A teacher, who was accused of having sex with a minor since she was seven years of age, was today charged with seven criminal offenses including carnal knowledge and six counts of aggravated assault of an indecent nature. The alleged sexual act started back in 2008 and continued until she was twelve years. Today, the […]
A sting operation recently conducted in Melchor de Mencos has resulted in the arrests of at least thirty-seven individuals believed to be operating a cross-border contraband smuggling ring. It is alleged that a number of high level Belizean officials, including politicians and law enforcement personnel, are being named in the bust for contraband cigarettes, liquor, […]
A pair of siblings on vacation in the Cayo District was kidnapped but rescued on Thursday morning by the police with the cooperation of residents from Bullet Tree Falls. The four abductors are still at large and two are believed to have been involved in the murder of Canadian national Brian Townsend. One suspect is […]
According to San Ignacio Police, the Kotay siblings are still in the country recovering from their ordeal. Statements from Manisha and Kathen reveal that they were not robbed of any personal belongings or cash. Deputy Officer Commanding the San Ignacio Police Formation, Inspector Reymundo Reyes, says that the rescue would not have been possible without […]
Early on Thursday, San Ignacio police along with Mobile Intercept Team (K-nine) descended on the home of forty-seven year old Sherlene Myvette of Unitedville. The K-nine soon enough sniffed out suspected cocaine hidden in the stand of a fan. According to the police, there were six parcels of the cocaine weighing point three grams. Myvette’s […]
Two siblings were abducted in the west this morning as they left a resort, but their kidnapping fortunately ended without incident. While unscathed, eighteen year old Kathen Kotay and twenty-two year old Manisha of Virginia, USA, endured a terrifying ordeal at the hands of their abductors who were demanding seventy-five thousand dollars for their return. […]
There is heinous crime to report tonight involving a fifty-one year old teacher, who is the stepfather of an alleged abused young girl. A twelve year old is claiming that her stepfather, who is many years her senior, has been sexually abusing her since she was at the tender age of seven years. The girl, […]
A well-known Belize City body-works man died on Monday night. Don Tillett took his last breath in an ambulance as he was being rushed to the K.H.M.H. after he collapsed in his Belama home. Tonight, the cause of Tillett’s death is still largely a mystery but is it likely that Tillett’s death will take the […]
Tonight there are very reliable indicators of a possible resurgence of the bloody gang warfare which marked Belize City as a danger zone. Things had cooled off noticeably since the brutal executions of four George Street lieutenants in January 2013. But recently there have been several brazen gang-related shootings, the latest reported on Monday night […]
There have been two murders reported in Belize for 2014. Both of them occurred in the south and both victims were viciously chopped to death. The first murder occurred on Thursday night near the community of Trio on the Southern Highway, and the second occurred on Saturday night at the Green Gold Banana Farm off […]
The first murder of the year also occurred within the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Southern Formation. Like Maria Perez, the victim was savagely chopped to death and left bleeding on the ground. The body of Guatemalan national Rene Arturo Perez was discovered early Friday morning, on a farm some five miles outside the community […]
There was more violence over the weekend. In Burrell Boom, eight expended shells were found at the scene of a shooting just before midnight on Saturday. The victim, Adrian Myvette, remains hospitalized for injuries to the abdomen and back. Myvette was heading home when an assailant rode up and ambushed him. Two are detained […]
Around one p.m. on Thursday, the body of sixty-four year old Brian Townsend, a former missionary living in Valley of Peace was exhumed in Flores, Peten. Townsend’s body was found floating in the river near Arenal in Guatemala on the twenty-seventh of December after he had gone missing on Christmas Eve. But it was not […]
On New Year’s Day, many families generally celebrate by spending quality time together. But on New Year’s Day in Ranchito Village just outside Corozal, thirty-year-old Hensleigh Ryan Jones shot his father in the head three times, following an altercation. Hensley Jones miraculously survived the ordeal, and was rushed to the K.H.M.H. where he is currently […]
San Bernardino Police and the FBI are hunting for a man who is said to have strong ties to Belize. Edly Albert Atherley is wanted for the murder of his estranged wife, Ashley Atherley. She was found dead in the couple’s San Bernardino, California home on November thirtieth. Her throat had been slit, she had […]
Persons charged for illegal firearm offences are in the news on almost a daily basis. People are hauled away regularly for unlicensed guns or bullets found on them, in their homes, in their yards and even in close proximity. But our story tonight is different, with distinct Animal Farm undertones. There is a large measure […]
A seventeen-year- old of the Lake Independence Area of Belize City is tonight in police custody after being accused of carrying out a hit on his nineteen-year-old female cousin. Sometime before eleven p.m. on New Year’s Eve, Tashia Staine was shot as many as seven times and left for dead allegedly by Kevaughan Staine, as […]
Fifty-three year old Hensley Jones, a Belizean businessman of Ranchito Village in Corozal, is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds inflicted by his son on New Year’s Day. It is alleged that Jones, popularly known as Nick, was at home with his son, thirty year old Hensleigh Ryan Jones, on Wednesday night when he was shot […]
Eight days after being reported missing, the body of Canadian national Brian Townsend has been formally identified by Belizean authorities. Townsend is believed to have been attacked on his compound in Valley of Peace on Christmas Eve. An intensive search was launched in that community and surrounding areas, but there was no sign of the […]
News Five has been following the investigation into a rape which occurred in the early hours of Boxing Day. A teenager alleges that she was held down by two persons who had accompanied her to the Princess Casino, while a third person raped her. In her statement to police, two persons were named by the […]
Our last newscast of 2013 brings no good news to family and friends of Canadian national Brian Townsend, missing and believed murdered on Christmas Eve. Reports early this afternoon suggested that his body had been found, but tonight Benque Viejo Police investigators are unable to confirm if that body, found by Guatemalan authorities four days […]
In the early hours of the morning of Boxing Day, a teenager was raped in San Ignacio minutes after she exited the Princess Casino in that western town. The young girl was allegedly pulled into a car by three men; she was held down by two while the third raped her. Details were sketchy and […]
The murder count was down during the year in Belize City but 2013 is ending violently and it is suspected that gang violence has sparked up, resulting in the latest murder in the City. The police will not confirm if the murder of Leon Giovanni Smith was gang related but word on the street […]
Three years ago, on July fifteenth 2010, twenty-four year old Ryan “Cash” Bennett, who according to police also goes by the name Roy Felix, was shot at the corner of Faber’s Road and Nurse Findley Crescent in what is undoubtedly a series of unfortunate and tragic events in the life of the well-known Felix […]
Sixty-four year old Brian Townsend was declared officially missing on Christmas Day. But the Police Department and residents of the community believe that he was attacked in his home at around ten pm on Christmas Eve. Evidence, including a ransacked house, missing items and a blood trail, suggests that Townsend was hurt or killed on […]
