Another Chinese owned shop has been robbed, despite the presence of a security guard. According to police reports, two Hispanic men entered the establishment of forty-six year old Yun Lan Tang on Vasquez Avenue on Saturday night. One of the men pulled out a knife and somehow managed to relieve the guard of his pump […]
A daring break-in at a Belmopan bank early this morning has netted one thief only chump change. According to police, at approximately 4:00 a.m. a man threw something against one of the windows of the Belize Bank branch, breaking the glass. The man entered the building and walked right into the eye of the bank’s […]
Two Chinese women were beaten and robbed this morning in what has become an all too familiar scenario in the city. The latest incident took place around 11:45 at Shung Loong, a grocery shop at eighty-seven Vernon Street. The women, twenty-two year old Su Nong Chen and fifty-five year old Tang Gin Lan, told police […]
Tonight a resident of the Hattieville Prison lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed by a fellow inmate. Police say they were told that around 1:15 this afternoon, prisoner Alfred Billary was on the compound between maximum and medium security talking to a friend when one Jeffrey Flowers simply walked up […]
Bloodstains still mark the spot where one of two young men fell after they were shot this afternoon. According to police, the youths, identified as twenty-two year old Trevor Smith and nineteen year old Eugene Sterling, were standing in front of Julie’s store on Sarstoon Street when they were shot by two gunmen on bicycles. […]
A midday murder/suicide in Cotton Tree Village has left two dead and two others fighting for their lives. According to police, just before noon today, forty-eight year old Orlando Figueroa and his fourteen year old daughter Daisy, had just gotten off a bus near this house when they were approached by thirty-nine year Anthony Quiroz. […]
A community leader in Pomona Village has been stabbed to death. Details are sketchy, but around three Sunday morning following a village social event, thirty-nine year old Alvin Cain, a former village chairman, was involved in a dispute with Gilbert Requena, a twenty-nine year old security guard of Silk grass Village. According to police, Requena […]
A young Chinese woman and her cousin were severely beaten by a man who broke into their home early Sunday morning. The incident took place at number sixteen Orange Street in Belize City. Sixteen-year-old Seng Yen and her cousin, twenty-eight year old Zhu Juan Chen were sleeping downstairs in the house. Seng told police she […]
The often rocky relationship between police and the public has once more been put to the test. This morning in Belize City a police officer pursuing a suspect shot him in the leg after the accused felon had allegedly threatened him. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods filed this report from the scene. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Residents […]
We are not sure if the timing was intentional, but three Belize City females chose to celebrate Women’s Week by attempting to jack a grocery shop. Unfortunately, their aggressive feminism may earn them a stint in the women’s section of Hattieville. Twenty-three year old Rosalie Flowers, Sandra McKenzie, also twenty-three, and seventeen-year-old Nioka Savery have […]
With crime emerging as the number one concern of Belizean citizens, there is no shortage of advice on how to improve the situation. Unfortunately, most of that advice is based on little more than gut feeling and raw emotion. For the last two weeks, a team of criminal justice professionals from Northern Michigan University has […]
Reports of shooting incidents are about as common as “dalla beer” at a political convention, but when you hear of a man being shot while inside a police station, it tends to grab your attention. And what makes this story even more compelling is that the shooter is none other than a police officer. Twenty-year-old […]
Meanwhile, Belmopan police are investigating another shooting incident that took place late Friday night in Roaring Creek. Reports are that just before midnight, twenty-nine year old Roberto Vanegas got into an argument with a security guard at Chun’s Bar in the village and was shot during the scuffle. Police have since detained the security guard, […]
For the second time in as many weeks, a thief or thieves have robbed downtown supermarket Romac’s. According to a spokesman for the store, sometime during Thursday night’s rainstorm, persons intent on robbery attempted to get into the building by breaking a lock on the back door. But it appears the lock was doing its […]
Meanwhile, a Belmopan businessman has also reported being robbed, but this time at gunpoint. According to police, around 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, twenty-seven year Rui Qui Li was standing in front of his shop when a masked man dressed in full black and brandishing a nine millimetre handgun walked up to him and forced him […]
A man from the Cayo District is tonight recovering after being shot early this morning. According to police reports, around 1:00 a.m., twenty-three year old Darwin Soberanis of San Juan Layout off the Bullet Tree Road, was walking home when two men jumped out of the bushes and came towards him demanding money. Soberanis says […]
Tonight, yet another Belize City family is in mourning after their teenage son was brutally murdered in the early morning hours of Sunday. The motive of the crime is still unknown but the bullet-riddled buildings are evidence to the fact that the intent of the gunmen was clearly murder. Earlier today, News Five’s Ann-Marie Williams […]
A Belize City man is tonight charged with burglary after an early morning break-in on Friday. According to police, between 1:00 and 2:30 a.m., hardware store Salvador W. Habet on Regent Street West was broken into and an assorted list of items were stolen. Police have since arrested forty-one year old Gilbert Jones of Zacaranda […]
Two Belize City teenagers are tonight recovering from gunshot wounds sustained while playing basketball this morning. According to police, shortly before midday eighteen-year-old Lloyd Diego and nineteen-year-old Dennis Myvette were running ball at the court at corner of Vernon and Sittee Streets when a gunman riding by on a bicycle shot at them. Diego was […]
Two Belize City men are tonight in police custody after they went all the way out to Caye Caulker to commit a crime. According to officers from the island, the men arrived by boat on Thursday and around 8:30 that night attacked a tourist walking on the beach. Fifty-three year old Pamela Gilford told authorities […]
This morning, a Belize City man suspected of murder was formally arraigned in Magistrate’s Court. Twenty-four year old Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers appeared in court today and was remanded to custody. Flowers is believed to be the man who went into the Mahogany Street area on Wednesday and fatally shot thirty-six year old William Carl […]
While one man today arrived at the end of his judicial journey, another was just embarking on his. Twenty-four year old Kenneth “Big Tom” Flowers, who police say has been identified as the person who fatally shot thirty-six year old William Carl Osmond at the corner of Mopan and Mahogany Streets, was today formally charged […]
As if to add a note of drama to this morning’s activities in Battlefield Park, word came from the rostrum of a fatal shooting which had just occurred on Mahogany Street. Police are not speculating publicly on why twenty-six year old William Mark Osmond was shot and killed, but revenge is widely believed to be […]
A part of the crime problem articulated by a number of speakers at this morning’s rally, was that there seems to be two standards of justice in Belize: one if you’re poor and quite another if you’re not. That thesis was strongly supported today by statements from the Customs Department. A release yesterday from the […]
As a man whose name is synonymous with the mean streets of the Belize City ghetto, you would think that Leroy Young, better known as Grandmaster, would speak with a voice of compassion for those around him who happen to be sitting on death row. Perhaps, but this morning at Battlefield Park, the Grandmaster sounded […]
