An angry husband from the Corozal District is tonight behind bars after attacking one of his wife’s friends. According to police reports, on Sunday evening thirty year old Edith Rene Ramos was at home in Cristo Rey Village when he suddenly picked up a machete and chopped a male friend visiting his wife in the […]
It was the kind of weekend that has become a staple on the Monday media circuit: Keen competition on the sporting field, first class entertainment on the stage and a morgue filled to capacity with the victims of murder and bad driving. We’ll begin with the murders. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from the Salt […]
The weekend’s second homicide occurred on Sunday, this time in Orange Walk Town. Nineteen-year-old Honduran Nulvis Gomez was pronounced dead on arrival at Northern Regional, the result of a massive cut wound to the side of the neck. According to police, around nine-forty-five p.m. Gomez was involved in an argument over money with one Daniel […]
On the first day this week without a murder, it may seem like overkill to lead tonight’s newscast with a story on a homicide–especially one that occurred back in March. But the unsolved death of an American woman in Gales Point Village has left the picturesque community in a state of fear and agitation. This […]
Like the northside Belize City neighbourhood of Belama, the new bedroom community at mile eight on the Western Highway is known as a quiet suburb with a strong sense of cooperative spirit. But tonight mile eight joins Belama in another similarity, that is as the scene of a murder. That’s right, for the fourth time […]
It may not have been a murder, but another M-word–mayhem–is a fitting description of what went on this morning when police decided to make their presence felt in one Belize City neighbourhood that didn’t seem to appreciate it. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It?s not the first time that Belize City police have come in contact with […]
In accepting the computers, Police Commissioner Carmen Zetina said the donation, which will be used as part of a project to fully computerize the police department, is evidence that the community-police relationship is deepening. But in an interview with News 5 after the ceremony, Zetina said that there is much more that the community can […]
For the third straight day, Belize City police have had the unpleasant task of collecting a body from the roadside. This time the crime scene was in the area of Marigold Lane and Jasmine Street. Residents tell News 5 that around ten-thirty on Tuesday night they observed forty-five year old Gilbert Reyes staggering down Tibruce […]
There has been another murder in what has traditionally been considered one of the city’s quieter residential areas. Phase three of the neighbourhood called Belama was the scene where the latest dead body was found. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid was on location shortly after the discovery and says the victim may have been […]
The trail of blood may reach from Dangriga to Belize City but tonight police are still trying to find out what led to the murder of Dangriga resident Rialton Pablo Flores. Flores’ body was found after eight this morning lying just off a feeder road near mile three on the Western Highway. It was clad […]
He was shot last month, died of his injuries on Friday and today his wife was charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Authorities are not saying much about why they believe twenty-five year old Florecita Quiroa may have conspired in the shooting death of her husband Jose Merino Quiroa but the evidence appears to be […]
One hundred and ninety thousand dollars in cash. It wasn’t won in Lotto, and all those long-shot bets on the Pistons won’t be paid until Tuesday night at the earliest. So what was that kind of money doing in a Mercedes Benz searched by police on Partridge Street Friday Morning? That’s what they’d like to […]
It sounded a little bit too good to be true, but when we expressed our doubts to the police they assured us the report was on the up and up. What I’m referring to is a story we ran earlier this week in which a household in Dangriga, led by one John Lambey, rose up […]
Two young children are still in shock tonight after an attempted kidnapping in the Corozal District. According to police, around seven-thirty on Wednesday night they were called out to an area of Corozal Town known as White Cocal where they found a crowd of people surrounding a small white car. Officers waded through the mob, […]
One of the laws of physics dictates that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. And while crime does not necessarily behave with the predictability of physics, every now and then a reaction is produced that resonates strongly with a public long fed up with its sense of helplessness and victimization. The latest response […]
In an update on a less satisfying story from Dangriga, police have released three of five men detained in connection with the weekend murder of Melissa Swazo, but have taken into custody another man, believed to be one of the main suspects in the killing of the eighteen year old pregnant woman. Police also announced […]
The Attorney General’s ministry has announced the official appointment and swearing in of the Court of Appeal. Returning as president is Justice Elliot Mottley, while newcomer Justice Cecil Morrison joins Justices Manuel Sosa and Boyd Carey to round out the four-man panel. Justices Mottley and Morrison were officially sworn in Monday morning during ceremonies in […]
It was another murderous weekend in a nation that appears to be blessed with abundant natural beauty and cursed with a corresponding amount of inhumanity among its inhabitants. The latest outrage took place in the once peaceful town of Dangriga. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the details. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Eighteen-year-old Melissa Swazo was eight […]
In the Orange Walk District a man was stabbed to death during a fight. Twenty-year old Armildo Carillo was killed Friday night, allegedly with a switchblade knife wielded by one Marlon Carias. Carias is in custody pending a charge of murder.
A man has been arrested and charged for Friday’s murder of a shopkeeper in the Belama area of Belize City. Thirty-two year old Earl Bowden was today brought to Magistrate’s Court and then remanded to Hattieville. According to police, he was drinking at the shop of Chi Hua Qu Friday evening when he became loud […]
Around eight-thirty this morning a foetus was discovered in this garbage box on Ferrel’s Lane in Belize City. Following an examination at the K.H.M.H., the foetus, a female believe to be three months from birth, was declared dead. Police are investigating and a post-mortem has been ordered.
Belmopan, a place closer in spirit to a bucolic village than a city, has always been known as a nice quiet community. Well, even though increasing crime laid that myth to rest years ago, it still hurts when we have to report a violent killing in the nation’s capital. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports. Patrick […]
And in news just in, another murder has been reported, this time in the Belama phase two area of Belize City. Fifty-two year old Quzhei Hua proprietor of 168 Shopping Centre was stabbed to death shortly after six this evening. According to police, a lone man entered the shop and demanded money. When she refused, […]
Police are tonight on the lookout for the person or persons responsible for the murder a San Pedro man in the Orange Walk District on Wednesday. The body of thirty-one year old Ernest McPherson was found around seven o’clock last night a short distance away from a red pickup truck on a feeder road in […]
He has been on the run for eight days, but tonight thirty-two year old Jose Coyoc, wanted for murder, is in police custody, thanks to his own father who turned him in to authorities. Police would not discuss the circumstances involving the surrender or where Coyoc was hiding out, only that he will be charged […]
