But, is 2022 off to a bad start already? There were three murders in the first five days of the year: the double murder of Raymond Dominguez and Justin Milligan on January third, followed by the murder of Dangriga teen, Joshua Flores, on January fifth. ComPol Chester Williams says that Cayo and Stann Creek Districts […]
On Thursday morning, Coast Guard Special Operations launched a raid on Tobacco Caye. It resulted in the detention of one person after the officers discovered a military grade riffle and thirty live rounds of five point five-six millimetre military grade calibre. The commando version of the M-four carbine riffle was found inside a room occupied […]
On Thursday afternoon, police responded to an area behind Port of Belize Limited, where they discovered a human skeleton. It was found about a hundred and fifty feet from the seaside, along with a black beach cruiser bicycle and a white bucket. The gruesome find was made by a fisherman around three p.m. who made […]
The third murder for the New Year occurred on Wednesday night in Dangriga, and the victim is a fifteen-year-old minor. Joshua Flores was travelling on a dirt road that is known to be gangland, when he was gunned down by one of the persons he was with. Flores is not known to be caught up […]
Two hours later, there was another shooting also in the Back-a-Town area of Dangriga. The victim, fifty-two-year-old Bartholomew Ramirez, received multiple shots to the body. According to the investigation, Ramirez was standing with another man on Banak Street when a gunman rode up on bicycle and opened fire in their direction. Commissioner of Police Chester […]
Sixty-year-old Caryl Smith Sr. remains hospitalized after being knocked down and left for dead on the Philip Goldson Highway on Wednesday night. His family was at home celebrating a birthday when they got a call that the Sand Hill resident had been the victim of a hit and run incident. It happened around eight p.m. […]
The killing of Flores brings the murder count for 2022 to three. That’s three murders in six days. The first two came by way on a double murder in Sand Hill Village on the night of January third. Justin Milligan and Raymond Dominguez were riddled with bullets when at least two gunmen entered Dominguez’s house […]
The Belize Coast Guard is currently assisting with a desperate search to locate a woman who went missing at sea on the second of January. Twenty-two year old Angie Pena was riding a jet ski near a beach in Roatan, Honduras, when she suddenly disappeared. After days of fruitless searching nearby waters, her family fears […]
The murder of fifteen-year-old Joshua Flores in Dangriga on Wednesday is the first incident for the New Year to claim the life of another male minor. The homicide came a few hours after the Minister of Home Affairs had outlined several initiatives to get young people off the streets and back into the classroom through […]
The final tally for the number of homicides committed in 2021 is yet to be released by the Belize Police Department. Nonetheless, we asked the Minister of Home Affairs for an unofficial comparison with figures from the previous year. According to Kareem Musa, the total number of murders recorded in 2021 stands at one hundred […]
The first two murders of the New Year took place just three days into 2022. On Monday night, two armed men stormed a home in San Hill in the Belize District, catching two men playing video games completely off guard. There is speculation that one of the deceased was the intended target, but what is […]
Tonight, police are investigating the destruction over twelve hundred acres of sugar fields belonging to the Valley of Peace Farms Limited. Reports are that a total of four fields were set on fire between nine thirty and ten a.m., on the first of January. A spokesperson for the company told News Five that they hope […]
While the country was preparing to welcome 2022, the occasion was ruined for one family whose loved one was gunned down on the lane across from his home in Belize City. News Five’s Marion Ali has the details of the last recorded murder of 2021, the one that claimed the life of Akeem Welch. […]
A brawl near B.T.L. Park involving a police officer and a civilian has resulted in charges being brought against thirty-four-year-old Phillip Garbutt. On Sunday, Edmond Perdomo was at an establishment in the vicinity when he got into a verbal exchange with the policeman who was on duty at the premises. It quickly escalated into a […]
There was a grisly murder in Sugar City on Christmas morning. Sometime around nine a.m., Orange Walk police were called out to an area on San Martin Street where they found a body with multiple stab wounds. It was later identified as that of Steven Patten, a resident, who lived not far from where he […]
The long Christmas weekend did not go without bloodshed. In Belize City, a young man’s life was cut down on Monday evening while he was at home. New Five’s Marion Ali has the story in the following report. Marion Ali, Reporting Police believe that a bitter dispute between two men on Boxing Day may […]
A family is grieving the sudden death of a minor on Christmas Eve. They are now awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death of sixteen-year-old Keenan Young, who began complaining of pain, following what the family says was a punch to his head two weeks before. Was the devastating blow […]
Eighteen-year-old Ethan Thompson was mortally wounded when he was shot by a pair of gunmen who accosted him while riding a bicycle near his home in Mahogany Heights. The unfortunate incident happened on the morning of November first. Since then, investigators have been following all possible leads with the hope of making an arrest in […]
Police have filed a charge of murder against twenty-two-year-old Jorge Anderson Triminio of Valley Community in the Stann Creek District, in connection with a fatal stabbing in Seine Bight on Christmas Eve. Triminio, who is said to be the ex-boyfriend of Linda Vigil, reportedly went to her house and forced his way inside. She asked […]
An elderly labourer of Succotz Village, Cayo District, who went missing on Boxing Day, was found dead earlier today in the Mopan River, between miles seventy-one and seventy-two, near Nabitunich Farm. The body of sixty-four-year-old Ciriaco Felipe Cocom was reportedly found by his son, Amilcar Misael Cocom, shortly after six this morning floating in the […]
A domestic disturbance in Seine Bight Village overnight has resulted in the stabbing death of a twenty-three-year-old. It is reported that Jorge Triminio, the ex-boyfriend of Linda Vigil, visited her home on Thursday night and despite all efforts to leave the residence, he kept preventing her from doing so. When she was finally able to […]
The Belize Police Department will be working overtime this Christmas weekend with officers patrolling the streets to ensure citizen safety and to enforce curfew regulation. But, they are also reminding the driving public to obey all traffic laws, especially when driving along the highways. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “Road safety […]
The police department is also advising against domestic violence this holiday weekend. With alcohol being consumed during this festive period, the likelihood of domestic violence is a real concern. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, Belize Police Department “When it comes to domestic incidents, because whenever people consume alcohol it seems like, I don’t know […]
During his address to the soldiers at the annual B.D.F. luncheon at Price Barracks on Wednesday, Prime Minister John Briceño spoke about combating narco-traffickers who continue to use Belize as a transhipment point for drugs from South America. Aside from the economy, crime, and jobs, it is one of the issues that bother the PM […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with the execution of a popular businessman from the Eight Miles community on the George Price Highway. He was on his routine morning walk along the John Smith Link Road heading home when he was shot to the back of the head. Who would have wanted Zihui He dead and why […]
