He is accused of killing his common law wife by stabbing her fifteen times … with two of her children watching. But after fourteen days as Belize’s most wanted fugitive, Louie Ganzie Gentle was this afternoon apprehended by police and charged with murder. Today I watched as he was processed at Queen Street … and […]
What it is that has Belizean men so crazed may never be known but it is with a sense of profound sadness that I must report yet another case of extreme domestic violence. That’s right, tonight one more woman lies hospitalised with stab wounds and her attacker has not yet been apprehended. Ricardo Tzul, Uncle […]
Belize City police have arrested and charged one man following Friday’s fire on the Western Highway. According to police, thirty five year old Honduran Jose Alfredo Reyes, was living in the building without the owner’s permission and intentionally set fire to the structure. As a result, Reyes was today charged with arson. When he appeared […]
Police have charged two men believed to be the perpetrators of two separate robberies in Orange Walk. According to fifty four year old Druid Rosado, around eight on Friday night he was inside his store on Belize Corozal Road when two men armed with a gun walked in and demanded money. The bandits took three […]
A fugitive from justice is back behinds bars tonight, more than a hundred miles from where he escaped police custody. Twenty seven year old Ernest Hinds was captured in the Havana area of Dangriga during a predawn raid this morning. He was immediately transported to Belize City and brought before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb. He […]
Just after dawn today fire and police officials responded to reports of a blaze on the Western Highway. And as News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin explains, while no one was hurt, the incident has left the family with more questions than answers. Sherilee Mangar, Fire Victim
Manuel Matute may be thirty-eight years older than the thief who tried to rob him, but that fact didn’t stop the well known jeweller from chasing and catching the culprit. The drama unfolded around eleven Thursday morning inside Manuel’s Jewellery Shop on West Canal. Matute was behind the counter when a fifteen year old boy […]
Eighteen year old Dennis Ortega, twenty year old Sherwin Locke, and thirty year old Barrington Slusher are the three men police say entered the home of seventy-one year old Radiance Sutherland and eighty-three year old Camille Sutherland. The elderly couple were held up at gun point, assaulted, and robbed on Tuesday afternoon. This morning the […]
Tips have been pouring in to police on the whereabouts of Belize’s most wanted, Louie Ganzie. Unfortunately, most of those tips place him in different parts of the country. Police say, however, that although he has likely shaved his dreads and beard, his face is recognisable enough that it’s only a matter of time until […]
Three men have been detained by police in connection with the armed robbery of an elderly Belize City couple. Seventy-one year old Radiance Sutherland told police that around one-thirty on Tuesday afternoon she was home with her eighty-three year old husband and a family friend when a dark complexioned young man entered the house and […]
Two teenagers are tonight behind bars, charged with stealing two guns from a Belize City home. Fifty-seven year old Lindsay Belisle reported to police that sometime between four and six on Tuesday evening, a thief or thieves broke into his house on Mercy Lane and stole an iron safe. Inside the lock box were two […]
On last night’s newscast we reported on the detention of a suspect in connection with the disappearance–and possible murder–of Janet Rivers Myvette. Today we are informed that the man in question–Allan Caceres of Sand Hill–has been released following two days of questioning. Myvette has been missing since December third.
Janet Rivers Myvette was last seen by her family over a month ago and last week they appeared on this newscast asking viewers and police to help find the fifty-six year old Belize City woman. The appeal apparently resulted in some action as today sources tell News Five that Myvette’s son-in-law has been detained for […]
It’s a situation that has plagued joggers and other fitness buffs at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex for years: vehicle break-ins. But tonight there is some good news to report as two men have been arrested and charged for that crime. Thirty-one year old Giovanni Lauriano and twenty-seven year old Marlon Harris have been charged […]
In less than a month, two Belize City women have been brutally murdered. Karel Gabourel was viciously stabbed in front of her two children on Christmas Day, while on January third Keisha Sutherland was violently perforated by fifteen knife wounds. In both instances, the accused attackers were the victim’s spouse. Over the weekend, a third […]
While Mark Medina is tonight behind bars, accused killer Louie “Ganzie” Gentle is still a man on the run. But as I found out today, new developments in the case might help the long arm of the law catch the fugitive. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Tonight a two thousand dollar reward is being offered by Crime […]
Somewhere in Belize tonight, someone is dining on one of the most expensive Belizean delicacies … lobster. According to the Caye Caulker branch of the Northern Fishermen’s Cooperative, sometime between six on Thursday night and seven on Friday morning, more than three thousand dollars of the prized seafood was stolen from the freezer. So if […]
We believe that when it comes to deadly gang violence, Belize City is the only game in town. And while the old capital remains the big league of flying bullets, recent events in Cayo indicate that the west is a war zone of its own. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports. Omelda Rosalez, Mother of murdered […]
He’s only been on the job since Wednesday, but today, in a wide ranging interview with News Five, Director of Public Prosecutions Lutchman Sooknandan, made it clear that he intends to restore the image and effectiveness of his office and convince the public that–at least in his office–nobody’s thumb is resting on the scales of […]
Twenty-nine year old Louie Ganzie Gentle remains on the run tonight, thirty-six hours after he savagely stabbed twenty-eight year old Keisha Sutherland fifteen times in front of the mother’s two young children. The police have issued an all points bulletin and informed border points and police stations nationwide to be on the lookout for the […]
It was a case of domestic violence that, fortunately, did not reach the point of homicide, but an Orange Walk husband who allegedly attacked his wife and two police officers who came to her aid, has been charged with a long list of offences. Twenty-eight year old Eduardo Moralez of Guinea Grass Village was arraigned […]
Tonight police and the family of a missing Belize City woman are seeking the public’s assistance. According to relatives of fifty-six year old Janet Rivers Myvette, she left her home on Berry Street on December third and has not been seen or heard from since. About a week before her departure, Myvette’s family says she […]
The time of death is not certain, but for administrative purposes we’ll call it the first murder of 2007. Early Monday morning police discovered the body of a Salvadoran national lying on the side of the Western Highway and strongly suspect foul play. Around seven-thirty a.m., the body of fifty-one year old Jose Luis Torres […]
In Orange Walk the only shot fired in anger over the weekend was loosed by a police officer after his partner was assaulted trying to quell a domestic dispute. Twenty-eight year old Eduardo Moralez of Guinea Grass Village was shot by an unnamed cop in the leg after Moralez hit the policeman’s partner, Constable Kenny […]
Four youths have been arrested in connection with a Christmas Day tragedy in San Ignacio that left one dead and two injured. Police have arrested and charged sixteen year old Kevin Santos for the murder of eighteen year old Chris Rosalez and twenty-one year old Kevin Diaz for the attempted murder of Kennylee Gonzalez who […]
