After an early morning fire on Thursday destroyed most of the upper flat of a building in Belize City, today, the fire department has concluded its investigations. According to officials, because of the fire path, the fact that traces of fuel were found and the way the household items burned at this home on Reggae […]
A man was shot this morning while taking a walk near his home. Carlton Lord, a fifty-nine year old labourer of number twenty-seven West Canal, is now being treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot in the left forearm and left leg by an unidentified man. According to police, at about […]
Bad money has been showing itself once again, and this time it’s in Orange Walk. On Wednesday Orange Walk police received two complaints from the business community alleging that counterfeit money was being used to buy their products. A thirty-five year old tacos vender reported that at about ten Wednesday morning, a man approached his […]
Today the police released the results of their preliminary investigation into Tuesday’s murder of inmate Glenford Gillett…and the report is very different from the account given by Prison Governor Bernard Adolphus on this broadcast yesterday. When News Five visited the Hattieville Correctional Facility, Adolphus told us that the stabbing incident happened outside on the prison […]
No one ever said that prison is a pleasant place to hang out, but recent events have shown that the confines of the Hattieville Correctional Facility represent perhaps the most dangerous place in Belize. This afternoon another inmate left the institution in a body bag. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting 27-year old Glenford Gillette was in the […]
Also out of Hattieville, a young man visited our studios today looking like he’d just picked a fight with Mike Tyson. Glenford Middleton alleges that while on remand for charges of theft and robbery at the prison, he was beaten up by five inmates. Middleton says he managed to get the attention of the guard, […]
In a follow up to a story we reported yesterday police have charged a man in last Friday’s killing of 16-year old Shawn Meighan. He is 28-year old construction worker Jesus Alfredo Ayuso. Meighan was stabbed in the stomach and pronounced dead on arrival at the KHMH. Meighan and Ayuso had allegedly been involved in […]
A Belize City man is dead after being stabbed on Friday night. According to police reports, around 7 o’clock, 16-year old Shawn Meighan was fatally wounded on Lavender Street by a 27-year old construction worker; that man’s name has been withheld by police pending charges. Apparently, Meighan and his attacker had been involved in a […]
Tonight, twenty-year old Jason Orosco remains at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was stabbed in the chest on Wednesday morning in the Conch Shell Bay area. Although police have been questioning a number of people in the neighborhood, they have only been able to detain one person and are looking for another. Sources […]
A Belize City man is in critical condition tonight at the KHMH after he was shot in the chest early Wednesday night. A trail of bloodstains still remains on the floor at the entrance to the Bistro Caribe club on North Front Street. Reports are that the club’s customers watched helplessly as the bar’s proprietor, […]
An argument late this morning between three young men has left one of them in critical condition in the KHMH. Sources tell News Five that two men, one identified as Nathan McKenzie and the other, only known as “Dye Dye,” went into the Conch Shell Bay Area just after 11:00 this morning and approached twenty […]
After a brutal chopping incident early Saturday morning, police have arrested one of the machete wielding men and charged him with attempted murder. 28-year old Tarrington Bodden has been charged with attempted murder and dangerous harm. According to police reports, around 2:30 on Saturday morning, Bodden heard a noise coming from outside his home on […]
This next story involves two men and a machete, but not much else in terms of details. Reports are that around 2:30 on Saturday morning a man, identified as Celestino Zetina, walked onto Yorke Street carrying a machete. Not long afterwards, 28-year old Everald Bodden, a resident of Yorke Street, says he heard something in […]
Police have arrested and charged two men after a shootout in Cinderella Plaza early Saturday morning. Police say around 3am on Saturday, gunshots were fired from a Mercury Sedan parked on the corner of Douglas Jones Street and Freetown Road. Witnesses report that the car then turned left into Freetown Road and more shots were […]
It is uncertain whether the increased number of rape and abuse cases of Belize’s children is the result of increased awareness, bringing to light society’s secrets or the simple frightening fact that more pedophiles are lurking among us. Tonight, we report the abuse of another girl and the subsequent arrest of a Belize City man. […]
An Orange Walk resident is in the hospital tonight in critical condition after she jumped from a moving vehicle, apparently in an effort to get away from police. Reports are that members of the Belize Defense Force and police were on patrol in Santa Cruz, Orange Walk about 5:30 Wednesday afternoon, when they saw a […]
He says he was simply trying to stop a fight, but tonight he’s the one in the hospital. 18-year old Allen Valencia has reported to police that around 9:30 last night, he was playing basketball at the Yarborough Court, when he noticed someone picking a fight with his brother. Valencia says he stepped in to […]
Police in Corozal are tonight looking for 4 men who attempted to rob a man, but because he had no money, shot him. 31-year old Ulices Moran, of Maskall Village, told police that around 10:20 on Monday night, he was on his way home from Santa Martha when he was attacked by 4 masked men. […]
Corozal police are also investigating an alleged rape that occurred on Tuesday. A 25-year old housewife of Louisville, Corozal, has reported to police that around 4:00 in the afternoon she was waiting for her bus on 7th Avenue when suddenly a white van with tinted windows pulled up. The woman says 2 men came out […]
After a brief lapse, it seems that open season on the Chinese community is once again in full swing. This time the scene was on Orange Street where the usual masked dark complexioned men came in with a gun and got away with an undisclosed loot bag. Xiao Jun Chen, owner of Olympics Restaurant on […]
Tonight a Belize City man is in custody after a chopping incident on Saturday night. Police have arrested and charged 22-year old Herman Good with wounding and attempted murder. It is alleged that around midnight on Saturday, Good walked into 45-year old Denfield Lemott’s yard on Berry Street and attacked him with a machete. Lemott […]
It wasn’t a hijack on the high seas but for one Belize City man, the theft of his boat was a big deal. 69-year old Lloyd Waite reported to police that sometime between Thursday and Friday, his 15-foot blue and white skiff with its 60-horse power engine had been stolen from its dock on Vernon […]
The last time he escaped, his family brought him back to jail…so you can bet this time around, he won’t be rushing home. That’s right, for the second time this month, inmate Alvin Lopez has managed to escape from custody. Lopez was part of the 8-man contingent that jumped over the fence at Hattieville on […]
41-year old Noel Mejia has had the book thrown at him…but only after he threw some blows at a magistrate. Police report that on Wednesday Mejia became agitated when his demands that a friend be released from custody was turned down by Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. He then allegedly attacked Lord, but was soon subdued […]
A 19-year old has been arrested and charged with the murder of his fellow carwasher. 19-year old Errol Garnett of a Waight Street address has been charged with the murder of Leroy McKoy. According to eyewitness accounts, the men were involved in a verbal confrontation Thursday afternoon. Shortly after the argument McKoy was washing a […]
