While much of Belize City is holding its breath in fear of a renewed round of gang violence, the more common variety of street crime is making a comeback. On Wednesday muggers did not discriminate between tourists and locals in their choice of victims. Around 4:00 in the afternoon a taxi driver, Kirk Belisle, picked […]
Police have charged Twenty-one year-old Edward “Praca” Westby and twenty-four year-old Jason Williams, both of Supal Street of Belize City in connection with the brutal double murder of two children. On Monday, sixteen-month old Claymar Monsanto and eleven year-old Francis Maximo were gunned down in what appeared to be an attempt on the life of […]
Belize City is not the only place where lives are being taken in anger. In the village of Libertad, in the Corozal District, a woman has been arrested for killing her husband. Thirty-three year old Luis Chan died of wounds suffered on Tuesday afternoon. Police allege that Chan’s twenty-seven year old wife, Zoila Chan, stabbed […]
Monday’s killing of two children in an attempted hit on a reputed crime figure has not only shocked the Belizean community, but has also engulfed several Belize City neighbourhoods in a climate of fear. Ann-Marie Williams reports that the tragic double murder may be just the tip of an even more violent iceberg. Jose Zelaya, […]
Police have detained a number of suspects in Monday’s brutal slaying of two children in Belize City, but no charges have yet been filed. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams looks behind the crime and finds that the dead kids may be the only ones who are blameless. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The Belizean community is still up […]
With tensions on Belize City’s streets running so high, the news received this afternoon from police headquarters is the equivalent of trying to put out this morning’s fire with a tanker full of gasoline. It seems that on Monday morning when officers passed by the armoury at the Police Academy in Belmopan, they noticed that […]
While they may have been lax in securing their armoury, police were right on the money when it came to busting suspected drug traffickers. On Friday, cops in Orange Walk made two major seizures of cocaine. The first came at Tower Hill Bridge when a car was searched and close to two and a half […]
On yesterday’s newscast we aired the grievance of Bernadine Anderson, who claimed that police insulted her and beat her on two occasions last week. Today the police have reported what they claim is the other side of the story. It seems that after the first incident on Thursday night, in which Anderson was sought in […]
It was the kind of crime that makes us ashamed to be a member of Belizean society, if not the entire human race. Two Belize City children will not get a chance to grow up as their lives were cut short this afternoon in a hail of gunfire. News 5’s Jose Sanchez was quickly on […]
A Chinese grocer of Dangriga is at the Belmopan Hospital recovering from a gunshot wound, while the gunmen are on the run. Kyu Huan, twenty-five, told police that on Friday, he was in his shop, Gold Star, situated at mile one on the Stann-Creek Valley Road, when he was held up by two men and […]
And in Belize City, a gas station attendant was robbed of three hundred dollars. Around 9:00 on Friday night, Lornel Staine, attendant at the One-Stop Shell Station at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard, was held up at gunpoint and handed over the money. He described his assailant to police as being […]
A Belize City woman visited News 5 this afternoon to complain of two incidents of police brutality she allegedly suffered last week. Bernadine Anderson of a North Creek address said her nightmare started when police found her two sons near her gate and decided to search them. Bernadine Anderson, Claims Police Brutality I went outside […]
A well-known Belize City businessman has been hit by robbers. Blades Ice Cream Limited on Tigris Street was victimized shortly before 9:00 on Wednesday night, when, according to proprietor Evan Blades, a dark complexioned masked man pointed a gun at him and demanded money. The robber got away with over a thousand dollars in cash […]
Just as the band tuned up and the stage was being prepared for yesterday’s presentation of the government’s “Downtown Comeback” campaign, two robbers demonstrated their own plan for enrichment in the business district. Shortly after two Wednesday afternoon the pair entered the Rags and Reps Boutique on Prince Street, pointed a gun at the proprietor […]
Two dangerous convicts remain on the loose tonight after escaping Sunday night from Hattieville Prison. Police believe that Juan Ramirez, serving a life sentence for murder and Carlos Duarte, on remand for murder, are heading for the Guatemalan Border. While police had no luck with Ramirez and Duarte, they were a little luckier, in capturing […]
Hugh “Angel” Thomas, the man who was involved in a high-speed chase on Saturday night, turned himself in to police custody this morning accompanied by his lawyer Wilfred Elrington. Thomas allegedly fled the scene of a minor traffic accident, which prompted a chase by a number of armed police officers. In the course of the […]
It looked like a scene out of a FOX TV cop show, but the wild chase took place in Belize City and not L.A. The suspect pursued by police was Hugh “Angel” Thomas, a man, who according to relatives, has had a number of run-ins with the cops. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Thomas was drinking with […]
Police and Prison Officers are mounting an all-out manhunt for two dangerous convicts who escaped from Hattieville Prison. They are twenty-year old Guatemalan Juan Ramirez who is serving a life sentence for murder, and sixteen-year old Belizean, Carlos Duarte, on remand for murder. According to a Prison Department press release, on Sunday night the two […]
Belize City police have not been able to arrest anyone so far in connection with the stabbing death of forty-four year old Sydney Bradley of Boots Crescent in Port Loyola. Sources close to the investigation say police questioned about ten people, including Roque Rosado, whom they believed is key to their investigation. Bradley was stabbed […]
Some residents of south side Belize City were awaken by screams in the wee hours of this morning, as a stabbing incident claimed the life of one of their neighbours. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams “A fatal stabbing incident has left forty-four year old Sydney Bradley of Belize City dead. According to neighbours, the incident […]
Two Toyota Camry’s were stolen over the weekend and Police have caught four men red handed in stripping one of the cars to its frame. Winston “Tanga” James thirty-three, of Mahogany Street, Benjamin Taylor twenty, of Racecourse Street, Marlon Ritchie, twenty-three, of a Vernon Street address, all Belize City mechanics and Elvis Meyers, a nineteen […]
Police are tonight holding a Central American man for questioning in connection with a bag of jewelry he was carrying in his hand this morning. Police do not want to release his name, neither are they saying where he was intercepted. All Inspector of Police Mario Vernon is saying is that police suspect that the […]
Belize City Police are searching hard for Deon Hyde-Smith, the suspect wanted in connection with a spate of shootings and robberies of Chinese owned shops on Boxing Day in Belize City. Twenty-three year old Hyde-Smith is no stranger to crime and punishment. He was convicted of attempted carnal knowledge and robbery in October 1995 and […]
A Belizean just released from jail after serving a ten-year prison term is on the run after he went on a shooting rampage on Boxing Day targeting Chinese businesses. Guan She Qing clings to life at the KHMH after he was shot in the back at close range. He was selling in his shop at […]
Melvin Sebastian Nunez, aka “Sabe” is behind bars tonight, having been charged with theft. The twenty-seven year old was picked up in connection with an incident on Friday on Barrack Road in which Blue Creek businessman David Weiber had over fifteen thousand dollars in cash and cheques plucked from his shirt pocket.
