A man was shot in Belize City on Thursday night and it happened just a short distance away from a police booth on Vernon Street. Now, as the victim struggles to survive, investigators are trying to make an arrest. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story in the following report. Marion Ali, Reporting Thirty-six-year-old […]
Today, ComPol Chester Williams offered some brief comments on the shooting, saying that a motive has not been established as yet, but investigators are out collecting data. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “From what we know, Sutherland is not affiliated with any gang so we are still trying to figure out what the motive […]
There was another shooting incident recorded overnight; this time in Dangriga. Nineteen-year-old Leonard Baltazar was riding a bicycle on Saint Vincent Street when two men on motorcycles rode up behind him and one of them fired several shots in his direction. Baltazar received multiple injuries to the body and was rushed to the Southern Regional […]
A Bangladeshi shopkeeper was the victim of an aggravated burglary at his place of business on Curassow Street on Thursday night. MD Rahman, proprietor of MQ Grocery, was roused out of his slumber by four masked intruders. One of the men attacked the thirty-nine-year-old, punching him in the face repeatedly. He was then bound at […]
Police have confirmed that a San Pedro man, Hilberto Caliz, was killed last weekend over a dispute involving a bicycle. But, there were also other factors at play. The carpenter and football player was shot dead as he was heading home. Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams told the media on Wednesday that Caliz was not […]
A shopkeeper was killed on Wednesday night in the Honeycamp Area of the Orange Walk District. Police believe that they have gathered credible information that would lead them to Angel Gongora’s killer. According to A.S.P. Fitzroy Yearwood, while a motive has not been established as yet, robbery has been ruled out. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, […]
Police are collaborating with their Mexican counterparts for the return of two brothers who are wanted for the murder of their uncle. Enrique and Shamir Teyul are suspected of the murder of Eugene Teyul in San Antonio Village, Orange Walk on Sunday night. Police believe that after the brothers killed their uncle in an open […]
A pair of senior citizens is the latest victims of a home invasion. On Tuesday night, they were at their home at mile fifteen on the Philip Goldson Highway when burglars entered. The perpetrators were described as being dressed in camouflage, law enforcement clothing. Today, Police Communications Director Yearwood shared detailed with the media. […]
2021 has been a record year for drug plane landings in Belize. The past twelve months have also seen a number of foiled operations where narco-traffickers are either busted or the illicit cargo they are attempting to smuggle across the northern border is confiscated. But it is also a year during which several police officers […]
The Krooman Lagoon – it is the location where over two hundred families have been squatting for the years and just last week, where an internal brawl among group members of the MS-13 gang operatives led to a an assault upon a family and a suspected arson upon their house on Sunday night. Today, Commissioner […]
While the Christmas season is usually joyous, it can result in misfortune for people who become vulnerable to thieves. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says there will be more patrols to try to control the level of criminal activity that happens at this time of year. But aside from that, there are some do’s and […]
A family in the Krooman Lagoon area is tonight trying to piece their lives back together, after losing everything to a house fire. This was, however, no accidental fire and there were violent incidents both before and after the blaze that left several people wounded. News Five’s Paul Lopez visited the area to get a […]
Two murders were recorded over the weekend: one on Ambergris Caye and the other in Orange Walk. The first occurred on Saturday night in San Pedro Town when Hilberto Caliz was killed. Tonight, sources confirm with News Five that an eighteen-year-old Julio Paiz has been charged for the killing and will be arraigned on Tuesday […]
Police are looking for two brothers who allegedly murdered their uncle in cold blood. The incident occurred Sunday night in the village of San Antonio in the Orange Walk District. It is believed that after the brothers bludgeoned their uncle to death in an open field they fled across the border into Mexico. A.S.P. Fitzroy […]
A murder has been recorded in the south, despite no official report as yet from the Belize Police Department. Sixty-year-old Canadian national Jeffrey Richard Lewis was discovered dead at his property off the Melinda Road in a remote area of Dangriga. Lewis had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer and his decomposing body discovered […]
Twenty-five bails of cocaine went up in flames today. The drugs were seized by law enforcement two weeks ago, after a narco-plane crash landed in the Mountain Pine Ridge Area. Since then, the cocaine was being held at a secure location under police guard. But today, that pay load was transported to an undisclosed location […]
There are reports that an aircraft was flying low over the Belize on Wednesday night. ACP Grinage confirmed that authorities were tracking an aircraft that eventually made its way into Guatemalan airspace. ACP Alford Grinage, Operations Commander, Belize Police Department “As usual, we always have sleepless nights trying to deal with narco trafficking. Yes, […]
ACP Grinage was also asked about the selection process for officers to respond to reports of suspected drug plane landings. With the recent incidents involving police officers, the question lingers: who can be trusted? ACP Alford Grinage, Operations Commander, Belize Police Department “Police selection will always be the same. Like what Commissioner had always […]
The manslaughter case against Canadian national Jasmine Hartin was adjourned to February sixteenth, 2022. While that is when Hartin will be receiving complete disclosure in the case, it is also the date for her appearance in the San Pedro Magistrate’s Court for charges of possession of an illegal drug and common assault. Today, a News […]
The Kolbe Foundation was first contracted to manage the Belize Central Prison since August of 2002. It has been managed by that institution since then. It costs, roughly, nineteen dollars and fifty cents per day, by Prison estimates, to house a prisoner. This converts to an average per year of eight point four million dollars […]
Police have added more charges against the seven men who were arraigned in connection with the November twenty-seventh drug plane that crash-landed in the Mountain Pine Ridge. Jesus Martinez Quintero, Miguel Angel Zetina, Edwin Armando Gonzalez, Jaime Umberto Maz, Edilberto Medrano, Salus Penner and Police Corporal Eric David Young have been charged now with Abetment […]
Auditor General Bradley was the key person behind a number of audits, but one in particular for which she expressed frustration was an audit at the Ministry of Natural Resources, which has over the years been aptly referred to as a hotbed of corruption. It is believed that millions upon millions of dollars in compensation […]
The hard line position recently taken by the head of the Belize Coast Guard to institute a firewall limiting information sharing with the Belize Police Department has been rescinded. It follows a meeting held last week between Commissioner of Police Chester Williams and Rear Admiral Elton Bennett. The BCG is presently leading the Joint Intelligence […]
This evening police issued a report that on Thursday, intelligence information led law enforcement officers to a cache of cannabis, guns and ammunition. A search in the San Jomal area of Corozal resulted in the seizure of four hundred and fifty-four pounds of the drug. Also found at the scene were three nine millimetre pistols, […]
Councillor George Del Cid of the Caye Caulker Village Council got in trouble with the law after he reportedly hit a man on the face the week. He was arraigned at the San Pedro Magistrate Court Tuesday, November thirtieth for Wounding. He was a two-thousand-dollar bail, which he met and was ordered to return to […]
