A vehicle in Ladyville Village was destroyed over the weekend. It is not quite clear how the incident occurred but it was parked behind a house on Sea Urchin Drive. According to residents in the area, the Landrover was engulfed in flames. Arson has not been ruled out. The owner of the vehicle is a […]
There was a shooting incident last night in the old capital. Luckily the victim survived the incident. At seven p.m. on Sunday night twenty one y ear old Luis Figueroa, a resident of Ebony Street, was walking behind the Farmer’s Market. Figueroa heard a loud bang which he quickly realized was a gunshot. His instincts […]
On Wednesday’s newscast, we reported that thousands of dollars had gone missing from the Police Department’s exhibit room. It has since been confirmed that one of the suspects in custody is a police officer and the other works closely with the department. Information is that the cop is still being questioned but has not yet […]
Twice today, downtown Belize City came to a standstill. The immediate area around the courthouse was cordoned off as five officers were whisked into court for arraignment on drug related charges. The media was kept at bay when the five were taken to court in handcuffs and shackles under heavy police escort. The five have […]
A fly-over of the Bladen Nature Reserve, bordering with Guatemala, provides a bird’s eye view of the rich vegetation of our tropical forests. The protected area, however, is being systematically plundered by those engaged in export of the lucrative xate and by poachers looking for exotic wildlife. But it’s not limited to those two threats; […]
We reported on Wednesday night about a shooting Faber’s Road that left two men with injuries to the leg. That occurred just before six o’clock and within an hour, gunshots rang out yet again at ten minutes to seven. This time a man on bicycle rode up and fired six shots at Mark Middleton, who […]
Gunmen held their fire for a few days, but late this evening, two Belize City men were injured in a shooting incident near the Wilton Cumberbatch Field on Caesar Ridge Road. Mark Vernon along with several other young men were playing basketball on a court nearby when an unknown assailant ran through the adjacent football […]
Twice in recent days, thousands of dollars kept as evidence at the Belize Police Department have gone missing. A report has been made by the Exhibit Keeper, Noel Muschamp. According to Muschamp, six thousand dollars impounded from a Chinese businessman as forged dollars have disappeared. The other case involves three thousand US dollars from six […]
Honduran authorities still have no suspects for Thursday night’s grisly killing of fifty-five year old Milan Egrmajer. The Canadian sailor was killed on his private yacht while he and his daughter, twenty four year old Myda sheltered from a bad storm in a lagoon off the coast of Honduras. Myda has since travelled to northern […]
Among the various related topics brought up during Gayle’s lecture on Monday was the racial stereotype that Blacks and Hispanics are innately violent. Gayle contends that race is not among the determining factors that contribute to crime and violence. Instead it is the fact that a specific group of Belizeans are being oppressed which has […]
Equally important among Gayle’s preliminary findings is corruption within the Belize Police Department. That, according to the research, is the result of neglect in the working environment. Over the years the needs of the department have been ignored and in the process officers have not been able to foster healthy relationships with the public. Herbert […]
A twenty-four year old Canadian woman whose father was murdered on their yacht on the high seas is back in Canada. The woman, Myda Egrmajer, was brought here by the Belize Coastguard early on Saturday morning after she was rescued by a tanker in Honduran waters. She witnessed the murder of her father by several […]
Remember that huge bust at Pinks Alley on November twenty-fourth when police discovered a cache of computers and electronics that were believed to be stolen? Well, the cops’ suspicions were confirmed late last week when a report was made that the now defunct CLICO Bahamas Office on North Park Street was burglarized in November. The […]
Still on the topic of stolen items, police have recovered two flat screen TVs and other electronics believed to be the loot from a burglary on Friday afternoon. The two suspects made their getaway in a Toyota car, but ended up in an accident on the Hattieville/Boom road. The car lost control as it sped […]
Fire authorities have removed an accelerant bottle and rags that were used to set on fire the Belize Red Cross Society’s headquarters early Thursday morning. But up to news time, police have been unable to crack who was behind the arson. The fire was reported shortly after three on Thursday morning and the bottle of […]
On Tuesday evening Edgar Ayala a security guard and David Longsworth, a customer at Belize Diesel Service Station were both gunned down and killed by a man who wanted the gun of the guard. It did not take long for police to zero in on forty year old Ervin Reneau, who is already behind bars […]
Ervin Alexander Reneau, the son of an upstanding Belize City family, was arraigned today for the double homicide in Tuesday night’s mayhem at the Belize Diesel Service Center on the Northern Highway. The forty year old appeared this afternoon before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. He entered court under escort from CIB officers and was jovial, […]
For as far back as many can remember, the Belize Red Cross has been the “go-to” organization for victims of disasters. We saw them recently providing generous assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Richard. So who would want to bring down the humanitarian organization and why? Those are the questions that everyone is asking following […]
The American fugitive who was hiding out in Belize during his birthday was sent back on Wednesday. After being told he might spend twenty-five years behind bars for manslaughter back in 2008 in Boca Rotan, Florida, he tore off his ankle monitor and hid out in the Jewel. An ABC affiliate WPBF caught up with […]
At the close of our newscast on Tuesday night, we reported the breaking news of a fatal shooting at the Belize Diesel Service Center. The news spread quickly across town that a security officer on duty was cold bloodedly murdered. He was not the only victim; a well known master chef of barbeques was at […]
Orange Walk police have still not charged anyone in connection with Tuesday’s early morning murder of seventy year old Paulo “Julian” Diaz. The watchman of San Isidro Construction Supplies was discovered murdered under a shed at his worksite sometime between one and two Tuesday morning when the alarm at the business tripped and alerted the […]
At news time tonight, a Texaco security officer was murdered just before seven o’clock at the gas station in front of Courts Belize on the Northern Highway. A second person was shot and taken to the hospital. Initial reports are that it appears that the incident was a robbery. We’ll have more on this on […]
Earlier we told you about the brutal murder of an elderly man in Orange Walk Town. In the city, also last night, a woman was stabbed by another in what appears to be a case of a love triangle. Wendy Martinez is hospitalized and the other woman is wanted. News Five’s Isani Cayetano has more […]
As the high tourism season cranks up, one of the top destinations recorded its third murder in the past month. A laborer met his death on Sunday morning in San Pedro; he was beaten and left to die on the street in front of his apartment in Boca del Rio area. The twenty-year old and […]
The violence was not confined to San Pedro, in the city a man who is no stranger to the courts, was violently shot on Friday night. In June of 2009, Anthony Major a.k.a. King of Pinks Alley, was arrested during a botched robbery attempt at Tong’s Supermarket. During that incident, his partner in crime Richard […]
