No one is sure exactly why a resident of the St. Martin de Porres area of Belize City was murdered over the weekend, but there is no doubt that the final moments before his death were filled with terror. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the grim story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Authorities say evidence they found […]
A domestic dispute in Dangriga turned deadly over the weekend and tonight two children are without their mother. According to police sources in that southern town, just after seven on Sunday evening, twenty-eight year old Delma Lucas was at her home at First New Site when her former common-law husband and the father of her […]
In other court news, this time on the criminal side, a policeman has been charged in last weekend’s fatal shooting at Caye Caulker. Constable Sheldon Arzu has been charged with manslaughter in last Saturday’s death of Ruben Alarcon, which occurred at the island’s police station. Police say that Arzu acted in self-defence against an armed […]
Tonight Corozal police are investigating a disturbing report of kidnapping, which has left one man dead and another in critical condition. According to taxi driver Robert Rosalez, he was called out to a job in an area called Dominguez layout, located near San Antonio Village in the Corozal District. But Rosalez told the cops when […]
In crime action from the city, cops have confiscated a high-powered weapon and ammunition from a residence. According to reports, on Tuesday police raided a house on Gladden Street and came out with an AK 47, and twenty-five rounds of ammunition along with a handgun and a single round of ammo. The occupants at home […]
And in another update to our coverage of the story involving Elvira Grant Bautista and her high-powered quarrel with her sister and niece, Orange Walk police say they have arrested and charged twenty-four year old Eliza Grant and charged her with harm.
An inmate at Hattieville prison has been stabbed to death by a fellow convict. The killing occurred around two yesterday afternoon and today, in the absence of official details, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods sought out the dead man’s family. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Belisle family is still trying to find out exactly what transpired on […]
In less than two weeks, separate incidents involving police officers have resulted in the shooting deaths of two civilians. In the wake of such jarring blows to the image of police community relations, this afternoon Police Commissioner Carmen Zetina told News 5 that the cops involved will be charged. But Commissioner Zetina says while the […]
And in that fire, which occurred at Biscayne Government School, police have arrested a fifteen year old who has been charged with arson. The suspected motive for the act has not been released to the public.
In Orange Walk, Elvira Grant, the woman who we satirically referred to as Annie Oakley in last night’s newscast, has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of harm for her actions with a nine millimetre pistol on Sunday night. Today, Grant, who prefers to go by her married name of […]
Only a week after a police constable killed a man in Caye Caulker under questionable circumstances, another civilian is dead at the hands of law enforcement authorities. The drama unfolded in the wee hours of Saturday morning when cops arrested a suspect outside a dance at Celina’s club in Ladyville. The crowd reacted negatively and […]
Darrel McDonald was not the only weekend fatality in Ladyville. On Friday night an employee of a village shop became concerned when the store owner did not respond to her repeated calls. Upon entering the building through a window, the reason became clear. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The bloody and lifeless body of twenty-eighth year old […]
Last week it was small resorts. This week it appears that a rural school is the latest target of arson. Patrick Jones reports. Dorla Wade, Principal, Biscayne Government School “We’ll pick up the pieces and we’ll move on.” Patrick Jones, Reporting And that’s just what teachers at Biscayne Government School were doing this morning as […]
There are quarrels between sisters and then there are quarrels between sisters. Last night, a set of feisty siblings from Orange Walk got into it pretty good at a local bar. But according to police, things got scary when, in the middle of the hair pulling and clawing, twenty-four year old Elvira Grant pulled out […]
In crime news, three Belize City men have been detained in connection with allegations of a gang rape. A sixteen-year-old girl has reported to police that on Wednesday morning while waiting for a bus at the corner of Western Avenue and the Western Highway she was overpowered by two men and taken to a house […]
In crime news, two intended gunshot victims in Belize City are tonight counting their lucky stars. In the first incident Shyiana Allen and Tom Jones have been detained after it is alleged that on Tuesday night at the request of Allen, Jones confronted her ex-boyfriend, Carl Lamb, with a handgun. After pointing it at Lamb, […]
In a case where the gunshots did not miss, Alexander Myers, detained for the fatal shooting of Leopold Audinett, has been formally arrested and charged with murder. Audinett was killed on Sunday afternoon on Plues Street in Belize City.
A post mortem conducted on the body of a Toledo girl has concluded that foul play was not involved in her death. According to the examination, Amelia Yatz of Tambran Village, whose decomposed body was discovered in the bush surrounding her village, died of asphyxiation resulting from an epileptic seizure.
On yesterday’s newscast we reported on a fire at an isolated tourist resort; tonight there appears to be a carbon copy. This time the small facility, a sport fishing operation, was located at Punta Negra on the coast of Toledo. Proprietor Bradley Reinhardt told police that all three board and thatch buildings, along with their […]
Once he boarded the U.S. government jet on April twenty-sixth– voluntarily or otherwise–Liston McCord’s fate was sealed. Today, not surprisingly, it was announced that the accused drug runner, along with three Mexican associates, has pleaded guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to a number of U.S. narcotics charges. The information comes via a release from the […]
Tonight, a cop from Dangriga is behind bars, accused of forging government gas vouchers. Police reports are that Constable 730 Lino Herrera falsified some twenty-three fuel orders to obtain more than three hundred and sixty-five gallons of premium fuel. Investigations reveal that Herrera forged the signature of Inspector of Police Mark Steven and another man, […]
Meanwhile, Punta Gorda police and forensic experts spent the day in Tambran Village today conducting investigations surrounding the death of an eight-year-old girl. According to authorities, eight-year-old Amelia Yatz was reported missing on Friday June sixth by her mother Rosa Yatz. The woman says around noon that day she was getting off a bus in […]
A resident of Caye Caulker is dead tonight, and as a result police community relations, never too healthy in the best of times, are in need of life support. Reports from La Isla Carinosa are that on Saturday evening, a uniformed officer on duty at the village station, shot and killed a resident. The cop […]
Over the weekend the nation recorded its twenty-second murder for the year when on Sunday afternoon multiple gunshots rang out in the southside of Belize City. When the noise of exploding gunpowder subsided, it was quickly replaced by the screams of family members tending to the victim who lay bleeding on the sidewalk. As News […]
Tonight police have arrested three men for the vicious beating of an elderly man and his grandson. Twenty-four year old Eldon Leslie, twenty-two year old Dennis Nunez and twenty-one year old Albert Castro, all from Dangriga, have all been charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of dangerous harm, one count of aggravated […]
