Tonight Belize City police are applauding residents of a Belize City neighbourhood who helped them catch two burglars in the act. It all unfolded inside the residence of Gary Yearwood on Electric Avenue around four on Tuesday evening. Police report that they responded to a call that a burglary was in progress. When a team […]
There was a time when breaking into a school in Belize was about as rare as a major hurricane. Those days, however, have gone the way of five cent panades and Charger Beer. The latest institution to suffer the indignity of burglary is one of the largest Anglican schools in the country. Therese Roches, Principal, […]
A knife fight in San Pedro over the weekend has left one man dead. According to island cops, around eight-thirty on Saturday night, twenty-two year old Dison Ezer Diaz was socializing with friends in the D.F.C. area when he and another man started to scuffle. When the dust settled, Diaz had been stabbed once to […]
Four days after his brutal murder, today members of the media and the legal community joined family and friends to pay their last respects to veteran court reporter, Richard Hulse. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting This afternoon forty-seven year old Richard Rodney Hulse was laid to rest following services at the Holy Redeemer Cathedral. The mass was […]
A Dangriga man has been arrested after he burnt down a house belonging to his family. According to police, forty year old Luis Lambert set fire to a residence on Ganey Street around nine this morning. The house had been the subject of a longstanding dispute between Lambert and his brother, Fitzgerald, who reports that […]
Two Guatemalans are in police custody tonight charged with the illegal possession of Mayan artefacts. According the police reports, around eleven o’clock this morning they stopped a green Ford Escort at a checkpoint between miles seventy-one and seventy-two on the Western Highway. A subsequent search the car, led to the discovery of a number of […]
In my two decades as a broadcaster I have reported on the murder of hundreds-perhaps thousands-of Belizeans… but tonight, for the first time, it is my unhappy duty to chronicle the homicide of a colleague. For the last two years Richard Hulse was News Five’s court reporter. While you never saw his face on T.V. […]
Tonight police need your help in providing the identity of this man who was found dead around six thirty this morning in Ladyville. Authorities were called out to an area between miles eleven and twelve off the Northern Highway. The body was found lying in a yard with what appeared to be a gunshot to […]
To our knowledge it has never happened before, but today we have received news that the Governor General, on the advice of the Belize Advisory Council, has exercised the prerogative of mercy to set free a convicted criminal who has been shown to be innocent. The man in question, Omar Vellos, was sentenced to twenty […]
A tour of Altun Ha has ended in tragedy for a cruise ship tourist. According to a police press release, around midday seventy-one year old Michael Lucas, a resident of Rhode Island in the United States, was with his wife and a group of visitors at the ancient Maya site when Lucas reportedly began to […]
Also fighting for life at the K.H.M.H. is twenty-six year old Emrick Meggs. Meggs, who was the first victim in a series of shootings over the weekend, caught a bullet in the right side of the head around nine on Friday night. According to Deputy Officer in Charge of C.I.B., Inspector Alden Dawson, a team […]
Despite the large number of shootings over the weekend, authorities are saying it could have been worse, as three men were arrested before they could commit what police say was a planned hit. Thirty-one year old Alex O’brien, twenty-two year old Kenneth Dobson and twenty-one year old Kendoyle Ottley were today charged with the crime […]
The sound of gunshots echoed across a Belize City neighbourhood last night and when nervous residents emerged from their homes, they found a teenaged bystander fighting for life. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Tonight fourteen year old Joshua Palacio lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to […]
An internal police investigation is underway tonight following reports by a stevedore that he was beaten by city cops. Twenty-eight year old Kevin Peters is lying in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital suffering from a broken right leg and other injuries that he claims were inflicted by four police officers on patrol in the St. […]
A Dangriga man has been arrested and charged following an armed robbery in the Stann Creek Valley. He is twenty-two year old Albert Palacio of Dangriga’s Lakeland neighbourhood. Around nine Wednesday night a lone intruder with a handgun entered the Quality Poultry compound at mile one and a half on the Valley Road and held […]
The Belize Police Department, apparently on a roll following some high profile arrests, continued their P.R. campaign today, this time highlighting the seizure of weapons and the community’s help in their discovery. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting It may be only a drop in the bucket compared to how many guns are actually on the streets, but […]
Two brothers visiting Belize on a cruise ship will have an interesting story to tell when they reach home. According to police, twenty-three year old Andrew Shumate and his twenty-six year old brother Joshua were observed acting suspiciously by security personnel Tuesday afternoon at the Fort Street Tourism Village. When detained by police in the […]
Thanks largely to an informal police brokered gang truce, the streets of Belize City have been murder free for the last three weeks … but that tenuous peace was shattered Monday night when a lone gunman entered a house on Poinsettia Street and began shooting. By the time he left, two young men lay dead, […]
Can you imagine waking up from a night’s rest only to find out that your home has been burglarized and your vehicle stolen? Well that’s exactly what the Guatemalan ambassador and his wife experienced this morning at their official residence in King’s Park today. Forty-six year old diplomat Manuel Pelloz has reported to police that […]
Tonight two Caye Caulker residents are recovering from stab wounds at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a fight between them over the weekend. According to police, forty-eight year old Delon Chaplain and twenty-seven year old Ervin Cruz tried to kill each other on Saturday. The motive is still unclear and the weapons the men […]
Four days after students and survivors took to streets of Belize City to march against domestic violence there is another disturbing case to report, this time from the Cayo District. According to police, forty-three year old Jesus Lobos has been arrested and charged with assault after officers intercepted him looking for his wife, armed with […]
Tonight it appears that a body found in the Orange Walk District is that of missing Ladyville resident Raymond Simon. Police say around three this afternoon a body was found around twenty feet off the road near mile forty eight on the Northern Highway in the vicinity of Carmelita Village. According to authorities, there were […]
A San Pedro man remains admitted to ward tonight following a robbery on the island just after one this morning. According to police, forty-nine year old Jian Shan and his wife were manning the counter of Johnson’s Restaurant on Angel Coral Drive when three men with t-shirts covering their faces ambushed them and demanded money. […]
Five days after he repeatedly stabbed eighteen year old Nazelie Neal, Belmopan police have captured twenty-five year old Roaring Creek resident Kurt Vasquez. The drama unfolded around two this morning at a warehouse on George Price Boulevard in Belmopan. Authorities say a police patrol in the area was alerted to a burglary in progress inside […]
No doubt you’ve heard stories about desperate thieves who break into cars and houses and steal expensive jewellery or electronics, only to sell the valuable items at a tiny fraction of their cost. This next story involves a variation on that theme. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Meet seventy year old Erceline Gabourel … the driving force […]
