A shooting incident in King’s Park on Friday night has residents on edge and police community relations tense. Police reports are that between seven and eight that night, a unit posted at the residence of Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord, located on St. Thomas Street, spotted two men on bicycles in the vicinity of the house. […]
In more disturbing crime news, a senior police official has been arrested and charged with wounding and harm. Superintendent Ewart Itza, the officer in charge of the Southern Formation is at home tonight on interdiction after two separate reports filed by residents in Dangriga. The “victims”, identified as Lincoln Cardinez and Timothy Cano, both allege […]
The Police Department’s reputation is going to take another serious hit this week as sources have confirmed that as early as tomorrow another police officer will be charged in connection with the death of a young man in mid-June of this year. While the name of the officer is being withheld until charges are officially […]
In police news, an investigation has been launched into the murder of a Dangriga man. Around one this morning thirty-one year old Eugene Hernandez and a female friend were walking on the Hummingbird Highway when at mile twenty-one a man jumped out of the bushes and attacked him, stabbing him in the neck. By the […]
A Zeta water truck was held up on Wednesday afternoon in Belize City. Driver, Mauricio Sanabria, told police he and his co-worker had just approached the intersection of Seashore Drive and Keating Crescent when two men came up to the truck. One of the men pointed a handgun at Sanabria and ordered him to get […]
Today three men were charged in connection with an attack on Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. But Gerome Goff, Nelson Karim Bowen and Steve James did not go quietly and loudly proclaimed their innocence as they were led up the stairs, and while in the holding cell of the court. They were charged with attempted murder, […]
Police have rearrested two men from Dangriga following the death this week of eighty-eight year old Solomon Augustus Pike at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Pike and his twelve-year-old grandson were sleeping in their home on June second when two men broke in and began to savagely attack them with machetes. Police have now picked […]
On Wednesday, Tricia Indira Mak was charged in connection with the theft of money from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Today, her sister, Taneemah Rhamdas, spoke out in her defence saying that the only thing her sister is guilty of is not heeding the advice of her parents. According to Rhamdas, the problem started last […]
Last September the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital discovered that over two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars had been stolen over a one-month period. Today, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions brought charges against two women they believe were directly involved in the crime. Sources tell News 5 that Cheryl Staines and Indira Mak […]
It was considered one of the strongest financial institutions in the country, but a scandal in 2001 rocked the foundation of the Mount Carmel Credit Union in Benque Viejo del Carmen and almost caused the institution to close its doors. Two years later, Credit Union officials believe they are ready to bring the alleged embezzlers […]
In June, an eighty-eight year old man and his teenaged grandson were brutally attacked in their home in Dangriga. It was a shocking crime, but many of us were touched by the courage and love between the two victims as they struggle to recover. But yesterday one of them lost the battle to survive. Jacqueline […]
Police have detained two suspects and a vehicle matching the description given by Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord, following an attempt on his life over the weekend. However, Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid told News 5 it might be difficult to press charges against the men because there are no eyewitnesses. The Chief Magistrate reported […]
Initial reports swirling around Belize City were that Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord had been murdered. But while Magistrate Lord is alive and well tonight, there was an attempt on his life on Saturday night…and today police were still looking for the suspect or suspects. Lord, who declined an on camera interview, told News 5 that […]
It is not yet clear if the incidents are related, but there were two shootings on Kraal Road and another on Mahogany Street in Belize City on Saturday night. Two men, Godfrey Rowland and Albert Chapparo, wound up in the hospital after a man on a bicycle rode by and shot at them while they […]
Police and prison officials remain tight-lipped about Wednesday’s fatal shooting of notorious inmate Mark “T-Dog” Stuart at Hattieville prison. According to a police press release, a post-mortem conducted yesterday concluded that Stuart died of internal bleeding, the result of liver damage caused by multiple gunshot wounds. Sources close to the case tell News 5 that […]
It may be a case of publicity prompting people to come forward…but two more children have reported to police that they had been raped by their father. The latest case involves nine and thirteen year old sisters in the Stann Creek District who claim they were sexually assaulted on the first of May of this […]
Police and prison officials remain tight-lipped about Wednesday’s fatal shooting of notorious inmate Mark “T-Dog” Stuart at Hattieville prison. According to a police press release, a post-mortem conducted yesterday concluded that Stuart died of internal bleeding, the result of liver damage caused by multiple gunshot wounds. Sources close to the case tell News 5 that […]
It may be a case of publicity prompting people to come forward…but two more children have reported to police that they had been raped by their father. The latest case involves nine and thirteen year old sisters in the Stann Creek District who claim they were sexually assaulted on the first of May of this […]
One month after he was remanded for the murder of Dean Belisle, twenty-eight year old Mark “T Dog” Stuart is dead, killed by a prison officer at the Hattieville Correctional Facility. Information is sketchy at this time, but what we do know is that the shooting occurred sometime between twelve and one this afternoon. According […]
While the marksmanship of the prison guard may have been deadly accurate, in the Stann Creek District the discharge of a police officer’s weapon had a less final result. A pre-dawn search about eight miles north of Trio Village, brought police officers face to face with twenty-eight year old Antonio Lopez, who is accused of […]
It is believed to be more common than most Belizeans would care to admit, but the crime of incest is seldom reported to authorities. Tonight, however, police are citing two separate incidents, both occurring on Tuesday involving nine year old girls. In Belmopan the victim, accompanied by her mother, told police that during 2002 her […]
The old adage is that no news is good news, but for the Perera family, each passing day without word from Astrid, only deepens their agony. Perera went missing exactly one month ago today and the family’s efforts to locate the thirty-eight year old business executive are intensifying. An advertisement in today’s Amandala announces a […]
Prison officials say they have still not been able to capture inmate Roberto Yatxol, who escaped in late June while on a work programme near Flower’s Bank in the Belize District. Yatxol, who was serving a twenty-five year to life sentence for manslaughter, is believed to still be hiding out in the nearby village of […]
When word that Belize’s Financial Intelligence Unit was investigating a possible money laundering aspect to last year’s immigration and passport scandal, it had the whiff of a fishing expedition, a U.S. instigated ploy to bring some heat on alleged passport fixers Gabby Affif and Hassan Al Sayed. Perhaps, but today News 5 has learned that […]
A Belize City businesswoman is over five thousand dollars poorer tonight, and she’s pointing the finger at three of her customers. Zhen Yan Li told police that on Friday afternoon three men entered her shop on Faber’s Road Extension and ordered a five gallon bottle of water. When she opened the burglar bar door to […]
