The mother of an eight year old student of a Presbyterian primary school in Belize City is tonight appealing that her son be returned home. Erica Bardalez today told News Five that her estranged husband, Jose Antonio Chacon took Richard Chacon on May twentieth purportedly for medical attention at a clinic in the city. Chacon, […]
Two men lost their lives violently in separate incidents in Belize City over the weekend while a third was viciously chopped to death up north. The bloodshed started in the Old Capital on Saturday morning. The life of a taxi driver on duty was cut short when he was executed near Banak Street. Norman Thompson […]
Norman Thompson’s execution was followed by the stabbing murder of twenty-five year old Ezekiel Medina in the city. His body was found early on Monday morning and it took hours for the family to confirm his identity. Medina is originally from Dangriga and he would come to City at least twice monthly. Last week he […]
Up north in the village of Caledonia, an ex-boyfriend was viciously chopped to death on the abdomen while at a Chinese store in the village. Three brothers have been charged and arraigned for the murder twenty-six year old Eder Alcoser that occurred sometime after eleven on Sunday night. Alcoser and his father, Marcelo, were viciously […]
Former Mayor of San Ignacio Alfonso ‘Ponchis’ Cruz spent Thursday night in lockdown at the Belmopan Police Station. As we told you, he was picked up by San Ignacio Police at around five-thirty Thursday evening and immediately taken to Belmopan for questioning. Cruz’s signature and stamp appear on many nationality documents facilitated by former Minister […]
Police have formally arrested and charged twenty-four year old Albert Reid for the murder of Santana resident, Maurice ‘Tuko’ Young. Reid was detained at two a.m. on Thursday at a house on Pine Street in Belize City. Sources tell us that police found the murder weapon, a twelve inch knife, hidden in a cement block […]
Police have detained and charged twenty-seven year old Mason Patnett, who was on the run after he accidentally shot his accomplice during a robbery on Tuesday. He was picked up at around nine Thursday morning. Patnett and a minor were at the Ladyville basketball court when they approached and robbed eighteen year old Marvin […]
Sometime around three this morning an unknown person or persons deliberately lit the fire which destroyed a wooden house at the corner of Cran and Cleghorn streets in Belize City. Eighty-three year old Orseline Wallace Gabourel was trapped inside the home; she called for help but was unable to get out of the house and […]
While police are investigating the death of Orseline Wallace Gabourel, Ladyville Police have detained one man for the death of Santana Village resident, Maurice Dennison Young. On Tuesday evening, the fifty-eight year old man was found dead and decomposed in the bushes behind his home. Police have officially confirmed that it was a homicide, following […]
Fifty-seven year old Levi Brown was shot in the head just before news time Wednesday night. The security supervisor at J and B security was riding on East Collet Canal on Wednesday evening, carrying a knapsack. As he reached the corner of Dean Street Brown heard the gunshot and fell to the ground unconscious. When […]
There is breaking news, just in to our studios. News Five has been able to confirm that former Mayor of San Ignacio Town, Alfonso ‘Ponchis’ Cruz, was detained by San Ignacio Police at five-thirty this evening. Cruz is a close confidante of former Minister of State Elvin Penner, and is the man who signed as […]
The body of fifty-seven year old Maurice Dennison Young was found on Tuesday evening; the last time he was seen alive was on Monday night when he told a friend he was going to the house of a neighbour. A family friend made the gruesome discovery in the bushes behind his home in Santana on […]
A minor is at the K.H.M.H. recovering from injuries he received during a robbery on Tuesday. But all indications are that the minor, a Ladyville resident, was one of the robbers, and he was shot by his accomplice, identified as Mason Patnett. According to the Police report, the minor and Patnett were at the Ladyville […]
The youngest murder victim for this year is a fifteen year old Belize City resident. He was executed on Monday, shot twice to the head at close range. Police found the body of Kevin Connor in a deserted area behind the Port of Belize compound at around eleven p.m. Connor left his house around nine […]
Three persons, including two women, were injured in two separate shootings over the weekend in San Pedro where crime is spiking. The first incident occurred after three on Saturday morning in the San Pablo Area of the prime tourism island. Seventeen year old Irma Mejia was shot multiple times: to the abdomen, jaw and thumb […]
Belmopan police continue their search for one of two men believed to be involved in a stabbing on Friday morning in the village of Cotton Tree. Twenty-nine year old Kurt Hyde, a Belizean construction worker of Cotton Tree Village, was stabbed six times to the back, face and arm allegedly by Orlando and Eugene Castillo […]
It’s confirmed. Christian Ebanks, remanded on firearm charges, is Ecuadoran Floyd Ebanks Jurado, wanted for murder in that country. News Five has confirmed that shortly after arriving in Belize, the thirty-nine year fugitive visited the Vital Statistics Department and changed his name. And tonight, there is also confirmation that the Ecuador authorities want him very […]
An Orange Walk businessman was chopped in the face this morning during an attack at his workplace. The victim, identified as Dennis Eiley, is the proprietor of Prestige Block Factory in Carmelita Village. While there are no official reports coming from the Orange Walk Police, News Five understands that the attack reportedly happened around eight-thirty a.m. […]
Is thirty-nine year old naturalized Belizean Christian Ebanks also Floyd Wendel Ebanks Jurado, one of Ecuador’s most wanted fugitives? That’s the million dollar question, and tonight Police say they are still not sure. On Wednesday, members of the Gang Suppression Unit searched the home of Ebanks, located at number one-twenty-two Teacher Street. They found a […]
On Wednesday, we reported on the vicious attack on a mother of four children in San Pedro. Lorena Montes, the proprietor at Henry’s Store near the airstrip on the island, was stabbed multiple times to the back and face allegedly by a woman with whom she has had previous conflict. But during the lunch hour […]
According to Perez, there has been a longstanding dispute between her daughter and her alleged attacker. They were bound over the peace some time ago, but it was a misunderstanding between their children that led to the violence. Reyes recounted the incident and pleaded for justice because she says her daughter would have been killed, […]
A Guatemalan couple is believed to be behind a scam providing fake nationality documents to Central American nationals; they were busted in an immigration crackdown and arraigned on Wednesday even though they were being pursued by immigration personnel when another Guatemalan national applied for a social security card with documents that belonged to a deceased […]
A murder attempt was foiled today in south side Belize City. Sometime after ten this morning, Garrick Hemmans Senior was heading to his sister’s home on Antelope Street when he was followed by a shooter on bicycle. The assailant set chase after Hemmans Senior, who sought cover inside a relative’s yard nearby. The shooter fired […]
A mother of four was transported from San Pedro to Belize City just after midday and is listed in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. Lorena Montes, the proprietor of Henry’s Store, was stabbed multiple times in front of her children who were with her during the lunch hour. The stabbing occurred at the corner […]
On their long ride back to the Belize Central Prison today, the Felix brothers were accompanied by twenty-four year old Joseph West, charged for the chopping of Giovanni Borland. The incident happened at around ten pm Sunday night. The two men got into an argument at Mil Amores Bar located in Libertad. It is reported […]
