Employees and customers at a factory on the Northern Highway were held up this afternoon, but within minutes police had picked up five suspects. Police say they responded to a call from Creative Tiles and Windows at mile two and a half that three unmasked men, one with a firearm, had held up the establishment. […]
Following a stabbing incident in Belize City last Friday, police have arrested and charged the prime suspect in the case. Fifty-two year old Arthur Thomas, also known as “Old Bomb,” stands accused of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, and dangerous harm. Thomas has been identified by forty year old Francis Simon as […]
Another young girl has filed charges of sexual assault, this time against an Orange Walk man. According to the cops, this week the fifteen year old victim reported that in mid-March she went to the home of thirty-six year old Sebastian Coc in San Felipe Village and the two later had sex. As a result, […]
The plague of sexual assault cases in Belize continues unabated. On Tuesday, Belmopan police arrested a twenty five-year old man in connection with a claim made by a thirteen-year old girl from a nearby village that she was raped by a pair of assailants. The minor reported to police that around one a.m. on Easter […]
A suspect has been arrested in the weekend murder of Perfolio August. Twenty-seven year old Ashton Martin, a fisherman of Fabers Road Extension in Belize City, was today brought to Magistrate’s Court where he was formally charged with murder. August was shot to death on Sunday afternoon as he left a shop at the corner […]
Two Orange Walk men are nursing serious wounds tonight following separate brawls over the weekend. Late Saturday night, an argument between brothers turned bloody, when one sibling picked up a shovel. According to police, thirty-four year old Salvador Pacheco was hanging out with his brother, thirty-one year old Samuel Pacheco, at their mother’s house in […]
Another Belize City family is in mourning tonight after their loved one was gunned down on Sunday afternoon. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin had the gruesome details. Bernadette Bennett, Mother of Deceased ?When I heard the gunshot, I thought it was dynamite. I seh why them children the play with dynamite, they wa give people heart […]
Orange Walk police are tonight investigating an attempted murder following a cat fight on Thursday night. According to the cops, around midnight twenty-one year old Marisela Mai and a seventeen year old got into a vicious brawl in Trial Farm village near the football field. When it was over Mai had been stabbed several times […]
More heavy duty firepower has been found on a northern caye. Police say an operation on Thursday at an island about a mile north of Deer Caye resulted in the discovery of an AK47, an AR15 rifle, an UZI machine gun, assorted ammunition, as well as fuel and a radio antennae. It is believed that […]
Police are seeking a man known only as “Old Bomb” following a stabbing on Thursday night in Belize City. The victim, forty year old Francis Simon, told police he got into a quarrel over the purchase of a pair of sandals and that Old Bomb stabbed him in the neck with a knife. The weapon […]
Tonight a boat owner with a big investment is counting on your help in trying to locate his stolen vessel. Tour guide Dean Belisle told police that the boat was docked at a pier in Button Wood Bay when it went missing the night of April fourth. The blue and white forty-one foot fibreglass skiff, […]
He is the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, but that exalted title could not prevent Joseph Brown, better known as Brutus, from being on the wrong side of a sharp machete. Brown, currently in serious but stable condition at the K.H.M.H., was involved in an argument in front of the Royal Club […]
Today police arrested two of their own in a sensational case that involves allegations of ongoing sexual relations with a fourteen year old girl. That child is now three months pregnant. Police constables twenty-five year old Gilroy Usher and twenty-six year old Elton Elijio appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb-McKenzie where they were arraigned on charges […]
Burglaries are hardly a rarity in Belize but over Easter thieves scored big-time at one city boutique … at least they thought they did. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Rhona?s Boutique located at the corner of Western Avenue and Mahogany Street may be situated along one of the busiest roadways in the city, but that did not […]
While thousands of Belizeans took advantage of the weekend?s balmy weather to enjoy recreation in every corner of the country, the last five days were not without tragedy. Three murders were recorded, the most recent occurring this morning in Belize City. News Five?s Kendra Griffith reports that this latest killing was not your average urban […]
Uncontrolled jealousy also seems to be the likely motive for a murder that occurred late Sunday night in Benque Viejo del Carmen. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Benque Viejo police say twenty-two year old Israel Geovanni Contreras is the man who killed fifteen year old Anna Aldana. The young girl?s body was found behind this abandoned school […]
Tourists have once again become victims of crime at the Rio Frio Cave in Cayo’s Mountain Pine Ridge. According to police reports shortly before one on Good Friday afternoon a total of seven visitors accompanied by four tour guides were held up by a heavily armed gang of seven men brandishing assault riffles, handguns and […]
It was a break-in that threatened to derail the smooth transition from Sales Tax to G.S.T. due in July. But thanks to some quick work by police the government should not have to worry. A.S.P. Chester Williams, Head, C.I.B. ?Persons who have the propensity to commit crimes must get the message loud and clear that […]
Police strongly suspect that two Belize City residents, Dwayne Bishop and Stephen James, are the duo who held up Leslie’s Block Factory at mile three on the Northern Highway. Authorities say around twelve-fifteen on Wednesday afternoon, two young men wearing stockings over their faces and holding a nine millimetre pistol entered the establishment and ordered […]
We have carried numerous reports on this newscast concerning official efforts to crack down on the circulation of counterfeit currency. But while the Police Department is still trying to deal with bogus cash, advances in technology have forced them to embark on another initiative: curtailing credit card fraud. According to a police press release, reports […]
A mid-afternoon robbery on the outskirts of Belize City has netted a duo three hundred dollars in cash. Around twelve-fifteen today, two men entered Leslie’s Block Factory at mile three on the Northern Highway. Armed with a gun and a knife, the men robbed an employee of one hundred dollars in company cash and then […]
A Crooked Tree resident was today arraigned in Magistrate’s Court for allegedly raping a minor on two separate occasions. Thirty-two year old Victor Edward Gillett appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord where he was charged with two counts of rape and one count of grievous harm. The crime is indictable and Gillett was remanded to […]
Deadly violence in Belize City tends to run in streaks … and if that pattern holds then residents of the old capital should brace themselves. Following Sunday afternoon’s fatal shooting in Cardinez Alley, shots rang out once again last night in Port Loyola. And when the ruction died down one man lay dead and a […]
Orange Walk police are awaiting the results of a post mortem to find out what determine the death of a sixty three year old farmer in that district. According to police the body of Guatemalan Salomon Guzman was found by a gate at the entrance to La Quinta farm located nine miles on the Honey […]
This weekend, the Belize Police Department found itself investigating the sixteenth murder of the year. The victim was out buying a firearm, but as News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin discovered, he soon wound up on the business end of a gun. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Police reports are that around noon on Sunday, twenty-nine year old Gilbert […]
