There is an old maxim that you can steal more money with a sharp pencil than with a loaded gun…and one unlucky Belize City contractor can testify from experience that it’s true. Viewers will recall that in July a brave woman in the Coral Grove neighbourhood, Matea Hoare, wrestled with a gun-toting assailant who tried […]
A man from Patchakan Village is dead and police say it’s murder. On Sunday night, the body of forty-one year old Geraldo Can was found lying on the road with a large cut wound to the neck. Can was pronounced dead on arrival at the Corozal Hospital. Police have detained one man in connection with […]
If you need any proof that the devil is alive and well in Belize, you need not look any further than the latest building site of Habitat for Humanity. We reported on Wednesday that dozens of Belizeans were providing volunteer labour to construct the house of Elsa Augustine on Police Street. This morning workers arrived […]
In crime news, an employee at the Novelo’s Bus Terminal in Benque Viejo has been arrested in connection with the eighty-nine thousand dollars discovered missing from the B.E.L. collection agency on Monday. Eighteen year old Elon Gongora has been charged with the crimes of theft and false accounting. Fifty-eight thousand dollars in cash and another […]
In crime news, police this morning were called to a farm two miles north of Santa Martha Village on the old Northern Highway, where they saw the lifeless body of a man. The corpse, suffering from chop wounds to the head, was later identified as Jose Patt, of San Jose Village. Police are looking for […]
Monday clearly wasn’t a good day for Novelo’s as the B.E.L. collection agency at the company’s terminal in Benque Viejo del Carmen was robbed of fifty-eight thousand dollars in cash and thirty-one thousand in cheques. Police say Emil Novelo, a twenty-two year old supervisor, reported that at the close of business on Friday, the money […]
In other police news, the Ministry of National Security has issued an update on the case of David Zabaneh, the fourteen-year-old killed during an altercation with British Soldiers at Raul’s Rose Garden on May tenth. According to the release, over five hundred witnesses have been interviewed, but much more investigative work remains to be done. […]
We don’t know if a riot that broke out in the wee hours of Sunday morning was spawned by Monday’s rebellion at Tower Hill, but the M.O. is similar. After police tried to close down a club in Roaring Creek when its 2:00 a.m. time limit expired, they were met by a hail of rocks […]
In crime news, a Belize City business was burglarised sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning. Food and Beverage on the corner of New Road and Pickstock Street was broken into and the owner reports that a safe containing thirty thousand dollars in cash and items worth eight thousand, five hundred dollars was removed from […]
Nineteen year old John Franklin, who was shot as he tried to rob Sikaffy’s Store on Albert Street, has been charged for his crime. Franklin is charged with two counts of robbery, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. He remains in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital […]
Belmopan police are on the lookout for two men who held up and robbed Belstate Realtors Limited. The incident took place just before 10:00 this morning on Belize Street, a residential area of the city. According to proprietor Calvin Neal, at first he did not know the men had come to rob him and when […]
Police are tonight questioning twenty-three year old Terrence Bailey of Bocotora Street in Belize City in connection with a blue Mitsubishi Galant found abandoned on Dickenson Street. Police say the car used in the robbery of two thousand dollars from a fourteen thousand dollar payroll on July thirteenth on Coney Drive, has been registered to […]
Nine days after thirty-four year old Winston “Tanga” James was gunned down in the Mahogany Street Extension of Belize City, family and friends will rest a little easier tonight knowing the culprit is behind bars. Eighteen year old Marvin Nunez, also of Mahogany Street Extension, has been arrested and charged with James’ murder.
A Chinese businessman is tonight recuperating and short of four hundred dollars. Chang Ming Te reported to police that about 8:30 Wednesday night, two men entered his hotel in the West Lake area, around mile eight on the Western Highway, requesting to rent a room. Upon showing them the room, Te was robbed at gunpoint […]
Relations between the Police Department and residents of some of Belize City’s most heavily patrolled neighbourhoods continue to deteriorate as officers have once again been accused of reckless and indiscriminate shooting in pursuit of a criminal suspect. The latest incident occurred Monday night sometime after nine…and this morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was out looking […]
While police have not been able to make an arrest in the Friday the thirteenth jacking on Coney Drive, they have recovered the car used in the robbery. The blue Mitsubishi Galant was found abandoned on Dickenson Street in the Yarborough area of Belize City. Police continue to search for the two robbers who wrestled […]
A suspect has been arrested in Friday’s robbery of a Western Union branch in Belize City. Police believe that twenty-two year old Jason Kuylen of Dangriga is one of two men who held up the Western Union Office on Freetown Road at Cambranes Store. Four thousand, four hundred dollars was taken after one of the […]
The search for Jason Kuylen on Friday night led to a conflict between police and a group of youths in a Southside Belize City neighbourhood. When it was all over Kuylen was apprehended but another man was wounded by what he claims was a gunshot fired from a police revolver. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods investigated. […]
In other crime news Belmopan was the scene of an armed robbery on Saturday night. Two men, one of whom brandished a pistol, held up the New Capital Restaurant for a thousand dollars in cash and then escaped. On Friday afternoon Independence Village was the scene of a similar crime, only a knife was the […]
In crime news police in Belize City and Dangriga have made major drug busts. Thirty-seven year old Conrad Lino of Hopkins Village was standing at the corner of St. Vincent Street and Yemeri Road in Dangriga around 11:00 Thursday morning when he was stopped by a police mobile patrol. When the cops opened Lino’s knapsack […]
In crime news the Shell station at the airport cutoff was robbed Wednesday night. Two armed men wearing masks held up two attendants for an undisclosed amount of cash. A security guard tried to follow them but gave up after they fired a couple of shots. In another jacking that afternoon a gas truck making […]
One of Belize’s cross-country buses has become the latest victim in the recent wave of armed robberies. Tuesday night around 8:40 a pair of masked men, one with a gun and the other carrying a knife, jumped out of the bushes near the Hattieville bus stop as a Novelo’s bus en route to Belmopan stopped […]
A Dangriga man has been arrested for sexual offenses against three children. Fifty-one year old James Flores was charged with two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge and one count of indecent assault arising out of an incident on July 12th. A sixty-two year old woman of the Benguche area reported to police that she sent […]
The carnage on Belize City’s streets continued today, as for the second time in two weeks criminals have woken up with the sun to do their violent work. Ann Marie was on the scene of the latest shooting this morning. Twenty-seven children are tonight without a father as thirty-four year old Winston Joseph James, better […]
More counterfeit blue notes surfaced over the weekend, primarily in the Western part of the country. While on patrol in San Ignacio on Saturday, police found a bogus bill in a man’s wallet and arrested him. Another turned up in Belmopan on the same day when a taxi driver took one as payment. A shopkeeper, […]
