There was more violence over the weekend. A vicious chopping incident in Teakettle Village on Saturday evening has left one man short of a left hand. Twenty-four-year-old Aldo Moro was at J&J’s Store when he was accosted by someone he knew. According to Moro, he was returning to his vehicle when Shaylon Santos, also known […]
Later that night, twenty-one-year-old Edel Diaz, a resident of Salvapan, lost his left index finger when he was also attacked by a machete-wielding assailant. Diaz, who works as a warehouse assistant, was socializing with a few friends at a bar on Cemetery Road in Salvapan when Clifford Alvarado confronted him. A forceful swing of […]
A terrible domestic tragedy in the quiet village of Seine Bight has left a woman clinging to life, while the man who viciously stabbed her took his own life. At around eleven-thirty on Saturday, police were called to a house in the village and discovered a woman bleeding profusely from multiple stab wounds to the […]
From the south to the city where a young girl is claiming she was raped. The sixteen year old minor of Belize City reported to police last Friday that while she was home alone, a man she knew came to her house and had sexual intercourse with her against her will. The man who police […]
Belizean businessman, Ignacio Villanueva, was attacked on Sunday by a gang of eight men. Villanueva was on Wagner’s Lane shortly before midnight, when he was targeted. The fifty-one year old businessman says he was approached by a man he recognized as Shane Budram and seven others who encircled him. And according to Villanueva, Budram hit […]
Jalacte is a remote southern community in the Toledo District and, for many years, was off the beaten path for most Belizeans. While its inaccessibility placed it out of reach for the average tourist, it has remained open to Guatemalan nationals who wander freely across the border into Belize to conduct business or attend school. […]
Tonight, there is real and present danger of bloodshed in the forests along the Belize/Guatemala border, and a chilling sense of escalating violence. This morning at around nine-thirty, there was an encounter between B.D.F. soldiers and approximately twenty-five Guatemalan civilians. The soldiers were guarding civilian workmen who are building a new outpost at Camp Valentin, […]
During the nationwide blackout on Thursday night, twenty-seven year old Gerald Palmer was shot multiple times on Grants Alley. The food vendor of Barrack Road had just left home when a lone gun man opened fire on him. Palmer was rushed to the K.H.M.H. where he succumbed to his injuries at about two thirty this […]
Back to the encounter between Guatemalan civilians and the B.D.F. at Camp Valentin. Late this evening, the Ministry of National Security issued a release saying that the group of Guatemalans, some armed with rifles, shotguns and machetes, entered into Belize in the area of Valentin Camp where the Government is constructing a conservation post. According […]
The House of Representatives met in Special Session in the capital today. We’ll have full coverage of that coming up but we start with what was happening outside the House and elsewhere in Belmopan. Parliamentarians heading up to the national assembly were met by the Cayo Tour Guide Association protesting the neglect at tourism facilities […]
The Belmopan Police has been investigating the allegation of sexual molestation since it was reported to them. Even as the mother of the alleged victim and other parents claim they are covering up the story, Belmopan O.C. Howell Gillett maintains that because of the sensitive nature of the alleged crime, they want to ensure that […]
We go now inside the House of Representatives that concluded its special sitting before two p.m. today. Tourism Police Special Constable Danny Conorquie was killed exactly one week ago. His murder, allegedly at the hands of Guatemalan nationals, has occupied the national discussion. As tragic and senseless as it was, Conorquie’s execution has riveted attention […]
On Wednesday, the Professional Standards Branch of the Belize Police Department told the media that there are at least seven officers currently under investigation, following allegations of criminal wrongdoings. Among them are police constables Larry Sutherland and Wayne Trapp, who have been charged for the alleged physical abuse of nineteen-year-old Armanhni Bailey. Bailey claims that […]
The GSU, or more specifically GSU commander Mark Flowers, have been in the news almost nightly. The elite, aggressive unit has been under fire after allegations of excessive force and unnecessary brutality. The Prime Minister has publicly endorsed the GSU in glowing terms. So today we took the opportunity to ask him about the less […]
Tonight there is also scrutiny on the police force. A number of officers are under investigation by the Professional Standards Branch of the Department for allegations of wrongdoing including brutality and extortion. We start with Inspector Mark Flowers, the recently appointed commander of the Gang Suppression Unit, who has been twice accused of assault in […]
Today, Assistant Superintendent Glen Rivero, Commander of the Professional Standards Branch, spoke to the media of the various investigations involving police officers, including Inspector Flowers. ASP Glen Rivero, Commander, Professional Standards Branch “I want to tell you guys that this morning myself and Assistant Commissioner Leal, who is my commander, met. Like I said, […]
On Tuesday, Darius Martinez from Dangriga started an eighteen month conviction for Corrupting a Public Officer. But there is another cop in the hot seat. He is Oscar Ramirez assigned to the San Pedro Police Formation, who is under investigation for an allegation of extortion. A seventeen year old is alleging that on September twenty-two, […]
Earlier this afternoon, another officer was arrested and detained pending criminal charges after he was found in possession of a number of stolen items believed to have been lifted during a search conducted at a residence in Belize City. According to a woman, a team of officers entered her home and proceeded to conduct a […]
The tragic execution of Danny Conorquie at the Caracol Mayan Site has made headlines since last Thursday. Tonight, there is a shocking new edited video which has gone viral since it was released today on the internet. It was shot by tourists who were recording their visit to Caracol on the fateful day, September twenty-fifth, […]
Very few of the stories aired following the murder of Tourism Police Special Constable have touched on the five horses which were tethered at the Caracol Site on September twenty-fifth, 2014. Those horses, which you saw in the video put together by a tourist and aired earlier, were allegedly seized from xateros during a raid […]
It’s been four days since Danny Conorquie was murdered at the Caracol Mayan Site; on Sunday, he was laid to rest after an emotional funeral service. We have that story coming up. But tonight, there appears to be confusion, at least in government, over who killed the former tourism police special constable from Georgeville, Cayo. […]
The fact is that unless one of the murderers dropped a notarized confession complete with finger-print, blood-sample, picture and proof of Guatemalan birth…it is unlikely that there will be any legal proof that Danny Conorquie’s killers were Guatemalan. Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington certainly won’t move until he has that confession statement in hand. […]
According to Manzanero, all the entities that are regularly on the ground have gotten the wake-up call a long time ago, and the murder of Danny Conorquie is their worst fears realized. With the murder of the Special Constable, the new fear is that the killing will escalate if the government decides to waffle on […]
Following the murder of Conorquie, Caracol has been closed indefinitely by the National Institute of Culture and History. The site is one of the most visited in the country, but the brazen, cold-blooded broad daylight murder has raised some serious security concerns. When Conorquie was shot, there was a tour in progress and tourists in […]
While the murder of Conorquie is a tragedy, it is also a wake-up call. News Five has learned that only two tourism police officers are stationed at Caracol for two weeks at a time. There is no vehicle and no communication with San Ignacio, at least two and a half hours drive away. A highly […]
