The corner of Prince Street and West Canal is becoming a regular fixture in the news. We’ve reported on two murders and one attempted murder of a store clerk in the past months all within a twenty yard range. And early Sunday morning was no different, a gunman decided to unleash his clip on the […]
A businesswoman in Ladyville was attacked by two men in a stabbing incident that could have ended fatally. That’s because Bridget Garcia was stabbed in the left side of the neck. Garcia, who sells tamales at her home on Perez Road, was called outside by her daughter when the men came to place an order […]
The International Narcotics Control Strategy Report is submitted by the US State Department to Congress every year in March. It’s an assessment of global efforts to combat transnational narco-trafficking and money laundering and features individual country reviews. The 2011 report was recently published and there’s some bad news for Belize, which has always been vulnerable […]
At minutes before the five o’clock hour on Thursday evening, Andrew Moses was shot and killed by a lone gunman on Kraal Road, one of the City’s hotspots. Moses, a former postman, hardly had a chance of survival. Multiple gun shots hit on the left side of his chest, abdomen and leg. News Five’s Isani […]
There was gunfire in the Old Capital this afternoon. At around five o’clock, a man was shot at the corner of Kraal Road and Ross Penn Road. He is twenty-nine year old Andrew Moses, who was in the employ of Minister of Works, Anthony “Boots” Martinez. Moses was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, […]
The biggest drug bust in local history was recorded in mid-November 2010 when an executive aircraft stuffed to the gills with eighty bales of Colombian cocaine landed along the Southern Highway near Bladen Reserve. Since that sizeable haul reports of international drug activity within our borders have been far and few. That doesn’t not mean […]
A brazen home invasion in Belama Phase Two made headlines on March second. The story was that three armed men ambushed a helpless housekeeper, ransacked her employer’s home and stole over seven thousand dollars in jewelry and electronics. But it turns out that the maid, Donatila Najera, wasn’t a victim at all; in fact she […]
Solid Rock Christian Academy in Dangriga became the scene of a crime earlier today. This school is under the management of the Assemblies of God Christian Schools of Belize, with Revered Michael Evans serving as the local manager. According to Evans, while classes were in session, two armed men wearing masks robbed the school’s cafeteria. […]
Brothers Dennis and Norman Trapp along with an Asian businessman, Lee Quan, known as Tommy, were involved in a crazy shooting incident at about midnight on February twenty-eighth down south in Punta Gorda. Twenty-six expended shells were retrieved from the scene and two police officers, who are also brothers, stand accused in the mayhem which […]
The two murders over the weekend in the old capital were followed by a shooting on Tuesday. The brief reprieve from gang warfare was broken when twenty two-year old Gilroy Garnett Junior, from an area known as PIV was shot once at close range. Garnett was reportedly walking with a female friend on Partridge Street […]
Police were on the scene within minutes, but by then, the gunman, who pulled the trigger with what appeared to be a sawed off shotgun, had long run through a churchyard and headed into one of the back streets that lead to the Western Highway. Police, according to the Department’s Press Officer, Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood, […]
Fifty-three year old naturalized Belizean, Bing Chang Zhao, was stabbed to death inside his business, Ming Ming Shop at the corner of Vernon Street and Magazine Road over the weekend. His body was discovered by his son, who was detained and then released pending further investigations. But on Tuesday night, a member of the Chinese […]
Police also gave their version in respect of the murder of twenty-seven year old Jason Pott which occurred at the corner of Cleghorn Street and Slaughterhouse Road on Saturday evening. The victim’s sister alleged that a police mobile knocked down her brother and a friend, who were heading to the hospital on a bicycle, because […]
A spate of deadly violence plagued the three-day weekend. The bloodshed started on Saturday morning and in the next twenty-four hours, three persons had been killed separately in the City and in Roaring Creek. In the City, a grocery store owner and a father of two were murdered. But we start with a stabbing that […]
In Belize City where the number of murders is a record, a Chinese grocery store owner met a horrific death at his business place. On Saturday morning after nine thirty, C.I.B. personnel visited number seventy six Vernon Street which is the home and business place of Bing Chang Zhao. They found the fifty-three year old […]
Later on Saturday, a father of two and former B.D.F. soldier was stabbed to death allegedly by a seventeen year old minor. It is believed that a feud over a stolen bicycle several weeks ago led to a string of altercations between twenty-seven year old Jason Pott and Devaughn Goodger. Pott was among sixty recruits […]
The accident that killed the elderly couple was not the only traffic fatality. An unidentified man was killed in a hit and run incident on the outskirts of Belize City on Friday night. After ten p.m., the cops headed towards miles two and three on the Northern Highway where they found the body of a […]
A man from Bermudian Landing was unfortunate to have car trouble on Kraal Road. Instead of finding helpful residents, he found himself a target for gunmen. According to reports, thirty-three year old Eldon Williams’s explorer got bogged in a drain on Waight Street. Williams went to use a nearby pay phone on foot and on […]
The story of the Mexican national from Tabasco who was arrested inside the Corozal Free Zone on a gun and ammunition as well as possession of counterfeit currency charge continues to unravel. Jose Luis Robles Beltran was found with a point twenty-five caliber pistol and nine live rounds of ammunition. While detained, he was also […]
A brazen home invasion took place this afternoon. A housekeeper was ambushed by three armed men after two p.m. on Gwen Lizarraga Street in the Belama Phase Two area. News Five was there shortly after the incident and according to the homeowner, Zita Coye Small; the thieves ransacked the house and made off with jewelry […]
Funeral services for twenty two year-old Christie Carasco will take place on Thursday in Orange Walk Town. The mother of a two year old daughter was stabbed to death at around eight thirty on Monday night on the street in front of her home at twenty-one San Lorenzo housing area in Orange Walk. Neighbors who […]
A Mexican national who claimed to be a soldier from Tabasco was busted on an ammunition charge at the Corozal Free Zone last Thursday. His apprehension has opened a can of worms. The cops found Jose Luis Robles Beltran with a point twenty-five caliber pistol and nine live rounds of ammunition. He was sentenced to […]
It’s the start of the celebration of Women’s month, but it turned fatal for an alleged victim of domestic abuse. The twenty-two year old vivacious sales representative of Smart on Bishop Street in Belize City was viciously stabbed by her boyfriend on the street in front of her house in Orange Walk Town on Monday […]
Late this evening, police issued a release on a midnight shootout in the downtown Punta Gorda. Two brothers and a Asian businessman, known as Tommy, were injured and twenty six expended shells were recovered from the scene. The police version is that the violence started when Sergeant John Sanchez’s house was fired at from a […]
The four police officers who were charged in connection with the drug plane that landed on the Southern Highway on November thirteenth, 2010 will have to face a police tribunal. Sergeants Jacinto Roches and Lawrence Humes along with Corporals Renel Grant and Nelson Middleton were served with notices of disciplinary proceedings last Thursday. The letters […]
