A three year old girl in the Stann Creek District has drowned after she fell into a well. According to police, they were called to Bella Vista Village around six Monday morning where they found the lifeless body of Sylvia Yutz lying on the floor of a house. They were told by the child’s mother, […]
Two suspects have been formally charged for crimes reported on this newscast last night. Thirty-nine year old Alvin Gabb, a resident of Dolphin Street, has been charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, and Deadly Means of Harm in connection with the stabbing of Nolan Arana. Arana remains in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial […]
The badly burned corpse of a man has been found in the charred remains of a house in the Corozal District … and a post-mortem suggests that it was a case of murder. The body of sixty-nine year old Humberto Waight was discovered on Saturday morning in the blackened ruins of the small concrete home […]
A Belize City man hovers between life and death tonight, the apparent victim of a knife attack prompted by extreme jealousy. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The last time Yvette Flowers says she saw her common law husband thirty year old Nolan Arana was around ten on Sunday morning when she left him caring for their seven […]
Despite the lack of arrests in the two stabbings, police did have some success in other areas. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Several police operations in Belize City over the weekend have resulted in arrests and the confiscation of firearms and ammunition. In one of the incidents Alfred Smith suffered injuries after he tried to get away […]
Whether they are in or out of uniform, the police are always on the job or at least that was case for special police constable Kirk Flowers, who over the weekend caught a chain snatcher by surprise. It all went down around eleven forty-five on Sunday morning. Flowers, who, was off duty and out of […]
For the second time this year, the Salvation Army School has been burglarised. Sometime between six Wednesday evening and eight Thursday morning a thief or thieves broke in the infant one and standard one classrooms. Fortunately, the school was not hit terribly hard as the culprits only made off with two tape recorders. Police are […]
Police have sixteen pounds of marijuana waiting to be collected by its rightful owner. The weed was found at the cargo office of Maya Island Air on San Pedro, having arrived by plane from Belize City. According to police, they were called by employees who said the three unclaimed parcels looked and smelled suspicious. Anyone […]
A young wife is under arrest tonight after she stabbed her husband to death. Authorities found the lifeless body of twenty-three year old Cornelio Montero inside the couple’s residence in Succotz Village in the Cayo District. Police say their investigations revealed that twenty-two year old Glenda Lucrecia Montero and her spouse were having an argument […]
Every day Belizeans engage with used car dealers to purchase vehicles. Usually, the transaction ends happily … but not always. One that didn’t work out has resulted in a dealer being arrested. Twenty-nine year old Jude Coye of Johnson Street appeared today in Magistrates’ Court charged with Obtaining Property by Deception. It is alleged that […]
It was around this same time last year when the staff of Anglican Cathedral College was held up as they collected registration fees in the school’s office. In that incident over twelve thousand dollars was stolen by the two robbers who also destroyed some property in the process. Following the incident the school staff and […]
Corozal police have arrested and charged the three young men they say killed eighty-one year old Harry Duesbury at his residence in San Andres Village in the Corozal District. The accused, who all live in the community, have been identified as twenty-six year old Noel Guy and seventeen year old Rosendo Guy, believe to be […]
Also arrested today was twenty year old Allan Martinez of Central American Boulevard in Belize City. Martinez was identified by Roy Latchman as the man who tried to burn his house down Sunday night. Latchman chased the intruder away, but not before he had poured kerosene on the wooden veranda. Martinez has been charged with […]
Details are sketchy tonight, but police are investigating a disturbing allegation involving the rape of a minor. Authorities say an eleven year old has reported that sometime between four and five on Monday evening she was not only kidnapped, but taken to an area in Belize City where at least one of her abductors raped […]
When you reach the milestone of eighty years of age you can’t help but think about your eventual demise. But the last way most octogenarians would want to think about passing is as a murder victim. Today I travelled to Corozal to investigate Belize’s latest homicide. Clive Duesbury, Son of Murder Victim “He called it […]
While cops in Corozal try to solve a murder, Belize City officers have a pair of shootings to deal with. Around one-thirty this morning twenty-four year old Ernest Sarcasa was standing by the Enterprise Club on Queen Charlotte Street when a man he claims not to know fired several shots at him. Sarcasa received wounds […]
A Belize City man is in police custody for attempting to burn down a house. The incident occurred on Freedom Street in Port Loyola around ten Sunday night. According to thirty-five year old Roy Latchman, he was in his bedroom when he heard a noise at his front door. When he got up to investigate, […]
Police have arrested a second suspect in Thursday’s shooting on Daly Street. Twenty-six year old Marvin Ottley of Vasquez Avenue is the man who police believe assisted Allen James, who was arrested last week. Ottley, like James, has been similarly charged with two counts of Aggravated Assault and Attempted Murder and one count each of […]
Meanwhile in Belize City, another family is holding vigil at their loved ones bedside following a robbery and shooting on Thursday night. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Gladys Moya, Victim’s Mother in Law “Right dah yuh door-mouth, you can’t even stand up and talk.” Janelle Chanona, Reporting Tonight twenty-four year old Kimberley Marin remains in […]
Tonight Belize City police are on the lookout for Dwayne Jones. Jones is wanted for questioning in the stabbing of twenty-two year old Leon Price. Authorities report that the two men got into a fight shortly after seven Wednesday night on Ebony Street. Price told police that he and Jones had a previous misunderstanding over […]
Corozal police are looking for two men who not only robbed a teacher and security guard this afternoon at the Corozal Community College, but the suspects also tried to break into the school’s accounts section. Police report that around one p.m. two armed masked men held up the teacher and security guard at the entrance […]
Belize City police are hoping that cooler heads will now prevail following a meeting with key members of Back-A-Town and George Street crew. The gathering took place at the Queen Street police station and involved close to seventy persons from the rival groups. Also invited to be a part of the dialogue were representatives from […]
Corozal police suspect foul play in the discovery of the body of a young man who was reported missing. The family of twenty-one year old Wilbert Castaneda says the last time they saw him was around eight on Saturday night. Cesar Castaneda told police that when he saw his brother walking on Park Street, Wilbert […]
Belize City police say they have in custody one suspect after the young man’s description matched those given by eyewitnesses following a brazen robbery at a King’s Park grocery. Details are sketchy, but the police report that the crime took place around ten this morning on Third Street in the Kings Park Area. In that […]
We touched on it briefly as a late breaking story on last night’s newscast, but today when I visited the scene of the crime I discovered that the shooting of two Chinese shopkeepers occurred not fifty feet from where police were rounding up local youths and not five minutes after the media left the area. […]
