Attorney Rodwell Williams is clinging to life at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida but his condition has been stabilized. That’s the latest word coming out of Florida. On Tuesday’s newscast we gave the details of his tragic shooting of the Prime’s Minister’s law partner. The incident took place around eight on Monday night as Williams […]
The shooting of Rodwell Williams sent shockwaves throughout the community. PM Dean Barrow’s friendship with Williams goes back to decades and at least for the last twenty years they have been law partners. The P.M. announced this morning before his press conference that he will be going to the United States to visit his friend […]
The law partner of Prime Minister Dean Barrow was shot on Monday night as he left his law firm on Albert Street. The news of the shooting spread like wild fire across the city because it involved Rodwell Williams whose law firm was shot at as recent as April fifteenth. Indications are that the shooting […]
As we said earlier, Williams was flown out today for further medical treatment. News Five’s Jose Sanchez was at the Philip Goldson International Airport when he was transported by air ambulance to the United States. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The Air ambulance, a Learjet thirty-five arrived about five minutes to two. It was greeted by Rudy […]
In Belmopan in the early afternoon Prime Minister Dean Barrow updated the media on the medical status of Williams. This latest incident of gun violence coincidentally occurred on the eve of the Prime Minister’s anticipated plan to reestablish a sense of normalcy to the streets of the old capital. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “The doctors […]
As we said earlier, Williams was rushed to the Belize Health Care Partners Limited for medical attention and a team of doctors from the City’s three hospitals worked on him throughout the night during to stop massive internal bleeding and to repair serious damage to his small intestine. Specialist at the Belize Health Care Partners, […]
Shortly after eight last night, Attorney Rodwell Williams, the law partner of the Prime Minister was shot as he exited the law firm on Albert Street. Williams was rushed to the Belize Healthcare Partners Hospital and underwent surgery for gun shot wounds to the abdomen. Early reports indicate that two shots were fired, one of […]
For two weeks there have been no reports of murders in our daily newscasts. But that brief spell was broken over the weekend when a women and a man were murdered. Both cases did not have the usual element of gang warfare but instead are described as crimes of passion that occurred in the north […]
The weekend’s other murder occurred in San Ignacio where a man was allegedly killed by an enraged lover of a woman he was romantically involved with. Thomas Logan admitted to his common-law-wife only three weeks ago that he was having an affair, but before the weekend was over his body was found close to Sacred […]
While police have their prime suspects in the homicides in the north and west, the investigation into the sudden death of a man from Belmopan may be more challenging to solve. That is because a post mortem, which is scheduled for Tuesday, will determine whether the victim was murdered or was accidentally run over by […]
There was a stabbing incident in the Tango Ten area of the Hattieville Prison on Saturday in which one inmate, Jeffrey Flowers, allegedly injured another prisoner on the upper abdomen. The victim is thirty-three year old Kevin Alvarez, but you might recognize him better by his nickname “Cowboy”. He is the former cop that turned […]
Operation Jaguar will be two weeks old on Monday, and it has generally reduced violence on the City’s streets after months of urban terrorism. There was one shooting, however, on Monday night which has left a man still clinging onto life. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting Thirty three year old Melvin Rodriguez […]
While Operation Jaguar has been effective in slowing down criminals over the past week, one Belize City gunman managed to slip the watchful eyes of police patrols last night. Shortly after ten o’clock gunfire erupted in the area of Mex Avenue and when residents went to the scene they spotted an uncle and his nephew […]
Contraband markets, like counterfeit money, are no easy feat for authorities to crack down on. So when counterfeit money turns up at contraband market then the problem is compounded for police and customs officials. Well that is the case coming from the Botes and La Union areas along the Mexican/Belizean border. The report is that […]
It was launched as an initiative to combat crime and restore confidence in the deadly neighborhoods of Belize City, and according to the security forces, Operation Jaguar has had some measure of success in its first five days. While no high powered weapons have been removed to make the streets safer, no major crimes have […]
Lieutenant David Jones, the B.D.F. Bomb Expert, gave an update on the search to find the batch of missing grenades. The deadly explosives went missing from a British shipment in 2004 and since then eight of the twenty-four grenades have surfaced on the streets, adding to the fear of residents about the state of violence. […]
Drug trafficking charges are expected to be brought against the driver of a red vehicle bearing a Dangriga license plate which was being pursued by undercover police in the Lake Independence area on Wednesday afternoon. The vehicle was followed as it made its way across Belcan Bridge to the roundabout and onto the Northern Highway […]
Another case that seems to be falling apart relates to the Jason Coombs murder. One person who police wanted was Jamil Betancourt who was captured by Orange Walk police on Saturday. American businessman Jason Coombs was assassinated at his construction business last November when a car drove inside the compound and someone inside the vehicle […]
Bowen and Bowen distribution centre in Belize City was jacked last Tuesday morning when it had just opened for business. One week later, its centre in Dangriga was held up by robbers in the crime wave sweeping across the country. Shortly before seven on Monday night, the thieves targeted the site, about two miles out […]
Operation Jaguar was launched this past Monday morning in the City’s hot spots that have fallen under the control of gangs. Combined elements of the police and BDF are doing foot and mobile patrols targeting specific persons known to be involved in drugs, firearms and violence. But how can the police be effective when it […]
Two Belize City men lost their lives to violence over the past weekend in the continued bloodbath in the city streets. One was the brutal stabbing of a man described as a hard-working churchgoer early on Friday night. In the other case, an eighty year old father was badly beaten and killed by his son […]
The second murder claimed the life of an elderly citizen just after midday on Saturday. But the actual incident took place the day before, at around two on Friday afternoon, when a man severely beat his father into a coma from which he never recovered. Sadly, the motive for the beating was for a shilling […]
With public outcry against crime at an all time high, police made a number of arrests over the weekend in unresolved murder cases. Businessman Jason Coombs was murdered back in the evening of November eleventh, 2009 while at his construction site in the area of the Port Authority compound. According to sources Jamil Betancourt is […]
The son of Assistant Commissioner of Police Noel Leal, has been arrested along with a group of men following a robbery that occurred after ten p.m. Friday night on Santa Familia Street in Orange Walk Town. A cache of weapons was found on Leal Junior and his friends. Reports are that a man was standing […]
Last week News Five reported gross discrepancies and possible missing monies from City Hall in connection with payments for overdue rent made by vendors at the Queen’s Square Market. Councilor Kevin Singh said that they cannot account for the payments. While officials investigate the unaccounted funds Belize City police have been able to recover thirteen […]
