There was another murder in Belize City over the weekend and as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, each killing leaves a trail of woe that extends far beyond the victim. Rupert Munnings, Brother of Murder Victim “I’ve seen it on TV many times to see mothers crying and you say to yourself this can’t hit […]
The man accused of shooting a young Ladyville resident as she rode her bicycle is in custody tonight. Lenny Bennett, subject of a police manhunt, turned himself in to authorities this morning. He is expected to be charged with Attempted Murder and Aggravated Assault. At the same time, police are appealing to the public for […]
It was a high profile police sting but today the Director of Public Prosecutions elected to withdraw a charge of extortion against Lionel Castillo. The thirty-three year old assistant to the Ombudsman was accused of taking a fifteen hundred dollar payment from former prison mate Kelvin Reneau in exchange for allegedly arranging his parole. The […]
A Belize City man has been arrested and charged with arson after he tried to burn down his own home. Twenty-nine year old David Usher explained to Magistrate Aretha Ford that he was having trouble with his common law wife and wanted her out of the house … so on Thursday morning he set it […]
The manhunt for Lenny Bennett, also know as Andrew Bennett, continues tonight in connection with a shooting that has left his ex-common-law wife with a badly damaged leg. Bennett came out of prison in September of last year after serving a two-year sentence for drug trafficking. Since that time he had reportedly been harassing Christina […]
Police were in the right place at the right time on Wednesday night and apprehended a man shortly after he stole a bicycle. Twenty-nine year old Stackle Monsanto of Kraal Road was caught following the incident on Cran Street and has been charged with Theft. Police say they were on patrol around eight-thirty last night […]
His two young nephews were almost burnt to death in a fire that destroyed his sister’s house on Hibiscus Lane on Sunday morning. And although it is still not clear if thirty-six year old Ernest Billary is mentally fit to stand trial, today police charged him with arson. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie denied him bail […]
A pedestrian has been killed in a hit and run on the Western Highway but the suspected driver has been arrested and charged. According to police, sometime before eight Tuesday morning, forty-two year old Camelo Rash of Cotton Tree Village was walking east on the right side of the road when he was hit by […]
A woman is recuperating from a gunshot wound after her ex-common law husband shot her in the presence of her current boyfriend. Twenty-one year old Christine Zetina told police that she and her boyfriend, Kareem Young, had just dropped off his mother on the Northern Highway and they were riding their bicycles back through Ladyville […]
In news just in two men have been injured in a shooting in the Port Loyola area. Police report that after five this evening twenty year old Kareem Gillett and seventeen year old Kyle Lambey were wounded when a man approached them on Cesar Ridge Road and opened fire with a number of shots. Gillett […]
It began with a jealous rage which led to a fight … and ended with two brothers in the hospital. The altercation occurred last night sometime before midnight through an alley off North Creek in Belize City. When it was over, twenty-five year old Dwight Palacio got the worst of it with a stab wound […]
A Salvadoran man from San Andres Village in the Corozal District will spend the next eight and a half years behind bars after making the mistake of robbing his neighbour. Forty-three year old Juan Mejia was arraigned today in Corozal Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to Aggravated Burglary, Possession of an Imitation Firearm and […]
After three weeks of relative peace on the streets of Belize City, over the weekend, the fourth and fifth murders of 2008 occurred within hours of each other and less than a mile apart. According to police, the first incident occurred around four on Sunday afternoon on Malcolm Street when twenty-one year old Alfred Tillett, […]
The second murder on Sunday occurred just before eleven that night. According toinvestigators, when they arrived at the corner of North Creek and Central American Boulevard, they saw the body of a man lying under a coconut tree with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the neck. The badly bleeding man was rushed […]
Two Belize City men are behind bars at Hattieville Prison tonight after they were arrested and charged with Drug Trafficking. According to investigators, around four in the afternoon last week Wednesday, officers manning a check point outside Belmopan noticed that a green Camry heading towards Belize City made a quick u-turn when they saw the […]
If you or someone you know was robbed of jewelry in December, investigators are asking you to visit the Queen Street police station to view a number of pieces that were recovered following the arrest of a Belize City man. According to police, when twenty year old Dennis McKoy was detained on Saturday, several gold […]
Meanwhile, a teenager who tried to cop a plea on a lesser charge will go to trial for his crime. In November 2006, seventeen year old Norman Mckenzie was accused of attempted murder after he shot his brother-in-law in the back. He pleaded guilty to Use of Deadly Means of Harm on Monday but Mckenzie […]
Police have arrested and charged a Ladyville resident with Burglary. This morning nineteen year old Giovanni Mejia appeared in Magistrates’ Court where he pled not guilty and was offered bail of three thousand dollars. On Monday, thirty-one year old Luciano Choc reported to police that his home at the corner of Parrot and Yellowtail streets […]
He was charged with two counts each of Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm in 2007, but today Ashley Zuniga is a free man. Upon instruction from the office of the D.P.P. that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute, this morning Magistrate Dorothy Flowers withdrew the charges against the nineteen […]
Murder number three for 2008—and the second for Belize City—took place last night in a familiar place and involved a name not unknown to police. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the story. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Around eight-thirty last night, twenty-one year old Carlton Tasher was riding his bicycle on Gill Street when a lone gunman […]
And while three homicides are still three too many, that rate is still well off last year’s record pace which, according to official figures, saw a total of ninety-seven people killed. Belize, however, was not the only Caribbean country that had a bad 2007. Jamaica, a nation with roughly ten times our population, recorded over […]
Three months after they changed their stories on the stand, the police officers involved in the collapse of the manslaughter case against Belize City businessman Ben Bou-Nahra have been convicted by the department’s disciplinary panel. According to a police press release, today a police tribunal found Clement Cacho, Darius Ramos and Anthony Polonio guilty of […]
Eight days after a San Pedro Credit Union was hit by armed robbers, thieves decided to target a gambling house in the island town. According to police reports, around four on Tuesday morning, two masked men broke into Casino Belize, located on Coconut Drive and stole fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars in cash […]
Exactly one week after the year’s first murder was discovered, the second homicide of 2008 has been reported. The corpse of fifty-seven year old Santa Elena resident, Raul Cortez was discovered around nine this morning off Prayer Mountain Road in Ontario Village, Cayo. The taxi driver’s body was found slumped over the steering wheel of […]
A robbery at a Dangriga nightspot has left the bartender recovering from gunshot wounds. According to police reports, just after midnight on Saturday, thirty-one year old Lorenzo Sabal was manning the counter at the Foco Rojo Bar at mile three on the Stann Creek Valley Road when two men, armed with a handgun, held him […]
