Crime and violence continue unabated in the streets of the city. A man escaped serious injury and perhaps death when he was shot three times this morning on North Creek. Everald Grey had just left his house to make a purchase at a nearby Chinese shop when a youth he recognised rode up to him. […]
Separate burglaries have netted robbers over thirty-seven thousand dollars in cash and goods. On Wednesday, Ysenia Rojas reported to police that she was at her business, Belize Foam Factory, at mile two on the Western Highway when she heard her daughter scream out. Rojas says she was just about to call the police when she […]
An Orange Walk youth has been hospitalized, for injuries to his hands. On Wednesday night, police visited the Northern Regional Hospital to find sixteen year old Rosendo Murrillo Junior of San Felipe Village with his left thumb completely amputated and cut wounds to the index finger. According to investigators, around eighty-thirty that night, the victim […]
CRIME: its roots and causes are on everyone’s minds. It is ripping apart families, and its path, destroying the fabric of society. Tonight, Jose Sanchez takes a comprehensive look at this ever growing threat. Canon LeRoy Flowers, Anglican Diocese “From a Christian perspective, we cannot deny the fact that crime began even in heaven and […]
We begin the newscast tonight with a breaking report that Police and Customs officials are investigating another suspect shipment that arrived in Belize last week on Taca Airlines. A trace of the parcel showed that it originated all the way from Dubai, making its way to Guatemala and Belize as its next stop. Two persons […]
There was another shooting in Belize City last night to report. It involved a seventeen year old young man who is clinging to life at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot in the head as he made his way home. While police are trailing the suspect who got away on a bicycle, News Five’s Marion […]
Three young men are behind bars tonight facing charges for unlicensed firearms while an under-aged student is at a rehabilitation facility for the same offence. Twenty year old Stephen Flowers, nineteen-year old Shane Young, nineteen year old Christopher Sosa, and a seventeen year old university student were charged today for Possession of Unlicensed Firearms and […]
And in more news from the courts, a man who was found guilty of the robbery of twenty-four dollars will have to spend five years in prison for the crime. Leon Walford was sentenced this morning in Magistrates’ Court for the incident which occurred on December twenty-seventh, 2007. According to twenty-seven year old Billa Marquina, […]
Police moved quickly and have arrested a man for a burglary at Putt-Putt Bar and Grill. Forty-three year old Jewel Waight appeared in Magistrates’ Court today to answer to the charge, but pled not guilty. On Tuesday afternoon, businessman Orson Elrington told police he was driving pass the Newtown Barracks establishment when he saw that […]
And the Belize Tourism Board has reported the theft of a company vehicle. According to forty-one year old cashier, Maria Zetina, the 2004 Nissan Frontier went missing from the Benny’s parking lot between eight Monday morning and eight-fifteen a.m. on Tuesday. The vehicle is blue and silver with license plates E1371 and is valued at […]
He is murder victim number sixty-nine for this year, fifteen more than was reported in the same period last year according to our records, and he is the fifth murder victim for the month of August. It happened early last night and the only shot that hit him, took his life on the spot. Marion […]
While police have their hands full with the unprecedented number of murders, there is a major break to report in the shocking case of a Belize City woman who met her death in a most horrific manner early Sunday evening. Thirty-nine year old Sandra Ruiz, a young professional employed by Esso, was robbed, raped and […]
In an update to the fatal shooting of David Burgess that occurred over the weekend, Mark Vernon appeared in court this morning and was charged with manslaughter by negligence. However, the prosecution objected to bail on grounds that the investigation into the case is still ongoing and that the charge could be upgraded to murder. […]
He spent his first night behind bars on Monday night when Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb remanded him for the possession of an unlicensed bullet and today, Gion Bernard was back in court in connection with the robbery of Doony’s Store on August sixth. But due to an error in his booking, Bernard was taken back […]
And in the south, a man has been detained pending charges of attempted carnal knowledge against his niece. According to a woman from Hope Creek, on Sunday, she sent her nine year old daughter to her grandmother’s house in the company of her thirty-eight year old brother. They got off the bus at mile nineteen […]
But the weekend was not without crime. Two persons were killed and we begin with the cold-blooded attack on a defenseless single mother and her children that ended fatally for the Belize City woman who was first raped and then brutally murdered at her home in the presence of at least one family member. Thirty-nine […]
In the second killing, one man was shot dead and police have detained and charged two suspects. The incident occurred before noon on Saturday inside a car as the three occupants zipped past the Yabra Police Booth on Caesar Road, reportedly playing with the gun. The incident claimed the life of eighteen year old David […]
While police were at a press conference talking crime, brazen robbers were busy at the offices of Baymen Cable. Two men went to the cable headquarters on Baymen Avenue on the premise that they were selling newspapers just before noon today. But when the security guard opened the door, the men pulled out guns, hit […]
And there is more bad news. In weekend shootings, forty-three year old Adrian Robinson was admitted at the K.H.M.H. trauma room on Sunday night after he was shot six times. Police say an initial investigation shows that Robinson was shot when he went outside his Flamboyant Street home to check who was calling out for […]
The Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo, faced a tough session with the press this morning – the reason, the undeniable increase in crime, in particular murders. There was plenty of talk of the police department’s Operation Cycle Breaker, introduced by the Police Department shortly after the Barrow administration took office. And as is evident, […]
A construction worker accused of stealing a licensed nine millimeter pistol was charged with Theft when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court this morning. The man, twenty-six year old Silvano Bustillos from the village of Guinea Grass, pleaded not guilty to the charge and has been remanded in custody since he was unable to meet bail […]
Two male minors appeared before the family court judge to answer charges for aggravated assault that occurred in separate incidents. The first incident involved a fifteen year old high school student. It was reported that on the twenty-seventh of July around ten-twenty p.m. the youth fired shots at twenty-one year old Wilworth Williams. Williams alleges […]
A man who had a one millimeter calibre bullet in his pocket, was denied bail today in the Magistrate Court. Gion Bernard was charged for keeping the bullet and when he pleaded not guilty to the charge, Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to him that she cannot offer bail because of the new legislation which […]
A Belize City man has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to drug charges. This afternoon, Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie charged twenty-nine year old Sydney Bradley for possession of point eight grams of cannabis, the equivalent of about one joint, and sentenced him to one year imprisonment. Bradley was obviously in […]
Eighteen year old Denfield Tasher was charged today with Attempted Robbery and Aggravated Assault. He was wanted by police for a June burglary of Femy Young’s home on Coffin Street. Police report that last Friday morning, Tasher entered Profile Jewelry Shop on Regent Street with a big brown bag which contained a pistol. The sales […]
