Sometime after eleven p.m. last night on Fort Street, the Belize Audubon Society became the latest victim of a break-in. Reports are that thieves, under the cover of darkness, made their way to the back of the building, where they used a crowbar to ply the paneling from the lower portion of the wall. They […]
Police threw the book at the alleged grenade bomber, Akeen Smith, who already faces the rap for murder, adding six new charges relating to the same incident in May in which sixteen year old Darren Trapp was killed and eleven others injured. When he appeared in Court today, Smith was charged with three counts of […]
As we reported in last night’s newscast, police have apprehended the man that robbed the Centaur Cable Company at gunpoint on Wednesday. And this morning, the lone gunman, twenty five year old Jesse James Garbutt, appeared in court and was charged with Dangerous Harm, Robbery and two counts of Aggravated Assault. Garbutt pleaded not guilty […]
In more news from Magistrates’ Court, twenty-one year old Marlon Hernandez, an officer of the Belize National Coast Guard, was charged with six offences, including forgery, when he appeared in court today. Hernandez was charged with two counts each of Possession of a Forged Document, Claiming upon a Forged Document and Uttering a Forged Document. […]
Just before expiring, he told police that his injuries were the result of an accident. But today, Benque Viejo police have charged a man with the murder of twenty-five year old Jerson Paguada of the San Martin area in Belmopan. The man charged is eighteen year old Estevan Williams of Succotz Village. Police say that […]
A mother of four is murdered by the hands of her common law husband in Santa Elena. An early morning confession and swift arrest by police does little to dull the blow to the family and the community of Esperanza. Jose Sanchez reports from the scene of the crime. Andre Bradley, Son of Murder Victim […]
Meanwhile, News Five caught up with Alfonso Xis, who is the brother of forty-two year old Angel Xis and the uncle of eighteen year old Marcos Xis, who were both victims in a bloody murder yesterday in Calla Creek Village. Police discovered the men’s red and white Toyota pick up with the bullet riddled bodies […]
San Ignacio police are tonight looking for leads in the gruesome double murder of a father and son. Reports are that sometime around six o’clock this morning police discovered a red and white Toyota pick up with a Cayo license plate parked on the left side of the Calla Creek Road, one mile from Bullet […]
A thirty-four year old man is in police custody tonight after being charged with the heinous crime of Carnal Knowledge in Magistrates’ Court this morning. The allegation is that the electrician of Hattieville carnally knew his six year old step-daughter sometime between February 2007 and May 2008, but the crime was not reported until a […]
Belizeans suffer acts of police brutality almost on a daily basis. Joycelyn Castillo’s says she fell victim to such violent acts around ten-twenty on Tuesday morning when she was selling fruits and vegetables outside Public’s Supermarket. Today Castillo told News Five that W.P.C. Therese Allen hurled obscenities at her and in the heat of the […]
Centaur Cable Company, located at Ramon’s Plaza in Ladyville, was hit yesterday by a lone gunman who police believe was targeting the establishment for some time. The police acted swiftly, and the culprit, who had dreadlocks and carried a knapsack, is now in police custody but is yet to be charged. He entered the business […]
Cases of incest do not appear often on the newscast, but tonight there is an appalling allegation coming out of the Stann Creek District. A fifteen year old girl, accompanied by her Guatemalan mother, reported to Dangriga police that her father had sex with her in early March and in June fondled her. The young […]
A Belize City woman got more than just a hairstyle when she was robbed at gunpoint at a beauty salon. The incident occurred around ten-twenty on Tuesday morning in front of Abraham’s Hair Moda on Blue Marlin Drive. The victim, Eugenie Aguilar, told police that when she returned to her parked Land Cruiser, a gunman […]
Incest and robberies are crimes that have long plagued the Belizean community and no one is immune but new police statistics show that it will take more than just the work of the force to take a huge bite out of crime. Gerald Westby, Police Commissioner “We have compared the period from January to June […]
Tonight a police officer is behind bars at the Hattieville Prison, charged with Carnal Knowledge. Magistrate Sharon Frazer denied Constable Horace Portillo bail after the prosecution objected on the grounds that the offense has become prevalent, that the defendant might interfere with the witness, and that the offense is of a serious nature. The incident […]
Tonight police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a car and a boat which were reportedly stolen. According to twenty-three year old Allison Cuthkelvin, some time between eleven Saturday night and one-thirty Sunday morning someone stole his Toyota Corolla from in front of Putt-Putt bar on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. […]
Two mothers in the Corozal District have filed assault reports against their sons. According to thirty-eight year old Irma Castillo, she was at her home in Halls Layout around seven-forty Friday night when her son Francisco Vasquez tried to stab her. About an hour later in the Village of Libertad, Carmen Carter alleges that her […]
A case of he said, she said has landed before the courts. Fifty year old Bernard Bowen is accusing thirty-three year old Aloma Pike of robbery, while she is claiming Bowen made a false report against her. According to Pike, Bowen refused to pay her twenty dollars as agreed for her sexual favours and so […]
The village of Arenal is shared by both Belize and Guatemala, divided only by a football field. Interaction between the two communities is well known but every now and then there are skirmishes that break the peace. Yesterday morning gunmen, suspected to be Guatemalan nationals on the Arenal Road, held up a group of school […]
An Orange Walk fireman has been murdered. According to police reports, around ten Thursday night, thirty-nine year old Michael Wills was socialising at Cool Place Restaurant and Bar at the corner of San Antonio Road and Staine’s Alley in Orange Walk town when a man armed with a nine millimeter pistol and wearing a grey […]
On Thursday, Belize City police made a gruesome discovery when they dug up a child’s remains in the St. Martin’s area. Acting on information, police visited a yard on Riverside Street where they extracted a white plastic bucket which was buried three feet underground. Inside they found the skeletal remains of a small body wrapped […]
A cane farmer charged with traffic violations now faces charges of attempted bribery. On Wednesday, police were on a routine patrol in the Caledonia Village when they stopped thirty-nine year old George Allen Junior. The officers noticed that the San Victor cane farmer did not have a driver’s license and the insurance on his Toyota […]
He was detained on Tuesday for the brutal murder of Sandhill resident, Dorla Pitterson and today thirty year old Orlando Wade was formally arraigned for the crime. Wade showed no emotion this morning when Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb read him the charge of Murder. No plea was taken as the offence is indictable and Wade […]
Police are yet to make an arrest for an armed robbery at one of Belize’s more prominent hotels. The hold-up occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning at the San Ignacio Hotel on Buena Vista Street. The thieves tied up one of the security guards and ordered the other to open the cash register. […]
Murder number forty-four for 2008 was recorded this afternoon in Belize City. Around one-thirty police discovered the body of forty-four year old Cyril Coleman floating in the harbour near the Baron Bliss Lighthouse. The corpse had a deep cut wound to the left side of the throat and cops are now trying to decipher who […]
