Eighteen year old Brandon Thomas Bennett is tonight being held without bail at the Central Prison in Hattieville following the attempted murder of Kent Moss on Saturday. The stabbing incident occurred during the annual Sir Barry’s Belikin Fest at the Memorial Park where an altercation ensued between both men. Moss reported to police that he […]
The Sri Lankan nationals who arrived in Belize in August claiming to be filmmakers have had an unplanned twist to end their movie. Their immigration scam has unraveled and today eleven of them appeared in Magistrates Court to be charged for Willfully Supplying False Information to an Immigration Officer Upon Arrival. They all pleaded guilty […]
In the danger streets of the city, a hail of bullets was unleashed on Alfredo Rodriquez after eight o’clock on Thursday night. Luckily, only one found its mark on him. The bullet was removed today but his family is concerned that Rodriguez is still in danger from his assailant. News Five’s Andrea Polanco reports. Andrea […]
This evening, major US agencies reported that Belize and El Salvador have been added to the United States blacklist of “major” drug producing and transit countries. One report in the US media says that the State Department officials have indicated that cartels which ship drugs to the US via Mexico are now using Belize and […]
It seems that the Sri Lankan movie in Belize will not be made after all. It has been well documented by News Five that Belize has been a springboard for human trafficking of African, Chinese and Sri Lankan Nationals. And recently a group of eleven Sri Lankans was detained for questioning upon their arrival in […]
On Wednesday night we told you about the cold-blooded murder on a citrus farm in Hope Creek Village. Thirty-nine year old Guatemalan, Anival Lopez, was hacked to death with a machete allegedly by another employee. The accused, a Honduran national, has disappeared since the incident. Dangriga police have been combing the area for forty-three year […]
Belize recorded its latest murder in the Stann Creek Valley. The long list is inching closer to a hundred. Around nine-thirty this morning, three Central American nationals were hanging out on a farm in Hope Creek where they work. A quarrel started between two of the men and ended with the murder of Anival Lopez. […]
Police constables Elston Rojas and Rudolph Azueta as well as Belize City resident Emmerson Skyers were charged on Monday evening for their involvement in a daring robbery inside the Corozal Free Zone over the weekend. Shortly after five p.m. on Saturday an armed man entered North American International Company where he proceeded to rob Chinese […]
Cleo Robinson was shot on the night of February, twenty-third 2010; It took months to make an initial arrest and in August 2010, the well-known street figure, Jermaine Belgrave, was charged for attempted murder. Robinson died fourteen months later on June thirtieth of this year and today the charge against Belgrave was upgraded to one […]
A repeat domestic abuse offender became the victim of vigilante justice at Mahogany Heights on the Western Highway. Elston Leopold Gentle is a convicted offender and on Friday night he repeatedly stabbed his common-law wife inside their house. When she fled, he pursued her and continued inflicting wounds but the residents also caught up with […]
There were no murders reported in the City over the holiday weekend but trigger-happy robbers in the west caused the demise of a supermarket owner. Three others were injured when the robbers fired indiscriminately at employees and customers. It happened after seven on September tenth night when the store was buzzing with customers. News Five’s […]
Three persons are in custody tonight, including two cops, for a huge robbery at the Commercial Free Zone. The three are expected to be arraigned on Tuesday. The two officers, one from Corozal and the other from San Pedro, are believed to have facilitated the crime, while Emmerson Skyers is alleged to have carried out […]
The Banak Street home of Shana Tillett was burglarized on August twenty-sixth and today her neighbor was charged for the crime. Over two thousand dollars in items were stolen, including an assortment of children’s clothing, a cell phone, jewelry and as well as ladies tennis shoes and jeans. The accused neighbor is thirty-two year old […]
A fifty-six year old Belize City woman was arrested for allegedly stealing from a fast food vendor and she compounded her troubles when she lied to the cops about her name. Today, Sylvia Therese Hernandez, a Pitts Alley resident, was charged with Theft and Committing a Mischievous Act. She pleaded not guilty to Theft, which […]
Well known Santino cyclist Marlon Castillo has had his share of tragedy. Recently, Castillo was the driver in an accident that resulted in the fatality of his good friend Ariel Rosado. Castillo has been charged for that accident and he is now facing the loss of a close family member. His father, well known business […]
Also on Thursday night, another unexplained brutality occurred; this time on the Northern Highway. A Belize City taxi driver had a horrific near-death experience. Forty-seven year old Rocliffe Orin Stevens, known to many as “Bull”, picked up three passengers in the Pickstock Street area of Belize City and they asked to be taken to a […]
Samuel Price, the brother of first Prime Minister, George Cadle Price, was bludgeoned to death inside his home sometime between April fifteenth and sixteenth. Police initially detained two minors and an adult for questioning but they were subsequently released. Today, a Burrell Boom resident, Shane Gillett, was charged for Price’s murder. Gillett was escorted to […]
On Monday we told you about an US visitor who was assaulted and raped on the Stann Creek Valley Road. There is a report tonight that another woman was raped over the weekend. Independence police say that a forty-four year old Honduran national was riding her bike from Farm fourteen to her home when a […]
A post mortem examination on the body of twenty-seven year old Michael Young, also known as Ham, was conducted this afternoon at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to a police press release issued on Monday, Young was shot multiple times in the right knee, left leg and behind the left ear when he came […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow rushed back to Belize last Friday to meet with gang leaders. They agreed to hold the peace until after the September celebrations; the carnival road march went without incident. Friday’s meeting was followed by another at the ITVET on Sunday where all Belize City gangs sat around the table with the […]
While the gang truce held in the old capital, in the nation’s capital a notorious figure was killed in a robbery. The body of twenty-seven year old Michael Young, a resident of Hattieville who goes by the street name of Ham, is tonight inside the morgue at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where it awaits […]
A Guatemalan National who was wanted for murder in his country, fled across the border to avoid the long arms of the Guatemalan police. But the suspect was busted over the weekend in Punta Gorda. On Saturday, Garcia was arrested by three uniformed Belize police officers who promptly handed him over to the Guatemalan police […]
It’s not the first time that women have been busted while attempting to smuggle marijuana into the Central Prison. But on Sunday a grandmother was added to the growing list of offenders. Fifty year old Florence Cho of Carmelita Village went to visit an inmate, but was allegedly found in possession of over twelve ounces […]
Police fired a single warning shot in the air in the Gwen Lizarraga High School compound on September second, while pursuing nineteen year old Ellis Meighan into the school grounds. Police say they spotted Meighan Junior in the vicinity and because he acted suspiciously, they pursued him. Meighan fled and jumped over the school fence […]
Down south, police investigations continue into the mysterious death of fifty-five year old Honduran national, Jose Efrain Alvarado Munguia. On Saturday, Independence police found Munguia lying face down apparently dead. He was fully dressed, but had a machete in his left hand. Police say that around one that afternoon, Munguia who is a farmer at […]
