There was an armed robbery at Sam’s Club in San Ignacio Town over the weekend, but the robber did not just relieve the cashier of the day’s sales and leave. He used the weapon to hit the woman in her face after pointing it at her during the incident. It is a crime that Police […]
It has been a violent start to 2022 with Belize City being the national hotspot once again. Last night Michael Lambey was killed on Curl Thompson Street, and Joseph James was gunned down in broad daylight after leaving court. Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting In the past forty-eight hours, Belize City has recorded […]
There was a senseless murder in Belize City last night, just off Mahogany Street. A customer care worker was online and about to wrap up a shift when he was shot in the head inside his home. Someone snuck up on him and shot him through a window. It’s a callous attack on a hardworking […]
This afternoon social media was abuzz with claims that the Leader of the Opposition Patrick Faber may be embroiled in yet another domestic violence scandal. At news time, media members were still camped out at the Queen Street Police Station waiting to see if his Doctor Shaneka Arnold and her attorney would emerge and make […]
There was a violent incident in Punta Gorda Town on Monday night that left two men hospitalized. According to police, sometime just before eleven p.m., Roberto and Lazaro Barrientos were at an establishment in the Hollywood neighborhood, when they were approached by an individual they knew. He then attacked them, inflicting multiple stab wounds to […]
A well-loved and respected customs officer is the latest victim of a fatal road traffic accident. It happened over the weekend when Rudolph Williams was traveling along the George Price Highway towards Belize City. The journey from Big Creek to the Old Capital is a lengthy drive, and Williams was much closer to home when […]
A police officer was stabbed on Saturday night. Akeem Jones reported to his fellow officers that he was attempting to part a fight between several persons near Water Lane, when one of the men turned on him and inflicted multiple stab wounds to his body. It’s an account that is being questioned by his colleagues […]
Coast Guard Officer Kyle Humes was stabbed in front of his residence over the weekend, when a pair of men accosted him as he got out of his vehicle. He was injured on various parts of the body, including the face and hands. There have been no arrests in the case thus far and police […]
A suspect in the January thirteenth murder of Dorian Tzac is in police custody. He was picked up following the deadly shooting on Antelope Street Extension that left the welder dead and a teenage minor critically wounded. Malcolm Muschamp, a resident of Ladyville, was nabbed on Thursday night shortly after officers on mobile patrol in […]
There was an attempt on the life of Alrick Lamb in the same crime-ridden neighborhood where Dorian Tzac was gunned down last Thursday. According to Lamb, he was on a bicycle in the vicinity of the Collet Education and Resource Center when he was pursued by the occupants of a vehicle who opened fire on […]
Another murder was recorded in Belize City on Thursday night, the second since the start of the New Year. A welder who resides on Antelope Street Extension was shot and killed at home and a male minor who was along with him was critically injured. A criminal investigation is underway to determine whether the shooting […]
This morning, sometime around eight-thirty, coastguard personnel on routine patrol in the vicinity of Half Moon Caye, within the Lighthouse Reef Atoll, came across a substantial quantity of high-grade marijuana. The tightly concealed packages, amounting to almost thirty-two kilograms, were afloat in an area that is frequented by tourists. It’s a sizeable haul with a […]
There is a new development in a story we brought you from southern Belize on Wednesday. The eldest son of a man killed in San Roman village has been charged with his murder. Police arrested twenty-three year old Olvin Rivas after their investigations into the incident that occurred early Tuesday. A younger son told News […]
The Belize Crime Observatory has released data from the years 2020 and most of 2021. Project Coordinator, Adele Ramos, appeared on Open Your Eyes this morning. She said as expected, the pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns and other restrictions had a strong impact on some categories of crime, causing a dramatic drop in some types. […]
But Belize City remained a hot spot, and the Crime Observatory data is being used to help formulate a multi agency response. Adele Ramos says, however, violence crime prevention needs wider community support. Adele Ramos, InfoSegura Belize, Project Coordinator & Interim Technical Coordinator, Belize Crime Observatory “But, where we saw the greatest challenge I […]
A public meeting led by the Minister of Home Affairs was held this morning at the Dangriga Town Hall. Present were area representatives for Stann Creek West and Dangriga, and Ministers Rodwell Ferguson and Doctor Louis Zabaneh. Also in attendance was Dangriga Mayor Robert Mariano, himself a former Deputy Commissioner of Police. The discussion centered […]
Also added its expertise to the discussion was the Leadership Intervention Unit. Similar to the work it has been doing in Belize City with at-risk youths, the LIU will be hosting a series of trainings, as well as interventions in Dangriga, in an attempt to curb the crime situation that has gripped that community. […]
An aircraft, suspected to be a drug plane, crash landed in the far-flung reaches of the Toledo District overnight. A team of law enforcement officers made its way to the scene earlier today and at the time that we spoke with Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, was yet to arrive at the location. Nonetheless, ComPol […]
A seafood vendor is out several thousand dollars after being held him up at gunpoint early Tuesday morning. The robber too all the money he had on him for the day’s purchases. Mark Vaccaro was sitting at the Conch Shell Bay Fish Market on Vernon Street shortly after five on Tuesday morning, waiting for his […]
A medical doctor is counting on the police to help find the man she says conned her into depositing a significant amount of money into his account for a vehicle that he never delivered. Doctor Shanna Pott reported to police today that she made an electronic transfer to the man’s account on November nineteenth to […]
A chopping incident this morning in a village in southern Belize appears to be the end result of years of violence within the Rivas/Ical home. Amaya Salvador Rivas reportedly died at the hands of his eldest son, but an investigation is underway to determine whether the incident was a murder or self-defence. News Five’s Duane […]
A stevedore was ruthlessly cut down by a hail of bullets on Sunday night, shortly after being released from a holding cell at the Raccoon Street Police Station. It is unclear whether the motive behind the deadly assault that claimed the life of Daniel Lopez is the result of an old beef. What we do […]
The third traffic fatality occurred in San Juan Village, Stann Creek, and there are contradictory reports as to how the victim lost his leg in the incident and subsequently died. While, one report is that he was knocked off his motorcycle by a bus, another report is that he lost control of the motorbike and […]
A foiled robbery attempt on Marine Parade on Saturday night ended with a woman being assaulted and stabbed. Belize City resident Kerry Esquivel reported to police that around eight-thirty she was approached by two men who demanded she give them her motorcycle. In response, Esquivel pulled out a pepper spray and used it on one […]
There has been some development in the search for Honduran National, Angie Pena, who went missing on January second near a beach in Roatan, Honduras. Latest information to News Five is that a Belize Coast Guard search and rescue team at Glovers Reef recovered a life jacket and kill switch for the jet ski, believed […]
