The weekend’s fourth murder was reported in the south. William Martinez, is murder victim number ninety-eight. Martinez, who worked on a banana farm, was found dead in his room at the Barracks where the farm workers are housed. He was hacked several times with a machete and left to die. It has since been revealed […]
With the spate of shootings in the city, when news of gunfire at a pawnshop rang out—initial reaction was—there must have been a robbery attempt. Investigations later revealed, however, a completely different story. A Caye Caulker resident had been injured and a security guard was detained. Delahnie Bain has an update. Delahnie Bain, Reporting On […]
Today Belize City witnessed one of the largest funerals that brought out thousands along the path to the cemetery. The state like procession was also heart wrenching and terribly emotional for onlookers from every walk of life as well as educational institutions. Eight year old Eyannie Nunez was laid to rest; she was murdered early […]
While thousands lined the streets in solidarity with the family of eight year old Eyannie, the business center in downtown Belize City as well as those on Central American Boulevard, came to a standstill this afternoon when the body of the eight year old was transported for internment. The message from the Indian community was […]
The message against crime was crystal clear in Belize City where there was outpouring support for the family of the fallen eight year old All Saints student and the public outrage was felt across the country. In the northern districts, a few businesses closed, so did in Dangriga. But in the west, which has experienced […]
As we mentioned earlier, the business community in Dangriga Town showed solidarity with Belizeans for Justice and many closed up shop for the day. But even before today’s show of support, the latest killing was reported in that southern town on Wednesday evening. Two brothers, twenty-one year old Denver and nineteen year old Denzel of […]
The body of the man that was discovered on Monday morning has been identified. He is Edgar David Gonzalez, a resident of Santa Elena Town, Cayo. Gonzales left home on August eighth en route to his work at the BWEL Gas Company in Belmopan but he never arrived. Three weeks after his disappearance, Gonzalez’ common-law-wife, […]
Three days after the bloodiest weekend in the old capital, the Minister of Police, Doug Singh, presented a situation report on the three hour mayhem which occurred on early Sunday morning. As many as eighty persons have been canvassed and questioned in the neighbourhood where those murders occurred. And more than a hundred others spent […]
The failure of the police department to bring charges and the lack of convictions when they do, contribute to the loss of confidence in the system. The fear of witnesses to pass on relevant information is also a major concern. Hence the reason why, in addition to a homicide unit, the Ministry of Police now […]
If the witness protection program does not pan out, all is not loss. The Police department also intends to access technology that will enhance its crime solving capabilities. Following the lead of NBC’s Law and Order, the department is implementing a Homicide Unit. The police will soon procure a lab and equipment to harness human […]
The lifeless body of Denval Davis was discovered sometime around five-thirty this evening in front of Dr. Osbert Usher’s Dental Clinic on Magazine Road. The body was lying face up on the steps of the building. Unconfirmed reports are that Davis had visited the Matron Roberts Polyclinic to seek medical assistance and soon after, went […]
There is very little progress on the identity of a man whose decomposed remains were discovered in a creek off the Hummingbird Highway near Red Rose Farm at mile fourteen on Monday morning. A post mortem was conducted hours later at the scene due to the advanced state of decomposition. It certified that the skull […]
The lawlessness in the streets is unrelenting. This weekend alone, six murders were reported, but the one that touched many hearts was the slaying of an innocent eight year old school girl who was fast asleep in her house in Belize City. Most people want the madness to stop. Belizeans for Justice is one group […]
There is no bottom to the abyss to which crime has plunged. Six persons were murdered in the weekend’s wave of terror; four in the city and two in the west. How do you top this new record? There is yet no official comment, but there is general public outrage at the carnage, and we […]
The second minor in the weekend’s blood bath is seventeen year old Marlon Zelaya of Moya Street. The unexplained circumstances surrounding his murder have baffled residents in the St. Martin De Porres area, including his grandmother Margaret Zelaya. There are many theories for the motive behind the killing but none have been confirmed. His lifeless […]
Shortly after Marlon Zelaya’s murder on Sunday morning, a man riding his bicycle was shot twice on Castle Street. Everett Lincoln Davis was reforming his life after doing time in prison, but in the end, gun violence caught up with the twenty-five year old. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports on the third homicide in the […]
A seventy-three year old man was murdered while visiting his children in Belize City last week. While his murder remains unsolved, a sixty year old citizen was gunned down after seven on Sunday morning. Apolonio Salome left his home near the Entrance of Bird’s Isle on his bicycle to buy rice for Sunday dinner, but […]
Aside from the four homicides in the City, two additional bodies were found in the west. In Teakettle, dogs alerted a villager to a body that was found off a dirt road. The father of five children had left his Esperanza home to visit his daughter; he never made it. A single shot to his […]
The murder of Lyndon Mangar is not the only one that Belmopan police have to solve. This morning another lifeless body was discovered in a creek about a mile off the Hummingbird Highway near Red Rose Farm at mile fourteen. The man, who was clad in a pair of black pants, brown boots and black […]
There was more violence, but twenty year old Lorenzo Garbutt was fortunate and narrowly escaped death. Garbutt was shot at the corner of King and West Streets by one of two unidentified men who rode up next to him on bicycles. A single shot was fired and that bullet penetrated the back of Garbutt’s neck […]
So far in the newscast we have reported on the shooting spree, but there was other mayhem in the City and elsewhere. Eleven persons were affected by fires over the weekend. In the first instance, it is believed that the house of Inspector Claudio Mai who is stationed in San Ignacio, was deliberately set on […]
It has been two weeks since the Rash siblings, Onelia and Benjamin, disappeared without a trace while selling lime and craboo near the village of Cattle Landing in the Toledo District. Since then authorities in Belize and Guatemala have been working both sides of the border trying to locate them. Despite a massive search party […]
Our headline story on Wednesday night was about the chilling murder of a woman, her common-law husband and one of her children. It is one of the most monstrous homicides, and it was witnessed by two other siblings in a remote farm off the northern highway. The children are left traumatized and in fear for […]
‘In cold blood’ is the only way to describe one of the most heinous murders that we have reported in our newscast. While most of the callous crimes are set in the confines of Belize City, this one takes place in the north. On Tuesday night, three family members were found murdered in Carmelita Village. […]
The other murder took place in the west where a birthday celebration ended tragically for twenty-two year old Jesse Jones of Ontario Village. Jones and a group of friends left a party at around eleven on Tuesday night. They set out to make amends with another group with whom there was a dispute over a […]
