Another chopping this time in Belize City early Sunday morning, did not result in death … but that’s of little consolation to the victim. Leonel Ibanez, Brother of Chopping Victim ?We wish and we hope that the police try to get these guys and take them off the streets, because we don?t know what will […]
Belize City police have arrested two men they strongly believe are responsible for the gruesome murder of twenty-five year old Honduran national Gerson Javier Hernandez Ramos. This morning twenty-three year old Andrew Carillo, a Belizean and Guatemalan national twenty-year old Alex Bautista were taken over to Magistrate’s Court where they were arraigned on charges of […]
For the third time in less than eighteen months, Belizean law enforcement officials are tonight investigating a murder in which the perpetrator burnt his victim’s body after inflicting the fatal wound. Around five this morning, police and fire officials responded to calls for help from residents on Victoria Street after neighbours noticed smoke coming from […]
Tonight, the University of Belize is facing one of its toughest challenges following reports of an incident on campus last weekend involving students, alcohol and sex. Details are still sketchy but this afternoon, university officials confirmed that sometime between last Sunday evening and early Monday morning, two female students and two male students were socializing. […]
An anti-drug operation in the north ended in bloodshed this morning after the weed farmers shot at the police. According to Corozal cops, around five today they discovered a marijuana field off the Consejo Road and were in the process of securing the area when they came under attack from assailants hiding in the surrounding […]
Police have made arrests in connection with the seizure of an AK-47 assault rifle. Twenty-one year old Shane Matura has been charged with Keeping a Prohibited Weapon, which was found in his car Tuesday night by Corozal police. A subsequent search of Matura’s home resulted in the discovery of a magazine for the weapon and […]
The second inmate to escape in last week’s prison break has been captured. Alfred Tillett was found by police this afternoon in an abandoned house on–you may have guessed it–Police Street. According to authorities, Tillett was shot in the right ankle by a police officer’s gun when he allegedly tried to grab the weapon from […]
Police have removed one more automatic weapon from the streets. The AK-47 was seized in Corozal last night when police intercepted a black Toyota speeding around the town out of control. The prohibited weapon was found inside the vehicle and when cops subsequently searched the home of the twenty-one year old driver they found a […]
Three men have been sentenced for their involvement in a murder in Corozal. In the court of Justice Troadio Gonzales, Sharim Baizar received a life sentence for Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Giovanni Villanueva was sentenced to life for Murder, while Javier Villanueva will serve fifteen years for Abetment to Commit Murder. The victim, Wilfredo Baizar, […]
You’d never think that a three and a half by five inch booklet could cause so much trouble … but it seems that in Belize, it is passports–and not petroleum–that carries the nickname black gold. Today the Immigration Department received more embarrassment as officials discovered what appears to be yet another set of purloined citizenship […]
A Belize City mother is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a shooting incident earlier today. According to police reports, twenty-nine year old Denise Flowers was wounded in the right side of her abdomen by one of two men on bicycles near the Queen Square Market. Flowers was rushed […]
One man is behind bars tonight, accused in the attempted murder of a Belize City businesswoman. According to police on Friday night forty-eight year old Seng Xui Ling was shot in her face as she manned the counter of her shop, Diana Store on Central American Boulevard. In her statement to authorities, Seng says that […]
A brazen attack in the Stann Creek District has left one Pomona resident hospitalized with chop wounds to the head. This morning, I picked up the story at the K.H.M.H. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Forty-one year old Raymond Peters lies in the Karl Heusner memorial Hospital with several chop wounds to the head, left eye and […]
After days of intense investigation, today officials charged two men in connection with the theft of a hundred passports from the Belmopan Immigration Office. The accused are an uncle and nephew from San Ignacio and as Assistant Commissioner of Police Eduardo Wade explains, one of the two is an employee of the Immigration Department. Eduardo […]
Meanwhile, separate shooting incidents in Belize City have left two men charged with attempted murder. According to police, around eight on Thursday morning, thirty-four year old Eric Savery was in his car with his three children and a male companion but as they turned onto Dolphin Street a man on a bicycle rode up alongside […]
On a regular basis the police department reports the destruction of a marijuana plantation somewhere in the bush. But tonight there is word that a ganja farmer or farmers have been hard at work, right on Jane Usher Boulevard in Belize City. According to police, around two thirty this afternoon an anonymous tip sent them […]
Following the recovery of ninety-five passports stolen from the Belmopan Immigration Office, tonight police say they have their third suspect in custody. According to investigators, around seven this morning Julian Garcia Samos, the owner of the bag in which the passports were found, showed up at the San Ignacio Police Station in the company of […]
The drug trade is similar to many other high risk business ventures in that it is not unusual for arrangements to come unglued. But what makes narcotics trafficking different is that when a cocaine deal blows up in your face somebody usually winds up dead. On Saturday afternoon in Orange Walk nobody died, but one […]
In Magistrate’s Court today, the accused killer of Mark Gardiner was formally arraigned on a charge of murder. Twenty year old Kareem Lopez of Faber’s Road turned himself in to authorities on Friday afternoon after he was named by the cops as someone who could assist in the official investigation into Gardiner’s death. Following an […]
He’s only a boy but Belmopan police say he’s a prime suspect in a number of burglaries in the capital city. So when fourteen year old Ian Albert Tun tried to escape from the police station, cops had to get him back behind bars. The official version of events is that shortly after four on […]
Two men on remand for the September fourteenth attack on a sixty-five year old man in Dangriga have had their charges upgraded to murder after the victim died. Twenty-six year old Frank Arzu and twenty-seven year old Eldon Leslie were charged with attempted murder after they allegedly burglarised Nunez’s Sharp Street home, hit the owner […]
A Belize City woman is lucky to be alive tonight after she was accidentally shot in the head. According to the police, around ten on Saturday night, a patrol spotted a grey S.U.V. in the area of Berkeley Street going the wrong way on a one way street. The officers tried to pull the vehicle […]
Meanwhile, cops in the old capital are also on the lookout for a gang of men that shot a security guard in the stomach … for his bicycle. According to thirty-seven year old Marcial Toledo, around ten on Sunday night he was heading to his Vernon Street home when six men approached him and ordered […]
For the third time in as many days, this morning News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin and Chris Mangar hit the Western Highway, this time to get a first hand look at the man accused of single-handedly murdering a family of six … and destroying a small community’s sense of peace. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today twenty-seven year […]
While authorities have made an arrest in the Mayen killings, the second murder to rock the Cayo district remains unsolved. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin has the details. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting As family and friends arrived at the Tzib?s residence in Cristo Rey Village to attend funeral services for seventeen year old Pricilla Arcenia Tzib the […]
