In the aftermath of Sunday’s unprecedented grenade attack, tonight one man has been detained for questioning but up to news time police had yet to make an arrest. According to investigators, the detainee is the third such person to be interviewed but the primary suspect is still at large. Just before ten on Sunday night, […]
The post mortem examination conducted on two year old Vernice Rodriguez certified that she died from head trauma caused by a blunt instrument. That injury presumably occurred while the child was under the care of Danna Banner, a resident of Ladyville, who for the past week had been the full-time guardian of baby Vernice. News […]
A security guard is hanging onto life tonight after he was shot on the job at a Belize City supermarket on Monday night. Forty-seven year old Philip Garoy of J.B’s Security was shot in the neck after a struggle with a gunman at Twin Supermarket on Saint Thomas Street. Store owner, thirty-four year old Robert […]
We’re not really sure how or why Belize changed from a relatively peaceful place into an extremely violent one, but when that history is written the events of Sunday night in Belize City may be cited as a watershed occurrence: when the staccato crackle of handguns was overshadowed by the thunder of a hand grenade. […]
For the second time in as many weeks, an infant has died from apparent abuse by a caregiver. The baby, two year old Vernice Rodriguez, was reportedly left in the care of a full time babysitter—twenty year old Danna Banner—who lived at this house behind the basketball court on Marage Road in Ladyville along with […]
Police had their hands full over the weekend, responding to four separate robberies in Belize City. The first victim was Pinks Alley grocer Jui-Liang Huang. Just after seven on Friday night, Jui was tending to a customer at Sen Sen Store when another man walked in and asked the customer for a beer. He got […]
A Good Samaritan who came to the aid of a robbery victim last Thursday morning turned out instead to be bad to the bone. Thirty year old security guard, Abner Najera, reported to police that he was walking on Orange Street around two a.m. when he was suddenly jumped by five men. During the attack, […]
A resident of Middlesex Village is tonight recuperating from chop wounds as a result of a robbery. According to Felipe Vicente, he was at home when Noe Cruz, showed up and demanded money. A fight ensued in which Vicente says Cruz chopped him in the head and right hand before making off with fifteen hundred […]
A Belize City mother accused of beating her two year-old baby girl to death was formally charged with the crime in Magistrate’s Court this morning. Twenty-one year old Shian Whyte, a food vendor of Zacaranda Street, Belize City, was silent during her arraignment for Manslaughter before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers. Because the matter is an indictable […]
He was only fifteen years old when he killed another teenager but today a Cayo youth was sentenced to spend fifteen years behind bars for the crime. Eighteen year old Steven Manzanero was found guilty of Manslaughter last week in connection to the March 2005 death of Levi Quewell. In court today, his attorney Hubert […]
A Belize City taxi driver accused of raping a nine year old has been slapped with drug trafficking charges following the search of his home. According to police, during their investigations into a report of sodomy against fifty-three year old Belizean Jamaican Eric Mills, they conducted a search of his Freetown Road home where they […]
The details of how the abuse occurred are far from settled and likely be dealt with in a court of law. But justice will come too late for a little girl named Delcy White. Delcy, who would have turned three next Monday, died Tuesday morning at the K.H.M.H. after suffering a fractured skull and severe […]
A report by police constable David Griffith that around nine-thirty Wednesday night he was threatened by another officer, twenty-six year old Delmar Moguel, has resulted in the arrest of Moguel. P.C. Moguel was charged with Threat of Death when he appeared today in Magistrates’ Court. The prosecution objected to bail on the grounds that the […]
A Belize City taxi driver has been detained pending charges in the sexual assault of a nine year old girl. The child told police that after seven on Wednesday morning she was leaving through the front gate of the Special Education Center on Freetown Road when a man pulled her into a nearby house and […]
The fear of being held-up is one that many business people live with … and on Tuesday it became a reality for an auto parts store on Cemetery Road. Around twelve-thirty in the afternoon, a man walked into Mike’s Spare Parts and asked Assistant Manager Robert Sinclair if they sold Sheltox. The strange request, coupled […]
On yesterday’s newscast we highlighted the lack of security regarding container shipments moving into Belize. But missing containers are not the only problem. Sitting on the Customs compound in Belize City are twelve late model vehicles, most of which are believed to have been stolen in Guatemala then smuggled into Belize. Comptroller of Customs, Gregory […]
It doesn’t often happen, but last night a burglar was caught red-handed. Around eight-thirty on Monday night police received information that an alarm was blaring in the Ridge Lagoon subdivision off the Burrell Boom Road. In responding to the scene, P.C. Akbar Swazo met homeowner Kendis Ferguson and his wife in the yard, who pointed […]
It was a bad day for thieves as today yet another burglar was sentenced to three years in prison. Twenty-eight year old Kenny Clark of La Democracia received the bad news after he was found guilty of an October seventh breaking and entering. According to court reports, around seven p.m. on that day, Mahogany Heights […]
A salesman from San Ignacio Town was stabbed to death early Sunday morning in that municipality. Thirty-six year old Ali Orlando Flores was found with thirteen stab wounds to his chest and a cut wound across his throat just one house away from his mother’s residence on Eighth Street. News Five has learned that Flores […]
A jury of eleven women and one man deliberated for almost four hours before it found Leonard “Ghost” Myers not guilty of the murder of fourteen year old Rodney Conorquie. Myers also faced two counts each of Attempted Murder and Aggravated Assault but was found not guilty of all charges. Conorquie was fatally shot on […]
In other crime news, today a Belize City man appeared in Magistrates’ Court to answer to charges of Burglary and Aggravated Assault. Twenty-five year old David Lambey pled not guilty to the offences and after the prosecution objected to bail, was remanded to prison. A nineteen year old woman reported to police that on the […]
Many motorists are simply waved through a police checkpoint but on Thursday there was something about the three men and a woman travelling in an Isuzu Trooper that made officers stop and take a second look. And it was a good thing they did. According to police, inside the vehicle they found one point nine […]
Meanwhile officers manning the Sand Hill checkpoint had a find of their own as police say inside forty-three year old Edmundo Burke’s vehicle they found twenty-five cartons of uncustomed cigarettes. The DJ brand smokes, valued at twelve thousand five hundred dollars, were immediately seized and Burke was arrested. The accused appeared in Magistrate Court this […]
In an update to the mysterious jacking of a container truck more than a week ago, late this evening Comptroller of Customs Gregory Gibson confirmed to News Five that an internal investigation is ongoing and has resulted in the suspension of one of its officers. According to Gibson, just after the forty-foot container truck left […]
A Belize City musician is singing “Jail House Rock” tonight after cops found an unlicensed gun in his bedroom closet. But as serious as that charge is, twenty-eight year old Ernest Young may have bigger trouble on his hands because police believe the firearm has been used as a murder weapon. Acting on a tip, […]
