The murder count continues to grow; there were seven murders in January. That number has now gone up to nine. At the close of our newscast on Friday, we reported a fatal shooting in the old capital. Two of three men were killed at around six o’clock and in the heat of the moment; the […]
In the Magistrate’s Court, a resident of Wagner’s Lane in Belize City was remanded after he allegedly tried to kill his neighbor. Thirty-two year old Jermaine Arnold, also known as “Yankee” is accused of shooting forty-one year old Denfield Carr twice in the back on February second. When he appeared before Senior Magistrate, Sharon Frazer, […]
Convicted murderer twenty-three year old Miguel Matus has been on the run since escaping from custody on Thursday of last week. While there are indications that his flight was orchestrated Belize City Police are yet to determine if there was collusion on the part of the prison officer that was along with him. It is […]
Two persons were shot and killed shortly after six this evening in the city. The shooting involved a third person who survived. Unconfirmed reports say that a pair of twin brothers, where taken immediately after the shooting at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, and one died. The incident happened in front their house at the […]
There was a near fatal stabbing on Thursday night in the Old Capital in the same area where journalist, Joseph Budna was robbed last week. Fifty-seven year old Rene Garbutt, a security officer employed by Fort Point Security, was on duty when he was attacked and robbed. Tonight he is in critical condition at the […]
Local authorities remain on the lookout for twenty-three year old Miguel Matus who fled from custody on Thursday following a dental appointment in Belize City. Matus, who is serving life in prison for the cold-blooded murder of seventeen year old Priscilla Tzib, absconded around midday after visiting Dr. Bennett’s Dental Clinic accompanied by a prison […]
A robbery has been reported in the Cayo District. It happened shortly after seven on Thursday night in Santa Elena Town at a store named “Tienda La Gracia De Dios. The store’s owner, fifty-three year old Luis Valdez claims that he was behind the counter along with shop attendant Miriam Nunez when two men entered […]
On Tuesday of this week, Basil Willis pleaded guilty to possession of a pipe after he was nabbed with a three and a half inch pipe for smoking cannabis. He was handed a sentence of two years. And this morning he was brought from the Hattieville Prison to face another charge for the weekend burglary […]
Twenty-three year old Miguel Matus, a convicted murderer from Benque Viejo, is tonight on the lam from local authorities in what can only be described as a comedy of errors on the part of prison officials. Matus, who is serving a life sentence for the shooting death of seventeen year old Pricilla Tzib, showed up […]
The Beechcraft 65 airplane with registration XBLRP that took off from the Philip Goldson International Airport on Saturday morning left a trail of smoke and doubt about how it left Belize’s airspace without clearance. Who were the pilots? Were their identities known to the people who handed over the craft? There are more questions than […]
We reported on Monday on the lover’s quarrel that ended up in a suspected arson. Well, today a twenty-two year old Belize City woman stands charged for the arson. But at court, Deshon Rowland, who lost everything in the blaze, decided to withdraw the charge against his girlfriend, Keisha Banner. Rowland says it’s because Banner […]
Late last week, local musician Kevon Bardalez was charged for the rape of a fourteen year old girl. He is being joined at the Hattieville prison by a second accused. The suspect is accused of holding down the girl while the other raped her. The incident allegedly occurred last week and today the second accused, […]
Flames consumed two houses over the weekend; one in the City and the other in Lord’s Bank. The blazes are both believed to have been deliberately set but fortunately no one was injured. A total of eight persons lost all their belongings. We start in Belize City, where Sunday night’s fire followed a quarrel between […]
The second house that went up in fire over the weekend belonged to a single mother, Maria Rodriguez of Lord’s Bank. Rodriguez now has to rebuild a house for her six children, some of whom are of school age. News Five’s Delahnie Bain found out that the family was in the City when the structure […]
It is the close of January and so far there have been seven murders for this month, statistically it is one more than last January. While the victim is from the San Martin area of Belmopan, his body was found all the way near Arenal, the famous village that separates Belize and Guatemala. It is […]
One of two suspected burglars who broke into Publics Supermarket in the early hours of Sunday morning is tonight in police custody after being identified on the store’s surveillance footage. The men gained entry into the building, located at the corners of Nargusta Street and Central American Boulevard, by prying open a door on the […]
A Belize City man was jacked on Saturday night. He was being a good Samaritan when a man he knew as Troy asked him for a ride while he was a gas station on Central American Boulevard. When he dropped Troy downtown, he then wanted to pick up another friend near George Street. After they […]
The Grim Sleeper is the U.S. based serial killer who has caught plenty attention in the U.S. media and has also been featured by News Five. Lonnie Franklin has been arrested for numerous murders dating back to the 1980’s. Franklin is called the Grim Sleeper because U.S. investigators believed that he went long years in […]
A former accountant from Five Sisters Lodge is in serious trouble with the law after he allegedly embezzled over thirty thousand dollars from them. According to Carlos Popper, who owns the lodge, the theft occurred between February twenty-fifth, 2010 and January sixteenth of this year. Police have identified the accused as Antonio Madrid, who allegedly […]
An eighteen year old has been arrested and charged for shooting another teenager over the past weekend. The victim, nineteen year old Clement Bol Junior initially told police that it was Akeem Humes who pulled the trigger on him on Saturday night. But it turns out that Akeem has been in prison on a Murder […]
The allegations of police brutality are too many to count and tonight one more is added to the list. Twenty-six year old Clarence Slusher has no criminal record and is employed as the Ombudsman’s Assistant, but his address might have made him a target. Slusher is a resident of the infamous Taylor’s Alley and was […]
Turning to the Magistrates Court, a local musician has been charged for allegedly raping a fourteen year old girl. The minor alleges that she was playing video games at the home of twenty-two year old Kevon Bardalez when he offered her a ride at around three p.m. last Friday. She says she went with Bardalez […]
A university student is facing criminal charges after she was caught not with books; but one pound of suspected cannabis in her sling bag. The eighteen year old, Idolly Neal, was detained on a bus heading from Orange Walk to Belize City on Wednesday. The bus was stopped at the Crooked Tree checkpoint at around […]
The Belize Council for the Visually Impaired recently lost its Gabourel Lane Office in a fire that is suspected to have been arson and now they’ve suffered another hit. “Stealing from blind children” is how the B.C.V.I. is describing a break-in at their office on the lower flat of the Red Cross Building. Equipment and […]
There were two cases in court today that were brought by the Customs Department. In the first, two men from Bladen Village in the Toledo District were astounded when they were each fined twenty-four thousand, three hundred and thirty dollars for contraband vegetables and energy drinks. Raul Riviera and Angel Pachan were intercepted as they […]
