There is tragic report tonight that four Belizeans were murdered in Mexico today. They were on their way back from the USA and were reportedly victims of a robbery. Information is still trickling into our newsroom but so far we know that Kirk Mariano, his wife, Aricia, and Scenes of Crimes Police Constable, Martin Rodriguez […]
Mid morning while the City Council was hosting a Violence Prevention Summit at the Princess Hotel, News Five was called out to the scene of a shooting on Cesar Ridge Road. Eustace Andrews was behind the wheel of a GMC Canyon pickup truck which was targeted by an armed man believed to have been on […]
In February 2002 Jermaine Fuentes, also known as Jermaine De Paz, was one of the Police Department’s most wanted fugitives in connection with the murders of Mark Ireland, Anthony “Trigger” Adderley, and the attempted murder of Joel Waight. He was never apprehended and while many thought that he had fled the country, his absence led […]
Twenty-nine year old Melvin Salazar, an accused fugitive who was at large since 2004 turned himself in to San Ignacio Police on April twenty-eight after several years of being on the lam. Salazar, who was in the presence of a local Justice of the Peace, is accused of the murder of Ermildo ‘Chakiste’ Coc which […]
There was little violence reported in the city over the weekend, but before lunch today a shooting took place on Mahogany Street. Brian Yorke, who has had his own troubles with the law was shot in a foiled robbery attempt and is in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Police report that around […]
A joint police/Belize Defense Force operation last night resulted in the seizure of three boxes of vehicle parts when three men entering Belize from the western border decided to abandon the boxes of vehicle parts and flee back to the Guatemalan side. The incident happened around nine on Sunday night on the Belizean side of […]
The outrage at the shooting of civilians on Wednesday by police is still raging. And while police were pleading their case before the media, a fatal shooting took place dangerously close to a primary school. It ended in the instant death of Michael Warrior Young. Of the twelve bullets that were fired at him, two […]
There were two shooting incidents in the Caesar Ridge area on Wednesday night. The first shooting was so blatant it occurred under the noses of the police, right next door to the Yabra Police Community Unit Office on Queen Charlotte Street. At about six-fifty-five p.m., Mark “Pele” Vernon was standing in front of a pink […]
Earlier in the newscast, we reported about two shootings in the city last night. But earlier in the evening, in Orange Walk Town, an armed robbery was reported at a local Chinese store. The thieves managed to get away with cash and other items and the shopkeeper was shot in the leg. News Five spoke […]
Prison inmate, thirty-six year old Edger Roberts, escaped on Tuesday night, but enjoyed only one day of freedom and tonight he is back in Hattieville. He got away by breaking the lock on his cell in the medium security area and then he somehow managed to leave the building unnoticed. Roberts, was recaptured on Wednesday […]
There is breaking news just in to our newsroom. The details are trickling in but a Ladyville resident was shot within the last forty-five minutes. What we have been able to find out is that a woman, identified as Lorna Alarcon, was inside her home when she was shot. According to reports, a man identified […]
Officials from the Customs and Excise Department have launched an intensive investigation into the mysterious disappearance of the contents of a twenty-foot container which was destined for the Commercial Free Zone in Corozal. The container entered the country through the Ports of Belize Limited on Monday and it was later transferred to the neighboring Customs […]
There were no reported shootings or murders in the city on Tuesday night possibly because everyone was tuned in to KTV Latino. However, the police have been busy keeping marijuana off the streets. Thirty-eight year old Mark Higinio of Banak Street, Dangriga was charged for eighty four point five grams of cannabis which was found […]
Another inmate flew the coop on Monday night shortly after seven o’clock. Edgar Roberts, a resident of Independence Village, who is not considered to be armed and dangerous broke free from cell number forty-three in the Medium Security Section of the Hattieville Prison by smashing a lock and exiting the building unnoticed. Roberts is described […]
There has been an arrest for the murder of Orange Walk resident Josue Velasquez. On Monday, Orange Walk Police charged nineteen year old Pablo Diaz, a laborer of San Lazaro Village for Velasquez’s murder. Velasquez’s body was found on March seventh in a drain off a feeder road with multiple chop wounds. Before he died, […]
Last Friday forty-three year old Edmund Castillo was gunned down at his house on Curl Thompson Street in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. Castillo was socializing with friends when a gunman entered his yard at approximately eleven a.m. and fired several shots at him and eighteen year old Carlton Augustine. Though Augustine […]
A Belizean is clinging to life in the U.S. after being violently attacked and left lying in a pool of blood on the streets of Liberty City, Miami. Carlos Castillo, a Belizean-American detective for the Miami-Dade Police Department for the past fifteen years, was on duty last Friday night when he pulled over Michael Paul […]
Last year January, Edmund Castillo moved from Baracat to Curl Thompson Street. On that occasion he was shot on the cheek and survived but that was not the case today for Castillo. He was in his yard when he was shot before the lunch hour; this time he died instantly. Carlton Augustine, who was with […]
There was more violence in the city last night with two shootings on West Canal. The first incident happened at six-thirty p.m. at the corner of West Canal and Berkley Street. Dana Flowers and her four children were inside their home when shots went off. She was about to step onto her porch when a […]
The second shooting occurred less than two hours later and only two blocks away from the first one. Unlike the first incident, a woman inside her apartment was shot. At twenty past eight the police interviewed Sharett Welcome at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital about the incident. One of several bullets which were shot at […]
In the Prime Minister’s budget for this financial year, numerous programs were served on the chopping block to balance the budget. The operation of one ministry which is considered critical to the well being of all citizens and visitors received a serious blow to what PUP deputy leader Mark Espat referred to as taking blood […]
Big Brother, as George Orwell called it in his novel 1984, is looking over your shoulder. He was referring to a society where the authority is always near listening, watching, and in Belize that scenario is now closer than we imagine. Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo spoke about wire tapping earlier this week on […]
It has been two weeks since the suspected drug plane was discovered submerged in waters south east of Northern Two Caye in the Lighthouse Reef atoll on April ninth. The evidence retrieved from the plane links it to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the lanterns on the island indicate that the pilot was attempting a night […]
Perdomo was quizzed by William Neal on Open Your Eyes this morning on the now famous Holy Thursday press conference about rogue cops. The situation was so grave that Easter weekend, that even the Prime Minister Dean Barrow attended the conference. Crispin Jeffries, the Commissioner of Police, vehemently protested the presence of rogue cops in […]
When it comes to statistics the police excel in their work as statisticians. The figures released in April point towards a decrease in crime fort eh first quarter of the year. According to the stats for January, February and March; rape, robbery, theft, burglary and murder are all down. Murder, unbelievably went down by fourteen […]
