A Belize City student remains in critical condition tonight after he sustained a gunshot wound to the head on Friday night. But this shooting was no ordinary drive by or the result of a “misunderstanding.” Police reports are that around ten that night, seventeen year old Aubrey Hernandez and two female relatives were sitting outside […]
A weekend fishing trip has ended in tragedy, claiming the life of a Dangriga man. On Monday, forty-five year old Edwin Coleman and two friends, Jorge Fuentes and Marvin Coleman, went fishing near Columbus Caye, about sixteen miles off the coast. According to the men, during the trip their net got caught in some rocks […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions has withdrawn charges of murder against four men. This afternoon Darren Banks, Joel Bishop, Joseph Bishop, and Akeem Logan-Gotoy appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser where they were informed of their good fortune. According to Fraser, while the murder charges have been dropped, she was not certain if the D.P.P. wanted […]
In other court news, two men were arraigned today for burglary and assault before Magistrate Harry Hulett. Nineteen year old Jovi Carballo was this afternoon read charges of one count of aggravated burglary and two counts of aggravated assault, along with a charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary, which is shared jointly with seventeen […]
A Guatemalan accused of murder was escorted to Belize City Magistrate’s Court this morning where he was formally arraigned. Sixty-three year old Adrian Ascencio appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb-McKenzie where the details of the offence were read to him through a court interpreter. Ascencio has been remanded to Hattieville prison until his next court appearance […]
Tonight police need your help in catching two wanted men. A year ago, twenty-one year old Mark Alamilla was arrested and charged in the shooting death of Belize City mechanic Lloyd Bodden. In December the case against Alamilla was set for a final hearing in the preliminary inquiry to see if the matter should be […]
It’s the eve of an important election and as one hundred fifty-four candidates work late into the night in search of that last handful of votes, we in the media should be hot on their trail. But as often happens, events sometimes intervene, in this case three murders that took place in Belize City, likely […]
He is accused of going on a weekend crime spree in which he shot a police officer, beat his girlfriend, threatened his brother-in-law, almost killed his step-daughter, and then tried to kill himself. And today, thirty-six year old special constable Charles Grant appeared in Magistrate’s Court where he was hit with a whopping eleven charges. […]
And while police have three more murders on their hands, they are nonetheless pleased tonight, having made a breakthrough in another cold case. On Monday, officers arrested twenty-one year old Errol Haynes and charged him with the 2005 murder of Delrick Sankey. This afternoon Haynes appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb-McKenzie where he was remanded to […]
On New Year’s Eve, an eighty-five year old Belize City woman was heartlessly robbed and pushed into a drain on Wilson Street. Tonight there is news of yet another atrocity, only this time the crime is against a young child. Kevin Jose Garcia, Robbed at Gunpoint “I seh thank you God fu what happened and […]
A quarrel over a gun has landed a teenager in the hospital and his fifteen year old brother in police custody. According to authorities, around one on Sunday morning sixteen year old Luis Cardinez and his fifteen year old sibling got into a fight over a firearm. Apparently, the younger boy had stolen the weapon […]
Another tourist has drowned, this time while snorkelling at the Hol Chan Marine Reserve off Ambergris Caye. Police report that around noon on Sunday sixty-five year old Deanne Kennedy was with a group of swimmers when she began having trouble in the water. She was immediately taken to the San Pedro Clinic, but was pronounced […]
In news from the south, police reports are that Dangriga cops have arrested and charged the prime suspect in the death of twenty-six year old Lydia Smith. According to authorities, thirty-one year old Marlon Hyde, a resident of Cotton Tree Village, has been arraigned on a charge of murder. Smith and Hyde had recently separated […]
It was a crime that shocked the country … the brazen 2004 shooting of well-known Belize City businessman Phillip Gallaty as he drove over a speed bump in Ladyville. Tonight the case is back in the news, as during court proceedings today charges against two of the accused were dropped. Reports to News Five indicate […]
Gunshots rang out on the Southside of Belize City last night and when it was over, two more young men lay wounded. But most troubling is that one of the victims is an innocent thirteen year old boy. Barbara Foster, Mother of Shooting Victim ?Like he limp ovah like that, you know, and then when […]
Belmopan police are looking for three suspects who held up a video store at knife point. According to employees of Celia’s Video Rental and Gift Store, just after two on Wednesday afternoon three young, unmasked men with knives entered the establishment and held up the sales clerk. Once inside, the thieves locked the door, blindfolded […]
A young man is in police custody tonight after the woman he tried to rob made sure he got exactly what he deserved … a good beating. According to thirty-one year old Rebecca Emmanuel, she had just turned the corner at Dolphin Street and Cemetery Road when a young man on a bicycle grabbed her […]
An American man trying to cheat the system is tonight lamenting his empty pockets after he was conned out of more than a thousand dollars by a local “whappist”. According to forty-seven year old Ray Michael Wheeler, in September he met a woman who claimed to be a government employee. The woman convinced Wheeler she […]
Tonight three young children are motherless after an apparent crime of passion in the Pomona Valley. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the disturbing details. Coreth Bowden, Cousin of the Deceased ?I think he should mi think about the pickney them weh left behind if he really do that. Cause he use to tell her that […]
A shopkeeper has been arraigned in Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a charge of indecent assault. According to police reports, forty-five year old Mario Ayuso was arrested after an eleven year old student reported to police that he fondled her buttocks and called her “sweetheart.” The girl says she had gone into the Ayuso’s shop […]
Police have arrested and charged three men in connection with the robbery of thousands of dollars from the Princess Hotel and Casino. This afternoon former Princess employee twenty-two year Alfred Conorquie, along with twenty-one year old Leon Rodriguez and twenty-four year old Callum Sutherland, was escorted to Magistrate’s Court and arraigned for robbery and conspiracy […]
A young mother from the Stann Creek Valley has been found dead and her common-law husband remains the prime suspect in what appears to be a murder. The body of twenty-six year old Lydia Smith, a resident of the Pomona New Site, was found around seven this morning lying face down on her bed. Authorities […]
Three young Belize City men remain hospitalized after they were wounded in a shooting near Magazine Road. Police say twenty year old Nikki Pickard, thirty-two year old Sherwin Nunez, and thirty-four year old Carlos Abraham were hanging out in an alley off Banak Street this morning around eight when a white van pulled up. One […]
On August thirty-first of last year eighteen year old Lisa Lauriano was charged with attempted murder, grievous harm, and deadly means of harm following a report that the young woman had stabbed her boyfriend’s daughter in the eye during a misunderstanding. Lauriano was offered bail in the amount of three thousand dollars plus a surety […]
Two Belize City men were arraigned on charges of robbery in Magistrate’s Court on Monday for stealing the grand total of one dollar and fifty cents from a neighbour. According to Charles Pratt, around five on Friday evening he was near his home on Faber’s Road when twenty-nine year old David Burgos and forty-one year […]
