The other murder victim was twenty-nine year old Mauricio Cawich, a father of six children in Xaibe Village, Corozal. Initially his passing was recorded as a possible accident, however, Cawich is a known trouble maker and was said to have many enemies. He was last seen alive at around twelve-thirty a.m. last Friday morning. His […]
A daring, mid-afternoon heist at the Belize Medical Associates on Saturday has netted a pair of robbers over eleven thousand dollars in cash and checks. The robbery also landed an employee in detention pending the outcome of a police investigation. Two armed men entered the building’s main office on Saint Thomas Street shortly after two […]
The violence in the movie portrayed real life, and the following report could have also been scripted for the screen. Tonight, ex-police officer Dennis Card is on remand at the Hattieville Prison after being charged with Aggravated Assault and Kept Unlicensed Ammunition. Both charges come on the heels of a shooting incident on Thursday evening […]
Also in court, twenty-one year old Eugene Myers and thirty-seven year old Anthony Singh were charged with Forgery, Theft and Claiming upon a Forged Document. The complainant is Myers’ neighbor, nineteen year old Tiffany Thomas, who claims that her credit union book went missing on May twenty-fourth while Myers was at her house. The men […]
Turning to other news, a well-known doctor was assaulted and robbed two weeks ago in Orange Walk Town. Thieves got away with Dr. Enrique Guerra’s cash, credit card and cell phones. He was brutally beaten and suffered severe injuries to his head. Despite three rounds of surgery, he remained comatose and this morning he passed […]
The weekend brawl in the parking lot of the Princess Hotel and Casino is far from over. It left three men injured and it’s soon to spill into the courts. On Monday we reported on Rodney Lino and Patrick Menzies version of the events that happened early Sunday morning. Their account started with an accidental […]
But the focus of the incident centers on a woman who was either bumped into or harassed. Well, the woman who walked out of the club and interacted with Lino and Casimiro also spoke to the media today. She preferred to remain off camera and while sitting in a darkened studio, she related what happened […]
The Matura family of Central American Boulevard is no stranger to the constant street violence. At the start of the weekend, a fourth family member was murdered. Mark Matura was shot once in the head by a brazen gunman who first checked his identity and then came back to finish the job. The Matura family […]
A lone gunman unleashed a barrage of bullets at a group of friends on Antelope Street on May twentieth, leaving two men dead and three others injured. Police believe that brazen shooter, was twenty-four year old Jaime Hendrick Smith, of Raccoon Street Extension. Smith was arrested this morning and has been charged with two counts […]
A reputed member of the Gill Street Gang was arrested for Kept prohibited firearm and Kept unlicensed ammunition, but he is also being investigated and may be charged for the Murder of Mark Matura. When police responded to the scene of the fatal shooting on Friday, they were securing a three block area and noticed […]
Sadie Vernon Technical High School is once again in the news tonight following a mid-morning stabbing incident on school grounds involving a second form student. While details of the incident remain sketchy, News Five understands that a former student of the high school entered the compound during the morning break and stabbed the teenager in […]
Thirty-two year old Erwin Staine was murdered on Wednesday night and less than a day later the suspected gunman was arrested. According to police, twenty-seven year old Kenneth Dobson of Raccoon Street Extension has been formally charged with Murder. Staine was at a regular hangout spot, not far from his home on North Creek, where […]
The bus crisis and the eviction of squatters that led to civil unrest at the Belcan Bridge topped the news on Wednesday. But at night, shots rang out in the North Creek area. Two men rode up, one opened fire on Erwin Staine and a friend. Unlike his friend, Staine did not stand a chance; […]
Countless women have been caught trying to sneak drugs into prison but one Belize City woman was bolder and allegedly attempted to smuggle cannabis into the country. At around eleven a.m. on Tuesday, Barrack Road resident, twenty-six year old Lucy Giselle Cano, entered Corozal via the Santa Elena Northern Border. But when Customs Officials, inspected […]
A twenty-six year old was executed on Sunday night in Orange Walk Town. Alberto Atarna Tutt was shot multiple times, including to the back of his head. Just prior to his murder, he was at his mother’s house on the Belize/Corozal Road; he didn’t go too far when he met his tragic death in the […]
While police investigate Tutt’s murder, a Teakettle resident has been arrested and charged for the murder of twenty-three year old Shane Simpliss, who was brutally killed last Wednesday night. Simpliss was among a group that was partying at the home of seventeen year old Elton Vasquez in Teakettle Village when two other friends showed up […]
On Friday afternoon a police van that was transporting prisoners to the Central Prison overturned around mile thirty-seven in Rhaburn Ridge. Prison warden, Delbert McLaughlin died shortly after while being rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital. Prisoners Crispin Moreno and Dean Davis, who both suffered spinal injuries, are still hospitalized at the KHMH. The remaining […]
Another prisoner, Fabian Bain, was not involved in the accident, but he had four days of freedom and is back in jail tonight. Bain, who is also known as Carlos Escalante, escaped last Tuesday while being transferred from the courthouse to the Central Prison. But on Saturday night, police searched a two storey house at […]
Two thieves used one of the oldest tricks in the book to rob the Corozal branch of Belize Postal and Messaging Service. The men went to the establishment at around two o’clock on Friday afternoon, pretending to be customers and requested a package in the name of “Coleman”. According to employee, Sheila Torres, when she […]
Also in court, a Buttonwood Bay resident was busted after he solicited money from three persons and used the name of the Minster of Works, Anthony Boots Martinez. Forty-three year old William Lopez approached Laura Mora, Steven Flowers and Shannet Williams on separate occasions and showed them documents, claiming that he was selling land for […]
Two persons were murdered on Wednesday; one in the City and the other miles away in the village of Teakettle in the west. Firstly, when we left you on Wednesday, police were just processing the crime scene at Belama Phase 1 where the body of Charles Anthony Anderson was found. Anderson was murdered execution style […]
Earlier we told you about a murder in the city. Hours later, in the western village of Teakettle, a twenty-four year old man was shot in the chest and chopped on the head and arm. Shane Simplis’ family is still in shock at the brutal murder that happened when he was among a group of […]
The pre-dawn swoop on the premises of businessman Miguel Menjivar by the Police Department’s Gang Suppression Unit on May twentieth has been the subject of controversy in the aftermath of the shootout that ensued during the operation. Although the incident occurred a week ago, varying accounts of what transpired that morning have been ventilated. On […]
The Yabra Police Community Center has been a fixture for programs designed by grass roots as well as established N.G.O.’s. Across from the center is a police booth and on the second floor of the community center building is a police substation. Nonetheless the facility was burglarized. The center feeds dozens of children at lunchtime […]
The body of a taxi driver was found inside a maroon taxi with license plate B-6419 on Guzman Crescent in the Belama Phase One Area of Belize City. The body had one bullet wound to the back of the head and according to one report from the scene, the vehicle was parked since two o’clock […]
