Police need your help in putting a name and face to a human skeleton that was found on a feeder road near Gracie Rock village late Friday evening. A farmer who frequents the area stumbled on the bones and alerted authorities. According to Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, the decomposed remains appear to be […]
Three people from Belmopan are in police detention following a chopping incident that has left a Salvapan resident hospitalized. Twenty-nine year old David Aguilar was severely wounded on Saturday morning, as according to police, when arrived on the scene on Costa Rica Street, they found the area resident suffering from cuts to the head, face […]
There are some very disappointed farmers in the North and South of Belize tonight, but hey, no one ever said that growing weed was anything other than risky business. Orange Walk police report that on Sunday morning they came across a marijuana plantation about a mile north west of Santa Martha village. We don’t know […]
Police have made a speedy arrest in the shooting death of mechanic Lloyd Bodden on Thursday. This afternoon twenty year old Mark Alamilla and twenty-seven year old Roger Anthony, both of Belize City were charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Bodden was gunned down in front of his residence on Ebony Street. Bodden […]
The month’s fourth murder occurred this morning, the third to take place on the south side of Belize City. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from the scene. Patrick Jones, Reporting The mid morning violence stunned the Ebony Street neighbourhood as thirty-six year old mechanic Lloyd Bodden was gunned down in front of his residence. Head […]
Details remain elusive tonight but investigators in the Cayo district are tonight processing a murder scene in St. Matthews Village. According to police, around one this afternoon, the body of sixty-eight year old Wilford Requena was found wrapped in a tarpaulin in the downstairs flat of his home. News Five understands that Requena was working […]
Tonight police continue to investigate a brazen morning attack on the offices of an offshore bank in Belize City. According to authorities, around nine this morning two armed men hit the Provident Bank and Trust of Belize Limited on Barrack Road just as employees were taking money from inside the building to a waiting vehicle […]
A Belize City man who was shot in the neck five days ago has succumbed to his injuries. Stanley Coleman died early Tuesday morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. He was shot in the neck last Thursday afternoon during an altercation with another man in the area of Welch Street. Police say they initially […]
And while Belize City figures heavily in the recent crime wave, the seaside municipality is not the only hot spot. Incidents that were left unreleased by the police press office–but were reported in the U.S. media–involve the robbery of tourists who rent canoes on the Macal River in the vicinity of San Ignacio. One highly […]
Police have arrested two people in connection with separate shootings late last week that left one man dead and another fighting for his life. Twenty year old Kenneth Dobson is accused of shooting to death twenty-three year old Jermaine Barrow last Friday afternoon. According to police reports, Barrow was hanging out at the corner of […]
Separate shooting incidents over the weekend in Belize City sent two people to the hospital, a businessman to police lockup and authorities searching for one of the trigger men. Thirty two year old Robert Buckley of Castle Street in Belize City told authorities that around five thirty on Sunday evening, he went to a shop […]
The plague of deadly violence that has infected the city–particularly its south side–shows no signs of coming under control. Once again today, like a number of times earlier in the week, I was called to witness the bloody aftermath. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-three year old Jermaine Barrow was at his usual hang out spot at […]
Twenty-five year old Marlon Fisher remains in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Fisher, who is unable to breathe on his own due to gunshot wounds to the chest and lower back, is being assisted with a ventilator machine. As the Fisher family hopes for the best, Belize City police have arrested […]
On Thursday, a twelve-year-old girl walked into the Orange Walk police station and told the authorities that since November twenty eighth she has been living and having sex with twenty five year old cane cutter Ernesto Magana. No, it was not a case of a run away child falling into a premature romance. According to […]
While union members were reading the fine print of a proposed settlement and callers to Belize’s many radio talk shows exchanged verbal barbs, young men on the streets of Belize City were settling some disputes of their own…News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting We are not certain if it was a bench […]
He was financial officer for the Western Border Management Agency in Cayo, but tonight twenty nine year old Edwardo Raul Ayala is settling into the comfort of Her Majesty’s prison in Hattieville. Ayala was arrested this week after a report from his former employer that over thirteen thousand dollars went missing under his watch in […]
Corozal Police have arrested and charged one man in connection with a chopping incident that has left two men hospitalized. According to police, the accused attacker is twenty-one year old Nelson Acosta of a College Road address in Corozal Town. Police reports are that thirty-five year old Moses Hall and seventeen-year-old Edgar Martinez were standing […]
He didn’t realize as he watched last night’s news story on the murder of Arthur Crawford that within a short time he would become the latest victim in a series of fatal shootings in Belize City. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-two year old Shona Oshon says she was home with her […]
Some three hours after his picture was shown on this newscast Monday Night, twenty-two year old Charles Hinds walked in to the Queen Street Police Station and handed himself into authorities. Hinds was sought by police for the murder of twenty-year-old Arthur Crawford who was shot around eleven thirty on Saturday night on Central American […]
Forty-one year old Marconi Leal is lucky to be alive after he was shot in the chest around ten on Monday night. The shooting occurred just as Leal was collecting rent in the amount of two thousand dollars from a tenant on Cemetery Road. But who would have known other than the tenant and landlord […]
Belize City chalked up another murder over the weekend. The victim and the alleged perpetrators were, as is all too often the case, young, while the motive, which remains murky, seems to bear little relation to the finality of the crime. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Rodney Baird, Uncle of the Deceased ?Well it’s […]
A suspect has been arrested and charged in the murder of a nine-year-old Dangriga girl. He is seventeen-year-old Dennis Pineda. Sources tell News 5 that on Thursday Pineda, a Honduran national, who is acquainted with the victim’s family, gave a tearful confession to police. Authorities would not comment on a motive but we understand Pineda […]
Twenty-three year old Chester Noralez and seventeen-year-old Reynold Michael remain in the Karl Huesner Memorial Hospital recovering from gunshot wounds to their right leg and right side of the neck respectively. Both young men have told police that around eight forty on Thursday night, they were standing on Amara Avenue when two men rode by […]
The civil strife now affecting the nation tends to push any other news out of the headlines. But while the unions, civil society and government wrangled in Belize City and Belmopan, Dangriga was the scene of a horrendous crime. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has just returned to our studios with the following report. Jacqueline Woods, […]
Tonight police continue to investigate the brutal killing of a homeless man on the streets of Belize City. Burned alive and left to die in front of a Southside neighborhood store, good Samaritans rushed the victim to the hospital but there was little doctors could do. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the disturbing details. Jacqueline […]
