Tyrone Crown, a resident of Louise Bevans Street, was executed in cold blood just before dark on Saturday evening. A hail of bullets emptied on his body, caused his immediate death as he headed to his house, a stone’s throw away. Crown, a mechanic, lived immediately in front of where Giovanni Chi was killed last […]
Another shooting took place in the old capital on Saturday night. Thirty-one year old Jorge Estrada was shot three times to the head and has survived so far. But he remains hospitalized in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Estrada was rushed to the KHMH by BERT ambulance after he was discovered […]
The mean streets of Belize City have been soaked with the blood of accused criminals and ex-cons but every so often, productive members of society get caught up in the crossfire. And tonight we report that a talented musician who has travelled in the company of Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective has been gunned […]
A family home and business were robbed on Thursday after two masked men held them up with machetes. They were getting ready to start their day when the robbers caught them off-guard, making off with cash, a gun and other material items. News Five’s Andrea Polanco went to Rhaburn Ridge to talk to the traumatized […]
On Wednesday we told you about the Hispanic man whose decomposing body was found at a farm where he stayed. The caretaker’s nude and gored body was discovered shortly before eleven at a farm in the Thurton Ridge Area in Western Paradise on mile eight on the Western Highway. While the particulars of his identity […]
In the last three weeks a number of people have come forward speaking out as victims of land scams. It was established that a number of properties were sold through what appeared to be a land scam ring operating in the south. The latest report comes from Erasmus Palacio, a retiree of Dangriga Town. Erasmus […]
Tonight Ladyville police remain on the hunt for three men who attempted to rob the village’s branch of Atlantic Bank on Monday afternoon. The incident which resulted in two security officers getting shot was caught on surveillance camera. Sometime before two o’clock, three armed men entered the premises when a pair of guards, namely Ion […]
On Monday night we told you about a number of shootings that occurred over the weekend. The shooting spree continued up to mid-day today leaving two people hospitalized. The first incident took place shortly before ten-thirty p.m. on Monday. Twenty-three year old Ryan Davis was standing in front of his home when he was approached […]
The border community of Jalacte, located in a remote corner of the Toledo District, has been featured on several occasions during our nightly newscasts over the past month. The latest homicide in the village involved a minor who was chopped on his head while using an outhouse adjacent to his home. On Saturday night seventeen […]
There are two murders and two shooting incidents that occurred over the weekend. But a third shooting incident occurred just before two this afternoon. It was a brazen bank robbery attempt at the Atlantic Bank Ladyville Branch. Two employees were shot during a struggle with the robbers and are lucky to be alive. Our news […]
In the southernmost reaches of the country a resident of Jalacte Village was fatally stabbed at the start of the weekend. Details of the murder remain sketchy and News Five will have more information on the homicide as soon as it is made available by the Police Department. Toledo, nonetheless, was not the only district […]
There are two other persons who were shot over the weekend in separate incidents and they have survived the incidents. Eighteen year old Stephan Flowers was shot in the abdomen on Saturday night on Courtney Crescent. Flowers along with Ian Henkis, were riding on Mopan Street towards Sibun Street when they were approached from behind […]
On Saturday, media reports in South America linked a major drug bust in Venezuela to Belize. According to the newspaper, La Patilla, a Super King Air was busted with millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Several law enforcement officers were implicated in the bust and two of them were shot during the incident. But that […]
In Magistrate’s Court today, Fullers Alley resident Kimberly Oshon pleaded not guilty to charges of keeping a firearm and ammunition without a gun license. The twenty-seven year old woman was detained at around twenty minutes after nine o’clock on Friday night on Cemetery Road. She then led the cops to an area behind a fence […]
Only a week ago, forty year old Warren Allen Logan pleaded guilty to Handling Stolen Goods after he and his common-law-wife Stephanie Hemsley, were found in possession of a DVD player and other small items that were stolen from Josephine Waller. Well today the couple was back in court, again on a charge of Handling […]
There was murder before the lunch hour today in the City. Trenton Smith was released from prison in late July and this morning he was executed at a house on Johnson Street. The murder has all the trappings of a gang related homicide. News Five Isani Cayetano has a report. Isani Cayetano, Reporting The murder […]
Belize City police are tonight investigating what they believe is a case of arson. Sometime around four o’clock this morning a red Toyota Camry belonging to Kylie Rivers was set on fire. Rivers reported to police that she had parked the vehicle on Antelope Street Extension, adjacent to her brother’s house around ten-thirty on Thursday […]
Approximately one hundred cases of Miller Draft beer were confiscated by Customs officers in the north on Wednesday. Reports are that the officers were on patrol in Paraiso village in Corozal when they spotted a white GMC van exiting a feeder road. The officers followed the vehicle and intercepted it between miles eighty-nine and ninety […]
While many were tuning in to the public consultations on the ninth, a duo of armed robbers heisted a little over five thousand dollars in cash from the A&R Fuel Depot at mile one and a half on the Northern Highway on Wednesday night. The business was hit by two young men who entered the […]
Also in the city, around four on Wednesday afternoon after several shots were fired; thirty year old Nelson Kareem Bowen was hit in the right thigh. A lone gunman on a bike believed to be from the Ghost Town Gang rode up on Sarstoon Street and opened fire across the canal at Bowen’s home on […]
While concern grows about the frequent incursions by Guatemalan loggers in the Chiquibul, villagers in the Toledo District are also reportedly extracting rosewood without permits. The Maya Leaders Alliance and the Toledo Alcaldes Association told News Five at the end of July that there was rampant extraction of rosewood in the south and they were […]
A Belizean man is in the hands of US authorities tonight after an attack on a thirty-four year old woman and her thirteen year old daughter in Hawthorne, California. Twenty-two year old Lirisi Arzu of San Ignacio Town is vacationing in the US and is believed to have been on drugs when he approached thirteen […]
Twenty year old Jorge Agustin, of St Matthews Village was killed in the dead of night on Sunday. Agustin’s body was discovered early Monday morning with multiple gunshot wounds. The body was discovered a few feet away from his home in a remote area of the village. Agustin was dressed in only boxer shorts. On […]
Over the last five years crimes committed using firearms have increased at an alarming rate. In an effort to combat crime and the illegal trafficking of guns around the region, the OAS implemented a program for the Latin America and Caribbean territories. Today, Belize was gifted with a firearm marking machine as a part of […]
A twenty year old student from the IT-VET in the west has been shot and killed. His family heard gunshot blasts around midnight but did not imagine that Jorge Agustin was the target. He had visited with his mother on Sunday night but she woke up to the horrible news early this morning. Agustin’s body […]
