Belize’s New Year’s celebrations managed to conclude without any loss of life, but the revelry was not without a few close calls. In Orange Walk Town, an all night drinking session at a local hotel ended New Year’s morning with a fight between two bar patrons. Twenty-eight year old Rene Juarez of Chan Pine Ridge […]
It may have lacked the tension of a bar fight or the drama of a street brawl, but the crime committed against the staff and students of a Belize City pre-school over the holiday may be more demoralising. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It’s not the first time that The Catholic Diocesan Child Development Centre has been […]
Orange Walk police have their hands full tonight as they investigate the double murder of two men Saturday morning in a cane field. The bodies of forty-seven year old Ismael Tillett, a cane loader and sixty-one year old cane farmer Aurelio Ku were found in a field near the village of Trinidad. The victims’ families […]
While police look for leads in this latest double murder, a previous homicide remains very much on their minds. It has been a week since Corporal Fernando Rosado was shot to death, but the prime suspect, Kirk “Psycho” Thompson, remains at large. Police believe that Thompson is still in the country, perhaps even the city, […]
There was a time earlier this year when notorious reputed gang leaders Clay Monsanto and Brian Brown agreed to bury the hatchet and publicly renounced crime and violence, and advise their younger followers to do the same. The ensuing months have not been kind to the two men however, as Monsanto has been repeatedly detained […]
If you drive between Belize City and points west at any hour close to mealtime, the restaurant called Cheers is an attraction that’s hard to pass up. Unfortunately, this weekend Cheers also proved irresistible to a pair or armed robbers. Shortly after nine on Friday night after the last customer had left, two gunmen held […]
Tonight police are looking for three men who gang-raped a woman from Santa Elena on Thursday. According to reports, the twenty-two year old was in Ontario Village in the Cayo District around 9:30 p.m. trying to hitchhike a ride home. The woman says two Creole men and a Hispanic man driving an Isuzu trooper stopped […]
Also in crime news from the west, a Chinese businesswoman has been robbed at gunpoint by two men. According to police reports, thirty year old Zhong Cai Mei of Santa Elena Town was in her store on the Western Highway around 9:30 p.m. when two men walked in and one of them pointed a handgun […]
Over the course of this year, we’ve reported our fair share of robberies, but this next story still manages to stand out. One local businessman has been robbed of over one million Belize dollars…at pen point. Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today, Belize businessman Cornelius Dueck, owner of General Automotive Limited on Central American […]
In other crime news, police suspect foul play after a man was found dead on the Northern Highway. According to police reports, motorists informed Corozal officers that the lifeless body of a male Hispanic person was lying on the side of road between miles seventy-four and seventy-five. Police observed a large cut wound to the […]
Police are tonight looking for one Cessario Nicholson in connection with a Christmas day chopping incident. Reports are that around 6:00 p.m., twenty-one year old Dorian Cano, a butcher from Corozal, was in Xaibe village when he got into a fight with a group of men. In the scuffle that ensued someone pulled out a […]
Today, forensic photographer Police Corporal Fernando Rosado was laid to rest in San Ignacio with full honours. Rosado was shot and killed on Saturday at a home in the Sarstoon area of Belize City during a police operation meant to detain twenty-nine year old Kirk “Psycho” Thompson. Thompson, wanted for questioning in the murder of […]
A police officer is dead tonight after he was gunned down in Belize City late Saturday night. The suspects are still on the loose, but the police have made the case a top priority. News 5’s Janelle Chanona and Brent Toombs were at the scene today and file this report. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Tonight police […]
Two Belize City sisters are in hospital tonight after being attacked by armed assailants on Sunday night. According to police, twenty-nine year old Alice Mak, her sister Shelley and their brother, Brian were just about to close A-Mak store on Central American Boulevard around 9:00 p.m. when four men forced their way into the shop. […]
Sandhill police are tonight investigating the murder of a still unidentified man earlier today. According to reports, the man was drinking with several others at a bar in the village when a misunderstanding resulted in the victim being chopped in his face. He was later found dead in a pool of his blood. His body […]
It seems that the new policy of having Belize and Guatemalan authorities work together near the border is already in effect. Police reports indicate that national security personnel from both countries conducted an anti-drug operation near the San Pedro River in the Toledo district around 5:30 Wednesday evening. Officers found an illegal airstrip with a […]
A woman is in police custody tonight for attacking her boyfriend after she found him with another lover. According to police, fifty-one year old Terry Copeland and Lois Garbutt lived in a house together on Caye Chapel, but on Wednesday evening Garbutt arrived home only to find Copeland with another woman. The couple got into […]
Two shopkeepers were the victims of noontime robberies on Wednesday in the north and west respectively. According to police, a thief or thieves broke into Lindsay’s Discount hardware in Esperanza while the store was closed for lunch. Owner Marthita Lindsay has verified that money was stolen from the cash register. Same hour, different district, other […]
After a day of silence, the owners of Black Rock Lodge have issued a statement to the press concerning the murder of two employees and rape of a guest on Monday night. According to a release put out by Black Rock’s proprietor, Caesar Sherard, the killings were the result of an unresolved argument between the […]
A hotel manager and bartender are dead tonight as the result of a vicious armed attack in the Cayo District. Fifty year old John Luce, the manager of Black Rock Lodge and forty-one year old Mario Cocom, the bartender, were murdered around ten-thirty Monday night at the eco-tourism lodge on the Macal River. News 5’s […]
A security guard in Belize City has been shot by an assailant near mile one and a half on the Western Highway. Thirty-six year old Alfredo Alpuche, a Triple A guard posted at Leslie’s Imports, told police that on Monday night a man rode up to him on a bicycle, asked to see the permit […]
One man who didn’t get away is thirty year old David Espinosa of San Pedro Town. Police picked him up on Monday and charged him in the weekend burglary of the National Assembly building in Belmopan. Sometime between Friday night and Monday morning office security was breached, but only one hundred and five dollars worth […]
In September, a gang of men intent on inflicting street justice on a patient, stormed through the doors of the K.H.M.H. armed with machetes and created quite a stir before they were detained. Three months later, history repeats itself. Police say two masked men armed with a handgun and a sawed off shotgun slipped past […]
A Corozal businessman is in the hospital tonight after he was shot during a robbery attempt over the weekend. According to police reports, forty-two year old Kim Longsworth of Belmont Butane Gas in Santa Rita, Corozal was at the company compound on Sunday around 10:00 a.m. when a minivan carrying three men arrived at the […]
A Belize City businessman was also robbed over the weekend. According to police reports, Wei Chen of Vernon Street was going into his house just before 2:00 a.m. on Saturday morning when four masked men approached him. One of the men, armed with a sawed off shotgun stole his keys and forced Chen into the […]
