Both political parties have pledged to maintain peace during the electioneering but tonight there are reports that on Sunday night political motives were behind a shooting in Cayo. According to thirty-one year old Mateo Chuc, around six last night he and other residents of Toledo were heading home after participating in a People’s United Party […]
More than fifty thousand dollars worth of medical equipment has been stolen from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and hospital administrators strongly suspect it was an inside job. According to police reports, during stock taking earlier this month, auditors were unable to locate three electrocardiogram machines and two space lab monitors valued at a total […]
Just about anything you plant in Belizean soil is sure to grow but a British man growing marijuana inside his house has had his gardening career cut short by police. Apparently members of Belmopan’s Anti-Drug Unit had been monitoring the movements of Christopher Dunster for some time, after receiving reports that the sixty-one year old […]
They were convicted of depraved acts of violence against a child but today justice was meted out to Wilfred Gillett and Beverly Simpson. When the couple appeared before Justice Troadio Gonzalez this morning for sentencing, three friends and a family member spoke on their behalf. But following those mitigation pleas, Gonzalez sentenced Gillett to fourteen […]
And in news just in, police have announced that D.P.P. Lutchman Sooknandan has ordered a coroner’s inquest into the death of Jimmy Gutierrez which occurred in San Pedro last October thirty-first. The twenty-six year old was shot by police after they claimed he pointed a gun at them. The coroner’s inquest will seek to determine […]
This morning twenty-three year old Lincoln Sabido appeared in Belize City Magistrates’ Court to face charges of murder. The Berry Street resident was one of five men detained after the shooting death of thirty year old Norman Reyes. In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Reyes was in his Flamboyant Street apartment when a gunman […]
Two Belize City teenagers have been arrested and charged with Attempted Murder in connection to a shooting that occurred last week. According to court reports, twenty year old Ready Call employee Roy Bennett was visiting a friend on Jane Usher Boulevard when a masked man walked into the yard and fired four shots through the […]
He put a gun in a teenager’s face but today the accused tried to convince the court it was only a joke because the weapon wasn’t real. According to the sixteen year old boy, he and a friend were walking on Curl Thompson Street when two men rode up to them on bicycles. According to […]
After three weeks of peace in the streets, tonight homicide detectives are working on the first murder of the year. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, the motive behind the killing may be drug related. Marion Ali, Reporting Just after five this morning, thirty year old Norman Reyes, also known as “Ne Me”, became […]
And while killing in the streets picked up right where it left off, crimes against the country’s children continues unabated. Police reports out of Seine Bight are that a twenty year old man has been arrested and charged for molesting a two year old girl. On Monday, the toddler’s mother says she noticed abrasions and […]
Parchue will stand trial for the offence but on Monday a jury found two other people accused of child molesting guilty as charged. After deliberating for two hours, a nine-member panel convicted thirty-four year old Wilfred Gillett and his common-law wife Beverly Simpson. Gillett was found guilty on five counts of carnal knowledge while Simpson […]
Details are still hard to come by but reports are that around eight this morning an inmate was fatally shot by a guard at Hattieville Prison. According to a press release issued by the police, officers were called out to the facility where they were informed that thirty year old Freddy Harris, on remand for […]
A night at a popular nightspot deteriorated into chaos early Saturday morning and left two people hospitalized. According to police, just after midnight an old argument between two groups of men climaxed when a heated exchange inside the Riverside Tavern escalated to blows and then a free for all. The melee caused substantial damage to […]
The brawl at the Riverside Tavern was not the only one that police had to respond to Saturday morning. Half an hour past midnight, they were out at Kim’s Lounge on Church Street where another fracas was in full swing. This time, according to Williams, the police became targets. While he says the police have […]
Police in San Pedro are investigating a brazen mid-morning robbery which took place today at the St. Francis Xavier Credit Union. Just before ten a.m. three men walked into the financial institution located on Lagoon Street. Once inside the trio beat up the security guard, relieved him of his point thirty-eight handgun, and then went […]
A Belize City cashier was arrested and charged with Theft after her bosses discovered more than twenty thousand dollars missing from the cash pan. According to a report made by the accountant of the Belize Port Authority, between April second and September twentieth, twenty-three thousand nine hundred dollars was paid into the regulatory body for […]
Many people take part in syndicates; they think it’s a good way to save money. But earlier this month one participant visited our studios to complain that somebody ran off with the bank. According to Michaele Johnson, in early 2007 she was living in Maskall when she and other members of the community joined the […]
The Police Department’s crackdown on gang activity has resulted in another member of the MS13 being deported. According to police reports, on December tenth, officers in Belize City arrested Salvadoran Jose Flores and charged him with the crime of Displaying a Gang Insignia. Flores pled guilty to the charge and was fined three hundred dollars. […]
The colour and pageantry of the official opening of the Supreme Court is a highlight of the judicial calendar. But as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, this year’s event also brought out the fact that the Belizean society is becoming increasingly violent. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Sticking to tradition, this morning’s ceremonial opening of the 2008 […]
In news from Belize’s courtrooms, today two men appeared in the Magistrates’ Court to answer to charges of Grievous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm against a Sandhill man. The charges against nineteen year old Marlon Taylor and twenty-two year old Clifford Wade follow an incident on Tuesday in which twenty-six year old […]
Tonight another Belizean man is accused of conning gullible citizens out of their hard earned cash. According to police, two years ago, sixty-two year old Berisford Castillo was able to convince at least two people that, for a small amount cash, he could procure a U.S. visa for them. The first person to be duped […]
In December political parties and the police officially signed a code of ethics, promising among other things, to respect each other’s signs. But since then, billboards, posters and banners of both the People’s United Party and United Democratic Party have been defaced, destroyed, and even burnt. Today, four men accused of such vandalism appeared in […]
On Monday we reported that police were looking for a man who allegedly received money from two people to buy vehicles for them but never returned with the cars or cash. Today that man, twenty-eight year old Robert Villanueva of Calle al Mar in Belize City, appeared in Magistrates’ Court where he was charged with […]
It may be Belize’s first murder of the year, but for now we’ll wait and see as Corozal police are trying to ascertain the identity of what appears to be charred human remains found in a burnt cane field about a mile north of Xaibe Village. On Monday January seventh, police were called to the […]
Less than two months ago Therese Felix lost her second of five sons to gun violence. Today a third son is recuperating from bullet wounds in the second attempt on his life. The incident occurred sometime after nine last night while twenty year old Kenroy Bennett was at a friend’s house on Jane Usher Boulevard. […]
