The relative peace of the capital has been shattered by a double murder which it is believed occurred on Saturday morning. And by four-thirty this afternoon, another murder was reported, this time in neighboring Camalote village. Details are still sketchy, but information received says that a masked man shot another individual multiple times, killing him. […]
Alry Rose Sardido was murdered on Saturday, and later that night another woman from Roaring Creek narrowly escaped the same fate. Just after ten that night Police were called to a house where they observed bloodstains on the front steps. Their investigation led them to the Western Regional Hospital where they found Joanna Longsworth fighting […]
Orange Walk Police believe that they have solved the vicious murder of a high school student that happened in broad daylight on Tuesday. Eighteen year old Darrel Wade, originally from Biscayne Village, had just left New Hope High School when he was attacked and stabbed in front of a local vendor on Stadium Street in […]
Detective Constable Dean Yearwood was shot and killed by a fellow officer in the early hours of September eighth while pursuing a pair of robbers who attacked him, as he made his way down Central American Boulevard. The twenty-four year old was mortally wounded after being hit in the back by a single round, one […]
On the heels of one allegation of police brutality in Belmopan, there is another claim of excessive use of force by the police. This time around, a Dangriga resident says that he was assaulted by officers on Tuesday night in Belize City. Alan Cruz claims that he was waiting to purchase a vehicle some five […]
There was a stabbing in Orange Walk this afternoon which claimed the life of an eighteen year old student of New Hope High School. Police are still conducting a preliminary investigation into the incident so details are sketchy at this time. But, News Five has confirmed that Darrel Wade was riding his bicycle near the […]
Complaints of the excessive use of force by officers of the Belize Police Department are regularly aired in our newscasts. Tonight, there is another allegation to add to the growing list. Kadeesh Bernard and his mother came to our studios complaining that sometime around ten p.m. on Saturday, Bernard and a group of friends were […]
In the wee hours of this morning a San Ignacio resident was brutally murdered on one of the municipality’s main thorough fare. Jorge Luis Tzib was brutally stabbed and his throat slit. His body was found in a pool of his own blood across from Red Cross offices. The murder has shocked his family and […]
Almost every week night there is at least one instance of sexual deviants preying on minors to report. Each of those crimes is heinous in its own right, but tonight one such case is doubly so. That’s because on Tuesday, it is alleged that a couple from Ladyville tag-teamed to sexually assault a fourteen year […]
The partially nude body of twenty-four-year-old Ferris Torres was discovered inside the sports council’s office in Independence Village on Thursday morning. Shortly before nine a.m., police visited the Michael Ashcroft Stadium where they found the caretaker lying face down with what appeared to be abrasions to both knees. While there were no other apparent signs […]
San Pedro Police today issued an all-points bulletin for McLean August, a man wanted in connection with a chopping and a shooting which resulted in injuries to three persons – two of them minors. The chopping occurred on Tuesday and the shooting occurred on Wednesday. The root of both incidents was a parrot, which was […]
San Pedro police are tonight investigating a shooting incident in which two people were injured shortly before midday. Reports are that two men were involved in an altercation in the vicinity of the airstrip at about eleven-thirty when one of them produced a firearm. During the struggle, several shots were fired hitting a primary school […]
The facilities of the Ministry of Agriculture in Central Farm were broken into over the past weekend. The carpentry section was properly locked and secured by the Head Carpenter on Saturday afternoon but on early on Sunday morning, he was informed that the shop had been broken into. In fact the two storerooms had been […]
A B.D.F. soldier is today recovering from injuries he received at the hands of officers of the San Ignacio Police Department. The brutal beating was meted out on Corporal Keith Pinnix in the early hours of Sunday morning as he was standing outside the Blue Angels nightclub in San Ignacio. There are different sides to […]
As we told you earlier, there are different sides to every story – and the version told by San Ignacio Police couldn’t be more different. According to their report, Police were on routine patrol when they saw Pinnix without a shirt, screaming and shaking the metal gate to the entrance to Blue Angels nightclub. They […]
There were sporadic shooting incidents over the weekend. Also in the city, a confrontation between apparently intoxicated revelers, following the carnival j’ouvert on Saturday morning, has resulted in one person being hospitalized after being injured during a stoning. The melee which unfolded near Renaissance Towers caught the attention of personnel from the Gang Suppression Unit, […]
In other related news, a Belize City man is in stable condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was badly beaten on Saturday evening. It wasn’t included in today’s Police Sitrep, but News Five has confirmed that King’s Park resident, Kingsley Estell, was attacked by at least fifteen persons as he stood at […]
No one is being spared from a wave of robberies taking place. Minister of Immigration, Godwin Hulse, reports that sometime between last Thursday and Friday, someone broke into his warehouse located on mile ten and a half on the George Price Highway. The thieves stole a welding machine valued at two thousand dollars, six electric […]
A man from Corozal Town has reason to think twice before urinating in public again – since the last time he did so in the early hours of Sunday morning he was shot in the arm. Twenty-seven year old Francisco Castaneda claims he felt the urge to urinate at about two a.m. on Sunday, and […]
On Sunday morning, the Gang Suppression Unit searched a one bedroom shack on Gibson Street off Faber’s road occupied by twenty-four year old Calbert Young. The Unit did not have to dig too far, inside the bedroom on the floor the officers found a sack containing seventeen and a half kilos of cannabis. An additional […]
Orange Walk Police are mum about an incident which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday morning. It involved B.D.F., Police and civilians and could have turned ugly, but fortunately was diffused. News Five has been able to confirm that at around three o’clock that morning, two B.D.F. soldiers were detained and escorted to the […]
Police have yet to charge any suspect for the murder of popular Belmopan taxi-man Daniel Aguirre. But according to a source close to the case, investigating officers are one step closer to arraigning a Belize City man on that offence. The suspect is currently on lockdown, serving time for possession of an unlicensed firearm and […]
Police continue to investigate the killing of Dean Yearwood Junior, the cop who was shot in back by another police officer in the early hours of Sunday morning. And from some accounts, there are discrepancies in the official version of the shooting. The Yearwood family is contending that the same weapon used in the shooting […]
The charred body of Daniel Aguirre, a Belmopan taxi driver who in 2011 captured the title of KTV Latino, was found in his taxi last Saturday morning in the Arizona area of Teakettle on the George Price Highway. The motive of his murder is still under investigation, but tonight four persons linked to Aguirre’s murder […]
Belize City police are tonight investigating a report that a minor, a ten-year-old boy, was caught driving a delivery truck in the area of Belama Phase Four on Tuesday. According to an eyewitness, the child was seen commandeering the vehicle along the street immediately behind the Benny’s apartments with a visibly intoxicated adult slumped in […]
