There is another container that has turned up in Belize with suspicious cargo but it does not have to do with pseudoephedrine; this time it’s cold cash. And today Customs authorities are investigating the shipment that landed in their custody with a significant amount of cash. The cargo arrived in Belize on Monday and its […]
It’s been almost three weeks since we last reported a murder on this newscast … but that does little to erase the fact that there have been seventy-five homicides, since the beginning of the year. It’s plain to see that Belize has a crime problem, one that the government has been trying unsuccessfully to solve […]
At the same time that government was unveiling its national security plans at the Princess Hotel, not far away the staff at the Ready Call Centre was being evacuated after a grenade scare. Just after eleven this morning the staff filed out of the building after members of the Dragon Unit showed up at the […]
A Salvadoran who is illegally in Belize got five years today for the burglary of the home of the Minister of State, Michael “Hutchie” Hutchinson. On Tuesday September twenty-second, Hutchinson woke up to find that his house had been robbed. Hutchinson, who lives on Partridge Street in the Mitchell Estate area of Ladyville, said that […]
There are reports from Roaring Creek Village that a fourteen year old is pregnant. This child reported to police today that she is three months pregnant and after having sexual intercourse with a man in June of this year but she did not identify the culprit. Meanwhile in the north, a fourteen year old student […]
Violence and crime – they are regulars in this newscast and today is no different. And at around three thirty this afternoon, Belize Western Energy Limited (BWEL) was hit by four brazen bandits. But it wasn’t the headquarters on Central American Boulevard, but the depot at the end of Sarstoon Street that was hit by […]
Illegal weapons, robbery, and kidnapping – in Willows Bank. That’s where it all happened. At eight-fifteen p.m. in the village last Friday, twenty-nine year old taxi driver Fausto Lopez left the house of Elizabeth Romero along with seventeen year old Mary Romero. He did not go too far because he spotted barbed wire across the […]
A thirty-five year old driver of Belize City was charged with incest today and is behind bars for allegedly impregnating his thirteen year old daughter. The man, a naturalized Belizean, originally from Mexico, said in Court that he has been living in Belize for the past seventeen years. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to him […]
You may have heard of the circulation of counterfeit notes. And today in Magistrates’ Court, former Anglican Cathedral College messenger, twenty-six year old Kenton Blanco, was charged with two counts of possession of counterfeit currency for a total of eighty-three notes, forty seven of them in Belizean currency and thirty-six in U.S. currency. Blanco, a […]
Two people, including a Belizean have been charged with Drug Trafficking after they were busted with almost two pounds of cocaine. At around three-thirty on Monday afternoon police searched thirty year old Belizean Dennis Robert Young of Aloe Vera Street in Belize City and twenty-two year old Vashtay Forbes Kentish, a Costa Rican national, who […]
In other news from the Magistrates’ Court, three more persons were charged in connection with the burglary of Prosser Agrochemical, located at seventy-one North Front Street. The trio: nineteen year old Ronald Michael, twenty year old Terron Palma and nineteen year old Herman Grant, were slapped with charges of Attempted Burglary. The three pleaded not […]
While Orrego walked free, a Czech national got his marching orders when he appeared in court today. Forty-three year old Tomas Kahan, who caused a bomb scare last Friday at the Philip Goldson International Airport, was ordered to leave Belize within a period of five to seven days for overstaying his visit to Belize. Kahan […]
In other news from the courts, last month charges of Aggravated Assault and Unlawful Imprisonment were struck out against Nigeymon Bevans because the case file was not available. Bevans was a free man then, but he has been picked up by police and new charges of Rape and Kidnapping have been placed against him in […]
You previously heard of him following the May eighteenth Grenade explosion and today twenty-two year old Kareem Smith, a fisherman of Junesville, Belize City, was back in court. Smith has been behind bars facing charges of conspiracy in connection with the grenade that exploded, killed one and injured eleven persons on Mayflower Street. And when […]
It was a busy day in court today. Twenty-two year old Rushelly Smith, a data entry clerk at Belize Tourism Board, was arrested by the police on Friday after they uncovered her alleged role in a scam to defraud the B.T.B. The incident, which occurred between September third and fifth was not detected until the […]
Right after the Belize City robbery of JB Security by armed bandits, two other thieves robbed a villager of St. Mathews and made good their escape in a blue Toyota Camry car. On Friday police were called to the residence of Angel Miguel Adle where thirty-five year old Elba Arce reported that at about twelve-thirty […]
Belmopan police are trying to close in on the thief or thieves who broke into a business and made off with electronic equipment worth over six thousand dollars. The burglary occurred at apartment thirteen which houses a consultancy in the Garden City Plaza. The burglars got away with two Toshiba lap tops, a Cannon digital […]
It is not uncommon to hear of vessels registered in Belize involved in illegal activities. But tonight a Belize-flagged ship is in trouble not for breaking the law, but as a victim. On Thursday the Ukrainian vessel, Faina, and its twenty-one member crew were on their way to Kenya when it was seized by pirates […]
A well orchestrated robbery was successfully executed in a busy section of Belize City by at least two robbers this morning. The amount of money that the jobbers got away with is yet to be determined. When Joseph Meighan Junior went to pick up deposits from the Alliance Bank and was heading reportedly to the […]
Alleged serial rapist, twenty-two year old Leroy Gomez this afternoon had thirteen charges read against him when he was escorted before Chief Magistrate, Margaret McKenzie. The offenses occurred in a period of time between August twenty-third and September fifteenth all in the areas of Lake Independence and Collet. Officer Commanding the C.I.B., Assistant Superintendent Julio […]
Law enforcement authorities did not need a controversial documentary to tell them that Belize has a gang problem and today the government received assistance to help decrease that form of criminal activity. This afternoon in Belmopan, G.O.B. and the United States governments signed an agreement on a Regional Gang Initiative. According to a release from […]
After being on the run for days, the most wanted man is now in police custody. Twenty-two year old Leroy Gomez, who has been accused in six cases of rape and attempted rape, handed himself to police this morning. Police were in hot pursuit of Gomez for the past few days and his home was […]
There is another bust by Customs to report today at the Port Compound. Information to News Five late this evening confirms that when a suspect container was opened this afternoon, a variety of fake cigarettes were found. The counterfeit cigarettes are estimated be have a value of around four million dollars, and consigned to Parra […]
Gang rivalry has apparently spilled into prison life and an inmate at the Hattieville Prison is recuperating from injuries he suffered after a fight with another prisoner, reportedly over an old beef. Reports to News Five say that Lester Young, who is on remand, got involved in a brawl around eleven on Wednesday morning with […]
And still on prison life, a coroner’s inquest began today in the death of thirty-four year old Mark “T Dog” Stuart, an inmate who was shot and killed on August twentieth, 2003 in the maximum security section of the Hattieville Prison. Five jurors are hearing the case to determine whether anyone is criminally responsible. So […]
