A Belize City businessman was shot in the shoulder on Monday night when two men unsuccessfully tried to steal his gun. George Ming told police he was outside his club “Player’s Den” on Barrack Road around ten p.m. when a man he thought was a beggar asked him for two dollars. While he was being […]
The plot continues to thicken in efforts by U.S. authorities to break up an alleged major cocaine exporting operation based in Belize. The latest development involves the arrest of Belizean Steve Reneau in Miami as he disembarked from his flight from Belize on Friday. According to U.S. press reports, the forty-six year old Reneau was […]
Big bold daylight robberies seem to be very much in style this season, and this morning the third major jacking in three weeks took place, this time in the heart of Belize City’s entertainment district. Sometime after nine this morning two young men walked into the Princess Hotel and Casino and walked out with a […]
Four young Belizeans are behind bars tonight after their Saturday afternoon robbery of a popular Belize City pizza parlour was foiled by a video camera. Twenty year old Shannon Avila; Vallan Avila, twenty-one; eighteen year old Allan Guzman; and a fourteen year old minor were today charged in Magistrate’s court with robbery and abetment to […]
Belizean and Guatemalan authorities are working together to try and capture four men, all believed to be Guatemalans, who opened fire on a team of officers from the Benque Viejo Police Station. The dramatic shootout took place around one this afternoon after local authorities went into the area of Garbutt’s Falls after they received a […]
Thirty-nine year old Gregory Harris claims he does not know who shot him or why, leaving police without much to go on in their investigation. Harris told police that around ten on Thursday night he was near St. John Vianney Primary School on Faber’s Road when he heard a single gunshot. Harris says he then […]
It was a case of good neighbourhood watching which led police to catch a thief in the act this afternoon. According to Belize City police, a call came in that there was a burglary in progress at “Corrugated Pipes” located at mile five on the Northern Highway. When police arrived at the scene, they discovered […]
In a follow-up to a story aired last night, twenty-three year old Israel Cant has been arrested and charged following the rape of a five-year-old girl from the Stann Creek District. The little girl was visiting relatives on Wednesday when the incident occurred. Police are advising all persons to be vigilant in the supervision of […]
Police in the Stann Creek District have detained a twenty-three year old man for the molestation of a five-year-old girl. The child’s mother told police on Wednesday that her daughter had gone to visit relatives and when she came home, she noticed that something was clearly wrong. She took the child to a doctor who […]
A fast food restaurant in San Ignacio was destroyed on Wednesday night. The San Ignacio Fire department says they received a call around nine twenty-five but were unable to save the structure. The business named Annie’s and located on Savannah Street, was owned by Ann Bateman. Fire officials say they believe it was a case […]
Police have arrested five men in connection with the killing of Celestino Zetina. The men, all from Belize City, who were picked up over the course of yesterday and today, are twenty-two year old Trevor Avilez of Jasmine Street; Earl Claire, twenty-five, of Violet Lane; thirty year old Andrew Williams of Marigold Lane; Eighteen year […]
It was supposed to be a routine court date and adjournment for two men charged with murder. But one of the defendants, Roland Smalls, received a surprise gift: his freedom. The news came from the prosecutor who, on instructions from the D.P.P., asked that the murder charge against Smalls be dismissed. With Smalls now a […]
The discovery of the body did not come as a surprise, but it did not make the notion of murder any more acceptable. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports on an abduction that has now become a case of homicide. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The body of thirty-three year old Celestino Zetina was found in some bushes […]
A Belmopan man has been charged with kidnapping in the case of a missing Belize City resident. Twenty-nine year old James Hyde was arraigned today before Magistrate Earl Jones for the kidnapping of Celestino Zetina. Zetina was reported missing from July tenth and was last seen on Vernon Street being forced into a car at […]
A Belize City man has been charged with a number of crimes in connection with the sexual assault of a fourteen-year-old girl. Thirty-seven year old Michael Woods appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to face two counts of carnal knowledge, one count of aggravated assault, and one count of grievous harm. The girl has reported to […]
A suspected robber is tonight nursing his wounds and facing some jail time… all because he may have chosen the wrong victim. According to police, shortly after midnight Saturday, thirty-two year old Reynaldo Verde stopped at the corner of Freetown Road and Victoria Street to assist two acquaintances who were having problems with their vehicle. […]
Details are sketchy, but reports reaching News Five are that an armed robbery has taken place late this evening at the Income Tax Department office at the Mahogany Street complex building. News Five understands that a lone gunman, pretending to be a customer, held up a female clerk and made off with fourteen thousand dollars […]
Today the family of Trevor Smith stopped by our studios to categorically deny that their brother was killed because of robbery or drugs. Smith’s sister, Stacey Martinez says while she does not know why her brother was killed, she is trying to find out why anyone would want him dead. Stacey Martinez, Sister of the […]
Belize City police still do not have a motive for the city’s latest murder but sources tell News Five that it appears to have been a combination of drugs and robbery that caused the shooting death of twenty six year old Trevor Smith. It is reported that around ten on Wednesday night Smith went to […]
Anyone who has watched the news over the last fifteen years knows by now that there is no such thing as a criminal with a heart. But yesterday afternoon, that lack of compassion hit a new low when two Belize City women with a combined age of one hundred and eighty years were subjected to […]
Tonight more details are emerging from a brazen daylight bank robbery that netted the bad guys more than a hundred thousand dollars in cash and left one man recovering from gunshot wounds. According to twenty-six year old Marlon Ramos, an employee of Courts Dangriga branch, just after one p.m. while he was arranging a delivery […]
Mark Anthony Jones, the young man accused of shooting up a Guatemalan Embassy vehicle, was formally arraigned today, having confirmed that he is indeed seventeen years old. That puts his case behind the closed doors of the Family Court, where we are informed that a total of eleven charges were read. These include three counts […]
Shane Espinosa, a twenty-nine year old labourer of Mahogany Street in Belize City is behind bars tonight after allegedly pulling a fast one on popular Albert Street taxi driver Darwin McKenzie. Espinosa appeared before Magistrate Earl Jones, where he pleaded not guilty to robbery and was remanded to custody until August twelfth. McKenzie reported to […]
Tonight there is a disturbing allegation of police brutality emerging from the Stann Creek District, which has left one man missing an eye. According to twenty-three year old store clerk Marcelino Chun, on the evening of Saturday July second, he was walking along the Stann Creek Valley Road towards his home in Hope Creek Village […]
A CAT scan performed on six-year-old Skylar Sanchez shows that the little girl displays only partial brain activity. Mother Floreth Requeña says she was hoping that the examination would have shown some signs of improvement, but it has only confirmed her worst fears that her daughter, who is suffering from paralysis on the right side […]
