Eighteen year old Kendis Flowers has just been released from police custody. He was detained as a suspect in the homicide earlier this year of a gang leader who was killed on Ross Pen Road. Flowers’ claimed that aside from enduring a beating at the hands of the police, he was dangerously exposed to the […]
There was an exchange of gunfire at the Hattieville Prison on Tuesday night. Twice gunmen opened fire at prison officers in the dead of the night. No one was hurt and police were today processing the scene. Who did the shooters want? Investigations are ongoing but there is one report that the shootout may be […]
Officers from the Crimes Investigations Branch of the Police Department raided a house on Pinks Alley this morning. They found a point three-eighty caliber pistol tucked under two mattresses. But the bigger find was a cache of electronics all believed to be stolen property. The items included three CPUs, five keyboards, three wireless monitors with […]
There is another murder to report tonight. Independence police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of fifty-six year old Honduran national Juan Cardona whose body was discovered with what appeared to be multiple chop wounds to the head and upper right side of the arm. At a little after six o’clock on Monday evening […]
While the police were on high alert, keeping an eye on the cocaine, gun violence erupted on the streets of the old capital on Garifuna Settlement Day. Police operations included searches of the city’s hot spots including the George Street area, but could not avert the murder of two persons. The homicides happened within fifteen […]
Only fifteen minutes later and not too far away a second Belize City man was ambushed and shot. The victim is George Pipersburgh, the uncle of Neisa Pipersburgh, a high school graduate that was murdered and dumped in the Faber’s Lagoon. At the site where Neisa’s body was found on June twenty-first, a bus heading […]
In the south, it is not known what led to the death of a young Dangriga sportsman who went missing last week Thursday. The body of twenty-one year old Thomas Swaso, who lived at the New Site Area of Dangriga Town, was retrieved from the banks of the Stann Creek River. His mother, Norene Sacasa, […]
It hasn’t made it to the police blotter today, but a major home invasion has been reported in San Pedro. An undisclosed quantity of money along with an assortment of items was reportedly stolen at Wings on Coconut Drive in San Pedro Town on Wednesday night. It is believed that sometime after nine o’clock two […]
Sadie Vernon High School is still mourning the loss of one of its students, seventeen year old Shenelle Reyes. The fourth form student died from a single bullet to the head; the shot was fired by a friend who was allegedly playing with a sawed-off shotgun. Friends and family believe it was an accident and […]
On Tuesday night in Belize City, a seventeen year old fourth form student of Sadie Vernon High School was killed by a single gunshot. It happened at the living room of her Sibun Street home at around ten o’clock when the blast came from a gun held by her friend. News Five’s Marion Ali found […]
There’s more to report on Saturday’s cocaine seizure in the south. As part of an ongoing investigation into the landing of a twin engine aircraft on the Southern Highway near Bladen Reserve, police were preparing today to effect a search warrant on the property of Customs boatman Harold Usher in Corozal Town. Usher was arrested […]
Two-time fugitive Carlos Keme who was on remand at the Belize Central Prison for the murder of Karina Daniels in Orange Walk Town in October 2009 has been caught for the second time across the northern border. Keme escaped from police custody on April fifteenth while he was being escorted to the Supreme Court in […]
While the nation is still reeling from the suspected drug plane that landed on the Southern Highway after midnight on Saturday, there’s some information that at any other time would have been seen as mere coincidence, but is now open for speculation. Last week Thursday, a small twin engine plane bearing the markings TG-MCA landed […]
More than thirty-six hours after one of the biggest cocaine seizures, five police officers and a customs boatman are still in custody of the Punta Gorda police as investigations continue into Saturday’s international drug smuggling operation on the Southern Highway. Corporals Vidal Cajun and Nelson Middleton; the driver assigned to the GG, Sergeants Lawrence Humes […]
There are more revelations to report in the immigration scam that was cracked since early October. We have so far followed the paper trail on how the Chinese and Sri Lankan nationals make their way to Belize as part of an international human smuggling ring. Tonight our continued investigations take us to Somalia, a country […]
Dangriga police continue to look for a suspect in connection with the brutal murder of thirty four year old Sheline Martinez whose body was found on Sunday morning on the steps of a residence on George Price Drive in that municipality. But while police try to close in on their suspect, Martinez’ mother, Helen Cayetano, […]
A farmer and a barber in taxi kidnapped two teenage girls in the west. The two girls, aged eighteen and fifteen years old, told police that they were standing in front of Brother’s Supermarket in Santa Elena Town, Cayo, on Monday when the black Mazda car pulled up and the driver engaged them in conversation. […]
Corruption in the ranks of the police, that’s an allegation that has been around from time immemorial but the stench of corruption hit eerily close to home this past Saturday when a sophisticated drug operation was busted in the south. Four police officers, including the driver assigned of the governor general, and a custom officer […]
As we told you earlier, five persons have been arrested for Saturday’s drug bust. After the beechcraft was dusted for fingerprints by the BDF and police, a white van was intercepted at the San Juan Bus Stop near the Bladen Community. Corporal Renel Grant attached to Belize City Traffic Branch was found behind the wheels. […]
National Security is steadily becoming a major concern due to recent illicit activities involving airplanes in northern, central and southern Belize. The plane that landed over the weekend in the south had a cocaine cargo estimated at one hundred and forty million dollars. But there are other incidents involving planes. As you are well aware […]
A horrific crime took place over the weekend, also in the south. A homeless pregnant woman was raped and stabbed to death in Dangriga. She was found lifeless on the steps of a house on Sunday morning but there are signs that the heinous murder took place elsewhere. News Five’s Marion Ali reports from Dangriga. […]
There is huge public outcry on the immigration scandal that is embarrassing the government of the day because it is alleged that the ring leaders are highly connected. The leader of the Opposition John Briceño made remarks at today’s house meeting making specific recommendations to clean up the mess and according to Briceño, he has […]
A thirteen year old minor has accused a man almost twice her age of sexual abuse. What’s even more disturbing that the accused is a police officer attached to the Punta Gorda Police Formation. The child is alleging that Thomas Gamboa had sex with her on September fifth, but the matter wasn’t reported until October […]
Twice attempts were made on his life and twice he survived. Keith Middleton has been before the courts on a number of charges but there have been no convictions against him so far. So who wants him out? Middleton says he knows who pulled the trigger earlier this week while he was at home with […]
Gun violence has flared up again in the city. The executions of Eric “Ghetto Fab” Savery on Friday and Kenroy Mejia on Saturday, were followed by the homicide of Keon Williams Myvette just after six o’clock on Monday night. It is not known why he was executed, but Myvette was recently twice tried for the […]
