There were also other crimes committed in the wave of bloodshed over the past weekend. Two men were killed and two others seriously injured to add to the long list the Police Department has in its hands to solve. Firstly, the post mortem for O’Neil Anthony Jones, the fifty-five year old Jamaican national who was […]
The other fatality happened at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza where a Nigerian security guard was attacked and murdered in cold blood by three men. Kaluru Oloungududu was ambushed by the trio, who stabbed him eight times: twice on the back, once to the right side of his chest, once in the buttocks and […]
The murder statistics continue to rise with the city’s latest homicide at the Biltmore Plaza on Sunday morning; victim number seven for February. That story is coming up, but first we go to the tragic death of a Jamaican national who was killed in Lord’s Bank. The victim intervened to stop an argument at a […]
There are many questions that still remain unanswered regarding the shooting of the Jamaican National. Did O’Neil have a weapon in his possession at the time of his death? Was the police officer who discharged his service weapon under the influence of alcohol? This afternoon News Five spoke to police press officer Clement Palacio about […]
There was more gun violence over the Valentine weekend. On the north side, at the prominent hotel, the Best Western Biltmore Plaza, even before dawn, a security guard was murdered. Three men descended on the Nigerian officer on duty and within minutes he was dead. This latest homicide has distressed the Nigerian community to the […]
Another high powered weapon is missing from the Belize Defense Force and this time it’s an M-sixteen A-one rifle. The weapon had a full magazine of thirty ball rounds of five point five six millimeter ammunition when it went missing. The circumstances of its disappearance are unlike the M-four carbine which was discovered missing over […]
Earlier we reported on the murder of a Nigerian security guard at the Biltmore Plaza. That happened early on Sunday morning. Hours later, a shooting took place on Mahogany Street. It did not turn deadly but, left one man hospitalized. The gunman has not been caught or identified by police, but what is known is […]
But before Polanco was targeted, twenty-seven year old Corrington Villanueva of Hattieville was shot several times near the taxi stand at the entrance of the Western Highway. Villanueva was enjoying a Friday evening game of poker with some friends when the gunman walked up a shot blasted him with a bullet to the left side […]
According to the police statistics, crime is going down. But the man on the street knows that violence and grenade attacks are on the rise. Urban terrorism is the new description of the warfare between rivaling gang factions throughout the old capital. Morale within the Police Department is low and the strategy to combat crime […]
Gary Seawell, the Ladyville resident who has been on the lam since 2007, is the last of three brothers wanted by the United States on narco-trafficking and money laundering charges. Duane is locked up in the United States and Mark is in the Hattieville Prison fighting extradition to the U.S. On Tuesday morning the police […]
There were two burglaries in communities along the Northern Highway on Tuesday, and in one incident the culprit was caught at the scene. Police on patrol in the Lord’s Bank area, detected the first break-in at eleven o’clock in the morning when they heard a security alarm at the home of Dorian Westby. They searched […]
He’s been a fugitive since February of 2007 and today the luck of Gary Seawell, ran out when an ongoing anti-drug, anti-gun operation resulted in his capture. Seawell was busted three and a half miles behind Esperanza Village, Cayo; a mere ten miles away from the police station. If his name doesn’t jolt your memory, well […]
America’s Most Wanted is a show that is well liked in Belize and as it now appears, several of the criminals featured on the show have headed this way for safe haven. This coming February, twenty-seventh, Channel Five will be airing a recent episode filmed in Belize City in which a primary school student, Cree […]
A Ministry of Works 12-H grader was stolen on the Young Gial Road in Teakettle Village on February third. Its operator, Douglas Arthurs, was bound and tied by armed bandits before they took off with the grader worth over three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Arthurs felt lucky his life was spared, but the investigation took […]
Coming close on the news of the sensational arrest of Robert Snyder, the chess player caught recently in Belize, another of America’s Most Wanted fugitives has been captured in the country. This time it is an accused murderer who has been on the lam for about a decade. Thirty-four year old Patrick Brown is accused […]
While Patrick Brown is now in police custody, officers from the Inter-mediate Southern Formation in Independence Village are looking for suspects in the nation’s latest known homicide. On Sunday, following a tip, police headed out to a feeder road off the Southern Highway, where they found the decomposed body of a Guatemalan national, who was […]
It was a gruesome scene last Thursday night when tragedy struck an Orange Walk Town family. The murder of fifty-three year old Baldemar Moguel at his family business on Stadium Street has left neighbours fearful to venture out of their homes. But the real shock is perhaps what police have confirmed to News Five. Up […]
The senseless violence spilled into Belize City over the past weekend. The proprietor of a fast food and grocery shop was shot several times on Saturday night. Forty-five year old Song Qing Gu, along with his wife, were at Chiu Kwan Fry Chicken, located at fifty-one Amara Avenue when a lone gunman rode up on […]
It’s been five days since the government owned 2000 12-H grader was stolen and tonight the Ministry of Works says that there is reason to believe that the grader was stolen with help from locals. The heavy duty equipment, which is valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, was used for road maintenance in […]
Gunshots rang out in Orange Walk Town on Thursday night and within minutes, a ninth victim was added to the growing list of homicides since the year began. Baldemar Moguel was shot and killed in his store and in front of his wife just as they were preparing to retire for the night. A young […]
But in the city, just after the rush of the lunch hour this afternoon, two thieves stormed into Carmen’s Take Out on East Canal Street. It’s a time of the day when the popular restaurant is normally packed with patrons. But fortunately, there was only one customer when the two gunmen entered the establishment at […]
Within three hours of the armed robbery at Carmen’s, more gunshots were heard when a trigger-happy man fired a barrage of bullets on Youth for the Future Drive. His target managed to escape the gunshots unscathed by throwing himself off his bicycle and onto the ground near the Texaco Gas Station. The area was crowded […]
An extensive search is underway for a government owned 2000 12-H grader that was stolen from the Ministry of Works just after midday on Wednesday. The operator, Dwayne Arthurs, was grading the Young Gial Road in Teakettle Village in the Cayo District when he was held up by three armed men believed to be Guatemalans. […]
The spate of murders that started over the weekend continued Monday night and as many prepared to start the work day, the gun violence had taken the lives of two Belize City men – all in a matter of twelve hours. Another clings to life at the K.H.M.H. It all happened in the same neighborhood, […]
On Monday night’s newscast, we reported on a shooting on Central American Boulevard. The victim clings to life by a thin thread at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he has been pronounced brain dead. But early this morning, at about six-thirty, Glenstine Martinez was killed by one bullet to his head just outside his […]
