The lawlessness in the streets of the old capital is undiscriminating. It has taken many lives from as young as a seven year old to a seventy-four year old man. Last night it almost claimed the life of a police officer responding to a crime. According to reports, there was a robbery in progress and […]
It has been a turbulent week for the San Marcos community in southern Belize. Hopes are dimming in the search for a young brother and sister who mysteriously disappeared more than a week now. Desperate villagers, who were led to believe that the siblings had been abducted, set a crocodile sanctuary on fire last Sunday. […]
It’s day eight and the disappearance of two siblings from San Marcos, Toledo remains a mystery. Since Monday police have been scouring the area, but up to news time, there are still no solid leads as to what could have happened to Onelia and Benjamin Rash, two school aged children who went missing on August […]
It is believed that an argument prompted the shooting of a resident from Caye Caulker this morning, when the area was abuzz with activity. The twenty-seven year old victim had landed in the City minutes earlier from the island. Edwin Henry, a wood carver, was in town to pawn tools when he was shot in […]
Seventy-four year old Elston Peters was shot behind his neck on Glenn Street on Sunday night. His daughter said that after delivering a pencil to his grandson he went to visit his other sons around the corner on George Street. After leaving their home, the senior citizen was senselessly shot by a lone gunman without […]
A popular businesswoman from Caye Caulker is dead after she ended her life this afternoon on the island. We don’t normally report on these stories, but fifty-five year old Patricia Holding was the wife of OJ Holding and together they own Ocean View Night Club and she was well known on the island. Shortly after […]
Forty-seven year old Carlos Espat was found dead this past Saturday morning at his home at the corner of Albert and King Streets in Belize City. Late this afternoon, the investigation of his death shifted to murder. The tragic news spread quickly about the man who was well known but kept his private life under […]
There was another murder over the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, seventy-four year old Elston Peters was killed by a single bullet that hit him on the neck. The retiree passed away this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. But why would anyone want to take the life of a senior citizen? Police are still […]
Aside from the two murders reported earlier in our newscast, there was more violence in the old capital over the weekend. On Saturday night, bullets from opposing gangs injured nine year old Crystal Faber, sixteen year old Juan Carlos Martinez and twenty-two year old Nathalie McKenzie. One was shopping and the two others were at […]
In our newscast on Friday we reported that four year old Elisha Gilharry was knocked down and killed. The driver of the vehicle, Lyle Harris, had just turned into North Front Street when he hit Elisha who was crossing the street to meet her father at a barber shop. It’s has been a difficult time […]
Thieves made a clean getaway after they held up the R.J.’s Laundromat on Neal Penn Road. The Belize City robbery took place on September second at twelve-thirty in the afternoon while the owner Raymond Charley and his daughter Ranjini Charley were inside going about their daily work. Ranjini said that two men entered the business, […]
At the top of the newscast, we told you that the property of Vincent Rose, a U.S. crocodile expert who has been running a sanctuary a few miles outside of Punta Gorda Town, was on Sunday completely destroyed by fire. News Five’s Isani Cayetano was back in Punta Gorda today and has more on this […]
The couple had a long history of domestic abuse but the two were no longer living together. This past Thursday night, Shamir Henry went to the house of his ex, Leshawn Lino, the mother of his daughter. It is believed that like in other instances there was an altercation between the two. But this time […]
There was another shooting in the old capital on Thursday night. Luckily, no one died. The victim, however, was shot two times while driving his Sport Utility Vehicle along the city streets. There are no known motives for the senseless shooting and Police Press Officer Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood explained how the incident unfolded. Sergeant Fitzroy […]
Fifty-seven year old Gregorio Cornejo fell and drowned after he was punched in the face at Mata Chica Resort on San Pedro Ambergris Caye. The incident happened after seven on Monday night during a staff party. Oscar Barela of Coral Angel Street on the island was arrested following the incident. There were witnesses to the […]
Gun violence erupted on Wednesday, the first time this week. The victim was just a month shy of his eighteenth birthday. Jordick Thompson’s life was in danger for months; he had been receiving threats by text and Wednesday night as he left the home of his girlfriend on Glenn Street, he was gunned down by […]
On Monday night fifty-seven year old Gregorio Cornejo lost his life during a staff party at Mata Chica Resort on San Pedro Ambergris Caye. While on the pier of the luxury resort, Cornejo, was punched in his face by Oscar Barela, a guest at the party, who is a resident of Angel Street, San Pedro. […]
Cops in the north have recovered some of the items that were stolen during a burglary at the Belize Social Security Board office in Corozal Town on August twenty-seventh. The burglar bar and glass doors at the main entrance were forced open as the thieves made their way into the building and took off with […]
Remember the core sampler? It was at the center of a huge controversy with the cane farmers in the north when it was introduced in testing for cane quality in January 2009. Farmers resorted to a massive riot at Tower Hill, which ended fatally for Atanacio Gutierrez, who was shot and killed during the unrest. […]
Early Monday night, a staff party ended fatally for an employee of a resort in San Pedro. Fifty-seven year old Gregorio Conejo, a father of two, was hit in the face by a guest at the party at Mata Chica where he was employed for at least ten years. He fell off the pier and […]
Two shootings in Belize City left three persons injured, two of whom narrowly escaped death. We begin with the latter of the two, which took place this morning and left a man holding onto life after he underwent surgery this afternoon. Jose Trujeque was shot at around ten-thirty this morning not very far away from […]
The other shooting occurred shortly after three o’clock on Saturday morning on Victoria Street also in Belize City. And while the victim is already out of the hospital, the bullet grazed him dangerously close to the right side of his head and upper right side of his back. The twenty-two year old messenger, Justin Longsworth, […]
Exactly one week ago we reported on a cheque scam at the La Inmaculada Credit Union and now the St. Francis Xavier Credit Union in Corozal Town has been targeted. Six fraudulent cheques were involved. Rafael Dominguez, the General Manager, reported that between July fifteenth and August sixth, six Heritage Bank—formerly Alliance Bank—cheques from an […]
A barrage of gunshots was unleashed on a small house which was occupied mostly by children and three adults on Wednesday night in Belize City. It occurred in an unnamed area off Police Street in Lake Independence. Luckily no one was hurt. News Five spoke to a neighbour who said that the children in the […]
There were no shootings or murders in today’s police blotter, but a crime just as heinous was reported. Two young boys—one in Belize City and one in Belmopan—reported to police that they were sexually violated by older men. The first was a nine year old student of Belize City, who told the cops that one […]
