Only last week I sat in this same spot speculating on the causes of what seemed to be an unusually long period of calm, in which the murder rate had plummeted and the level of national violence had subsided to near manageable levels. Obviously I spoke too soon, as this weekend saw two particularly outrageous […]
On Tuesday police are expected to charge a suspect in connection with the murder of twenty-four year old Alfonso Vernon. Around 10:30 on Saturday morning, Vernon was on North Creek in Belize City when an assailant riddled his body with a total of eleven gunshots. Initial reports say it was a drive-by shooting, however, Maureen […]
Police are looking for a suspect in a Belize City robbery. Around four on Thursday afternoon four men accosted Pepsi salesman Mario Vargas as he was making a delivery at the corner of Pine and Vernon Streets. After the group relieved Vargas of three hundred and fifty-five dollars at gunpoint they fired a shot for […]
As the demand for U.S. dollars continues to outrun supply, there is still a fair amount of informal money changing going on countrywide…and sometimes a U.S. dollar deal goes sour. That’s what happened in San Ignacio as according to police, businessman Hilberto Pulido reported that in January and February he purchased three U.S. cheques totalling […]
In police news, a suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with Wednesday’s seizure of illegal weapons in Belize City. Forty-eight year old Leeford Karl Reneau of an East Canal address has been charged with one count of possession of an unlicensed firearm, two counts of prohibited ammunition, three counts of unlicensed ammunition and […]
The case of a watchman missing from an island in the Turneffe atoll has grown more complicated. Police have supplied a picture of Gerald Foreman, who they now say left Belize City, not on March fourth, but January fourth. According to authorities, Foreman made it out to the caye but later disappeared from his post, […]
A Belize City family is anxious tonight to hear news of their loved one, missing now for just over a week. According to Marjorie Foreman, her husband, thirty-eight year old Gerald Foreman, told her he was heading out to the Turneffe Islands on Tuesday, March fourth to take on a job as a watchman. But […]
The counting of ballots was not the only drama unfolding in Belize Wednesday night. While the rest of us cheered for our favourites, one Belize City resident had his life cut short by a bullet. Jacqueline Woods reports. Constance Mae Flowers, Mother “Right now I am very, very upset. My child wasn’t an angel, he […]
The case appears to have been placed in the slow lane ever since fourteen-year-old David Zabaneh was killed by a gang of Ghurkhas in May of 2001. Today, Britain’s Daily Mirror tells us that after nearly two years of supposedly intense investigation the six soldiers accused of murder will be set free for lack of […]
Two separate Belize City shootings late this morning have left two men hospitalised at the K.H.M.H. The first incident occurred just after 10:00. According to police, one Eldon Roland was involved in a misunderstanding with two unidentified men when one of them pulled out a gun and shot Roland in his groin. So far police […]
Police are tonight asking the public to help solve a mystery. That is the identity of a corpse found on Sunday night near mile thirty-eight on the Northern Highway. The badly decomposed body is that of a man approximately five foot, three inches tall with medium build and wearing black pants and a black shirt. […]
A multimillion-dollar crop of marijuana will never make it to market as authorities on Thursday put some major weed growers out of business. The bust occurred in the Orange Walk District thirteen miles southwest of San Felipe Village on land owned by the environmental group Programme for Belize. A team of police, B.D.F. soldiers and […]
Eight months after Mark Dougal was beaten and killed, the police have made another arrest in the murder. Authorities have detained thirty-two year old Russell Garoy of a Banak Street address and charged him with murder and perjury. Garoy is the second person to be charged with the crime. On August twentieth, 2002, Derrick Bain […]
Police were up early this morning in the Stann Creek Valley, not picking oranges, but investigating a dead body found in an orchard. The corpse of an unidentified man was discovered around five a.m. at a farm off the Melinda Road. The body, believed to be that of a Hispanic male, was in the early […]
A Dangriga man has died, presumably of drowning. The body of thirty-five year old Robert Matthew Leslie of an Isla Road address was discovered Monday evening floating in the river near that town’s main bridge. Leslie was taken to the Southern Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Police say that there were […]
Another sudden death, this time in Corozal, is being classified by police as a tragic accident. Forty-four year old Roberto Correa of San Roman Village died early this morning from a shotgun blast to his chest. According to police, Correa, a truck driver, arrived home from his farm around five-thirty this morning. His family heard […]
It was looking like another unusually quiet weekend in Belize City, but in the wee hours of this morning the deadly thrust of a knife added one more digit to the nation’s murder tally…and left a grieving family to ask why. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Andrea Arnold, Girlfriend of the Deceased “I tell Tonios […]
Earlier in this newscast we heard the testimony of a hospitalised driver who gave his version of a fatal traffic accident. Now we return to the K.H.M.H. to hear from another patient, a stabbing victim who nearly lost her life on Wednesday. As in the first case, her version of events does not match that […]
A B.D.F. soldier is in police custody tonight, accused of stabbing his common law wife. Police say that on Wednesday, just after noon, twenty-nine year old Marvin Card became embroiled in an argument with eighteen-year-old Janiel Castillo at the house they share on Police Street in Belize City. Castillo allegedly reached for an ice pick […]
In more police news another Chinese owned business has been knocked off by robbers. Around four-thirty on Wednesday afternoon thirty-one year old Fang Fe Yong was inside his establishment “Wicked Night Club” on New Road, when a prospective patron approached him and shoved a handgun in his stomach. Fang handed over four hundred and fifty […]
Police have charged a Dangriga man with the rape of his ex-girlfriend. The charge against twenty-nine year old Victor Enriquez follows a report by the woman that while she was walking on Saint Vincent Street around three o’clock on Tuesday afternoon Enriquez accosted her. He then allegedly used a gun to force her to his […]
Meanwhile, another robbery has left an elderly man clinging to life. Reports are that the victim, seventy-nine year old Francisco Gutierrez, was manning his bar on Friday night in Cattle Landing, Toledo when a thief or thieves broke in, viciously beat him up, stole money and merchandise, then left him there to die. Gutierrez was […]
An armed robbery in Belize City over the weekend has netted one thief a twenty thousand dollar booty. According to police, around six Saturday evening, a masked gunman walked into the offices of the Western Union at the corner of Mahogany Street and Central American Boulevard and demanded money. Employees handed over approximately twenty thousand, […]
Tonight, Orange Walk police are looking for a man who stands accused of stealing money from his employer. He has been identified as Jorge Tolango, a resident of Trial Farm. According to Gasper Vega, owner of Vega’s Imports in Orange Walk Town, several of his clients paid Tolango as much as twelve thousand dollars…but the […]
Police are looking for a man in connection with the rape of a Belize City woman. The victim, who lives on Antelope Street, told police that sometime around 9:30 on Thursday night, she responded to a knock at her door. The woman alleges that when she opened it to see who was there, a man […]
