But while thieves targeted the accounting firm on the southside, another culprit had his eyes on a business establishment on the northside. For the third time in recent memory, the Esso New Road Gas Station was jacked of the day’s proceeds shortly before eight last night. Police say that a young man wearing a mask […]
Tonight Customs and police authorities have joined forces in investigating another hijacked shipment of goods destined for Guatemala. Comptroller of Customs, Gregory Gibson, and Officer Commanding the CIB Eastern Division, Assistant Superintendent Julio Valdez, confirmed this evening to News Five that the goods labeled as “cough suppressants” arrived from Panama earlier this week. The shipment […]
Today there are press reports from neighbouring Chetumal that three Mexican nationals are in police custody for allegedly importing cocaine into Mexico, originating from Belize. The trio was arrested after midnight on Wednesday at the military checkpoint just past the customs point at the Mexican side of the border. The three have been identified as […]
And we end tonight’s newscast with reports of two violent incidents in the west. The first victim is a man from Santa Elena, Floyd Flowers, who was shot in the left leg and is hospitalised for treatment. Flowers told police that he was at the residence of Markis Pandy when he heard noises emanating from […]
Marion Ali is back in our news room from Lucky Strike, a rural community twenty-nine miles away from Belize City on the old Northern Highway. It is known for farming and logging, but today the village comes to national prominence for a case that ended in the murder and suicide of two love sick men […]
And the sexual abuse of Belize’s children continues unabated and tonight there are two more incidents to report. On Tuesday, a seventeen year old from Punta Gorda reported to Dangriga police that her father has been having sex with her for three years. According to the teen, the latest incident occurred on June twenty-ninth at […]
A family in Corozal Town is traumatized after their home was invaded on Tuesday night. Forty-six year old Femoli Correa reported to police that around nine o’clock she was at her Third Street South home with her mother and three children when two men entered the premises. According to Correa, the men were armed with […]
The relatively short lull in gun violence in Belize City’s streets was broken Monday morning with the murder of twenty-four year old Robert Jones. Add to that the last night’s shooting of Leon Garcia and police’s worst fears for a resurgence of street warfare have been confirmed. As Marion Ali reports, while police could not […]
In a crime of a different nature, a Punta Gorda man took his own life over the weekend after he was literally caught with his pants down. The man, Pablo Ack, a laborer from the village of San Miguel, died after he consumed a quantity of the herbicide called gramaxzone. Ack lived long enough to […]
A bus driver from the village of Cristo Rey in the Corozal District, appeared in Magistrates’ Court this morning and was charged with Uncustomed Goods for vegetables found in his vehicle. He is twenty year old Jose Quintero who was slapped with the charge of reckless possession of eleven thousand, nine hundred and thirty-six dollars […]
In other news from Magistrates’ Court, a woman is facing a charge of Arson after allegedly setting fire to a plywood house. Thirty-two year old Hilda Locario, a resident of Tibruce Street, is accused of torching the house belonging to her ex common-law husband, twenty-three year old Herbert Bodden. In court this morning, the woman […]
Thirty-five year old Calvin Bailey appeared in the Magistrates’ court this morning to answer a lesser charge of burglary. He is accused as one of two culprits involved in a burglary on East Collet Canal on July sixteenth. The complainant, thirty year old Maria Teresa Lara reported to the police that she was alone in […]
Two months ago he was charged with Attempted Murder and Use of Deadly Means of Harm for shooting twenty-two year old Darrel Jones on Youth for the Future Drive near the Belchina Bridge. But today when shots rang out it was the accused, twenty-four year old Robert Jones, also known as “Black” who fell victim […]
Twenty-two year old Armick Escobar left his Cleghorn Street home last week Tuesday evening to socialise with two friends and according to his family, has not been seen since. Police reports are that around six-thirty last Tuesday evening, two of Escobar’s friends, Julian Barrow and Paul Gibson went to pick him up at his home […]
A routine patrol conducted by the Transport Department stumbled on an unexpected find in southern Belize last Friday evening. Chief Transport Officer, John Briggs, reports that while he was on a patrol in the Seine Bight Village, he spotted a brown vehicle with no license plates. The transport officer caught up with the vehicle and […]
Twenty-five year old Austin Stevens of Jane Usher Boulevard has reported that his life was threatened by two men who called him a snitch. Police say they are investigating the incident which occurred on Friday when Stevens was on his way home and was confronted by two armed men, identified as Kevin Hendy and Keith […]
Today, thirty year old Jiovanni Lauriano, appeared before the Magistrates Court and was charged with Unlawful Carnal Knowledge for allegedly having sex with a fifteen year old girl who is reportedly his girlfriend. The teenager claims that on the eleventh of July, she went to a house on Mahogany street extension where she had sex […]
In news from Magistrates’ Court, twenty-three year old Giovanni Saldano, a former warehouse clerk for Madisco, was charged with the theft of twenty-five boxes of assorted cigarettes valuing fifty-six thousand dollars when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie today. Saldano pleaded not guilty to the charge and the prosecution objected to bail on the […]
In an update to a story carried earlier this week, twenty-five year old Jermaine Jex, one of two men who stomped open a woman’s apartment door was charged with Burglary when he appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. Jex at first pleaded guilty to the charge, but Magistrate Sharon Frazer entered a plea of not guilty […]
A teenager has been shot. Fourteen year old Glenford Martinez of four and a half miles Western Highway reported that on Thursday night he was talking to a friend on the basketball court on Levi Slusher Street in Belize City when he was accosted by Keith Middleton. Martinez says Middleton beat him up and demanded […]
Three inmates described as Guatemalan nationals are enjoying freedom tonight. That is, because they escaped from the Kolbe Foundation at nine this morning. The trio; Melvin Zacarias, Jose Interiano, and Wilfredo Vasquez were cutting grass in the prison compound when they made good their escape. The guard at the tower was not watching them and […]
Belize City police are investigating a robbery that occurred on Wednesday morning at a local hotel in which a guest claimed he lost seven hundred dollars. According to sixty year old John Ramos, a cook from La Democracia, he was robbed at about ten-thirty yesterday morning at room number twelve on the third floor of […]
The incident happened on July fifth, and today police report that they are bringing charges on a member of the force. Thirty-four year old Michael Cob of San Ignacio is being charged with the offences of Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct and Driving Without Due Care and Attention. The police officer has […]
And in the city Police are investigating a report filed by a thirty year old woman who claims she was awaken from her sleep by two men looking for her common-law-husband. The woman, Maria Teresa Lara, resides at East Collet Canal and reported to the police that just after noon on Wednesday, three men entered […]
The case involving an immigration officer who allegedly facilitated the entry of undeclared U.S. currency came up this morning at the Magistrates’ Court. The officer, twenty nine year old Maria Guerra, along with a twenty year old San Ignacio businessman, was charged with Evasion of Custom Duties this morning. On May thirty-first, at the Phillip […]
