Corozal Beauty Queen Aracely Cahueque was set free…acquitted of three counts of abetment to murder this morning. We’ll have her first words as a free woman since October, 2010. But first we go to the trial, which ended just before ten this morning. Cahueque had been accused of masterminding the brutal murder of eighteen year […]
After the verdict, hell broke loose as Cahueque was being processed out of custody at the Belmopan Police Station. At ten-thirty this morning, Cahueque stood in front of the Police Station with her mother and attorney Dickie Bradley, who was giving the media an interview. That’s when the emotion of the moment got away from […]
Cahueque’s first minutes as a free woman this morning were not happy ones, as she was attacked outside the Belmopan Police Station and her mother punched in the face and hit in the head. After things quieted down she was sneaked out of the station and taken to a secure location where News Five was […]
Late Thursday evening, News Five reported the alleged murder of twenty-four year old Independence resident Kayla Burgess. The family had previous posted it as a kidnapping, but by seven p.m. Thursday their worst fears had been realized. The twenty-four year old was found by Police in the Bullet Tree Area of the Cayo District, in […]
The Chicago Tribune is reporting today that a Belizean was murdered in Chicago on Wednesday. Michael Tingling was protecting his fifteen year old daughter, Masharah, when he was punched on the chest. He died shortly afterwards. The report is that Joseph Firek, a man on parole for residential burglary has been charged with murder and […]
There is breaking news tonight, and it is a tragedy which is devastating a family from Independence. Less than an hour ago reports circulated that Kayla Pandy had been kidnapped and her family was frantically begging for assistance in locating her. She had allegedly been last seen driving a champagne gold 2005 Kia Sorento in […]
The trial of twenty-two year old Aracely Cahueque continues to grip the nation’s attention. Cahueque, a beauty queen, is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of eighteen year old Raylene Dyer back in October 2010. The jury was empanelled on March eleventh and after a voir dire, her trial for three counts of […]
While Dyer remained missing, Cahueque presented the infant to her ex-boyfriend. But according to defense attorney, Dickie Bradley, that is because Cahueque told him that she was allowed to (Quote) “borrow baby Ravonn.” (Unquote) That statement has gone viral on social media, but Bradley says it was known by Dyer’s family. Bradley maintains, however, that […]
Just before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin ordered the Commissioner of Police to carry out a criminal investigation on the former minister of state, Elvin Penner, for his involvement in the illegal issuance of a passport to Won Hong Kim, there was another move for an investigation. It was started by the feisty and vocal Citizens […]
The Immigration Department made a bust this morning at a construction site which is managed by a Belizean-Honduran national, fifty-one year old Jesus Contreras. He was found to be employing four illegal immigrants from Honduras, namely Roger Antonio Barahona Moncada, Orlin Medardo Garcia Balico, along with Ivor Luis Arriola Ortiz and Gervin Arnoldo Espinoza Hernandez. […]
Today, the full trial of twenty-one year old Aracely Caheque continued in the court of Justice Denis Hanomansingh, following a ruling on legal arguments presented. The media is not allowed to speak on those matters, which were dealt with in a voir dire without the presence of the nine member jury. Caheque is charged with […]
A former cashier with Traveller’s Liquors Limited was arraigned today for a staggering one hundred and seventeen counts of theft. Twenty-four year old Los Lagos Resident, Rashida Kira Sedacy, who is now employed as a Secretary at Rangers Security, spent three nights in lock down at the Queen Street Police Station since her detention on […]
Travellers Liquors is not the only organization that has experienced theft. An overnight break-in at Biscayne Government School, which resulted in the theft of a number of laptops and audiovisual equipment, has set the institution back significantly. Sometime between Monday evening and the early hours of this morning, the standard six classroom was burglarized by […]
A trio of Guatemalan nationals has been charged for immigration offenses after being nabbed by authorities in Toledo attempting to contraband fifty sacks of sugar. Over the weekend, the men were busted by fisheries personnel reportedly traveling inside an unregistered vessel in Belizean waters. They were escorted to Punta Gorda Town where immigration officials later […]
On February twenty-third, twenty-one year old Andrew Augustine was leaving his aunt’s house en route to his home on Balan Street, also in the Lake Independence area. But when he was stopped and searched by three of four officers on patrol in the area on Electric Avenue, a stick of weed was found on him. […]
On February twenty-fifth, twenty-three year old Stephan Anderson was charged for the Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm, and Dangerous Harm against Augustine. But are the Police responsible, since they knowingly took Augustine to an area concentrated with PIV gang members, and that surely contributed to him being to the neck in a […]
Police made a huge bust this morning at the parking lot of the national referral hospital. Darrington Lauriano who has a Belize City as well as a San Pedro address where he has had run-ins with the law, was detained and searched. Lauriano was carrying a suitcase and a knapsack in which he carried marijuana […]
A cashier previously employed at Travellers Limited will be arraigned in the Magistrate Court on Tuesday for a whopping one hundred and sixteen charges of Theft. Twenty-four year old Rashida Kira Sedacy, a resident of the Los Lagos Community, on the Phillip Goldson Highway, is tonight on remand because of the voluminous amount of paper […]
Three persons were injured following a friendly basketball game in the North Creek area off the Central American Boulevard on Sunday night in what is believed to be gang related violence. Two gunmen on bicycles approached a crowd of spectators and opened fire. The group of men, women and youth ran for cover, but three […]
It did not make it on today’s police blotter, but on Friday night, another Belize City youth was injured in a shooting in the Jane Usher Boulevard area. Nineteen year old De’Zhaun Humes is tonight admitted at the surgical ward of the K.H.M.H. after he was hit five times to the body by an unknown […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you about Darrington Lauriano Junior, a Belize City resident who was caught red-handed by police with gun and ammunition as well as a little less than half pound of marijuana. Well Lauriano, who also resides in San Pedro, was the victim of a shooting last Tuesday night in which […]
A forty-eight year old teacher from Pasco County, Florida is in lockdown in Miami tonight after he attempted to travel to Belize to have sex with two underage girls. David Wendel Thompson, a Social Studies teacher at Centennial Middle School in Dade City, allegedly contacted the two Belizean girls via Facebook. Authorities say he had […]
In San Pedro, two men have disappeared from the island without a trace and their families are bracing for the worst. Dean Nassad Joseph, a resident of the San Mateo Area and nineteen year old Vincent Crawford who lived in north San Pedro, have been missing since March first. In the case of Joseph, his […]
Belize City police are looking for a pair of men whom they believe can assist with their investigation into the near-fatal shooting of seventeen-year-old Tarique Gillett. The minor was shot in the right side of the chest on Wednesday afternoon, as he stood near an intersection with Holy Emmanuel Street in the Gungulung area. According […]
A week ago, a tour guide was murdered in San Pedro and on Tuesday night, another resident of the island was shot as he headed home. Around nine-thirty p.m., on Sandpiper Street in the San Juan Area of San Pedro Town, twenty-one year old Darrington Louriano Junior was shot to the left shoulder. According to […]
