for the body of Kerwin Mendoza. Police would not confirm whether Mendoza has been killed, but Superintendent Howell Gillett went on record to say that there […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you about the search of the body of a Roaring Creek resident, who is presumed dead. While investigations continue by the Belmopan Police Formation, the department is also investigating a shooting on Friday night at the Blue Mountain Range on the Hummingbird Highway. Forty-seven year old Jose Abrego, a […]
In Dangriga, there is one gun less in circulation. On Saturday afternoon, police searched a house in the New Site area where they found a pistol with a magazine loaded with a live round of ammunition hidden in a knapsack in the bedroom of Linda Usher. Present at the house during the time of search […]
A recorded phone call between widow, Vilma Cervantes, and alleged murderer, Manuel Castillo, continues to dominate the news and shock the nation. In that call, Castillo tells Cervantes that a senior U.D.P. Minister and a senior police officer are involved in the kidnapping and murder of Ramon Cervantes Sr. It is an incendiary and disturbing […]
So we’re a little confused. Is the investigation into the Cervantes and Sonia Abac murders, opened months ago, now closed? If so then when was it concluded and why wasn’t anybody told until Thursday? And why did the announcement that it was closed come after the release of new evidence which must have at least […]
And while the Cervantes family walked into the Police Station today unescorted, News Five has been informed that additional security has been provided for Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega and his family. We’ve listened to the same recording everybody has, and we’ve also heard the DPM state that his life and his family have now […]
On Thursday, the news broke of an internal memo from Assistant Superintendent of Police Henry Jemott, Deputy Coastal Executive Officer, to the Head of the Fisheries Department. The memo is dated October sixteenth, and in it Jemott is making serious allegations against a fisheries officer stationed at the Bacalar Chico Marine Reserve. He says that […]
Thieves are becoming even more brazen and heartless. The office of the Belize Cancer Society on Mercy Lane has been burglarized and thieves made away with a small amount of cash—one hundred and twenty dollars as well as an assortment of snacks valued at eighty dollars. While the cash and items amount to two hundred […]
Late last week in the area of La Ceibita, Melchor de Mencos, more than a hundred cases, with eight hundred and eighty-one thousand cigarettes were confiscated by the Guatemalan police. The cargo was found in a vehicle that had overturned. According to newspaper reports, the cigarettes entered Guatemala as contraband from Belize. One witness claims […]
In early September, an allegation was made by a popular Justice of the Peace, Grace Flowers of Belize City, that her nephew, Armani Bailey, was picked up by a group of police officers and taken to mile four on the George Price Highway. There, the cops allegedly beat up Bailey and attempted to drown him […]
Turning to crime, there was a murder early on Saturday morning in the peaceful village of Concepcion, Corozal. Twenty-four year old Ricardo Alfredo Itzab was shot and killed as he and two other friends headed by foot to their houses in the village. A man on a bicycle wearing a mask to conceal his identity […]
The Ladyville police were also called out to mile nineteen on the old northern highway this morning. There, on the right hand side of the road, a vehicle belonging to sixty-one year old Gilbert Dawson Senior was found and just outside the driver’s side, the body of Dawson was found face down on the ground. […]
There is a disturbing report of the sexual assault of a female prisoner at the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville. The woman, who is serving a five-year jail term for a burglary offense, is alleging that she was sexually assaulted by twenty-one year old Kevin Bodden and twenty-nine year old Jareth Crawford. Both men, […]
There was a daring robbery in Belize City’s Belama Phase Three on Thursday evening. The broad daylight robbery happened at about four, and the target was Guan Fa Shop, a Chinese grocery store in the area. The cashier in the store, a nineteen year old student, told Police that three male persons walked straight up […]
On September nineteenth, thirty year old Leslie Logan Jr. was shot by a Chinese proprietor after an armed robbery at Hung Yun Store. Logan had already jacked around five hundred in cash and handed it to an accomplice who fled the scene. As Logan attempted to do the same, the proprietor of the store ran […]
The comments of the highly respected career Police Officer who retired as second in command of the Orange Walk Police Formation did not go unheard. The allegations he made against the department were serious, and have resulted in the investigation being re-opened. At least that’s what we were told today by Public Relations Coordinator, Douglas […]
There is also news coming from the west. San Ignacio Police are reporting a drug arrest in that municipality while officers were on mobile patrol in Santa Elena Town. Around two-thirty on Thursday afternoon, a patrol unit came up on a grey Jeep Cherokee with Belize City licence plates parked in front of Highway […]
