Thirty two year old Stephen Lopez, a security guard, was killed during the robbery of the Spanish Lookout branch of Scotia bank on March thirty-first. The bank was held up by five armed men and the security guard was gunned down. There was another man who was injured during the incident but his story has […]
The ruckus at the prison started in Tango Ten, the same building in which five prisoners escaped. One of the inmates Thirty year old Jose-Luis Cocom who was in jail for Burglary, Committing a Mischievous Act and Maim was captured in Orange Walk today. The other four escapees, thirty year old Terry Bainton, Thirty five […]
The cycle of unbridled violence spilled across the country over the weekend. In tonight’s newscast we report on two murders, two daring robbery attempts which ended fatally for the perpetrators, a body found at Turneffe, parcels of suspected cocaine found in Caye Caulker and other violent acts that plunged the nation deeper into fear. It […]
Aside from the murder of Kashif Jeffries, the other homicide took place in Roaring Creek Village around eight o’clock, also on Sunday and this time, the victim was only sixteen years old. According to all accounts, it was another case of an “old beef” among youths that escalated into a vicious attack on two. One […]
Heading west, two men presumably Guatemalans, tried to carry out a dangerous robbery on a D and E Bus from San Ignacio to Benque Viejo del Carmen around seven-fifteen on Sunday night. The incident was botched by a bold bus crew and passengers who bravely took on the two armed men. In the process, one […]
That Guatemalan has been identified as Wilson Paz Dominguez of Escuintla Santa Lucia, Guatemala. Meanwhile, News Five met the driver of the bus, nineteen year old Ernesto Castillo Junior at his family business in Benque Viejo today and while he was still shaken by the incident, he was also ready to get back on the […]
During the chaos, nineteen year old Lucia Carrillo jumped through the back door while the bus was still moving and she suffered a fractured skull. She remains critically injured in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. News Five spoke with an eyewitness who was standing in front of a shop when the passenger leaped from the […]
Another robber met his match in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye when two hunters stopped him dead in his tracks. The hunters were returning home when they ran into a road block set up by two robbers in a poorly lit area, north of the island. The robbers pulled out a handgun and were surprised when […]
In the city, shortly after the tragic shooting of Kashif Jeffries in the Port Loyola area on Saturday afternoon the sound of gunfire erupted once again, this time on the opposite side of Central American Boulevard. Reports are that twenty-four year old Kimberly Ciego a resident of Jane Usher Boulevard was riding on a scooter […]
Caye Caulker police found a red ice box in an area north of the island at around nine on Sunday morning. But it was not cold beers inside, in fact what they found were fourteen parcels wrapped in brown masking tape and believed to be compressed cocaine. No one was at the site of the […]
Five inmates broke out of Tango Ten, a medium security section of the Belize Central Prison just after midnight today. Up to tonight authorities are still on the hunt for the prisoners who breached the security systems and overpowered the prison officer on duty. Among the inmates on the run is thirty year old Terry […]
Meanwhile a police officer was stabbed at a nightclub around nine on Saturday night. He escaped alive but severely injured and lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Deputy Officer Commanding the San Ignacio Police formation, Inspector Dinsdale Thompson, told us how it happened. Insp. Dinsdale Thompson “One police constable by the name of Rogelio […]
A seventeen year old minor is now well enough to stand trial in the daring mid-morning robbery of Accents Gift Center at the corners of Queen and North Front Streets in Belize City. The minor was today slapped with a bevy of charges including four counts of attempted murder, a single count of use of […]
Thursday night turned out tragic for a retired police sergeant who took four of her grandchildren for a customary swim in a man-made pond just behind the Western Pines community which recently was renamed Western Paradise. The family outing, however, turned tragic and by the end of the evening she along with three of the […]
Two others lost their lives, but to gun violence. We start with the chatter of gunfire, an all too familiar sound, echoed shortly before midnight on Thursday as residents of Ross Pen Road scrambled for safety. Others peered through windows to see what the commotion was about. When the smoke cleared twenty-two year old Ervin […]
The bloodbath in the old capital continued on Thursday night when a second shooting incident claimed the life of yet another Belize City resident who was socializing with his girlfriend on Supal Street. This incident occurred prior to the shooting death of Ervin James and was a stone’s throw away from Ross Pen Road. Police […]
Earlier we reported on two murders but there was more violence in the streets where criminals were out playing target practice between last night and this morning. In the first shooting incident, three minors were hit with bullets while they were in a yard on West Canal just after six on Thursday evening. But this […]
But the crime wave is not limited to the city; it extends to other parts of the country. In Orange Walk a thirty year old resident, Vanessa Briceño, reported that while she was away between December 2009 and April eighth 2010, her home was broken into. The thieves must be happy campers because they got […]
In other violence, after eight thirty last night there was a robbery at the Shell Gas station located on the Northern Highway at the Ladyville junction with the Phillip Goldson International Airport. Reports are that two masked men, one carrying a point thirty- eight revolver and the other a nine millimeter stormed into the grocery […]
Where are the rogue cops? That is the question many are still asking tonight. After last Thursday’s press conference, the country waited to hear which cops were inside the crime ring that had infiltrated the police department. To date only one officer, Jermaine Mangar, has been charged in relation to a suspected robbery of Chon […]
What started as welcome news has now become a nightmare. But the Prime Minister today told News Five that he stands by the statements he made along with the police top brass that there is a ring of rogue cops within the department wreaking havoc. Barrow said this afternoon via phone that the high command […]
Three youths, including a primary school student, are receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after they were shot around six this evening near Rocky Road in Belize City. Sketchy details to our newsroom are that a lone gunman on a bicycle rode past an alley off Rocky Road and opened fire. Witnesses say […]
A conflicting picture is beginning to emerge following last Thursday’s revelation that a police ring had been busted. COMPOL Crispin Jefferies and Prime Minister Dean Barrow told the press that members of the force were involved in criminal activities and they could expect the full force of the law. The first to be charged is […]
While the Mangar incident continues to unravel, police have another major case to crack. We have heard of high powered weapons circulating in Belize, but over the weekend police made a stunning bust at a Ladyville house. They not only found drugs, but they also found materials to manufacture silencers, an accessory used to suppress […]
A cargo of what was suspected to be pseudo-ephedrine tablets was seized by Customs officials at the Phillip Goldson International Airport on Tuesday. The shipment which originated from Dubai was sent to Belize via DHL to the Belize General Farm Suppliers. While there had not been any major busts recently, two of five packages intercepted […]
