Today the Prime Minister witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in San Carlos Village, Orange Walk. News Five took the opportunity to ask him about the frequency at which drug planes are being landed in Belize and how soon we can expect to acquire the radar that his party pledged to acquire, even […]
The Prime Minister says the fight against drug lords will be a continuous one because they have already set up a network that we now have to break up. Prime Minister John Briceno “It’s a matter now of following the money to see where the drugs end and go after the people, whosoever is […]
One thousand, two hundred and seventy-seven pounds of cocaine, packed tightly into twenty-five and a half bales, were seized by a team of police officers deep inside the forests of Mountain Pine Ridge on Tuesday morning. It followed an intense anti-drug operation to locate the illicit payload when a small drug plane came down hard […]
What about the unsanctioned vehicles that made up the fleet driven by the Commander of Operations Strike Team? Those vehicles that were confiscated by the police department ought to have gone through a formal requisition process via the Ministry of Finance, but they didn’t. Instead, they found their way into the hands of COST for […]
One of two individuals believed to have landed an aircraft laden with narcotics in Mountain Pine Ridge on Sunday is under police guard at the Western Regional Hospital tonight. He is recovering from injuries sustained when the drug plane crash landed on a crude runway near Hidden Valley. Police were back on the scene today […]
Brian Castillo is on remand at the Belize Central Prison for allegedly killing his common-law wife and her twelve-year-old daughter last weekend in San Ignacio. Following the harrowing incident, Castillo took custody of his seven-year-old son and absconded to Guatemala. He was apprehended by local authorities in Melchor several days later and was handed over […]
Another program is the “Heal up With Roots” Initiative where sixty Belize City residents are being trained to act as mediators in their communities. DYS is utilizing the cure violence model and participants learn basic counseling and intervention skills. It is a long term approach to addressing the issue of gang violence. We spoke to […]
For the fourth time in a month, a drug plane has been discovered soon after it landed in Belize – and for the second time in that period, at least one police officer has been accused of some level of involvement. Today Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, held a press conference. News Five’s Marion Ali […]
One of those in police custody in relation to Sunday’s drug plane landing is a Corporal who worked under Assistant Commissioner of Police, Marco Vidal. Vidal, as you will remember, had stepped down as Commander of Operations after the November fifth drug plane bust in Bladen, Toledo. At that time, an internal investigation had begun […]
Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams expressed disappointment that Attorney Dickie Bradley is the defense attorney for the men who were charged in the November fifth drug bust, when he said the Belize Police Department had hoped Bradley, who has spoken out against the plane landings, would have opted to prosecute the defendants. Now, Williams says, […]
A Belize City man, Chef Ruben Cano, was murdered over the weekend on Antelope Extension. The assailants targeted Cano and unleashed a number of bullets that caught him to the body on Saturday. He was rushed to the KHMH, but pronounced dead. Cano leaves behind his two children, their mother who is Cano’s ex-wife, and […]
A man was shot and killed in Dangriga on Friday night. He has been identified as Eden Ramos. Reports are that he was in the Backatown Area when he was approached by two men, one of whom shot him to the forehead. Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams spoke briefly on this incident. Chester Williams, […]
Over the weekend there were a few large parties held across the country, at least one of which was in Placencia. Pictures that were opening circulated on social media show that people wore no face masks at all and were not social distancing. Today the Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams said that while people bash […]
The Belize Coast Guard is presently in charge of the Joint Intelligence Operations Center, a role that is rotated between the three law enforcement organizations that comprise the country’s national security apparatus. With a rise in the number of allegations made against police officers for their purported involvement in illicit activity, particularly drug trafficking, concerns […]
On Thursday night fifty year-old businessman, Anil Asnaney, was shot and killed at close range as he and his wife, Manisha, were about to get into their vehicle on Baymen Avenue. The couple had just gone to pick up food from Sumathi’s Indian Restaurant when they came under fire. Two youths on bikes reportedly opened […]
Today police also reiterated that they do not suspect any foul play in the sudden death of a twenty-six year old man from Caye Caulker. Joel Young died a few days ago when he collapsed at a home in the Bahia area of the island. Family members had told News Five they had heard he […]
The Indian community is reeling from a double shooting which ended in the murder of one of their members around eight-fifteen on Thursday night in Belize City. Fifty-year-old Anil Asnaney and his wife, forty-four-year-old Manisha, had just left a restaurant on the Northside when they became the targets of gunfire. By the time Police arrived, […]
A suspected drug plane, smaller than the aircraft that landed on the Southern Highway several weeks ago, arrived in Stann Creek District last night and seemed to have successfully discharged its illicit cargo before being consumed by fire. A team of officers was dispatched to an area near Santa Cruz Village where they came across […]
This afternoon, police formally arrested and charged Brian Castillo for the double murder of his common-law-wife and step daughter, which occurred on Sunday. Castillo had been on the run for three days, but was captured on Tuesday in Peten, Guatemala before he was handed over to Belizean authorities overnight. News Five’s Duane Moody reports on […]
Shawn Steven Hertular, a construction worker of a Belize City address, has been arrested and charged for the crime of murder. He stands accused of the stabbing death of Miguel Zaiden who was fatally wounded on Racecourse Street Sunday night. Zaiden was in the neighborhood with several other persons when an argument ensued. During that […]
Canadian Jasmine Hartin is still awaiting trial for the shooting death of Police Superintendent Henry Jemmott, as well as for cocaine possession and common assault. But her name has surfaced again. This time in connection with a young man who died on Sunday. Police found twenty-six-year-old Joel Young dead in the Bahia area of Caye […]
Police officers Nelson Middleton, Elmer Nah, Delwin Casimiro and George Ferguson have been granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of forty thousand dollars each. The four were arraigned on November eighth in connection with the landing of a drug plane on the Southern Highway near Bladen, as well as the seizure of twenty-three bales […]
Seven-year-old Darwin Castillo has been safely reunited with his mother and family. Earlier today police confirmed that Guatemalan law enforcement located the child in Melchor de Mencos. A relative told News Five that he is in good health and without any physical injuries. Late this afternoon, Noticias de Peten was reporting that his father, Brian […]
The lifeless body of thirty-three-year-old Lucas Robert Hoare was recovered from a cane field in Xaibe Village, Corozal District this morning. Hoare was reported missing by his sibling on Monday. According to Phillip McCauley, he heard someone over at his brother’s residence in the Sosa Layout of Corozal Town on Monday evening around six-thirty. This […]
In another horrifying incident of domestic violence, a woman and her daughter were killed at their home in San Ignacio over the weekend, and her son was taken by his biological father. Tonight Bryan Castillo and the boy are on the run, and may have already crossed over into Guatemala. News Five’s Paul Lopez has […]
