The long weekend also saw more violence erupting in the north where a group of youths allegedly took matters into their own hands in San Lazaro Village, eight miles away from Orange Walk Town. A cane farmer was allegedly hacked to death one day after he was involved in a fight with members of the […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported on the murders and a shooting death at the hands of police in the City. But there were other violent incidents. In one shooting spree, five Belize City residents including a minor were injured on Friday night shortly after eleven o’clock. The victims: twenty-three year old Tony Gamboa, forty […]
In another shooting in Orange Walk, last Friday an enraged villager in Santa Cruz, shot a man in the foot with his licensed firearm. You’d think all would be well for the victim after a few hours of medical treatment right? Wrong. It turns out that life will never be the same again for Alido […]
The murder of Christopher Galvez on the night of December twenty-second, 2009 grabbed the headlines and spurned serious allegations at members of the Police Department. His homicide transformed members of his family into advocates against violence throughout the country. His aunt Yolanda Schakron has been most outspoken against the way the case has been handled […]
An Orange Walk resident is sixty-five thousand dollars richer tonight. The government won’t be taking any percentage of his gains because it is all the proceeds of a crime. It wasn’t a robbery at gunpoint, but a man going by the name of Jorge Enrique Casanova allegedly tricked an Atlantic Bank employee into draining an […]
Two and a half months after he went missing, a Hattieville family is finally bringing closure to his disappearance. Shortly after Glenn Smith vanished in December, the family found his slippers and suspected that he may have been killed. That appears to now be the case, as the tell tale signs were seen on his […]
A grocery store in Los Lagos was robbed after midday this afternoon. Four men wearing masks, one of whom had a gun, stormed into the Holiday Grocery store and held up the owners. They took cash, phone cards, alcoholic beverages and DVD’s. The men then drove from Los Lagos towards Belize City. They almost got […]
There are two sides to a story, but first the version of a mother who is appealing to motorists on the Boom/Hattieville Road to be on the lookout for her son who went missing last night after he was allegedly shot by police. According to Leila Williams, her two sons, twenty-eight year old Denroy Williams […]
The badly decomposed body of a man was discovered today by the Hattieville Police. Late this evening police were called out to the shooting range which is located past mile eighteen on the Western Highway. The male body was buried in a makeshift grave and sources close to News Five say that it appears the […]
It seems that Belize has become the hideout for American fugitives on the run from the law. On Saturday Channel Five aired an episode of America’s Most Wanted in which a primary school student Cree Young, brought a convicted child molester, Robert Snyder to justice. Snyder failed to register as a sex offender and found […]
Another weekend: another murder in the city. The latest victim for the month of February is twenty-one year old Teddy Murillo Jr. who was gunned down as he headed home early on Saturday morning. And like in a number of past homicides, the family is grappling for answers on what led to the brutal murder […]
While the shocking murder of Teddy Murrillo was top on the crime blotter, there was much more violence in the city streets that, fortunately, were not fatal. The bloodshed started last Thursday night when thirty year old Eric Martinez was shot as he rode his bicycle on Yorke Street. Martinez was approached by two men […]
Thieves are in almost every nook and cranny. Not even the residents on Lighthouse reef have been spared from the crime wave that has washed over the country. On Sunday night, just before two a.m., two boats were stolen from Lighthouse Reef. The ‘Huracan’ and ‘Et Too’ are the property of Karel Levrau and Ruth […]
A shooting incident shortly after eight o’clock this morning brought traffic on North Front Street to a screeching halt as two gunmen opened fire on a passing vehicle. The intended target Daniel Faber and his girlfriend were taking their son to school when upon reaching in front of Lelani’s Superette two young men exited Rhaburn’s […]
She was a rising star on the local music scene who sought fame and fortune abroad. Instead, Cayo’s Maria Reimer found herself in a Canadian jail, charged with the armed robbery of six Winnipeg Credit Unions. Reimer, moved from San Ignacio to Canada where she married and later separated from her husband .She took his […]
A police officer and a Belize Defense Soldier are sitting behind the bars of the Hattieville Prison tonight. They are accused of assaulting a minor and robbing a resident of San Pedro while asleep on a boat in an old football field in the island. The officer is not attached to the San Pedro Police Formation […]
Another night in the old capital and another Belize City resident has been shot. This latest act of violence occurred on the south side of the city, on a street behind the Salvation Army School. According to the acting police press officer, Bart Jones, the man was shot three times. Bart Jones, Acting Police Press […]
It is one of the biggest drug busts in recent memory. On Thursday, police seized a whopping twenty kilos, that’s over forty-five pounds of suspected cocaine. San Ignacio police, acting on a reliable tip apprehended their suspect, Carlos Gibson, a resident of Alta Mira, Corozal. He was nabbed while traveling along the Western Highway and […]
Four men have been charged in connection with two murders this week. In the first instance, Dwayne Evelyn was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb this afternoon for Wednesday’s shooting murder of twenty-two year old Peter Myvett on Kutt Avenue. Myvett was washing a bus near his house when he was shot by gunmen on […]
Meanwhile for the stabbing murder of Nigerian security guard, Kaluru Oloungududu early Monday morning, cops have brought a joint charge of murder against three men, two of who were his work colleagues. They are twenty five year old Jamal Jackson, nineteen year old Daniel Myvette and twenty-one year old Kareem Stevens who was once employed […]
Three employees of a gas station on the Northern Highway were terrorized today by a thief that made away with thousands of dollars in cash and valuables. It is the second time that the business has been jacked and today’s heist took place before noon. The thieves used duct tape to tie the three employees […]
In other crime news, police still have not made any inroads on Wednesday afternoon’s murder of Peter Myvett. The twenty-two year old was gunned down shortly after midday as he washed a bus on Kutt Avenue. Cops say they are following a strong lead that a masked man who emerged from the direction of Tigris […]
And in relation to a shooting that took place on Wednesday night, police have no suspects. The incident happened on Antelope Street Extension in the Collet area around ten o’clock and left thirty-three year old Michael Usher of Faber’s Road Extension with two bullet wounds to his back. News Five visited the scene today and […]
A Belize City youth was gunned down at ten minutes past twelve this afternoon. He is believed to be the main prosecution witness in the case of the grenade that exploded on Kraal Road in December of 2009. Fourteen year old Rudolph Flowers was instantly killed when it detonated and in January Lusby Martinez was […]
One police officer and two B.D.F. soldiers were asleep on the job when they lost an M-sixteen A-one rifle on Saturday morning. The police have not been heard from but the B.D.F. soldiers have admitted that they failed in executing their duty. The B.D.F.’s Adjutant, Major Alvin Amoa, says that several charges are being brought […]
