Yet another Belize City resident is hospitalized due to gunshot wounds. According to twenty-one year old Clifton Flores, on Saturday afternoon he was riding his bike on West Canal, heading to South Street when another man on a bicycle fired several shots at him. Flores was hit in the right shoulder, elbow, leg and knee. […]
Police have made an arrest in last Tuesday afternoon’s armed robbery of Marlin’s Restaurant. One of the men police believe is responsible for the crime is thirty-one year old David White of Castle Street in Belize City. This morning White appeared in Magistrates’ Court where he was arraigned on four counts of robbery; three counts […]
A brazen Belize City man tried to pull off a robbery and rape inside a bar but he was unsuccessful. And when nineteen year old Abel Anthony Arana, an unemployed man of King Street, appeared in court he was slapped today with five offences: Attempted Rape, three counts of Robbery and Keeping a Prohibited Firearm. […]
In September of 2008, the Customs Department made a bust on a container load of fake Marlboro cigarettes. At that time the eight hundred and fifty-five cartons were valued at over four million dollars. This past Wednesday, Customs made another bust that yielded in excess of nine hundred cartons of counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes made possible […]
An alcalde in one of the southernmost villages in the country has been arrested and charged for the crime of incest. It is alleged that the man had sexual intercourse with his fourteen year old daughter sometime in August of 2008. On January thirteenth, the minor made a report of the incident and a medical […]
News agencies in the U.S. are reporting tonight that a Ghanaian man connected to a smuggling ring in Belize has been convicted of smuggling East Africans to the United States. On Thursday, twenty-seven year old Mohammed Kamel Ibrahim AKA Hakim, a native of Ghana and naturalized citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to five years in […]
In his novel 1984, George Orwell describes a state in which the government or “Big Brother” is constantly watching over society. And now in modern day Belize, the controversial issue of telephone tapping has surfaced again. On Wednesday Prime Minister Dean Barrow, at a press conference commented on the topic of increasing crime, saying that […]
Two brazen thieves in the early afternoon of Tuesday jacked the popular Marlin restaurant located in the vicinity of the Swing Bridge. It took less than two minutes when many patrons were having their lunch and health inspectors were on the premises. Unknown to the thieves, they were being recorded. Marion Ali has a report. […]
Last week, more than fifty pounds of cocaine washed up in San Pedro AC in what is believed to be an earlier wet drop. Police picked up the drugs and handed it over to the Anti-Drug Unit. But it does not mean the white stuff is not circulating and only Wednesday the police department made […]
San Pedro Town was not the only municipality to make a drug bust. Over eight pounds of cannabis were removed from Belize City Streets yesterday. On January twenty-first, officers conducted a search on G Street in Kings Park, the residence of twenty-seven year old Kareem Flowers. They found four thousand and twenty-six grams or eight […]
Police may not have their main suspects in custody for a number of robberies in the past twenty-four hours, but they have made some inroads in the jacking of National Transports Limited at two and three quarter miles on the Western Highway. Officer Commanding the Crime Investigations Branch, Superintendent Julio Valdez, says they recovered the […]
It appears that no one is spared of the rampant crime scourge that is affecting our society, particularly in the Belize City streets. And tonight we have three more robberies to report. We start off with an armed hold up at Marlin’s Restaurant on Regent Street West in Belize City. Part owner of the business, […]
Another business that was targeted by thieves was Manuel’s Jewelry Shop on West Canal, also in Belize City. Proprietor of the business, fifty-five year old Manuel Matute told police that the bandits pounced on him around four-thirty on Monday afternoon and cleaned out his jewelry showcase. Matute spoke with News Five off camera about the […]
Thieves also got busy robbing a taxi driver of his keep on Monday night. The incident occurred on north side Belize City on York Street, situated off Douglas Jones Street. Taxi driver, forty-one year old Emmanuel Mah reported to police that he was on Princess Margaret Drive when two men approached him and hired him […]
There has been no break in Monday’s robbery of National Transport Services Limited and the stolen monies have still not been recovered by police when we checked today. Shortly after eight, three robbers hit the offices located at miles two and three-quarters on the Western Highway and within seconds got away with the loot of […]
And the remarks at the ceremonial opening of the new session of the Supreme Court on Monday were not of the same note between Attorney General Wilfred Elrington and Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. Both had opposing views, the CJ spoke of the lack of finances and referred to Oliver Twist who said “Can we please […]
At yesterday’s opening of the Supreme Court the C.J. spoke of the staggering number of cases—a total of eighty-three—in which the D.P.P.’s office entered a nolle prosequi and the cases were struck out. The C.J. counseled the D.P.P. not to press on with an indictment when there was not enough material. But there are two […]
Robbers paid National Transport Services Limited an unwanted visit shortly after eight this morning at its compound at miles two and three-quarters on the Western Highway. Two masked men reportedly ran into the company’s office, held up the staff at gunpoint and demanded money. The bandits made good their escape with the cash pan containing […]
A routine check by an alert cop on duty yielded a find of uncustomed goods from an unlikely place. Around eleven Sunday morning, a police officer boarded a Venus Bus at Orange Walk Town en route to Belize City. while in the bus, the officer spotted a knapsack on a seat and when he approached […]
P.G. police have one person in custody and are looking for another in connection with a crossfire that occurred in the early afternoon of January thirteenth. On January fourteenth, twenty-three year old Ryan Gonzalez told police that around one on Tuesday afternoon, he and two friends were sitting on the street side of Jose Maria […]
In an update to our lead story on Thursday night on a robbery that caused a five car pile up, a shootout and kidnapping… police say they continue their investigations but so far have made no arrests. Forty year old Sheng Wang Chen of Barrack Road, who was held by the band of robbers and […]
A former security guard appeared in court this morning and was promptly charged with Arson. He is twenty-nine year old Nathaniel Thomas who is accused of setting on fire the house of his ex common-law-wife, Khara Craig. Thomas was additionally charged with Damage to Property. This goes back to an incident in the early hours […]
Police are seeking an employee of Grace Kennedy for questioning. According to the company’s finance manager, between June and October 2008 accounts manager Leon Staine collected over fifty thousand dollars from several customers and did not turn the money over to the company. The financial discrepancies came to the attention of the company back in […]
Another business is missing big money tonight after someone broke into their premises overnight. Supervisor at the Belmopan branch of Madisco, Linda Escalante, told police that the burglary occurred between five-ten on Thursday evening and seven-fifty this morning. The cash, which amounted to over fourteen thousand dollars, was stashed inside two grey and red FirstCaribbean […]
It’s not often you hear of the charge of ‘failure to produce license to possess or have in custody or control any ancient monument or antiquity. Today, a Guatemalan labourer was charged with this offense. On January twelfth, fifty-nine year old Carlos Alex Betancourt, of Nargusta Street, Orange Walk Town, was discovered with a plastic […]
