It was one of the most shocking crimes in our young nation’s history but tonight police have arrested the man they say killed a family of six from the Cayo district. The alleged face of evil belongs to Alberto Ara, also known as Ali, a resident of Ontario Village. Ara now stands accused of six […]
Mark Gardiner is a name that is familiar to police, the media and by extension, the public. He’s one of a couple dozen “perpetual suspects”; a regular player in a culture of deadly violence that has become ingrained in an increasing number of Belize City neighbourhoods. Tonight Gardiner lies in critical condition at the K.H.M.H., […]
Today, Belize City police arrested two men they strongly believe went on a robbery spree on Tuesday afternoon that yielded them a total of fourteen hundred dollars. Authorities say thirty-three year old Sherlock Martinez and twenty-four year old Denroy Domingo have been positively identified as the two robbers who held up thirty-six year old Ronald […]
Two days ago, he walked away from a murder charge but tonight thirty-one year old Arthur Young is back in custody for possession of an unlicensed firearm. According to police, this morning officers of the Criminal Intelligence Unit spotted what they say was a suspicious vehicle. They attempted to stop the car and question its […]
The Cayo District is sometimes referred to as the wild, wild west … but that slogan was never meant to describe the kind of deadly violence that is occurring there with alarming frequency. The latest outrage took place last night in the usually peaceful village of Cristo Rey, when a young woman was murdered in […]
For a family of six people to perish in a house fire is a tragedy of immense proportions. But what kind of tragedy is it when evidence indicates that the fire may have been arson, and the deaths a case of premeditated murder. This morning I travelled west in search of answers. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting […]
In an update to reports of grand theft auto and subsequent hit and run last night in Ladyville, medical officials tell News Five that a mother and her ten year old child injured during the incident are recovering at home. According to personnel at the Belize Defence Force Hospital at Price Barracks, the woman and […]
It’s a situation we’ve had to report too many times: a hunting trip that ends with one friend mistakenly shooting another. The latest incident took place two miles outside Santa Anna Village in the Toledo District around one thirty this morning. Twenty-six year old Dwayne Jacobs has reported to police that he, his uncle and […]
An official investigation into the disappearance of one hundred passports from the Immigration Department in Belmopan continues but as of news time tonight no one has been charged in connection with the incident. According to police, the two employees detained following the report, Finance Officer Audrey Bennett and her deputy Jacqueline Wagner, have been questioned […]
The facts of how it happened are not completely clear, but the bottom line is that a Woman Police Constable is dead, shot by her boyfriend in what may or may not have been an accident. Today I travelled up the Northern Highway to the scene of the killing in an effort to better understand […]
Thirty-two year old Jerome Goff is no stranger to the police; in fact authorities say he was constantly in trouble with the law. But on Friday night Goff came under deadly attack as he sat in his car on Mahogany Street. Police say their investigations reveal that around eleven that night Goff was with two […]
A man once accused of abducting a female student, Albert Guy, is in police lock down after he not only stole a taxi but knocked down a woman and a child during his getaway. The drama unfolded late this evening in Ladyville. According to police, Guy caught the cab in Ladyville, saying he wanted to […]
Two brothers have been arrested and charged after they were caught before they could flee the scene of a burglary. Nineteen year old Darren Gillett and his twenty year old brother Kenroy Gillett were found by police inside the Esso New Road Service Station after a burglary was reported at the establishment Sunday evening. A […]
As a department it has suffered more black eyes and body blows than a heavy weight boxer but tonight, immigration officials are once again at the centre of a scandal as one hundred passports have disappeared from the confines of a security vault in Belmopan. The passports bearing the serial numbers P0043801 to P0043900 were […]
Dangriga police are tonight asking for the public’s assistance in finding a wanted man accused of attempted murder. According to the authorities, twenty-seven year old Eldon Anthony Leslie, also known as “Major” is one of the two people that burglarized the home of sixty-five year old Windell Nunez on September fourteenth. Nunez reported to police […]
An accused thief is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds after a Belize City man busted him burglarizing a store. According to police reports, just after midnight this morning, thirty year old Dwight Moody was shot in the ankle near Betty Chen’s Store on Mahogany Street. According to Chen’s brother, Bing Quan Chen, shortly before the […]
Cayo police are tonight investigating allegations of kidnapping and armed robbery reported by a boledo vendor. According to sixty-two year old Godfrey Tillett, he was hitchhiking along the Western Highway in Ontario Village around two thirty on Thursday afternoon when a white car pulled up alongside him. But when he opened the back door, Tillett […]
He left town in a hurry … but today he’s back home. This morning I greeted an accused murderer at the Philip Goldson International Airport. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Almost one month after twenty-four year old Ronell Gonzales fled Belize following his alleged involvement in the torture and murder of twenty year old David Daniel Pook, […]
A suspect has been arrested for a killing that occurred last month in the Mountain Pine Ridge. Emilio Moralez of Upper Barton Creek has been charged with the August thirty-first murder of seventeen year old Samuel Tesecum. On that night Tesecum and his brother Bartemeus were attacked while they slept by a machete wielding assailant. […]
You’ve heard the phrase “taking candy from a baby?” In San Pedro a man has been charged for snatching a chain from a five year old. Nineteen year old Honduran Juan Martinez was charged with three counts of Robbery following accusations by five year old Uzri Coleman that on Sunday night while shopping with his […]
Three people lost their lives over the weekend: two by road accidents and one following a fight in the Cayo District. That killing, in which the victim and his accused murderer are members of the same family, has left at least one man doubly troubled. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting As fifty-nine year old Arjelio Garcia gets […]
It’s usually Belizeans being put on an airplane at the P.G.I.A. to face justice for their alleged crimes in the U.S.A. But on Tuesday a murder suspect who fled to Los Angeles will be returned to the waiting arms of the Belize Police. He is Ronell Gonzalez, allegedly involved in the brutal slaying of twenty […]
A thirty-eight year old Belize City woman has told police that she was violently beaten and raped by three men over the weekend. According to the report, the victim was accosted around midnight Friday night by three dark complexioned men in the area of Matron Roberts Health Centre near Constitution Park. She says that she […]
Belize police are patting themselves on the back tonight following the arrest of the person they say masterminded a crime spree against visitors and residents of the Cayo district. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Senior Superintendent James Magdaleno, Head, National C.I.B. ?He was the ringleader. He was the one giving instructions. He was up front […]
A month ago a ten year old girl residing in a rural area of the Cayo District was horribly attacked and raped by a man who had entered the family home by pretending he needed food. The attack was so vicious that it left the little girl hospitalized for a week. Since the incident, Benque […]
