This morning, a man was convicted of murder in the courtroom of Justice Antoinette Moore in the Supreme Court southern district session. Almost three years to the day after he was arrested and charged for the murder of Dangriga fisherman, Carlos Reyes, twenty-eight-year-old Starling Perez was found guilty in a trial without a jury. The […]
Superintendent Daniel Arzu emerged victorious on Sunday to become the new village council chairman of Georgetown Village. Arzu ran as an independent candidate and bested other aspirants for the post. But he isn’t going on pre-retirement leave until later this year. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams gave us a brief update. Chester Williams, Commissioner […]
There was a deadly shooting in Belize City today that resulted in traffic being brought to a standstill on Faber’s Road Extension. Gunfire erupted sometime after two o‘clock this afternoon and when the shooting subsided, thirty-three-year-old Carl Reneau lay mortally wounded on the sidewalk. A bicycle and a pair of slippers were found on the […]
A murder was recorded over the weekend when Hattieville mechanic Carlton Belisle Senior succumbed to gunshot injuries on Saturday afternoon. Today, a News Five team returned to the family home to speak with Abigail Garbutt, his common-law wife of thirty-three years about his death. Duane Moody files this report. Duane Moody, Reporting Two days […]
Desmond Budna, a resident of San Pedro, was shot and killed in Belize City on Friday morning. The construction worker was in the Lake Independence area when he was gunned down on Amandala Drive. According to police, Budna was in town for a graduation. But, the twenty-seven-year-old would not make it back to the island […]
A San Pedro resident was shot dead in the Lake Independence area of Belize City this morning and police are trying to close in on the shooter. But that might be easier said than done because up to news time, the gunman was identified only as an “unknown person.” The San Pedraño was in Belize […]
A mechanic was shot at his home late Thursday night by someone who went looking for his son. Carlton Belisle, Sr. was reportedly inside around eleven o’clock when he heard someone calling out for his namesake son. When the father went to see who it was, he was met with a barrage of gunshots. The […]
Last weekend was a relatively quiet weekend when it comes to major crimes. There were no murders to report on, so much so that Director of Communication for the Belize Police Department, Fitzroy Yearwood, was not needed at Monday’s press conference to brief the media. We asked the Commissioner of Police what are the mitigating […]
An employee of the National Sports Council was targeted by gunmen only a short distance from his workplace. Thirty-three-year-old Michael Meighan left the National Sports Council compound at around ten a.m. this morning. A short while later, two men on a motorcycle intercepted him at a roundabout on Princess Margaret Drive. One of the men […]
Well-known media personality, Javier Gutierrez faces two counts of sexual assault upon a former female employee who worked with the Border Management Agency at the western border. Earlier today, Gutierrez appeared before San Ignacio Magistrate Kara Walters to answer to the charges, to which he pleaded not guilty. Police alleged that Gutierrez touched his colleague […]
A shooting incident in Belize City on Monday has left thirty-year-old Joanna Parham hospitalized with gunshot wounds to her body. Parham, however, wasn’t the intended target of the armed assault on Curassow Street. Shortly after seven p.m. last evening, nineteen-year-old Anthony Parham was making his way on foot towards his home and upon reaching the […]
Twenty-two-year-old Shawn Humes and twenty-three-year-old Selvin Waight have been arrested and charged for robbing a store in downtown Belize City. The men entered Midtown Store on Saturday afternoon where they proceeded to holdup Layas Ahmed, the proprietor, at gunpoint. The incident was captured on surveillance footage inside, as well as outside of the establishment. On […]
A Belizean mechanic of Santa Elena Town and a fellow mechanic from Succotz Village have been charged in connection with the shooting of twenty-six-year-old George Requeña, a baker of a Belize City address. Requeña was socializing with family and friends in the downtown area of San Ignacio when he was approached by a male person […]
Police are investigating the murder of thirty-eight-year-old Randulfo Alvarez, a resident of Cotton Tree Village. Alvarez lived in the village with his relatives and, though he and his siblings resided in separate households, their relationship was such that they would frequent each other’s home. On Saturday night when Alvarez visited his sister’s home to collect […]
Nineteen-year-old Henry Osorio is recovering from a gunshot wound he sustained while in a vehicle with two female passengers on the Hummingbird Highway, just outside of Belmopan on Saturday night. By all accounts, Osorio is known to be a straight A student in school, and this may simply be a matter of wrong place, […]
Orange Walk police are still investigating the shooting death of Reynaldo Marchand. The thirty-eight-year-old was in the company of Nazir Vasquez in front of Five-O-One Shop when they came under fire from a pair of gunmen on motorcycle. Multiple gunshots rang out shortly after eight p.m. on Wednesday and when the shooting subsided Vasquez and […]
Tomorrow marks one year since the shooting death of senior cop Henry Jemmott, which occurred in San Pedro on May twenty-eighth, 2021. His family continues to mourn his death, as his alleged killer, Jasmine Hartin goes back and forth to court for a charge of manslaughter which was slapped on her following the incident. This […]
Multiple gunshots rang out in Sugar City last night and when the shooting subsided two men were left for dead in front of a shop on Aurora Street. It is believed that the callous attack may have been carried out by rival gangs in the area and, despite an attempt by residents in the area […]
Earlier today, Libertad villager Jermain Dion Zuniga was charged for the murder of Juan Arturo Mendez, which occurred in Concepcion Village on Sunday afternoon. The thirty-six-year-old construction worker was detained following the incident in which he allegedly hacked Mendez to death inside his own house before turning his attention to Wendy Mendez and chopping her […]
A post mortem examination on the body of seventy-nine-year-old Daniel Castellanos, a resident of Belmopan, certifies that he died of hypovolemic shock due to internal hemorrhage caused by multiple perforating gunshot wounds. But while it is clear how the elderly man died, police are still trying to zero in on who, exactly, shot and killed […]
Arrests are yet to be made for unrelated bomb threats that were called in at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and City Hall earlier this month. While an investigation remains open in the matter involving a prank call at City Hall, police say that the bomb threat at the K.H.M.H. was the work of a […]
The person, who attempted to poison almost two thousand residents of San Vicente Village, Toledo District sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning last week, has still not been arrested. If ever that individual is caught, he might be facing additional charges aside from those related to attempting to poison a village. That’s because the […]
Many families choose to live with their elders with the notion that it is safer and more convenient for them, especially when the time comes that their parents need to rely on them more, as they approach their twilight years. But on Saturday, the unthinkable happened in Belmopan when a large family could not protect […]
We now go to Concepcion Village where there was a deadly chopping incident. Family and friends believe that Arturo Mendez was cheated out of his life when he was hacked to death by a man whom he opened his home to two days earlier. Mendez, who lives with an impediment, was at his home when […]
Fifty-nine-year-old Kevin Castillo and a minor were injured during a shooting incident on Friday night when they came under gunfire from an assailant who alighted a vehicle and took aim at the pair. It is unclear what precipitated the attack on Castillo and an investigation into the case is ongoing. The details of this incident […]
