The only reason a Belize City man is alive tonight is because the gun the shooter used jammed. According to police, around three-thirty on Saturday afternoon, twenty-two year old Kareem Wright was standing at the corner of King Street and Euphrates Avenue when someone walked up to him, pushed him down, and then stood over […]
Concert-goers leaving the City Centre early Sunday morning were also surprised to hear the sound of gunfire. Official reports to News Five are that twenty-one year old Errol Hinds was shot near Evergreen Street by someone he knew. Hinds remains at the K.H.M.H. recovering from injuries to his left arm, back, and the left side […]
In crime news from Ambergris Caye, police have arrested and charged sixty-six year old William Donald Campbell for murder and possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. On February third, island police visited a house in the Tres Cocos area where they found Campbell and an employee, Danielo Villatoro. Villatoro had been fatally shot in […]
Thirty-three thousand dollars: that’s how much a thief got away with this morning, courtesy of the Princess Hotel and Casino. According to police, around nine-thirty, two employees and a security guard were transporting the proceeds of the hotel, cinema, and restaurant weekend sales to the accounting office, when they were ambushed by a masked man […]
A six year old girl has told police that she was molested by a fifty-three year old security guard. According to court reports, Claude Velasquez has been identified as the man who on Saturday evening took the child into his bedroom where he kissed her on the mouth and fondled her private parts. We understand […]
A large group of tourists, not to mention the nation’s tourism industry, remain in shock tonight following a brazen attack at the entrance of the nation’s capital. Banana Bank Lodge is located along the Belize River, less than a mile from the steps of the National Assembly. But on Friday night, the owners, guests, and […]
A Belize City man has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting incident earlier this week. According to police, nineteen year old Egbert Arnold is the man who fired several gunshots in the direction of twenty-eight year old Troy Trapp on Wednesday night. Arnold has since been charged with attempted murder, use of […]
Late this evening police escorted a man to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court where he was formally arraigned for a murder committed in 2002. According to police, thirty-one year old Arthur Young is the man who shot and killed twenty-two year old Jose Chavarria on August fifth, 2002, as he was riding his bike on […]
Belize City police have detained a suspect in connection with a shooting incident on Wednesday night. According to authorities twenty-eight year old Troy Trapp of West Canal told them that around seven-thirty that night he was at the corner of West and Plues streets when a man who he was able to identify walked up […]
Police in Benque Viejo and Melchor de Mencos have launched a joint investigation into the discovery of a badly decomposed body near the border on Tuesday. The corpse has been identified as thirty-one year old Guatemalan Marco Antonio Morales, a resident of Melchor. Morales was reported missing by his wife on February eleventh, and even […]
Two gunshots rang out last night on the south side of Belize City, and when the commotion cleared, a familiar figure lay wounded. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods caught up with him today at the K.H.M.H. Herman ?Yagga? Morris, Shooting Victim ?I done get inna my yard?I mi deh inna my hard already and I gone […]
A traffic officer has been arrested and charged for the seldom prosecuted offence of attempting an unnatural crime. Because the charge is an indictable offence to be tried in the Supreme Court, no plea was taken from thirty-two year old Albert Hendy when he appeared today before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. The Hattieville resident was then […]
A Belize City journalist has been arraigned in Magistrate’s Court for traffic offences and–you won’t believe this one–cussing out a Supreme Court judge. Godwin Haylock, a reporter for the Guardian newspaper, appeared before Magistrate Harry Hulett this afternoon where he was charged with driving without due care and attention, failure to conform to a traffic […]
They can be counted among the brave few who set up shop in the toughest neighbourhoods in Belize, and even though the criminal element long ago declared open season on Chinese merchants, tonight one young man is behind bars because a frustrated store owner decided to fight back. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the details. […]
The crime itself took place more than four years ago, but tonight police are patting themselves on the back for making an arrest in the murder of thirty-one year old Clint Geban. Today, twenty-seven year old Kenroy Tillett was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court after police collected new evidence linking him to the murder. On September […]
Tonight the staff of the Port Loyola Preschool is once again cleaning up the mess left behind by heartless vandals who broke into the educational facility over the weekend. But more disturbing than the number of times that thieves have hit the school is the fact that evidence at the scene suggests small children may […]
If you work in the downtown area, you might have noticed that for the past two weeks the police have been manning nightly check points at all three bridges connecting the city’s north and south sides. The operation is just one of many initiatives the police department is conducting in what it says is an […]
A shooting near the Belcan Bridge in Belize City has left a security guard recovering from gunshot wounds. News Five visited with the victim this afternoon at the K.H.M.H. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This afternoon it was encouraging to see fifty-eight year old Thomas Gomez sit up in bed. When we arrived, Gomez was preparing to […]
They managed to cheat death, but five occupants of a pickup truck driving in Belize City last night have reason to be fearful. Somebody, it seems, was out for their heads. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting One of the shooting victims had just gotten a haircut at a barber shop […]
The Orange Walk office of Belize Water Services has been hit by armed robbers. According to police reports, around two-thirty this afternoon a pair of masked men, one armed with a pump shotgun, entered the B.W.S.L. office on Stadium Street. The gunman threatened the employees while his sidekick emptied the cash drawer of four thousand, […]
Two men arrested and charged with robbery at a Belize City radio station have been arraigned in Magistrate’s Court. Twenty year old Bernard Smith and a fifteen year old minor will be tried jointly in connection with the December twelfth incident at WAVE radio. According to the station’s financial manager Juliet Thimbrel, around ten that […]
Charges of attempted murder have been reinstated against a Belize City man in connection with an attack against a well-known businessman. Twenty-seven year old Giovanni Lauriano appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser today where he was re-indicted for two counts of attempted murder. Lauriano is now jointly charged with Kenrick Reneau and Aniver Palacio in connection […]
You met him on Friday’s newscast as he was hyping the weekend’s tribute to Bob Marley, but today one local concert promoter is singing a different tune: the bluenote blues. Janelle Chanona, Reporting The two hundred dollar bills are almost identical … front and back, to the point where it?s easy to see how someone […]
A Belize City man is lucky to be alive tonight after he was shot in the neck. Police reports are that around three this morning, twenty-one year old Sheldon Watler was riding his bicycle on North Creek Road when someone shot at him. When cops arrived at the scene, they found Watler bleeding profusely from […]
In court news, today an eighteen old man from St. Paul’s Bank in the Belize district was arraigned on a charge of carnal knowledge in connection with a report made by a twelve-year-old girl. According to the victim, in August of last year she was at her father’s house in Belize City when Orie “Spike” […]
