On Saturday, September sixth, Police discovered a grenade in an abandoned building on Banak Street. Just four days after, on the tenth of September, when the city was buzzing with the celebrations, police discovered another grenade. The second dangerous device was discovered on Mayflower Street in an overgrown lot. Police say tips led them to […]
The United States prosecutors are seeking the extradition of Belizean Andrew Godfrey and four other executives named in a major scheme to launder money, hide investments and evade taxes. On Tuesday, the Financial Intelligence Unit with assistance of local police for hours stormed IPC Corporate Services LLC on Coney Drive and took control of files […]
There is yet another allegation of police brutality to report tonight to add to a growing list of such allegations in the past week. Nineteen year old Armani Bailey claims that police officers did a routine search on him on Wednesday and found nothing, but what he says happened after that, is anything but routine. […]
We were unable to get any comment from either the Ministry of Health or the Belmopan Police today, but News Five has confirmed that another Toyota Hilux has been stolen. The vehicle, a white 2008 double cab pickup, was parked Tuesday night at the Ministry of Health compound on Independence Hill. The driver reported for […]
Belize has been named in a five hundred million US dollar tax fraud scheme. For months, there have been investigations that various companies, including Titan International Securities were using Belize as cover for tax evasion and money laundering. Earlier today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and major U.S. financial news outlets reported indictments of six […]
On Monday, we reported that both a criminal and an internal investigation have been launched by the Police Department into the shooting of a Baghdad Street resident over the weekend. According to police, an officer on duty pulled out his service weapon and shot fifty year old Kent Skeet while on an operation in Taylor’s […]
A British A-One grenade was retrieved from the streets of the Old Capital last Saturday. The grenade was located at an abandoned house on Banak Street. While that operation was successful and brought some comfort to residents as we go into the holidays, there have been instances when grenades hurled at throngs of persons have […]
One man has been arrested and charged with the murder of a San Pedro resident. Rolando Espat Junior was executed early on Saturday morning reportedly by someone he knew and with whom he had a standing rivalry. Police believe Espat Junior’s murder may have a bearing to a previous murder in the island. Rolando is […]
There was another murder, this time in the dangerous streets of the south side in the Old Capital. Thirty-eight year old mechanic, Jason Paulino, was shot to the head, abdomen and left shoulder as he sat inside his yard on Neal Pen Road. Just before ten on Sunday morning, Paulino and two friends were socializing […]
The threat of a grenade attack during the September Celebrations is very real, following a bold attempt in September 2008 when a hand-thrown bomb was hurled into a crowd of spectators during the Carnival Road March. While that explosive did not detonate and was safely defused, there have been a number of grenade attacks since […]
While the police have successfully retrieved a grenade from the streets, an incident on Saturday morning is raising questions about one of its own. A police officer is under investigation for shooting fifty year old Kent Skeet, a resident of Bagdad Street following an operation in Taylor’s Alley. According to police, sometime around after three […]
A vicious chopping incident in San Ignacio Town over a month ago remains uninvestigated, despite numerous attempts by the family of Felix Romero Junior to have a formal inquiry conducted into the incident. While the family contends that the bitter rivalry is the result of envy among former friends of Romero, they allege that the […]
It has been rather quiet over the past few days in the Old Capital…that was until this morning when the silence on the streets of the city was shattered by the blasts of gunfire. The bullets, at least six, we are told, all found their mark on a twenty-one-year-old resident of St. Martin De Porres […]
There was a late-morning armed holdup in Belize City today, where thieves entered a business establishment on Fabers Road Extension and proceeded to lift several items, including cash from the Chinese grocery store. Quick response from the police department subsequently led to the apprehension of six individuals inside a residence a block away. According to […]
Police are also reporting a disturbing incident of rape in the city. A seventeen-year-old female minor is reporting that she was raped inside a hotel on the Phillip Goldson Highway. According to police, around one-twenty-five Thursday morning, officers visited the hotel where the minor claimed she was raped by an unknown male person. She reported […]
The alleged killer of an elderly woman from the southern community of San Pedro, Columbia is tonight in Police custody. And he has confessed to the brutal murder of sixty-one-year-old Agripina Coc. Twenty-four-year-old Miguel Choco has been on the run since Saturday evening, but Punta Gorda Police, with the assistance of villagers, ran him aground […]
The villagers of San Pedro, Columbia and those from San Marcos played a crucial role in the capture of the alleged killer. They acted swiftly after the murder of a woman they respected and loved, and vowed to hunt down the man they believed had taken her life. Men, women and children carrying sticks, batons […]
On Monday, October first, 2012, a young B.D.F. volunteer soldier, Clifford Isaac Cruz was killed on the compound of Militia Hall located near the Lord Ridge Cemetery in Belize City. After more than a year on remand, the man accused of his murder walked in April of this year. But today, five months later, a […]
Tonight, a cop is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after the D.P.P. handed down her directives to have him charged for an allege gunplay incident which is said to have occurred back in February of this year, between miles twenty-five and twenty-six on the George Price Highway. Police Constable, thirty-two-year-old Linsdale Blease, who is […]
Tonight, police say that the suspect in the brutal murder of San Pedro, Columbia elder Agripina Coc, is still at large. The manhunt for the suspected killer continues, with villagers and Police fully engaged, but with no success. Residents believe that the man who slashed and allegedly raped the elderly woman is from the same […]
The plan was reportedly to lock up the family members in the village while village leaders questioned them. But for their own safety, Punta Gorda Police decided to transport them to town. Residents believe that these family members have been assisting the fugitive, and as you’ve seen, they are not afraid to do what it […]
In the early hours of the morning of January thirty-first, a collision between two boats ended the life of twenty-year old Benjamin Jerome Gentle Junior, a former Gwen Liz student. Gentle was being ferried from Crooked Tree to the Phillip Goldson Highway when he was killed; eight others were seriously injured but survived. It’s been […]
There was an attempted robbery on Monday morning at the Port of Belize. Police say two men tried to rob the establishment and that their investigations later led them to two suspects who were pursued in the Caesar Ridge Road area. The men were said to be carrying a firearm. When the cops arrived in the Caesar […]
Those comments made by former Prime Minister Said Musa on the political podium at Saturday’s Lake Independence convention have angered GSU Commander Mark Flowers. Now normally politicians and police keep a respectful distance from each other in public, but not this time. Flowers fired right back at Musa in an interview on Monday. He wasn’t […]
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