An alarming report has been released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) that is picking up traction throughout the region. According to a report in the Barbados newspaper, Nation News, the I.C.E., in a period of only six months, over two thousand convicted criminals were deported to Caribbean countries. In Belize, where the […]
The Easter holidays are a few days away so the Gang Suppression Unit is busy. Before sunrise this morning, their focus was in one of the city’s hotspots, the George Street area. The first search was conducted at twenty minutes to five o’clock at the home of thirty year old Kareem Westby, a reputed member […]
There were no gang related murders over the weekend, but an innocent life was still snuffed out in the crime wave sweeping across the country. The brother of Belize’s first Prime Minister, George Price, was found dead in his home over the weekend. The police believe that the senior citizen, eighty-four year old Samuel Price, […]
A series of police crackdowns across Belize City began on Friday with an operation on Flamboyant Street. One of the big finds was an antipersonnel explosive similar to that of a claymore mine. The operations concluded early this morning with an intensive four-hour search at the home of a well known businessman. Shortly after four […]
At about two-thirty on Saturday morning a vehicle belonging to Yolanda Schakron, the outspoken founder of Belizeans for Justice, was torched in the Los Lagos area. It is the second vehicle belonging to her family that has been set on fire. But two other vehicles parked at their place of business recently went up in […]
On Sunday evening, a vessel was intercepted in San Pedro carrying a quantity of contraband liquor. The authorities are keeping tightlipped about the incident but there is a reliable report that three persons on the boat were returning from Xcalak after dropping off artists who had performed at a fundraiser for a local preschool on […]
In the lower court, two customs officers are facing charges following a report by an elderly US National, who claims he was scammed out of thousands of dollars. The accused men, thirty-five year old Linsbert Godoy and thirty-two year old Herbert Matute, were represented by Attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley when they appeared before Chief Magistrate […]
Earlier we told you about a raid at the house of James Swan Senior, where police found a stash of weed and a firearm magazine. In other searches throughout the old capital, the Gang Suppression Unit has been successful in removing several illegal weapons off the streets. On Friday, we reported that several firearms and […]
The Police Department removed at least six unlicensed weapons and different caliber bullets from the streets over the weekend. But the department is under fire for not doing enough and so while discussing the weekend’s murder of Samuel Price, Police Press Officer, Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood, also shared the capture of suspects, who robbed a bus […]
The Police Department has made a major find of a high powered weapon used by the US military. Police conducted several searches throughout hot zones and netted several items that they believe were intended to be for criminal activity. The most disturbing was the discovery of an M18-A1 Anti personnel mine with its detonator wires. […]
Also in the west, nineteen year old Hubert Pandy was shot by police in his home on Eve Street in Santa Elena Town on Tuesday April fifteenth. According to police, around three-thirty that afternoon, they carried out a search warrant for stolen items at Pandy’s house. During the search, they claim Pandy grabbed a machete […]
Further away the Village of Arenal, near the western border with Guatemala, has a history of armed robberies and violent attacks, believed to be carried out by a group of bandits who operate in the area. On Thursday, two nineteen year olds were held at gunpoint and robbed on the Arenal Road within twenty minutes. […]
Last week, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced the introduction of tough new anti-crime laws. But the violence and lawlessness continue unabated and criminals roam and kill with relative ease. So today while a peace march was not huge in numbers, the message from the University of Belize students was loud and clear…. they want an […]
In the fight against drugs, last year News Five joined the Belize Defence Force as they destroyed a marijuana plantation in a field in the Orange Walk District. While those burning buds were for local use, narco-traffickers use Belize as a transshipment point. But the anti-drug war is being fought by security forces on all […]
Tuesday afternoon’s murder and shooting was followed by an armed robbery in the old capital. Robbers made off with over six thousand dollars in cash and thirty thousand dollars in cheques. It wasn’t a brazen daylight robbery but one that occurred on a dead end road in Belize City after nine o’clock on Tuesday night. […]
In our newscast on Tuesday night, we reported on the late afternoon murder of Avondale “Hogbone” Fuller who was ambushed at the Conch Shell Fish market. The homicide has the Gang Suppression Unit on high alert as Hogbone, is a reputed affiliate of the George Street gang and retaliation can be expected. One person, with […]
A few hours after the deadly shooting police detained a suspect whom they believed could assist them in their investigation. The murder of Avondale Fuller, despite increased police presence in the streets of Belize City, succeeds a series of retaliatory shootings in what is believed to be an ongoing gang rivalry. News Five spoke to […]
Following the murder of Hogbone, another shooting took place in the area. Twenty year old Jerome Lewis was injured to the upper arm. No suspects have been charged. Lewis was standing in front of his house on Fairweather Street when he was met by gunfire. The employee of Maya Island Air almost became the next […]
U.S. national, Thomas Donahue, is the most recent U.S. most wanted fugitive to be captured in Belize. Donahue was busted on Tuesday at the home of Hector Polomo, who resides on Santa Rita Road in Corozal Town. The forty-four year has long rap sheet and is a registered sex offender wanted for allegedly producing tons […]
A well known associate of the George Street gang has been gunned down this evening by the Vernon Street Fish Market. Avondale Fuller, also known as Hagbone, was shot and killed and according to reports, by a barrage of bullets. Fuller is by trade, a fisherman of sixty six West Street. But his reputation from […]
The Fire Department was called to the scene before dawn this morning in the area of Vernon Street. Two vehicles parked near the Red House were on fire and the owners believe it is a case of arson. The vehicles belonged to the Galvez family; one of the brothers Chris was murdered in December 2009 […]
Five persons, including the bank manager, were arraigned on Monday in connection with the robbery at the Orange Walk branch of Heritage Bank. Just as that case got underway, a retrial against three men for a previous bank heist in that district came to an end. Six men are believed to have carried out the […]
A case of Burglary also ended in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today, but fifty year old Anthony Rodriguez, didn’t get a happy ending. Rodriguez pleaded guilty to the charge and admitted in court that he broke into a store room in the Ladyville area on April tenth and stole power tools with a total […]
John Lennon once said Imagine all the people living life in peace. And though you may say he was a dreamer, the former Beatles Icon is not the only one who hoped for a society void of guns, violence and illicit drugs. The nation is on edge with the uncontrollable violence and this Thursday the […]
Belize City police have increased their presence on the deadly streets of the Old Capital in the wake of last weekend’s bloodbath. But the boost in manpower has proven insufficient in thwarting criminals from taking aim at three Belize City men, two who were murdered within three hours. We begin tonight’s newscast by reporting on […]
