There was one shooting on Thursday night and going into the weekend there is concern that the gang violence could flare up. Tonight, the Belize Defense Force soldiers are back on the streets beefing up security, but the police have been unable to make progress in the spate of violence in which three persons were […]
The gun violence continued on Thursday night when at around eight forty-five shots rang out on the usually quiet Lizarraga Avenue in the King’s Park Area. Neighbours told News Five they heard as many as ten shots. When it was done, forty-year old Darryl Mayen lay on the ground bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds to […]
On June twenty-eight, Michael ‘Spam’ Ysaguirre succumbed to injuries he reportedly received following an altercation near the Conch Shell Bay Fish Market. While it was initially ruled as a sudden death, his family, including younger sibling and former Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya, maintained that Spam had been murdered. In an interview with News Five […]
There is a development in the murder of Orange Walk’s Ramon Cervantes Senior. At around eleven a.m. this morning, accused murderers twenty-two year old Noe Daniel Gonzalez, twenty-eight year old Mateo Pott and nineteen year old Angel Antonio Cardenas were escorted back to Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court. There they were read the formal charge of […]
The Faber’s Road Extension has been the scene of two vicious murders and a shooting in a span of twenty-four hours. Edwin ‘Drive’ Flowers, one of the leaders of the PIV gang, was shot but survived the hit on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday afternoon, a body was found floating in a sewer lagoon nearby. […]
Hours before the murder of Duane Hilton, police made a gruesome discovery. A body was found floating in an open sewer lagoon, it was horribly gutted and already decomposing. The identity of the body could not be immediately determined but police can now confirm it is Davee Copius of Jane Usher Boulevard. His mother says […]
Felicia Chen, the young mother who drowned three of her children at Belizean Beach in April 2013, returned to court this morning. At her previous appearance she was unrepresented and pleaded guilty to murder but Justice Troadio Gonzalez did not accept that plea. Today, Chen pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder but guilty […]
The foundations of the Orange Walk community have been shaken by the recent violence and malicious conspiracy. Even as Police have been able to recover two bodies of persons abducted and cruelly beaten to death, they concede that it is a tangled web and there is much information they are still trying to unravel. We […]
Leader of the PIV gang, Edwin Flowers, was shot on Tuesday night on Neal’s Pen Road….just a stone’s throw from where the body of unidentified man was found this afternoon. Before news time tonight, there was another murder in the city, also on Fabers Road. What we know so far is that two persons were […]
Tonight a tangled web of abduction, criminal conspiracy and violent murder in the Orange Walk district continues to dominate the news. We can report that the body of a second person, a woman, was found in a well on a farm on the Honey Camp road, five miles out of Orange Walk Town. Police were […]
We revisit the developing story in Orange Walk where the body of a Sonia Abac. At exactly five p.m. today, Head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch, Assistant Commissioner of Police Russell Blackett, released official information on the identity of the body discovered on the Honey Camp road. He also confirmed the Manuel Castillo connection […]
Even as NCIB Head Russell Blackett was confirming the discovery of Sonia Abac, the grieving family of the woman who had been missing since April twenty-third were laying her remains to rest at the Piemont Cemetery. She was identified by her clothes and other items found with her remains. Her family is convinced that deportee […]
Another body was found this afternoon. It is that of a young man who remains unidentified up to news time. The body was floating on the sewer lagoon off Faber’s Road and while partially decomposed, there were traces of blood on the bank of the creek which leads investigators to believe, that the young man […]
Urban warfare continues to grip the city. On Tuesday night around nine o’clock, PIV gang leader, thirty-one year old Edwin Flowers, was shot to the head, but has so far survived the shooting and is in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. Flowers was shot to the forehead, left arm and upper chest. While police […]
The chaos in the city has prompted government to re-deploy the B.D.F. to the streets. This afternoon, C.E.O. in the Ministry of National Security confirmed to News Five that, effective today, the B.D.F. will be scene at hotspots throughout south side Belize City. Ret. Col. George Lovell, C.E.O., Ministry of National Security “There have […]
The brutal murder of Ramon Cervantes Senior from Orange Walk Town is shrouded in mystery and up until tonight no one has been charged. But there is breaking news tonight as the investigations continue. News Five Mike Rudon has been in Orange Walk following this story and has returned to the farm where Cervantes’ body […]
It is exactly one week since seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes Senior was reported missing, and three days after his decomposed body was discovered in a shallow grave on a farm off the Honey Camp road in the outskirts of Walk Town. There have been multiple detentions by Police, and reports of a ringleader on […]
In the old capital, gun violence is relentless and grows even more brazen. On Monday night, a young man was gunned down in his bed inside his home. Leon Burgess and his common-law-wife had just retired for the night when he was executed. Numerous bullets found their mark on his upper body and head causing […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on a fire in Hattieville, but there is a development in respect of another blaze which totally destroyed a bar and a business in the City on June twenty-third in the Newtown Barracks area. A young woman, Jacqueline Arteaga, was tragically killed in that inferno; she was pregnant and […]
Earlier we told you that the body of a woman has been found two hundred yards away from the shallow grave that Ramon Cervantes Senior was buried in. The Cervantes murder has attracted national attention. Today, former Prime Minister Said Musa, a colleague of the deceased Orange Walk businessman and erstwhile politician Cervantes Senior, shared […]
Today, hundreds of Orange Walk residents gathered outside the police station and magistrate’s court, awaiting the arraignment of persons detained for the sensational and gruesome kidnapping and murder of Ramon Cervantes Sr. The seventy-one year old businessman and farmer was allegedly taken from his farm on the San Roman Road on Tuesday. His body […]
As we told you earlier, more than three hundred residents gathered in front of the Orange Walk Police Station and Magistrate’s Court this morning. Reports circulated early that those persons detained for the kidnapping and murder of Ramon Cervantes Sr. would be formally arraigned today. The Police have remained tight-lipped and evasive about the investigation. […]
Cervantes was buried yesterday evening, immediately after an autopsy was conducted on his body at the site where it was discovered. His sudden, violent loss has shocked, saddened and angered the community, of which he was a vital part. He was a long-time teacher, a former Mayor and Senator, a businessman and farmer, and his […]
While all eyes were turned to the Cervantes tragedy this weekend, there was also some gunfire which resulted in one man getting shot three times. The incident happened in front of the Hi Five Nightclub early Sunday morning. Police would not release the name of the person who was shot, since he is not cooperating […]
Twenty-one year old Shane Fisher narrowly escaped death on Saturday when he came under gunfire from a known assailant. The Kelly Street resident was standing in front of Kick Down Fence Chinese Restaurant on Dean Street when someone he recognized approached him and opened fire with a sawed-off shotgun. Fisher received gunshot wounds to the […]
