A minor received a sentence of one year imprisonment for Handling Stolen Goods in Magistrates’ Court today. The seventeen year old is one of two persons charged with the burglary of Tang Supermarket on Vasquez Avenue. The charge of handling stolen goods was for five empty five gallon water bottles that the police found in […]
And in other news, Orange Walk police are investigating the circumstances in the death of an unidentified man whose body was found inside a house two miles south of Carmelita Village around eleven o’clock this morning. The body was discovered in a house on a farm in the Golden Pond area by hunters in the […]
And in an update to the murders in our newscast on Tuesday, police have not yet made any arrests in the stabbing deaths of thirty-one year old Liping Zhen and thirty-three year old Yue Lian Liu but they say they are following up on a few leads to solve the slayings in Dangriga. A police […]
It’s a record number of deaths in the past twenty-four hours. Six persons are dead: three murdered and three others succumbed in a motorcycle accident. But first we go to Dangriga where two Chinese nationals were brutally stabbed to death last night in what appears to be a case of premeditated murder. Marion Ali reports […]
And the third murder victim is a thirty-five year old man who was gunned down on Central American Boulevard at about seven p.m. Monday night. After playing a card game, Kevin Hendy, a resident of Central American Boulevard, stepped up to a black car and according to residents a large volume of shots were heard […]
And in news from the Magistrates’ Court, Errol Fairweather, the poster boy for AIDS, has been charged with Attempted Burglary for breaking into the offices of Alliance Against Aids. Fairweather told the court this morning that he was looking for medication because he has full blown AIDS. The forty-two year old Fairweather, an outspoken activist, […]
Also in the Magistrates’ Court, a U.S. citizen and Asian national have both been charged with Illegal Hunting following last Thursday’s operation by the police and the Forestry Department which yielded a truckload of game meat. James Beachy, the owner of a grocery shop in the Bermudian Landing area was charged with four counts of […]
An elderly man was hacked to death at his Compassion Lane house by two tenants who showed no empathy for their landlord. The man did not live long enough to give details of his horrific and grizzly attack, but it is believed that it had to do with monies owed in rent. Marion Ali was […]
Meanwhile in the Magistrate Court, a B.D.F. soldier was promptly charged with Theft this morning. Twenty-eight year old Felis Sho, a resident of Belmopan, is facing the charge for the theft of a female underwear. The incident purportedly happened last Friday when Sho went to the house of Sylvia Chiac on George Street. According to […]
Yet another security guard has been accused of stealing from his employer. Today’s alleged culprit is thirty-eight year old George Banner of Oleander Street, an employee of Alliance Security. Company manager, Herbert Sankey reported to police that while Banner was at his post, Buccaneer Landing at mile four and a half on the Western Highway, […]
A Chinese bus passenger, fifty-one year old Siu Chin Yin, was robbed while waiting for her fare to get home. The Burrell Boom resident told police that on Friday afternoon at around two-forty as she sat in a Rancho bus parked on Euphrates Avenue, she was approached by two men; one who pointed a firearm […]
Guns are all over the streets of Belize City and the rest of the country. It is the weapon of choice in many murders, robberies and violent crime. If the police could get guns off the streets there would be less violence. There was once the famed Cash for Guns program which yanked quite a […]
It’s no secret that Belizeans love game meat and that Asians have a taste for crocodiles, particularly the tail. Today the Police and the Forest Department had on display a truck full of both, which were confiscated from two businesses in the Scotland Halfmoon area. News Five was on hand this morning at the Queen […]
The deadline to hand in unlicensed firearms and ammunitions to the police has been extended. The Ministry of National Security today sent out a press release informing the public that the Amnesty period will now run until November thirtieth. The Gun Amnesty program was launched to give the public an opportunity to give up their […]
A thirty-two year old woman from the Stann Creek District has reported that she was raped. The victim told the police that she was at home around nine p.m. on October twenty-sixth when two men entered home and forced her into her bedroom where the crime occurred. According to the woman, she was abused by […]
Two security guards are in trouble tonight after items stolen from their workplace were found in their possession. On Wednesday police visited the Partridge Street home of brothers, Herman and Ronald Miranda, and discovered kitchen utensils and several items reported missing from the University of Belize. The supplies were stolen from the Freetown Road kitchen, […]
One man is currently under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and another in police custody for the attempted robbery of a man in broad daylight. Fifty-four year old, Joseph Duce of Police Street in Belize City was at a mechanic shop on Malcolm Street when two young men robbed him at gunpoint […]
In news of sexual abuse, police are seeking the culprit in connection with allegations of carnal knowledge. A fifteen year old minor, in the company of her mother, reported that on October eleventh she left home to meet Aaron Paquil who took her to an unnamed street where they had sex. An examination has confirmed […]
And there is a case of home invasion to report in Dangriga. According to Ethelma Alemar, some time between four-thirty p.m. on Sunday and five p.m. on Tuesday, a thief or thieves broke into her home. The culprit made off with an assortment of jewelry and a confirmation dress with a total value of eight […]
A Nicaraguan national was murdered in the Capital, Belmopan City, over the weekend. At around two a.m. Sunday morning, a commotion occurred on the Ring road which alerted residents in the area that something foul was happening. Minutes later, the security guard on duty at the Bull Frog Inn called the police to alert them […]
In Orange Walk Town, meanwhile, a popular ceviche restaurant was robbed on Sunday Night. At about nine-oh-five p.m. on October twenty-sixth, three employees of Enramada Restaurant and Cabanas were held at gunpoint by armed robbers. Two Hispanic masked men entered the establishment at number five Crickstock Street and one of them brandished a pistol and […]
Also in the Magistrates’ Court, three men, who had a knife concealed in a fried chicken, were charged today. The trio: twenty-one year old Erwin James, twenty-seven year old Deon Brackett and twenty-six year old Jesus Valencia, were in the Queen Street lock-up when the knife was found. They have been charged with possession of […]
Police have detained two men who are no strangers to the law, relating to shootings on Wednesday and Thursday which flared-up violence in the city among two rival gangs and is threatening to escalate. This morning, thirty year old Roger Anthony was back in court to face murder charges for the shooting death of twenty-two […]
A minor has been remanded to the Wagner’s Youth Facility after he allegedly held up three persons. Around eight-fifteen a.m. on October ninth Raynard Encalada, Ervin Marin and Denfield Martinez were walking on Duck Lane when they were approached by two persons on bicycles. According to the trio, one of the youths took out a […]
Gunfire and gang violence appeared to be on hold for the past few weeks in Belize City, but it now appears that the brief calm has been shattered. And in an update to a breaking story Wednesday night on a shooting just before seven o’clock, it has just been confirmed that one person has died, […]
