Yesterday’s near fatal accident in Belize City is only one more demonstration that Belizean drivers are among the most irresponsible to be found on any road. One reason for this lack of discipline is that for as long as most of us can remember, it has been virtually impossible for a motorist to be stopped […]
Another criminal suspect has taken a bullet at the hands of the cops. According to police, thirty-two year old Alvin McNab of Sittee River was shot in the hand Thursday as he threatened arresting officers with a machete. McNab was a suspect in a burglary and indecent assault in the village. He was treated and […]
He may not be carrying a handgun, but there is no doubt that armed only with a smile and a handshake, the subject of our lead story is dangerous. Jacqueline Woods has more on a conman who has left a trail of bad cheques from Hondo to Sarstoon. G. Michael Reid, Police Press Officer “Be […]
Six days after twenty-six year old Gilbert Williams Miller was stabbed to death, this morning police arrested three young men they believe are responsible for the gruesome crime. Twenty-year-old Keon Villanueva, twenty-one year old Jervis Valencia, and eighteen year old Dario Cruickshank have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Miller was killed […]
It was a Christmas Day battle royal in Orange Walk, and when it was over a police officer had lost two fingers to a sharp machete and a father and son tag team of assailants were lying with gunshot wounds to their legs. While the son, nineteen-year-old Julio Alvarado, had been previously charged with a […]
The murder spree that began in the wee hours of New Year’s morning has yet to abate as the nation recorded 2004’s third homicide over the weekend in Belize City. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spoke to the victim’s family about the circumstances of his death. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Not until the police finish their investigation […]
While police try to bring closure to the killing of Michael Skeet, they have also been working through the backlog of cases that has built up since News Year’s, including two particularly grisly stabbings last week in Belize City. This is the car police believe was used to kidnap twenty-six year old Gilbert Williams Miller. […]
A nervous watchman who fired his shotgun at a noise in the dark has been charged with murder. Fifty-eight year old Domingo Chun killed forty-year-old Guatemalan Joaquin Ax Coc around midnight on New Year’s Eve after the watchman allegedly received no response to his calls for the unseen intruder to identify himself. The incident occurred […]
The year may have ended optimistically with only two murders being recorded in the entire month of December…but 2004 is proving to be something else. Before its first dawn there were already two bodies in the K.H.M.H. morgue, both the victims of stab wounds. This morning I tried to piece together the tragic details. Jacqueline […]
Authorities have not been so fortunate in the city’s other New Year’s homicide. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Family and friends call Gilbert Williams Miller, the quiet one. So when the twenty-six year old’s mutilated body was found early New Year’s Day, on the side of this stretch of Sunray Avenue in Coral Grove, at first it […]
It occurred in the closing minutes of 2003, and while the year’s final killing may not result in a charge of murder, the victim is no less dead. He is forty-year-old Joaquin Ax Coc, a Guatemalan resident of the Stann Creek District. Ax was killed by a nervous watchman, fifty-eight year old Domingo Chun, who […]
Not all the violence inflicted this weekend was done by civilians, as three people were wounded by police gunfire. In Cayo, two men were shot by cops following a drug bust on the Western Highway. Police on Wednesday intercepted a car between miles seventy-one and seventy-two in which they found three sacks chock full of […]
As a politician, community activist, and radio personality she has never shied away from controversy…and tonight former Belize City Councillor Lillette Barkley-Waite is once again in the thick of it–this time for being on the wrong end of a pot bust. Lillette Barkley-Waite, Charged with Drug Trafficking “I am not guilty of drug trafficking, I […]
Four ounces of Belize Breeze is hardly what you’d call a major drug bust, but nearly four pounds of Colombian cocaine is cause for concern. That’s the amount police discovered on Tuesday after they searched a vehicle at the corner of Curassow and Gibnut streets in Belize City. Arrested and charged with drug trafficking were […]
Precise details have been difficult to come by, but sources have confirmed to News 5 that both police and the Roman Catholic Church are investigating an incident in which one priest chopped another priest, leaving him seriously injured. Reports are that sometime last week, Father Santos Sol became embroiled in an argument with a fellow […]
Reports of accidental deaths over the long holiday weekend continue to trickle in to police. The latest fatality involves a Belize City construction worker. Seventeen-year-old Wilmer Alvarado, a Honduran of a Douglas Jones Street address, lost his life when on December twenty-third he fell from the second floor of the new building for the Wesley […]
Also on Christmas Day, a young man from the Cayo District lost his life, this time by drowning. According to friends, twenty-three year old Vincent Price of Santa Elena, along with two other men, jumped into the Mopan River from the hammock bridge near Branch Mouth. Price began to have trouble swimming and apparently went […]
As crimes go, vandalizing a vehicle is not in the same league with murder, rape or robbery…but for one Belize City woman, the heartless acts of an unknown antagonist have driven her to the point of desperation. Olga Jones, Victim “This Christmas somebody just broke my heart. I nice to everybody that come around, I […]
It was a long holiday weekend, and that normally means at least a few grizzly murders, but this extended Christmas was blessedly free of fatal violence. It was not for lack of trying, however. In two unrelated incidents that can only be described as bizarre, one policeman was severely wounded by a machete and a […]
In the second incident involving law enforcement authorities, a police special constable is clinging to life tonight at the K.H.M.H. after he was shot by a fellow member of the security forces. Police report that shortly after noon on Christmas Day special constable Bill Arana was shot in the right leg and chest following an […]
It was not reported on any police press release, but more than a week after a major hold-up and robbery at Jaguar Paw Resort on December twenty-first, News 5 was today informed about the drama via an email from one of the victims. Belmopan police have confirmed that around three-thirty that evening, three armed masked […]
It’s a seldom-discussed benefit of the radical rise in cruise ship arrivals. That is the business of selling cocaine. On Christmas Day, however, that business turned sour for one dealer as a tip-off by security personnel aboard one ship of the Norwegian Caribbean Line led police to bust a crew member as he was about […]
And in a final bit of police news, the cops were out in force today following up a lead in none other than the now infamous immigration scandal. Based on a tip that there were computer records of illegal passport sales, police searched the home of immigration agent Jose Shoman on the Northern Highway. The […]
Another mysterious airplane has been discovered in Belize, this time in a remote corner of the Toledo District. According to police, the burnt out wreckage of a twin engine Cessna was discovered on Tuesday near the settlement of Happy Home along the Sarstoon River. That river forms the boundary between Belize and Guatemala. Sources in […]
Not since those long ago days when Jorge Espat was Minister of National Security, was the public made privy to the vital statistics on crime in Belize. And while for years the conventional wisdom has been that serious crime is running ever more rampant, figures produced today by the Police Department at the request of […]
