Yet another Belizean man has been accused of a sexual offence involving a minor. In the latest report, a fourteen year old student has told authorities that twice in February, she had sex with Alrick Carcamo at a house on Neal’s Pen Road. Carcamo is now being sought for questioning.
Police have published statistics for the first quarter of the year and, if the figures are to be believed, serious crimes have decreased drastically over the last year. In a press release issued today the Police Department reports that for the first three months of the year, with the exception of murder, there were seven […]
Meanwhile, police in Corozal have arrested two brothers in connection with Wednesday’s fatal shooting in San Antonio village. The accused are twenty-three year old Valencio Rash and his seventeen year old brother. Both men appeared in Corozal’s Magistrate Court today where they were formally arraigned of Murder and Conspiracy to Commit Murder. Police believe the […]
He’s been on the run for a month but tonight another suspect believed to have been involved with the suspected drug plane that landed on the Northern Highway has turned himself in to authorities. Accompanied by his attorney, Zacharias Copo walked into the Orange Walk police station this morning. Copo’s delivery truck, containing a large […]
The crimes allegedly committed by Barrow’s predecessors make for good political theater … but the crime problem faced by the new government is grounded in the hard reality of deadly violence on the streets. And to solve it the prime minister is making proposals that can only be described as radical. Prime Minister Dean Barrow […]
A thirty-seven year old fisherman of Rhaburn’s Alley in Belize City has been remanded to the big house until May second for the carnal knowledge of a thirteen year old girl. When Joseph Vacarro appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb today she denied him bail after the prosecution objected on the grounds that the offence […]
Roy Pitter, a thirty-seven year old labourer who lives on a street of the same name, was today remanded to prison until May second, having been charged with Wounding, Using Threatening Words and Aggravated Assault. Reports are that on April eighth Pitter beat up his twenty-three year old common-law wife Lucretia Belgrave and threatened to […]
Just a week before the General Elections, P.U.P. Public Relations Chief, Yasser Musa, claimed someone had hacked into his e-mail account and was sending off bogus letters to his contacts. Today, it is a Ministry of Health employee who has become the latest target of an email security breech. Maternal and Child Health Technical Advisor, […]
It happens more often than you think and is usually handled quietly, but every now and then the case of a U.S. spouse illegally running off to Belize with the children goes public. And that’s what’s playing out this week in San Pedro Town. The Douglas County Sheriffs office of Colorado has issued a warrant […]
After almost two days without deadly violence, tonight Corozal police are investigating the thirtieth homicide of 2008. Police reports are that around ten thirty on Tuesday night eighteen-year old San Antonio villager Stanley Matura, twenty-three year old Timothy Sanker and a minor were in front of the San Antonio Government School when two men with […]
A Roaring Creek father charged with sexually abusing his daughter is being sought by police tonight after he failed to show up to his trial. According to reports from the Supreme Court, the thirty-five year old man is accused of one count of Incest and three counts of an Unnatural Crimes against his daughter which […]
Guns and airplanes are not a good combination but this morning shots rang out at the Belize City Municipal Airstrip. When the smoke cleared two men lay wounded and two more were on the run. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from the scene. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Just after nine this morning Atlantic Bank employees, twenty […]
Two more murders occurred in Belize City over the weekend, numbers twenty-eight and twenty-nine for the year. News Five’s Marion Ali has the details. Marion Ali, Reporting The victim, twenty-two year old Floyd McFadzean, fresh out of prison off a six month sentence for marijuana, decided to stay home. Little did he know that trouble […]
The city’s next homicide occurred on Sunday night. Marion Ali, Reporting The second victim of the gun violence was twenty-two year old Ryan “Fatback” Young, of fifty-eight Faber’s Road. Young was not inside his house like the first victim, but as we found out, he was nearby playing cards. Voice of Cousin/Eyewitness to Shooting “Bout […]
A teenager riding alone in the early morning hours of Friday has reported being raped. According to the seventeen year old, she was in the Mosul Street/West Canal area of Belize City when something hit her in the head. The girl says when she fell to the ground a tall man approached her, dragged her […]
Meanwhile, a stabbing in Placencia has left a food vendor suffering from multiple wounds and the suspect on the run. According to witnesses, forty-three year old Brenda Bernard and her common-law husband, forty-six year old Lincoln Kerr, were at the Barefoot Beach Bar on Sunday night but around seven fifteen the two began to argue. […]
Ladyville resident Lenny Bennett, twenty-three, was charged with Maim when he appeared in Magistrate’s Court today in connection with the shooting of his former friend, twenty-one year old Cristina Zetina. Bennett, a remanded prisoner, was returned to jail until May fourteenth. The charge of Attempted Murder was substituted with Maim because Zetina, who was shot […]
One of the people arrested in Cycle Breaker was Darren Banks. Police say when they searched Banks’ Oleander Street home, they found illegal ammunition and drugs. This morning in Magistrate’s Court the construction supervisor was formally arraigned on two counts of Keeping Ammunition without a gun license and possession of a controlled drug before Chief […]
Recycling is always promoted as a good thing but tonight a Belize City company is accused of trying to salvage stolen goods. Between April first and the second, a warehouse belonging to Ian Haylock was burglarized and a five thousand dollars in equipment, including a lawnmower, weedeater, compressor and drill, were stolen. Police investigations led […]
Meanwhile in the Supreme Court, Justice Adolph Lucas has ordered that a psychiatric exam be conducted on a defendant charged with Arson. Thirty-eight year old Mauricio Banaza has already pled guilty to setting his Mohammed Street apartment on fire in December 2006 but this morning the judge deferred sentencing until a doctor has certified he […]
Police have made an arrest in last month’s shooting of Delroy Matura. Nineteen year old Carl Reneau of Belize City has been charged with Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Dangerous Harm. He was also hit with a charge of committing Aggravated Assault on Tiffany Burgess. Matura was shot on the morning […]
We have another sexual assault on a minor to report. This time the victim is a fifteen year old Belize City girl who told police that in December she went to visit her aunt in a Belize District village. Although her aunt was not home at the time, her common-law husband was … and he […]
A customs officer from the Corozal district is in serious trouble tonight after he allegedly abused his authority on the job. According to court reports, forty-one year old Floyd Robinson was one in a team of officers that visited the home of Vidali Riveroll in Halls Layout to search for contraband. But when the officials […]
It has yet to be determined whether the large number of sexual assaults on children by their own family members represents a new phenomenon or simply a greater willingness to report the crimes … but either way, the frequency of child incest cases cannot help but make us question the sanity of the society we […]
On yesterday’s newscast we presented the issue of rising violent crime through the eyes of a street leader and the mother of a murder victim. Tonight we look at the problem from the perspective of Director of Public Prosecutions Lutchman Sooknandan, who says the failure to achieve more convictions can be laid directly at the […]
