Meanwhile, the latest victims of armed robbery in Belize City are a couple of high school teachers. According to Saint John’s College teachers Kevin Hall and Brian Plummer, while standing on Kraal Road around nine-thirty on Saturday night, two unmasked men armed with a handgun approached them and demanded money. The culprits escaped with jewellery, […]
Tonight local law enforcement authorities are investigating yet another murder. The latest killing occurred in the Belize district on Thursday night and as News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports, detectives are still trying the determine the motive behind the crime. Lavern Benjamin, Daughter of Murder Victim “Why, why did they kill him? Why? That’s what is […]
Two men have been arrested and charged following a report from a teenager that the duo gave her money for sex. According to court reports, on Thursday sixty-four year old Rupert Flowers and thirty-nine year old Leroy Stephen, both residents of Hattieville, were arraigned for the offences of unlawful carnal knowledge and aggravated assault. Flowers […]
In other court news, this afternoon two women were charged for stealing Dutch cheese. Thirty-eight year old Femia Jeminez and thirty-five year old Mirtha Capo, both of Guinea Grass, have pleaded not guilty to theft following an incident at the Xtra House Supermarket in Belize City. Apparently each woman had put a wheel of Dutch […]
Police investigations over the weekend have resulted in the arrest of two people for the separate killings committed last Friday. In connection with the death of twenty-seven year old Ladyville resident Koffi Beeks, twenty-two year old Glenford Ferguson has been charged for the crime of murder. A dazed looking Ferguson appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare […]
And while authorities have made arrests in both those murders, tonight their counterparts in the south are investigating what is believed to be yet another homicide. According to Dangriga police, around seven on Sunday morning residents of Hopkins village spotted a body floating near the coast. When the corpse was brought to shore, it was […]
Tonight a Belize district man has been arrested and charged with handling stolen goods after he showed up at the victim’s doorstep asking for a reward. On February second, American businessman Eugene Pech reported to police that sometime between January tenth and that day, his internet modem and Sony laptop computer, valued at more than […]
Tonight homicide detectives are working overtime as they try to solve two separate murders that occurred less than twenty-four hours apart. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin had the gruesome task of chronicling the carnage today. Her coverage begins at the corner of Magazine Road and Vernon Street where a pedestrian was shot dead in mid-afternoon traffic. […]
Around one this afternoon police officers raided the home of Mark Seawell in the Belama area of Belize City. Seawell was taken from the house in handcuffs, along with a number of items including what appeared to be a military style backpack. Police press officer G. Michael Reid confirmed that Seawell has been detained in […]
A Belizean moneychanger working at the Santa Elena border in Corozal is lucky to be alive tonight following an armed robbery on Wednesday night. According to police reports, twenty-eight year old Wilbert Linares was working at the border around seven last night when a man carrying a handgun walked up to him and demanded his […]
A man who was shot in the head not only survived the attack but has discharged himself from the hospital. Police say that on Tuesday night, they visited the K.H.M.H. where they found twenty-three year old Anthony Crawford suffering from gunshot injuries to the left side of his face and back of the head. Because […]
An armed robbery in the downtown area has resulted in the arrest of a Belize City car washer. According to court reports, this morning thirty-five year old Andrew August was charged with robbery, aggravated assault and use of deadly means of harm. He appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers today where he pled not guilty, was […]
High world prices may be creating prosperity in the citrus belt, but one orange grower has been made significantly poorer by a pair of brazen robbers. On Friday morning around eleven-thirty, the farm manager for William Bowman’s Emerald Groves near the village of Maya Centre, arrived on site with the payroll. As he walked from […]
Two young Belize City men are tonight behind bars after they were caught red handed stealing a computer. According to computer repairman Michael Sanchez, around three-fifteen this afternoon he was working at Strukture Architects on Newtown Barracks when he was informed that two men were breaking into his vehicle in the company’s parking lot. By […]
Another Belize City businessman wasn’t as lucky as Sanchez after a robbery at his store early Saturday morning. According to Barney Brown, sometime after midnight that day thieves broke into Total Sports located at the corner of Hydes Lane and New Road and stole several thousand dollars worth of items. Subsequent police investigations have revealed […]
Tonight we regret to report that yet again, the Salvation Army of Belize is the victim of a crime. And as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, the latest incident was so senseless officials are now wondering if the organization is being deliberately targeted. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The walls of the Raymond Parks Night Shelter were […]
A Dangriga man has been arrested and charged after he shot a teenaged girl in the foot. According to police, around noon on Tuesday, fourteen year old Elvie Taylor and another girl were on Commerce Street with thirty-six year old James Bennett when he produced a firearm. Apparently Bennett was being teased that the gun […]
Belize City police are tonight asking for the public’s help to capture a thief that has been targeting young women walking alone in the St. Martin De Porres area. Around two on Tuesday, the latest victim reported that she was holding her five month old baby in her arms when a man walked up to […]
No arrests have yet been made in the brutal stabbing murder of journalist Richard Hulse, but today his family added three thousand dollars to the growing reward being offered for information on the case. The new funds will be added to the five thousand put up by the Belize Independent Media Association and one thousand […]
Earlier this week we brought you the story of Gesenia Cook, the Belize City mother whose five year old daughter was taken for the weekend by the child’s father and never returned home. Today she had her suspicions confirmed. Gesenia Cook, Mother “It’s like without her, I don’t know how my life will go on, […]
A reward has been posted to help find the killer of Richard Hulse. The sum of five thousand dollars has been offered by the Belize Independent Media Association along with a thousand dollars from Crimestoppers, who will also facilitate the confidential payment of the funds. Hulse, a freelance court reporter who has worked for most […]
The murder case may be ten months old, but persistent investigation by police have finally led to an arrest. Corozal police strongly believe this man, identified as twenty-two year old Darwin Salazar, is the person who repeatedly stabbed Adonai Espat at the Santa Rita Ruins in the Corozal District. Today he was charged with murder.
A female tourist on vacation in San Pedro was reportedly raped as the young woman made her way back to her apartment. According to police, the victim told them that around eleven-thirty on Saturday night upon reaching the residence she saw a group of men drinking on the porch, who, she recognised as the persons […]
Four days after twenty-two year old Dison Ezer Diaz was fatally stabbed, San Pedro police have arrested and charged the young man they believe inflicted the wound. Seventeen year old Pedro Andres Cal is the man authorities strongly suspect was involved in the fatal fight with Diaz after socializing with friends in the D.F.C. area. […]
A Belize City teenager is tonight behind bars, accused of stealing a laptop. According to court reports, Errol Gentle of More Tomorrow Village was walking on Neal’s Penn Road around five last Thursday evening when two young men armed with a handgun held him up. The minors demanded Gentle’s silver Dell laptop computer. When the […]
