A man was stabbed during the “Elephant Man” concert in Belize City on Friday night. Police officers on duty at the concert reported that twenty-year-old Leon Soberanis came up to them and said he had been stabbed in the neck. He was admitted to the K.H.M.H. in a serious condition, but police say he has […]
Two people were hospitalised following a bar fight in Corozal on Saturday night. Winston Duheany, forty-six, is alleged to have gotten into an argument with other patrons at the Scorpion Bar and pulled out a firearm, firing a shot which hit a fifteen year old student who was passing outside at the time. Some of […]
He’s been a wanted man for over eight months. But this afternoon the man at the centre of the biggest passport scandal in the history of Belize, fifty-seven year old businessman Jabor “Gabby” Affif, was marched up to Magistrate Court number one. As Affif sat stoically beside his attorneys, Senior Counsel Simeon Samson and Michel […]
Belmopan police are investigating a disturbing report made by a sixteen year old high school student who says she was raped by a gang of nine young men yesterday. Initial reports reaching News 5 are that the second form student was allegedly attacked on a field during a sports day. However, when we contacted the […]
A Belize City shopkeeper has been charged with carnal knowledge and aggravated assault after reports that he had sex with a twelve-year-old girl. Tereso Hernandez, age seventy-five, was picked up after the girl’s mother told police that she became concerned when her daughter started coming home late from school and had money she could not […]
Police are asking for the public’s assistance in apprehending a man who escaped from their custody. Twenty-six year old Michael Arnold of Michelle Estate in Ladyville was to appear in Magistrate Court on Thursday, but police say he somehow managed to get out of the cellblock at the Queen’s Street police station. He was on […]
It didn’t appear on the daily police press briefing, but reports to News 5 this afternoon are that three Belizeans including a police officer was detained in Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala on Thursday because they were intoxicated and acting in a disorderly manner. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid confirmed the detention of the officer […]
On Thursday it was a suspected drug plane that landed in the Orange Walk District, this afternoon, police in Caye Caulker discovered another suspected narcotics vessel, this time a Colombian boat. Responding to information received, officers were dispatched to an area in front of Caye Caulker village where they found the thirty-six to forty-foot boat […]
One visitor arriving by air who will not be paying any departure tax is the pilot of this plane that landed sometime last night near the village of San Lazaro in the Orange Walk District. According to police, the aircraft, believed to be involved in the drug trade, made an emergency landing after being pursued […]
It’s another one of those good news/bad news situations. The bad news is that an increasing number of Belizean police officers are behaving no differently than the criminals they are supposed to bring to justice. The good news is that fewer cops seem to be getting away with it. The latest arrest of a policeman […]
Residents of Belize City woke up this morning to the sight of a corpse lying in the drain…and it wasn’t a case of death by natural causes. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on the nation’s latest murder. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-three year old William Staine was a car wash man who loved to whistle and […]
A tourist on vacation in Belize has cracked an international parental kidnapping case, just by being observant. Barb Quinlan and her fiancé, residents of Minnesota, were visiting San Pedro in early February and spotted fellow American David Clenney and his four-year-old son Jake. It’s not clear what triggered Quinlan’s suspicions about the man and his […]
The nation’s capital is perhaps the most laid back municipality in Belize. That is why an attack on one of the city’s business establishments, PAPI’s Home Centre, and its owners, has stirred up so much anxiety in the Garden City. The attempt on the life of businessman Omar Espejo Jr. over the weekend has shaken […]
It took almost six weeks, but today the police department announced that one of its own has been charged in connection with the death of Leroy Pilgrim on San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. P.C. Burton Caliz has been arrested and charged with manslaughter at the conclusion of a police investigation into the February twelfth incident. The […]
Another of our older persons has been brutally beaten in his home by a thief or thieves. This time it was George Hamilton a resident of Cleghorn Street in Belize City. Despite his injuries, he gathered enough strength to speak to News 5 in the hopes that one of our viewers may be able to […]
A man is in police custody after he tried to rape a woman who valiantly fought him off despite being beaten in the head with a hammer. The bizarre and terrifying incident unfolded at four and a half miles on the Northern Highway this afternoon. According to reports, the man identified as twenty-seven year old […]
He became the prime suspect in the rape and brutal killing of sixteen year old Libertad resident, Elia Gonzalez, after he was linked to a piece of jewellery worn by the victim. Today, police in Corozal charged twenty-six year old Kenrick Williams for the teen’s murder. Gonzalez’s lifeless body was found on Wednesday in a […]
The murder of sixteen-year-old Elia Gonzalez has outraged and saddened people all over Belize. But as we commemorate the fifth anniversary of the death of Jackie Fern Malic, one of five girls murdered during a spate of killings in 1999 and 2000, it becomes clear our children are no safer now than they were then. […]
Police have moved quickly in the wake of the grizzly murder of a teenaged girl in Libertad Village. News 5’s Patrick Jones has just returned from the scene with a story describing the grief on the part of the family mixed with at least a measure of relief that a suspect is in custody. Patrick […]
A brutal murder has taken place in the Corozal District. This evening, all hopes of finding sixteen year old Elia Gonzales alive were dashed as the teenager’s body was found near the municipal water tank on the feeder road that connects Concepcion and Libertad villages. On Tuesday evening, the Gonzales family of Libertad became concerned […]
Convicted murderers Leslie Pipersburg and Patrick Robateau are tonight on death row. At approximately eleven-forty this morning Justice Troadio Gonzalez handed down sentences for the two men declaring that the “brutally committed” and “heinous” murders were incomprehensible and he could find no good reason to temper justice with mercy. Justice Gonzalez then told each man […]
In other crime news, two Orange Walk men have been arrested and charged with drug trafficking, following the discovery of almost eight pounds of cocaine. Twenty-nine year old Manuel Pelayo Junior and twenty-seven year old Alfonso Aviles were taken in by police after a search of Pelayo’s house on Tuesday turned up the prohibited powder. […]
A gas station manager and his security guard are lucky to be alive tonight after escaping a hail of bullets fired at them as they tried to make a Saturday morning bank deposit. News 5 spoke with the men about their harrowing experience. Mario Sho, Security Guard “The driver said watch out, and as he […]
Two Chinese shopkeepers who fired shots at some customers during an incident at their shop on the corner of Vernon and Mayflower Streets on Thursday have been arraigned on multiple charges. Jun Ming Zhao, twenty-two, and Jun Yang Zhao, nineteen, have been charged with “public terror” and discharging a firearm in public. In addition, Jun […]
Seven people have been detained by police following an incident in Belize City in which a group of Chinese shopkeepers got trigger-happy following an argument with customers. The action unfolded around twelve-thirty this afternoon at the corner of Vernon and Mayflower Streets. According to police reports, a pair of customers had a misunderstanding with the […]
