There is more information tonight in respect of a huge drug bust in San Salvador two weeks ago, but has just come to light. Anti drug agents used drug-sniffing dogs on a vehicle that was found to be carrying more than eight hundred pounds of cocaine, which as it turns out was heading to Belize. […]
In Belize, the battle with the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, is taking place at the Supreme Court. UNIBAM’s Executive Director, Caleb Orozco is leading the charge to have the laws amended so it would be legal for same sex relationships. A Jamaican national is also hoping to challenge both Belize and Trinidad […]
Police are preparing to arrest a San Ignacio resident for a serious crime of conspiracy to commit murder. While the charge is not unusual, the case is rare in Belize, but the plot is made for television. It involves a Belizean woman who recently married a British national, Glen Wilson. The young bride allegedly masterminded […]
It is well known that Belize is a major transhipment point for drugs heading to the United States from Colombia. And tonight, there is a report of a huge bust of cocaine that was heading to Belize. The Salvadoran press is reporting that at least four hundred kilos, some eight hundred and eighty pounds, of […]
Today the remains of what is believed to be the body of Orange Walk taxi-man Hugo Moreno were laid to rest by his grieving family and friends. The forty-two year old taxi-man was reported missing on Monday after he failed to come home Sunday night. On Tuesday afternoon his car was found burned about a […]
Hugo Moreno’s remains were so charred that the cause of death could not be determined. The body of the taxi driver was found in the trunk of his dodge car on Tuesday afternoon off the Carmelita Road in the Orange Walk District. His wife says he went missing over the weekend after he went to […]
While there is a conviction against Niccanor Fermin for carnal knowledge, there is another disturbing report from an eleven year old student of Sunset Park area, located at mile eight on the George Price Highway. The minor visited the Hattieville Police Station along with his mother, where he reported that on Tuesday July ninth 2013, […]
Fifty-three year old Walter Logan, a resident of Santana Village, is on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being caught with a homemade shotgun on Saturday. Shortly after four o’clock that evening, police visited the village where a search of the area where he was standing yielded a crude firearm made of galvanized piping. […]
Tonight, an Orange Walk family’s worst fear has been confirmed, following the gruesome discovery of a body in the outskirts of Carmelita Village. Forty-two year old Hugo Moreno, a taxi driver, was last heard from shortly before two a.m. on Sunday when he contacted his fifteen year old daughter who was attending the annual Fiestarama. […]
An Indian national who arrived in the country on Monday via Taca at the Philip Goldson International Airport was detained soon after he set foot in the Jewel. Instead of experiencing the natural beauty of Belize, twenty-two year old Lovepreet Singh Dhaliwal was held overnight and this morning he was arraigned for attempting to use […]
Three convicts escaped from the Belize Central Prison in Hattieville. On Sunday night at about seven-ten, while the guards were being transferred for their shifts, Hector Garcia, Roquael Tiul, and Wilmur Guzman, escaped from the Wagners Youth Facility. How they got out of the secured area that houses seventy-seven youths is unknown, but time is […]
News Five has covered many stories alleging police abuse over the years. Some of them have been so heinous that it is hard to say today’s complaint is one of the worst, but it is right up there. Tonight, fifty-five year old Cherry Anderson is detained after she was dragged out of her North Creek […]
Six persons were charged for drug and firearm offences following a search by the Gang Suppression Unit on Victoria Street. When the GSU searched the house at Victoria Street, it came up empty handed. But the GSU had success when it searched the roof of the Merrib’s Church which serves as a perimeter fence for […]
The case of the United States of America versus Rawel Pelayo, also known as Berto, has been growing for at least four years. Pelayo and others are accused of “intentionally and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other to violate the narcotics law of the United States.” Count one of […]
A firearm found on Gill Street by the Gang Suppression Unit back in May was used in the January murder of Marvin Forman, according to ballistic tests. The firearm is a Taurus nine millimeter pistol which had also gone missing from the police and is one of two used in the Foreman murder for which […]
The Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas, a recent document published by the Organization of American States, presented during its forty-third annual General Assembly in June, is being revisited by several Caribbean countries in examining their role in the transshipment of narcotics to North America and Europe. Trinidad & Tobago notes that, like […]
Football Federation of Belize Vice President Rawell Pelayo never made it to the Gold Cup 2013 games that the Jaguars played earlier in the month. On July eighth, Pelayo and other members of the F.F.B. including a football player had taken a flight to Houston, Texas. Pelayo was arrested by Drug Enforcement Agency agents and […]
A second pair of siblings is missing from the south. The Rash children went missing in August 2010 and they were never found. Tonight Independence Police are on the lookout for two children who have been reported missing by their parents. Jairo and Fanny Romero disappeared from the small village of Cowpen in the Stann […]
And even as they launch a manhunt for the missing siblings, Police are also investigating the murder of a Guatemalan national yesterday evening. Isaac Gutierrez, an employee of Mayan King in Southern Belize, was viciously chopped across the neck, allegedly by another employee, in his home on the Mayan King workers’ compound. Police believe that […]
Thirty-one year old Marlon Usher, a resident of Arlington Drive, Belize City, is lucky to be alive tonight, following a shooting incident over the weekend during which he was injured. Usher, no stranger to the law, was the intended target of a gunman, who unleashed a hail of bullets at him whilst socializing on Central […]
A house party being held at a residence on Iguana Street Extension on Saturday night ended in bloodshed when a group of women turned on each other with knives. Shortly before three o’clock on Sunday morning, police visited the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they observed thirty year old Darlene Adolphus, twenty-one year old Kendra […]
A Belizean, who has been missing following the murder of his girlfriend, is currently on INTERPOL’s wanted list. The International Criminal Police Organization, INTERPOL, is an intergovernmental organization facilitating international police cooperation. On September twenty-third 2011, nineteen year old Maritza Janet Santos was murdered inside the home of Michael Silva. Officers who arrived at the […]
During the Jaguars time in the Gold Cup Games played in three U.S. cities, the Football Federation of Belize suffered a slight embarrassment when one of its players was denied entry and sent back to Belize because on a previous trip to the U.S., he stayed longer than the time prescribed on his visa. But […]
Aggrieved families believe that there is a pattern of excessive use of force by the Police. There is the well-known case of Stephen Buckley, who survived two shots to the head and was left paralyzed on the left side of the body. Then there is Ryan Lozano from Ladyville who was shot and killed at […]
The third case occurred on May tenth when Punta Gorda resident, Rasheed Elijio was shot and killed by Police as he allegedly attempted to escape custody. That officer-involved shooting and two others are among the files which were sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice. Last week, Cheryl-Lynn Vidal responded in scathing fashion, […]
