On Monday we reported on a story in San Pedro Town where the manager of Conch Shell Hotel, twenty-nine year old Alejandro Uk died after getting embroiled in a fist fight with another man in the early hours of Saturday morning. Uk was recovered from a road in front of the home of Enrique Peña. […]
News Five has received a report of theft at the Western Border that has allegedly been covered up by local politicians. According to the report, thousands of dollars are missing from the Border Management Agency. While the exact amount has not been determined, the figures called are between thirty to forty thousand dollars. At the […]
It started as a pre-dawn fist fight and hours later a twenty-nine year employee of a San Pedro Hotel was dead. It is suspected that it had to do with a pending debt and the cops are still investigating Saturday’s killing. But one man has been charged with manslaughter. Marion Ali was in San Pedro […]
In other crime news, two persons are hospitalized, one of them in critical condition, following a stabbing early this morning. Around six a.m., twenty-two year old Jermaine Chen, his girlfriend, twenty-three year old Myriam Terry and their baby boy were at their apartment located at 20 Dolphin Street when they were stabbed multiple times purportedly […]
A mother and son say they have been left traumatized by an armed robbery late Thursday night. At around nine, two brazen thieves walked into the home of Pedrina White on Police Street Extension and used her youngest child, Frank Trapp, as the bait to rob the woman of three hundred dollars. The robbers also […]
Two other persons were also injured last night in a second shooting that occurred at about the same time in Belize City. Taxi operator, thirty-nine year old Wilton Chaneb, and passenger, Chester Noralez were both shot in their vehicle in the George Street area. Initial investigations reveal that as the two were approaching Allenby Street […]
And police have made an arrest for Monday morning’s execution of a Belize City resident. Twenty-one year old Shain Wilford Louriano of Haulze Street was charged on Wednesday for the murder of Steven “Eggy” Grant. After walking a female companion to the bus stop, Grant returned to North Creek, a couple blocks from his residence […]
Four persons were murdered between last Friday and Monday morning. A young man from Orange Walk and three Belize City residents were viciously killed during the three days and no charges have been filed against anyone in the four homicides. However, police are following leads in two cases. Police have detained two men for questioning […]
While reporting on the three Belize City murders on Monday, News Five encountered some residents who have had a rocky relationship with the police. One resident of North Creek claims that he almost lost his life last Sunday at the hands of an officer but he was too afraid to report the incident to police. […]
The process of renting a vehicle seems simple enough. And if you can afford it; you pay a daily rate, take the vehicle, and return it at the end of the signed contract. But it appears, one Dangriga man didn’t quite grasp that concept and has left Dangriga Auto Rental one vehicle short. Manager, Michael […]
It was a bloody weekend in which criminals took over the streets. Four persons were senselessly murdered; three of the homicides took place in the Southside of Belize City in close proximity. In the other, a young man was slain in a village in the north. News Five’s Jose Sanchez took to the dangerous streets […]
Earlier Sunday night another Belize City resident was murdered. But in this case the victim was inside his home when he was shot. Twenty-eight year old Barrington Gentle had a tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend but they had moved in together in January on Courtenay Crescent in an area behind the Berger Field. According to […]
Not far away, a former police constable was killed on Friday night on Central American Boulevard. Thirty year old Clarence Leslie was a former cop and well liked in his neighborhood. According to relatives, Leslie left his home on to buy chicken from Li Chee Restaurant. But he didn’t get far and was gunned down […]
The weekend’s fourth homicide occurred in the north of the country in August Pine Ridge, Orange Walk early Sunday morning. This time it is believed that alcohol abuse triggered the brutal incident in which an eighteen year old young man was dead after partying the night away. Police are on the hunt for his good […]
While the criminals in the weekend’s four murders are still on the loose, the long arms of the law have caught up with a suspect in a murder that occurred on the evening of February twenty-sixth. Back then a fist fight between two teens ended fatal when sixteen year old Daniel Soto was killed while […]
And back in Belize, Julio Martinez was on the most wanted list, and after being on the run for almost four months, he is back in police custody. Martinez was wanted for a series of offences and was found guilty of Aggravated Assault, but the thirty-one year old Guatemalan national escaped from the Orange Walk […]
There’s more to the story of the death of two year old Ezekiel Tejeda of Orange Walk Town. A post mortem examination has concluded that the child died as a result of multiple trauma to the abdomen. The mother of the child told News Five that Ezekiel had been left with his stepfather, Elijah Miller, […]
It’s a heartbreaking story with a tragic ending for an Orange Walk mother who is mourning the death of her two year old son. While losing a child is painful for any mother, Felicia Tejeda’s grief is compounded by the circumstances in the death of her toddler, Ezekiel. The baby allegedly died from injuries received […]
A fire that broke late this afternoon just across from our Channel Five Studio on Regent Street is being treated as a suspected case of arson. Shortly before four p.m., the right upper floor of a two storey wooden home located beside Young’s Law Firm caught fire and caused employees of the law firm to […]
Home invasions have been increasing over the past few years. The most recent attack occurred shortly around midday on Thursday. The target was the home of eighty-two year old Samuel Price; the younger brother of the Father of Our Nation and former Prime Minister George Cadle Price. Samuel was alone in the comfort of his […]
It is not a typical Robin Hood story where thieves take from the rich to give to the poor; this time thieves took from the Belize Red Cross. This past Tuesday afternoon, Chairperson of the Belmopan’s Branch, Glennis Johnson, made checks on a container on the compound and found out that it had been jacked. […]
On Monday’s newscast we reported on the vicious murder of a woman on Central American Boulevard. Police have confirmed that the woman is forty-one year old Ella Mae ‘Gial Gial’ Bennett, a Honduran domestic of Mopan Street. Bennett, who has lived in Belize for the past nineteen years was last seen alive on Saturday night. […]
In an update to the murder of twenty-five year old Jonathan Faber who was shot and killed on Saturday afternoon, police have arrested and charged a nineteen year old man. Alexander Underwood was taken to court late Monday afternoon and was remanded by Magistrate Dorothy Flowers for the crime. Underwood is expected to return to […]
It was another deadly weekend and criminals were on a rampage. Tonight, there are four murders to report —three which took place in the City alone. We start with the early morning homicide that occurred shortly after four on Saturday. Thirty-nine year old Mayhar Singh—an office assistant for Attorney’s Arthur Saldivar and Dickie Bradley—was shot […]
And while Singh’s post-mortem has not been completed, shortly after two this afternoon, Pathologist, Doctor Estradabran, was called to the scene of another murder. This latest homicide involves a woman, in her mid-thirties, whose body was found partially decomposed and half nude. The body, which has still not been identified, was found in a pool […]
