While Castellanos and Gonzalez have both pleaded guilty to immigration offenses, there is a report from Caye Caulker that Immigration Officials have rounded up at least ten persons for fake nationality documents. In a sweep of the island on Tuesday, immigration personnel rounded up a group of persons who were in possession of the fraudulent […]
Former freelance reporter, Joseph Budna, is facing decades behind bars in neighboring Guatemala. Budna has amassed two convictions for kidnappings and back on April twenty-first, Budna escaped from the Zacapa Regional Hospital where he was reportedly receiving medical attention. Despite three guards on watch, he managed to flee; he was caught three days later in […]
There is a disturbing report tonight that three female minors are missing from Marla’s House of Hope in Belmopan. When we contacted the Home today, a spokesperson confirmed that three under-aged girls went missing ten days ago even though our report suggests that at least six children have gone missing in the past month. The […]
As women celebrated Mother’s Day, the life of a twenty-eight year old mother was viciously taken in the presence of her two year old daughter. It was a callous crime because Janice Vargas, who was shot at her place of work in Punta Gorda, was also four months pregnant. There are signs that she prevented […]
Early in the newscast, we told you about two persons who lost their lives in separate incidents. But in the City, two persons were injured in unrelated shootings over the weekend. Just before five on Friday evening, a fifteen year old student was shot to the right foot as he played with some friends in […]
A brazen, mid-morning robbery took place at the Scotiabank Branch in Belmopan when numerous customers were conducting business. It happened like this. The robber, who is well known to the law, stood dutifully in line. As soon as the customer in front of him had handed over a deposit of thousands of dollars to the […]
Vince Martinez Junior was murdered within minutes of leaving the funeral for his uncle in Ladyville on Wednesday. No one has been charged for Martinez’s murder nor has the motive been established. But Jermaine Patnett of Belize City, along with one other person, was detained and released on Thursday when he was able to establish […]
There is also another murder to report which occurred down south. Seventeen year old Hansel Garcia was shot multiple times last Wednesday as he was walking through Castillo Alley in Dangriga. Around eight o’clock, police say a lone gunman came up and fired several shots at Garcia and then fled the scene. Mission, as […]
As we reported on Wednesday, thirty-three year old Michael Guzman, a secondary school teacher at Belmopan Comprehensive High School, has been arrested and charged for carnal knowledge, after carrying on a sexual relationship with a minor. A fourteen-year-old student, in the company of her mother, reported to police that she has had sexual intercourse with […]
On Wednesday afternoon, a Belize City man attended his uncle’s funeral in Ladyville. A little over an hour later, he lay dead in a pool of blood…shot to the head as he sat in a bus shelter. Today, the Police are looking for a motive and a murderer, while the family of King’s Park resident […]
Stories of carnal knowledge and sexual abuse of children are among the hardest to report. But it’s a far too common occurrence in Belize – and far too often, it is somebody in a position of authority betraying a trust placed in them. Tonight, a teacher at the Belmopan Comprehensive School is reportedly behind bars […]
After two months of negotiations between the US and Belize thirty-four year old Cuban national Raonel Valdez is locked down in a Miami jail. The fugitive wanted in connection to the largest gold heist in Florida history was flown out of Belize this morning, and this afternoon was booked into the Turner Guildford Knight Correction […]
A seventy year old US national currently in Belize on business is reporting that he has been attacked twice in eight days and in broad daylight. John Larencz has been living at the Renaissance Towers near the Princess Hotel since March twenty-sixth. One month after he arrived, on April twenty-eight, he was the victim of […]
A police officer was returned to court late this evening for charges relating to stolen guns and ammunition from the San Pedro Police Station. Police Officer Yannick Wade was rushed to the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith where he was arraigned for a total of thirteen criminal charges; he was unrepresented because when […]
An apartment on Antelope Street Extension was the scene of a shooting at the start of the weekend. One man was killed and four others injured, including a fourteen year old minor and a young woman. Twenty-four year old Julian Willoughby was socializing with the group when two men wearing black caps approached them and […]
According to a police report, the lifeless body of a Guatemalan national was discovered on Saturday afternoon in Belizean territory, in an area several miles north of Kaldin, Guatemala. Forty seven year old Heber de Jesus Tzin Alvarado met his demise in a hail of gunfire, as an unknown assailant let loose a volley of […]
A Belizean minor is believed to be a victim of kidnapping and human trafficking across the northern border. According to newspaper accounts, police on patrol in Carillo Puerto, which is a favourite stop for persons travelling by road to Playa del Carmen or Cancun, detected a fifty-three year old Mexican man in a parked vehicle […]
Eight guns and more than one hundred rounds of ammunition were stolen between Wednesday night and Friday morning in San Pedro. Usually when that happens it’s time to call in the Police but here’s the thing – the weapons and ammo were stolen from the Police Station. The missing items are the property of K.B.H. […]
Two men are in Police custody tonight, charged for drug trafficking and multiple traffic offences. Roland Rivers and Paul Morgan fled from San Ignacio Police when they were approached, and then ironically overturned and crashed in the San Ignacio Police parking lot. The Ford Ranger they were in crashed into and damaged three vehicles, but […]
Crime and violence are disrupting the once peaceful island of San Pedro. Just before midnight on Saturday night, a Bomba resident was murdered as he stood outside a house on Seaweed Street in the San Juan Area. Dennis Palacio, who was no stranger to the law was shot to the back and shoulder and succumbed […]
Another life was taken over the weekend but in southern Belize. Sixty-nine year old Norman Benguche Senior, who is employed by the Belize Water and Sewerage Authority, was stabbed three times on the back by his stepson. The stabbing occurred when Benguche was having breakfast at his family home in Punta Gorda. His stepson, David […]
Twenty-two year old Benque Viejo resident Edwin Chan was murdered in Melchor on Good Friday. Chan was found in a remote locate on the outskirts of Melchor with one gunshot wound to the head. Benque Police told News Five that it also appeared that he had been badly beaten to the head and face. Police […]
A prisoner is tonight hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital recovering from a gunshot wound. According to the Kolbe Foundation, Trial Farm resident and inmate Marcos Gomez was attempting to escape from the confines of the prison when he was shot once to the buttocks. Prison officers acted promptly and were able to apprehend […]
In 2012, Belize was considered one of the top ten most dangerous countries in the world, with murders at an unprecedented high. In 2013, that turned around somewhat, with murders falling below the one hundred mark for the first time in five years. But 2014 isn’t looking quite that good, with gang tensions and the […]
San Pedro Police are at a standstill, following a shooting incident on Thursday night. Reports are that sometime around nine p.m. six gunmen fired several shots at the Campos family residence in the San Juan area of the island. While no one was at home at the time, police say that a bullet hole was […]
