Feuds between neighbours are a fact of life everywhere in the world, but it is a rare occurrence when such disputes escalate to the point of gunfire. But that’s what happened Saturday night in the village of Biscayne… And today the victim who took a bullet in the eye has not only survived, but told […]
This afternoon two suspects in one of the city’s recent high profile murder cases were taken over to Magistrate Court and charged. Police say their investigation indicates that Ernest Hinds, better known as “Scurvy”, and Jermaine Pascascio were the two men that entered Leal’s store on Pickstock Street with the intention of robbing the owner, […]
It could have ended in bloodshed, as so many hold-ups do these days. But today quick thinking may have saved a man’s life as a concerned witness and quick response by police resulted in arrests. Around nine-twenty this morning there was a single worker behind the counter at Nancy’s Jewellery Store on Cemetery Road when […]
It’s becoming an all too familiar tragedy: a businessman gunned down during a robbery. But the latest shooting wasn’t at the store; it was at the man’s home. News 5 was in Belmopan today. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Around ten-twenty on Wednesday night the quiet neighbourhood of Sapodilla Street in Belmopan was suddenly awakened by the […]
While police are still looking for suspects in Belmopan, there has been a development in the murder case of Inez Leal, a well-known Belize City businessman. Police told News 5 this evening that they have detained one man and are looking for another: Ernest Hinds. The twenty-year-old Hinds, also known as “Scurvy”, was released from […]
In other police news, three days after he was stabbed by an unidentified man, thirty-six year old Lloyd Anderson died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. On Saturday night Anderson, a taxi driver who operates from the international airport, was at his home in Lord’s Bank Village when a man came looking for him. Reports […]
Police report two incidents of mothers taking their underage daughters into police after discovering they had sexual intercourse. In the first instance, the fifteen-year-old girl is now pregnant, and police are looking for the suspect. In the other case the girl was fourteen, and although her partner was only sixteen himself, he has been charged […]
The flames from a fire on Rivero Street, which destroyed a one-bedroom house on Monday, may be out but there is still a heated exchange going on between the man who lived in it and the man who owns the property. News 5 was on the scene of the fire, and the dispute, this afternoon. […]
Police have made arrests in two murders that stunned the city in the wake of September celebrations. Twenty-year-old Dwight Stanley Francis of North Creek in Belize City has been charged in Saturday morning’s fatal shooting of Dylan Ferguson. Ferguson was killed on Central American Boulevard following an argument at Archie’s Restaurant and club. The second […]
More unlicensed and prohibited firearms continue to be taken off the streets, some as the result of the Police Department’s Cash for Information programme. The latest seizure involves a sawed off shotgun discovered at a house in the Belama area of Belize City. Arrested was twenty-year-old Moises Shoman. The shotgun, with its original full-length barrel, […]
It was a death that the police would describe as typical: an “old beef” finally settled in the early hours of Saturday morning by the business end of a handgun. But for the family of a victim, no death could ever be considered typical. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Anthony Ferguson, Father of the Deceased […]
If the weekend shooting death in Belize City fit a familiar pattern, so too did a fatal shooting today in the Toledo District. According to police reports, a mental patient, Frederick Espinosa, is dead after being shot by a police officer in Punta Negra. It is alleged that Espinosa had attacked the Chairman of the […]
In Corozal, another citizen with alleged mental problems also met an untimely death following a brush with the law…although in this instance the fatality was attributed to natural causes. Martha Lorenzo was arrested on Sunday and charged with wounding after she is said to have bitten a policeman during an altercation. When she was on […]
There is good news to report tonight in the case of the burglary of the Port Loyola preschool. Principal of the school, Gwendolyn Jones, stopped by our studios this afternoon to report that after the story aired on last night’s newscast, she received a telephone call from a friend informing her that a man was […]
While the preschool theft has apparently been solved, police are tonight hot on the trail of the thieves who broke into the Gill Street home of Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber. Around eleven o’clock this morning, Faber was alerted that his house was being burglarised, but by the time he arrived the burglars had already […]
After three weeks of operation, officials of the Cash for Information programme have reported solid success. Twenty-two guns have been seized as a result of phone tips and nineteen persons arrested. Over two thousand, six hundred dollars has been paid to informants who called the 922 hotline. According to C.E.O. in the Ministry of Home […]
Orange Walk police are no closer to solving the weekend murder of eighteen-year-old Russel Tillett. An autopsy performed on Thursday has yielded little in the way of help for investigators. According to Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, the bullet retrieved from Tillett’s body was fragmented beyond recognition. Reid says the police will now turn […]
In an update to another recent murder, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, through its anti-crime fund, is offering a two thousand dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man or men who killed Inez Leal. Leal was shot on Tuesday morning in the course of a hold-up at […]
Crime in Belize comes in many shapes and sizes. Over the weekend a total of five murders rocked the nation…and later in this newscast we’ll focus on a violent assault in Placencia that had its roots in the international drug trade. But we’ll lead tonight’s news with an act that barely registers on the Richter […]
Another child has come forward to report a sexual assault committed by a parent. The man in question from the Toledo District has been arrested and charged with incest. According to what the fifteen-year-old girl told police, her father had been raping her since August thirteenth of this year and threatened to kill her if […]
B>In the drug trade it’s called a wet drop: when a plane, usually from Colombia, discharges several tons of well sealed bundles of cocaine over a pre-arranged area of sea. The bales are then collected by local drug dons and warehoused for future shipment through Mexico and into the States. But not all wet drops […]
It was one of five murders we reported following an unusually lethal weekend, but the killing of a young man in Orange Walk was not the result of robbery, sudden passion or drunken vengeance. In fact, the motive remains shrouded in mystery with the only witness unable or unwilling to provide police with much assistance. […]
He’s been a well-known member of the business community for over forty-five years. Tonight sixty-four year old Innis Leal is dead, the victim of a robbery and murder this morning that has stunned his Belize City neighbourhood. According to family members who were upstairs at the time, Leal was alone in Blankie’s Store at number […]
For the family of a Belize City man murdered on Friday night, the death was a double tragedy. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-year-old Jimmy Williams was a taxi man for only five months when he was robbed of ten dollars and then shot in the back of the neck. […]
Belize City police were not the only cops with their hands full. In Cayo authorities were also busy trying to solve a pair of murders in that district. The first occurred on Saturday in San Ignacio in which thirty-one year old security guard Abelino Choc was shot in the chest. Choc died while undergoing treatment […]
