A Belizean owned hotel and a Chinese shop were both jacked of over thirteen hundred dollars during a pair of robberies last night in Belize City. Police say Fiona Harris, thirty-eight, a receptionist at the Belcove Hotel on Regent Street West, reported that while in the office at around 8:45, a dark complexioned man entered […]
A tense situation on Zericote Street ended peacefully last night as an angry man with a gun finally surrendered to police. Emerson Guild was embroiled in a dispute over a piece of land with one Stanley Francis. The two had a confrontation at Francis’s residence on Queen Charlotte Street that ended with Guild firing two […]
An arrest has been made in connection with a shooting incident that left one Belize City woman in the hospital. Friday night, Sharlette Augustus was injured during a drive by shooting while she was standing at the corner of King Street and West Canal. Twenty-one year old Alger Gordon has been identified by an eyewitness […]
Last night police stopped a van they thought looked suspicious and hit the jackpot. Not only was the vehicle stolen, but its occupants also had it full of loot from a burglary. Reggie Patnet, a seventeen year old laborer of Ladyville, sixteen year old Ernie Miranda and twenty-one year old Richard Ferguson of Belize City […]
In crime news a young woman was shot on Friday night in the course of a drive by shooting. Sherlette Augustus, her boyfriend and another friend were standing at the corner of King Street and West Canal when gunmen fired on them from a passing vehicle. Augustus was struck by a bullet to the abdomen […]
On Tuesday a farm watchman was terrorized and shot in the course of the robbery of a farm off the Northern Highway. Today we learn that on Wednesday a similar incident occurred, this time near the Western Highway in Cayo. Forty-six year old Jesus Alas told police that after six in the evening two men […]
Two men have been arrested in connection with the March twenty-seventh shooting and robbing at a farm in Gardenia Village. Seventeen year old Kevin Dawson, a laborer of Gardenia and Erlin White, a twenty-eight year old mason of Sandhill, have both been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm and […]
A man was found dead on the banks of the Mopan River in Benque Viejo on Wednesday morning. Twenty-four year old Lucio Caretella and twenty-two year old Joel Cunil, both laborers of Esperanza Village, ventured out to the Guatemalan side of the border and upon returning, Cunil says they were held up by men with […]
The first time he was arrested, the charges were dropped on a technicality. But this time the police believe that Randolph Cadle have to answer for the murder of William Garcia. On September eleventh 1999, Garcia was killed after an argument over a stolen bicycle. Arrested for the murder were Cadle and his brother Deon. […]
It appears that farming is not the only illegal activity being undertaken by Guatemalans crossing into Toledo. Recent discoveries by the Belize Defence Force indicate that several illicit airstrips on the Belize side of the Sarstoon River have been used by Guatemalan nationals to facilitate drug transshipments. On the evening of March twenty-first a B.D.F. […]
Two men are in custody tonight, believed to be part of a trio of thugs who robbed a farm and shot one of its workers. On Tuesday afternoon Jermaine Rhaburn was at his job on the Kim Chee Farm in Gardenia Village when three men tied him up and robbed the farm house. Apparently not […]
When a Port Loyola resident heard a loud noise outside his home around four-thirty this morning it may not have been gunshots… but the disaster was no less disturbing. Clifford White told News 5 that while he slept, his 1991 Dodge Caravan was fire bombed in his yard off Caesar Ridge Road. Clifford White “Apparently […]
There is a school of thought in certain circles that says all the gang type violence in Belize City really isn’t so tragic because it’s just criminals killing each other, a type of extreme population control for the underclass. But even if one accepts this twisted logic, events on Monday night demonstrate that flying bullets […]
Information is sketchy, but it appears that a Guatemalan resident of Jalacte Village in Toledo has been murdered after crossing the border into Guatemala. Fifty-six year old Vicente Ramirez, whose home was just inside Belizean territory, was found dead on Sunday several hundred yards across the frontier. The farmer, who died of machete wounds, had […]
They have come under increasing pressure for incompetence, brutality and corruption, but today the Police Department recovered at least a few square centimeters of lost public relations ground. News 5’s Jose Sanchez reports from Belmopan. Jose Sanchez “For the past few months police were unable to crack the two cases of stolen ammunition and high […]
Another taxi driver has been found shot to death. This time it’s thirty-five year old Nigerian, Tayo David Anjorin of Campus Avenue in Belize City. Police say on Thursday Anjorin’s common-law wife Margaret Miller reported that the day before Anjorin left their home around six-fifteen a.m. in his blue Toyota Corolla taxi and had not […]
A robbery attempt Thursday night in the heart of downtown Belize City resulted in a big surprise for one of the robbers. A group of masked gunmen entered Lavish store on the corner of Albert and Church Street shortly after seven. When they left, it was without one member of the gang. Girish Tekchandani, Store […]
Lavish was not the only Belize City business that was robbed on Thursday. About a quarter after six the Shell One-Stop Gas Station at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard was raided by at least twenty young men coming from the direction of Lord’s Ridge Cemetery. Leticia Ford, the gas station’s manager, […]
The incidents of ineptitude have been spread over several administrations. There was the truckload of Guatemalan murderers who drove right past Belmopan on their easy ride to freedom; the heartbreaking failure to crack the case of a serial child killer in Belize City; and numerous well documented cases of police brutality leading in at least […]
A Belize City man has been charged with last weekend’s shooting death in Yabra. Twenty-two year old Guyanese national Hillaire Sears has been remanded to Hattieville for the murder of Rodwell Neal on Sunday morning. It is alleged that Sears shot Neal after Neal had beaten Sear’s girlfriend Cherrymae Howard. Howard has told Channel 5 […]
Twenty-nine year old Andrew Hernandez of Boots Crescent was this morning arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on four counts of keeping a prohibited firearm and unlicensed ammunition. Police say while they were on routine patrol Tuesday afternoon on Peter Seco Street, they saw Hernandez suspiciously run away from their vehicle. They then chased him and saw […]
On last night’s newscast she was described by her own relatives as nothing less than a liar, schemer and perhaps even a killer. But today, Cherrymae Howard, the woman whose court testimony sent her cousin to jail for twenty years and allegedly arranged to have another cousin killed after he beat her, told Channel 5 […]
In the wake of the overloaded pickup tragedy News 5 sought to find out exactly what the law is regarding the carrying of passengers in the back of a truck. As often happens when dealing with officialdom we got something of a runaround. No one in either the police or traffic department would comment on […]
A resident of San Joaquin in the Corozal district was shot at his home on Sunday night. Around eight-thirty Manolo Magana went downstairs of the house to tie the family dog when he was shot twice by assailants and at least one of the bullets caught him in the stomach. Magana, a biology teacher at […]
It could be used as a case study in the culture of violence, a way of life that is as familiar to some Belizeans as it is totally alien to others. But however commonplace tragedy has become in some parts of Belize, death is invariably greeted by grief. Ann-Marie Williams reports on how things got […]
