The other shooting happened around nine o’clock on Wednesday night on Mahogany Street. One man was injured and is hospitalized at the Belize Healthcare Partners. His family is appealing for help for twenty-five year old Steve Parks, who needs blood. Parks was shot behind the head while purchasing food at Favourite Snack Shop. News Five […]
The infiltration of Belize’s border and our forest reserves by Guatemalan Xateros has become a growing national problem. But on Tuesday evening, one such incident escalated almost into a double murder for a Belizean Alcalde and another man. The two villagers of San Jose in the Toledo District were reportedly on a trek deep in […]
One of Belize’s most wanted men was returned from Honduras this morning. He and his partners in crime are suspects in one of the nation’s biggest bank heists. Twenty-three year old Gabriel Salazar and company literally vanished from Belize after Spanish Lookout Scotiabank was robbed and the security was murdered on March thirty-first. Three weeks […]
Jackie’s Supermarket on Dolphin Drive in Belize City has been robbed four times in the past two years. The first robbery occurred on February sixteenth 2009, and an addition to cash, the three thieves stole the computer that stored the video of the robbery. The owners have recovered from the first two incidents but this […]
While Belmopan police have made no arrests in the murder of forty-two year old Francisco Villanueva, they are following a lead that might answer some very critical questions. Villanueva had reportedly gone to his farm on the Roaring River Road in the Cayo District early last Friday morning along with family friend, Ramon Quijada, when […]
A Corozal businessman is out of pocket for twelve thousand dollars after a burglary at his store on Monday. Johnny Quan didn’t open for business since it was a holiday, so the perpetrators opened shop for him and helped themselves to a load of cash and two computers. Police have several leads, but according to […]
Eyannie Nunez was killed exactly one month ago. She is the innocent eight-old girl that was murdered as she slept at her house when gunmen opened fire indiscriminately and took her life. The murder of the All Saints school girl sent shock waves throughout the community to the harsh reality of the level of crime […]
An immigration scandal of major proportions continues to unravel, but how many heads will roll and at what level? Last Tuesday News Five broke the news that Chinese Nationals were being smuggled through Belize. And in fact three planes; the first two on September eighteenth and nineteenth, followed by the third on October third, landed […]
Four of six persons detained, have been charged at an unusually late court appearance. More on that later, but at a press conference at the Raccoon Street Police Station, the Minister of Police along with the Minister of Defense and Immigration laid out a series of plans to tighten security at the airport. It was […]
The ministers pointed out what we had reported last week; that the visa numbers were real but not yet issued, which means they were fraudulent. While he listed out measures to improve security at the PGIA, Carlos Perdomo singled out one particular Embassy from which visas for the moment won’t be issued for Chinese Nationals. […]
Earlier today we caught up with Marcelino Miranda, who is responsible for border affairs at the Embassy of Mexico. Miranda responded to reports that surfaced over the weekend that the group of Asian nationals might be held up in Cancun. Marcelino Miranda, Press Officer, Embassy of Mexico “At the moment the immigration authority in Mexico […]
Even before the extended holiday weekend started, two men were murdered in gruesome fashion. The homicides took place in rural communities; the first body was found on Roaring River Road about two miles off the Hummingbird Highway on Friday. Francisco Villanueva, a father of two who lived with his family in Las Flores Village on […]
The second murder was reported just before nine on Friday morning, this time in the village of Red Bank about thirty-two miles off the Southern Highway. The victim, forty-two year old Francisco Galeas Montayo, was originally from Honduras. On September ninth, Galeas was freed from the Hattieville Prison after charges of Rape and Carnal Knowledge […]
A reward is also being offered for another incident that happened in southern Belize. Early Saturday morning, employees of Belize Electricity Limited’s Dangriga substation discovered that the plant had been burglarized. Six utility grade batteries that power equipment used to monitor and control the system were stolen. Batteries may not sound like much, but these […]
The three planes with thirty-two passengers that landed after closing hours at the Philip Goldson International Airport from Haiti and other Caribbean countries are the subject of a major investigation by the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Police Department and the Ministry of National Security. Missing forms, public officers rotated off their shifts and duplication […]
Police still have no clue as to who shot and killed twenty year old Carlos Sucuqui early Thursday morning. Sucuqui had just arrived on West Canal and was about to set up his bicycle cart when he was shot. A youth reportedly rode up and fired three shots, hitting Sucuqui in the back, abdomen and […]
Thousands marched against crime earlier today, but this afternoon the partially burnt body of forty-four year old Francisco Villanueva was discovered at a garbage dump near mile fifty on the Western Highway. Police are still in the preliminary stages of their investigation into Villanueva’s death and so far have not made any arrests. Villanueva’s body […]
An old beef between two teenaged cousins of Camalote Village, Cayo, has resulted in one being stabbed and the other being charged. The incident occurred just minutes after classes were over for Saint Jude’s Roman Catholic Primary in the same village. Reports are that on Wednesday the victim, a fourteen year old student, was standing […]
For a week, there have been no reported homicides in the mean streets of the city. That’s until this morning when the brief spell was broken at around six o’clock when gunshots rang out in the West Collet Canal area. Murder victim number one hundred for 2010 was recorded; a young vegetable vendor, Carlos Succuqui, […]
While cops try to solve the hundredth murder of the year, thieves were busy prowling the city to pounce on any unsuspecting victim. And they did on the north side of the city just hours later, but the attempt came up empty handed. The assailants, however, might have left behind just enough evidence to lead […]
Carlos Sucuqui became the one hundredth murder victim, but another vegetable vendor who came under attack just hours later, was more fortunate. Eyewitnesses told us off camera that at around eleven-fifteen this morning two vegetable vendors were chatting at the corner of Faber’s Road Extension and Whistling Duck Street when two youths exited a black […]
A fire on Central American Boulevard in the early pre-dawn hours could have been worse for a family of ten. According to Shirlene Sabal, a City Council employee, her family woke up to the smell of smoke and when they looked through the windows, her white Toyota Corolla was on flames. News Five spoke to […]
And while police have made some strides in solving the home invasion, today Ruthlyn Munnings, the daughter of the traumatized victim, told us off-camera how the incident unfolded on Monday afternoon. Voice Of: Ruthlyn Munnings, Daughter of Home Invasion Victim “What happened my daughter just came from school and my mom didn’t get up in […]
We don’t hear much about them, but Punta Gorda Police made a major bust at a marijuana plantation on an operation along with BDF soldiers on Wednesday. They also made an arrest after a burglary on Monday that yielded over seven thousand dollars in loot. Detective Constable Leroy Mangar of the Crime Investigations Branch spoke […]
We reported last Monday the story of a woman whose boyfriend claimed she had been badly beaten by the police and she miscarried her baby. The incident purportedly happened when the cops went to her house looking for stolen computers from Youth for the Future but did not find any. The incident unfolded in the […]
