Ask the people who should know and they will tell you that on the streets of Belize City good marijuana is as scarce as a blue note on the night before payday. While the reason for the shortage cannot be exactly determined, some large-scale busts of major plantations may have something to do with it. […]
A Chinese owned shop may be a typical target for robbery, but the wanton destruction caused by Belize City’s young thugs is spreading far beyond the barred windows and locked cash drawers of the corner grocery. The latest fatality in the city’s crime spree is not an immigrant from Asia, but from the continent of […]
The killing of a security guard from Ghana has brought to light the little known fact that an increasing number of African immigrants are beginning to call Belize home. While some Africans in Belize, such as U.B. professor Dr. Joseph Iyo and sculptor Stephen Okeke, have achieved widespread notoriety, most labour in more commonplace occupations, […]
The killing Friday night was not the only crime to occur at a Chinese establishment on Central American Boulevard this weekend. Police report that on Friday night shortly after 10:00, four masked men, two of whom were armed with handguns, held up a shop only a few hundred yards south of Sonny’s. Proprietor Lu He […]
Belize City police are not the only ones dealing with violent crimes. On Sunday a man was found dead in the village of San Lazaro in the Orange Walk District. The lifeless body of thirty-five year old Guatemalan Augustine Castellanos was discovered by a fellow villager lying in the middle of the road just after […]
A security guard lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot in the back on Thursday night. Thirty-nine year old Edgar Juarez, a Guatemalan, who works for AAA Security Company, was on duty at Superstore on Cemetery Road. According to police reports, the guard saw two men walk into the store. Juarez […]
Another Chinese owned business in Belize City has been hit by hoodlums. Wu Dongsi, the proprietor of Coa Kauy shop on Ebony Street, told police he was robbed around 8:30 on Thursday night. Two dark skinned men entered the store armed with a gun and a knife. One of them held the firearm close to […]
In the best of times most areas of Belize City are only a toppled candle or faulty electrical connection away from a devastating fire. But when a blaze is deliberately set, to intimidate or rob, the crime may best be described not only as arson or theft, but as something closer to attempted murder. Last […]
A policeman has been charged with handling stolen goods. CIB Detective David Carrillo, while stationed in San Pedro, was directed to investigate a July twenty-eighth burglary at a house belonging to an American, Gary Cooper. Police believe that Carrillo had another interest in the case, however, namely that he helped plan the break-in in the […]
Whether it was an honest mistake or a deliberate act of obfuscation, we cannot be sure, but police today have given a significantly different version of what transpired Monday at Hattieville Prison. Contrary to what we and other news media were told yesterday afternoon by prison authorities, it now appears that inmate Eugene Martinez did […]
The growing problem of criminals with guns is one which Belizean society has faced for a good while…and it now seems that not even the closed world of the prison system is immune. This morning during a routine search of cells at Hattieville, an inmate apparently used a homemade gun to fire a shot at […]
Police have not made any arrests in last week’s brutal murder at the Cahal Pech Maya site, but at least they have a motive and a prime suspect. Sources in the police department indicate that the killing of twenty-year old caretaker Geoffrey Mas was not a robbery gone bad, but was in fact an execution. […]
While San Ignacio police have not made any arrest in the Geoffrey Mas murder, Belize City police have been making progress in another killing that took place the same day. On Friday, police arrested eighteen-year old Gilroy Wade Junior, of number six South Creek and charged him with the murder of Azrin White. White was […]
Police have arrested and charged a Guatemalan man for a murder last week in Belmopan. Normando Garcia, of San Martin Village, was formally charged for the killing of nineteen-year old Julio Guzman on July twenty-third. Guzman was found bleeding profusely from machete wounds in a drain between the villages of Maya Mopan and Salvapan and […]
A weekend shooting incident in Belize City, has left two men wounded, one seriously. Twenty-three year old Jerry Bush, and eighteen year old George Mathews were walking on Bocotora Street when a man rode up next to them on a bicycle and fired several gunshots at them. Bush was struck by bullets in the left […]
An apparent hit and run on the Northern Highway has left a Corozal man dead. On Friday night around eleven, the body of Gregorio Jimenez, a mason of Alta Mira area, Corozal Town, was found on the highway between miles eighty-five and eighty-six. He was lying face down with multiple injuries to his head. The […]
Police conducted two successful anti-drug operations over the weekend that resulted in the destruction of nearly five thousand marijuana plants. On Saturday , the police ventured seven miles northwest of San Pedro Columbia Village, in the Toledo District. The mission started at 8:00 a.m. and by 3:30 p.m. they found and destroyed a marijuana plantation […]
An anti-drug operation in the Orange Walk District has resulted in the shutting down of a major marijuana plantation. Between 5:00 and 7:00 Thursday morning, police raided an area near San Carlos Village and discovered a field they say contained ten thousand cannabis trees between four and five feet in height. The weed was destroyed […]
Late this evening, News Five received a report that a foetus was found floating in the South Creek in Belize City. When our crew got to the scene, the police had just picked up the foetus, believed to be a boy, and transported it to the KHMH morgue. Elvis Lewis, who witnessed the gruesome discovery, […]
A prisoner who escaped from Hattieville has been recaptured. On Tuesday evening police corralled Enrique Martinez in the Salvapan area of the nation’s capital. Martinez, who had been serving a three-year term, had escaped in May.
Another runaway prisoner was rounded up on Thursday, but the events, which followed his captured have overshadowed his original and subsequent crimes. Twenty-five year old Randolph Miller, who was serving a twelve-year sentence for aggravated burglary, escaped from Hattieville Prison on July thirteenth. On Thursday, the inmate was captured by the police in a house […]
The weapon may not pack the wallop of the Utatlan’s twenty-millimetre cannon, but its possession could land a well-known Belize City building contractor in jail. Fifty-five year old Carlos Barillas was home alone, when around 11:15 Wednesday morning, acting on a tip, the police pulled up at his King’s Park residence. The tip turned out […]
With the usually peaceful town of San Ignacio still reeling from Monday evening’s execution style murder, word has reached News Five of another crime in the area. Police have confirmed that on Friday night a twenty-two year old woman from the United States reported that she was raped. The university student, who is attending a […]
The mood in Cayo this afternoon was one of anger mixed with disbelief. But as night falls on the twin towns there is a whiff of fear in the usually tranquil area as two cold blooded killers are on the loose and a well liked young man lies in the San Ignacio morgue. The Mas […]
Less than six hours after Geoffrey Mas lost his life in Cayo, a similarly cold-blooded execution was carried out Monday night in Belize City. According to police reports, twenty-one year old Orvin White was sitting with his seventeen year old girlfriend, Juanita Hines in front of her house on Iguana Street when three men approached. […]
